The convention then proceeded to a second nomination for Vice-President, with the following result: ═════════════════════════════╤═════════╤═════════ │ 1st │ 2d │ Ballot. │ Ballot. ─────────────────────────────┼─────────┼───────── John Fairfield, Maine │ 107 │ 30 Levi Woodbury, New Hampshire │ 44 │ 6 Lewis Cass, Michigan │ 39 │ ―― R. M. Johnson, Kentucky │ 26 │ ―― Com. Stewart, Pennsylvania │ 23 │ ―― Geo. M. Dallas, Pennsylvania │ 13 │ 220 Wm. L. Marcy, New York │ 5 │ ―― ═════════════════════════════╧═════════╧═════════ The nomination of Dallas was made unanimous. In constructing the Democratic platform for 1844 the Democrats threw out a political drag-net. The first Democratic national platform that had been adopted by the convention of 1840 was embodied in its entirety in the platform of this convention, and the following new resolutions added: _Resolved_, That the American Democracy place their trust, not in factitious symbols, not in displays and appeals insulting to the judgment and subversive of the intellect of the people, but in a clear reliance upon the intelligence, patriotism, and the discriminating justice of the American people. _Resolved_, That we regard this as a distinctive feature of our political creed, which we are proud to maintain before the world, as the great moral element in a form of government springing from and upheld by the popular will; and we contrast it with the creed and practice of Federalism, under whatever name or form, which seeks to palsy the will of the constituent, and which conceives no imposture too monstrous for the popular credulity. _Resolved_, Therefore, that, entertaining these views, the Democratic party of this Union, through the delegates assembled in general convention of the States, coming together in a spirit of concord, of devotion to the doctrines and faith of a free representative Government, and appealing to their fellow-citizens for the rectitude of their intentions, renew and reassert before the American people the declaration of principles avowed by them on a former occasion, when, in general convention, they presented their candidates for the popular suffrage. _Resolved_, That the proceeds of the public lands ought to be sacredly applied to the national objects specified in the Constitution; and that we are opposed to the laws lately adopted, and to any law, for the distribution of such proceeds among the States, as alike inexpedient in policy and repugnant to the Constitution.