Resolved, That we recommend to the Whigs of each Congressional district to hold a district convention on or before the first Monday of May next, to be composed of a number of delegates from each county equal to double the n tuber of its representatives in the General Assembly, provided, each county shall have at least one delegate.  Said delegates to be chosen by primary meetings of the Whigs, at such times and places as they in their respective counties may see fit.  Said district conventions each to nominate one candidate for Congress, and one delegate to a national convention for the purpose of nominating candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States.  The seven delegates so nominated to a national convention to have power to add two delegates to their own number, and to fill all vacancies.

Resolved, That A. T. Bledsoe, S. T. Logan, and A. Lincoln be appointed a committee to prepare an address to the people of the State.

Resolved, That N. W. Edwards, A. G. Henry, James H. Matheny, John C. Doremus, and James C. Conkling be appointed a Whig Central State Committee, with authority to fill any vacancy that may occur in the committee.

CIRCULAR FROM WHIG COMMITTEE.

Address to the People of Illinois.

Fellow-citizens:-By a resolution of a meeting of such of the Whigs of the State as are now at Springfield, we, the undersigned, were appointed to prepare an address to you.  The performance of that task we now undertake.

Several resolutions were adopted by the meeting; and the chief object of this address is to show briefly the reasons for their adoption.

The first of those resolutions declares a tariff of duties upon foreign importations, producing sufficient revenue for the support of the General Government, and so adjusted as to protect American industry, to be indispensably necessary to the prosperity of the American people; and the second declares direct taxation for a national revenue to be improper.  Those two resolutions are kindred in their nature, and therefore proper and convenient to be considered together.  The question of protection is a subject entirely too broad to be crowded into a few pages only, together with several other subjects.  On that point we therefore content ourselves with giving the following extracts from the writings of Mr. Jefferson, General Jackson, and the speech of Mr. Calhoun: 

“To be independent for the comforts of life, we must fabricate them ourselves.  We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturalist.  The grand inquiry now is, Shall we make our own comforts, or go without them at the will of a foreign nation?  He, therefore, who is now against domestic manufactures must be for reducing us either to dependence on that foreign nation, or to be clothed in skins and to live like wild beasts in dens and caverns.  I am not one of those; experience has taught me that manufactures are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.”  Letter of Mr. Jefferson to Benjamin Austin.