The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1858-04-24

For Mr. Brooks, ,
Gov. French having recc ired majority
OF al the votes. his nomination was, on mo
ton, declared unanimous
Mr. Hickox offered tbs following, which
was adopted:
Resolred, That n committee Of ., one from
each congressional dis'ict, he appointed to
report the names of suitable persons TO con-
stitute the state central commute, and that
said committee report, and recommend a
basis of appor,ionment for delegates 10 the
ueXt democratic state convention.
The following gentlemen were appointed
By the president to compose said com
mittee.
lst district, VIM. NJ Jackson; ID dis
trict J. Van Nortwick Sd district. p. A.
Armstrong; 4th district, VIM. 5. Moss, Pc
ora; 9TH district, Alexander Starne; 9th
district, Virgil Iliokox; 9TH district, 5. P.
Reed; Sth district, John Fitch; 9th district,
W J. Allen.
A committee on resolutions was appoint
ed, consisting of McClernand, Matteson,
Judge Skinner, Merrick, Crouch, Hise,
Campbell and Mcdonald.
During the absence Of the Committee,
the Convention was addressed by Rev. Pc
ter Cartwright, Everett Van Buren, and S 5.
HAYES.
The committee on resolutions reported
through Col. McClernand, their chairman:
Ist Resolred, That the Democratic party
Of the State Of Illinois, through their dele
gates in general convention assembled, do
re assert and declare the principles avowed
by them as when on former occasions they
have presented their candidates for popular
sutfrages.
end. Resolced, That they are unaltera-
bly, attached to and will maintain inviolate
the prin ciples declared by the National
Convention at Cincinnati in June. 1856.
3rd Resolred, That they avew with re-
newed energy their devotion to the Federal
Union of the United tates, their desire to
avert sectional strife, their determination to
maintain the sovereignty Of the States and
to protect every State and the inhabitants
thereof in all their constitutional rights.
4th. Resolred, That the platform of prin-
ciples established by the National Democra-
tic Convention at Cincinnati, is the only au-
tbortative expression of Democratic doct-
inc and we deny the right of any power on
earth, except like body, to change or in
terpolate that platform or to prescribe new
and different tests; and this they will nei-
tier do themselves nor permit to be done
by others, but will recognize all men as Dem-
ocrats who stand by and uphold Democra-
tic principles.
9Th. Resolrea, That in the organization of
States people have right to decide at the
polls upon the character Of their fundamen-
tai law, and that the experience Of the past
year has conclusively demonstrated the Wis
dom and proprety Of the principle, that the
law, under which a Territory
seeks admission into the Union, should be
submitted to the people Of such territory for
ratification or rejection at fair election to
be held for that purpose; and that, before
such territory is admitted as State, such
fundarsental law should receive a majority
of the legal votes cast at such election, and
they deny the right and condemn the at
tempt. of aEy such convention, called for
the purpose of framing constitution, to i'm |
pose the instrument framed by them upon
the people against their own will.
9th Resoiced, That fair application of
these principles requires that the LecOmpt- |
ON Constitution should be submitted to d. /
rect vote of the actual inhabitants of Kan |
sas, SO that they may vote for or against the .
instrument, before Kansas shall be declared
1ne of the States Of this Union and until
t shall be ratified by the people of Kansas at
l fair election held for that purpose .ne
inOis Democracy are unalterably opposeu ~
he admission of Kansas under that co"s''
luton.
7th. Resolred, That we heartily approve
nd srs,a;u The manly, firm, patriotic and
nosition Of S. A. Donglas, Isaac
y Worr;s Thomas L. Harris, Aaron Shaw,
eohert smith, and Samuel S. Marshall, the
Democratic delegation Of Illinois in Congress
,pon the question Of the admission OF Nan