Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-09-11


Convention 81 Rev York.
The following are the resolutions, in
full, Of the recent Democratic State
Convention Of New York:
RESOLVED, That, in this crisis, the
watchwor which should pass through
the democratic ranks, calling them TO-
gother, and consolidating them 10 one
erect and determined mass, in defence
Of OUT imperilcd country, 10 the senti'
mept Of Andrew Jackson, that "Ihe
Union must be preserved"
Resolved, That the claim OF any
State, or number Of States, Of . right TO
reIinquish at will their obligations and
allegiance to the Union, has no warrant
10 the Constitution is at war with ito
letter and spirit; is incompatible with
good government and the preservation
Of public faith and the Enforcement OF
the treaties; and whenever this preten-
sion has been advanced by secessionists
North or South, it has been resisted ard
defeated by the democracy, who have
ever maintained, - they still do, that
secession is revolution.
Resolved, That the seizure Of the forts
and property belonging to the Federal
government, followed by the authorize
ton OF privateers against the commerce
Of the loyal States, precipitated the
country into state Of war; that it is
the duty of the government to prosecute
the war thus forced upon 1t with all its
power and resources and that it is the
duty Of the people to rally with arms
and means to the support Of the govern
ment, until the struggle is ended by
the triumph Of the constitution and the
laws, and the restoration of the Union.
Resolved, That we hold next IN guilt
to the faction which has risen in arms
against the country the politicians OF the
North who, for years, have organized
and sustained system Of agitation tend
ing, and intending, to ALLEVIATE the diff
ierent sections Of the country, and to
sir up between them an rrepressible
conflict based upon their domestic instl-
tutions, which it was declared could only
terminate in the universal predominance
Of one section or the other.
Resolved, That to the infstuation OF
the same class of politicians We can trace
the threatening proportions which this
civil war has assumed, and the catastro-
Plies that have attended 1t. In the Ian
guage OF one Of their representative men:
"Congress adjourned, having done and
said nothing to strengthen and encour-
age the Union men of the border States.
The great and powerful States of Vir-
GINA, North Carolina and Tennessee
we're lost to the Union, while three other
States, Maryland, Kentucky and Mis-
sour, are struggling to maintain their
positions in it, because the republican
press and the republican representatives
we're beguiled into the popular idea that
they discharged their first and highest
duty in stan ling on the Chicago plat
FORM" And later still, when the people
had rallied, without distinction of party,
to the defence of the Union, the same
predominant influence in the republican
party, by debating political battles to be
fought, has, according to the same au-
thority, "added another year to the war,
5lOO,OOo,OOO to the cost, and opened
graves for $4,000 or 10000 more col
diers."
Resolved, That as it was the duty Of
flict, to have encouraged the loyal citi-
zens OF the South, by ample guarantees of
their rights and by all just and honorable
concessions, we believe it to be its duty
now, while putting down rebellion with
armed force, to offer to the loyal people
Of the dsaffeoted States the remedy
which the Constitution provides for
public grlevances-a convention of all
the States for the revision and amend
ment Of that instrument.
RESOLVED, That the Democracy of
this State will sustain no war nor coun-
tenancc any peace tending to the sepa-
ration OF these States and that they
will regard any attempt to pervert this
conflict into war for the emancipation
of slaves as fatal to all the hopes of the
re6tOratl0n OF the Union.
Resolved, That it is the duty of the
Administration, initiating the patriotic
spirit of the people, to abandon the mar
row platform Of the Chicago convention.
which stands condemned BY the stuff
RACES Of nearly two-thirds Of the people,
and to step forth upon the broad plat.
form of the Constitution to expel cor
rnpt men from office; to exclude from
its councils the advocates of separation
or abolition; and to reconstruct its
Cabinet so As to conform to the altered
condition Of the country, and to com.
mand more largely the public respect
and confidence.
Resolued. That the right Of fully and
freely canvassing the policy and meas.
ures OF the administration in power is q
right upon which the pillars of our Re.
public rest, and is denied only by tyrants.
10 use the language OF Daniel Webster:
VT is homebred right--a firesidc priv.
'lese. 1t has ever been enioyed in
every house, cottage and cabin ia the
nation. 1t is not to be drowned in con-
troversy. 1t is as undoubted As the
right OF breathing the air and walking
on the earth. 1t is right to be main :,
tanned 10 peace and 10 war. 1t is a
right which cannot be invaded without
destroying constitutional liberty. Hence
this right should be guarded and pro-
tected by the frcemen of this country
with a Jealous care. unless they are pre-