The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-09-11
Resolutions of the Democratic State
Convention of New York.

full, of the recent Democratic State Con-
vention of New York:
Resoloed, That, in this crisis, the watch
word which should pass through the dem
ocratic ranks, calling them together, and
consolidating them in one erect and deter
mined mass, in defence of our impaired
country, is the sentiment of Andrew
jackson, that "The Union must be pre-
served" M M
Resolved, That the claim Of any State,
or number of States, Of right to relin-
quish at will their obligations and allegi-
ance to the Union, has no warrant in the
constitution; is at war with its letter and
spirit; is incompatible with good govern
ment and the preservation Of public faith
aud the enforcement of the treaties; and
whenever this pretension has been advan-
ced by secessionists, North or South, it
has been resisted and defeated by the de-
mocracy, who. have ever maintained, as
they still do, that secession is revolution.
RESOLVED, That the seizure of the forts
and property belonging 10 the Federal
Government, followed by the authorize
lion of privateers against the commerce
of the 10y al States, precipitated the coun-
try into state of war; that il is the du
ty of the government to prosecute the
war thus forced upon it with oil its pow
er and resources; and that it is the duty
Of the people TO rally with arms and
means to the support Of the government,
until the struggle is ended by the tri-
umph 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 tending,
and intending, to ALLEVIATE the different
sections of the country, and to stir up be-
tween them an irrepressible conflict based
upon their domestic institutions, which it
was declared could only terminate in the
universal predominance of one section or
the other. al i..
Resolued, That TO the infatuation of
the same class of politicians we can trace
the threatening proportions which this
civil war has assumed, and the catasrtro-
Plies that have attended it. In the Ian
guage of one of their representative mon !:
Congress adjourned, having done and
said nothing to strengthen and encourage
the Union men of tho border States.
The great and powerful States of Virgin
in, North Carolina, and Tennessee were
lost to the Union, while three other States,
Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, are
struggling to maintain their positions in
it, because the republican press and the
republican representatives were beguiled
into the popular idea that they discharged
their first and highest duty in standing
on the Chicago platform" 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 politi-
cal battles to be fought, has, according to
the same authority, "added another year
10 the war, $l00,000,00O to the cost,
and opened graves for $4,000 or 10000
more soldiers"
Resolvcd, That rs it was the duty of
Congress, in the initiation of this conflict,
to have encouraged the loyal citizens Of the
South, by ample guarantees Of their rights
and by all just and honorable concessions,
we believe il to DO its duty now, while
putting down rebellion with armed force,
to offer to the loyal people of the disaf-
fccted States the remedy which the con-
stitution provides for public grievances
a convention of all the States for the re-
vision and amendment of that instrument.
ResolVed, That the Democracy of this
State will sustain no war nor countenance
any peace tending to the separation Of
these States; and that they will regard
any attempt to pervert this conflict into
a war for tho emancipation of slaves as
fatal to all the hopes of the restoration
of the Union.
Resolved, That il is the duty of the
administration, initiating the patriotic
spirit of the people, to abandon the mar
row platform of the Chicago convention,
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of nearly two-thirds of the people, and to
step forth upon the broad platform of the
constitution; to expel corrupt men from
office; to exclude from its councils the
advocates of separation or abolition; and
to reconstruct its Cabinet so as TO con-
form to the altered condition of the
country, and to command moro largely
the public respect and confidence.
Resolued, That the right of fully and
freely canvassing the policy and measures
of the administration in power is a right
upon which the pillars of our Republic
rest, and is denied only by tyrants. To
use the language of Daniel Webster
at is homebred right-a fireside priv
ilege. 1t has ever been enjoyed in every
house, cottage and cabin in the nation.
1t is not to be drowned in controversy
1t is rs undoubted as the right of breath
ing the air and walking on the earth. 1t
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