Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-10-09
Late Republican STATE Conven-
RESOLUTIONS

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regular order as they came from the COM
mittee on resolutions. The first and last
resolutions were both adopted; the rest
were allowed to not pass-a tit Of Bull
Run having seized the delegates. The
Convention feared giving offense to some
body-President, Fremont, rebels or half
1 breed union men. It is difficult to say
now what the people will do with such
work. Some will feel to serve their coun-
try and God better by not voting; some
will vote part Of the ticket and some will
vote the ticket for the name it bears. The
| Convention was totally eclipsed by small
poiticians-s such as figured in the late leg
/ islature in trying 10 elect delegates to John
Tyler's Peace and Compromise Conyen-
ton, held at Washington, in March, year
Of disgrace 1861. We do not see that
Johnston, Messmore d Co. were in the
Convention. Here are the resolutions
the first and last adopted, the rest rejected
by intended neglect, under the pretence of
want Of time for due consideration:
Resolued, That the present war is and
must be prosecuted for tie sole purpose Of
suppressing treason, and maintaining the
/ constitution and laws of the Union, and
that the destruction Of the lives, property
OF Institutions Of the people Of the South
can only he justified when indispensable as
a means to secure that end; when so nee
essary, the government must not falter in
the path Of duty. If it must be SO, let the
sword or the gibbet destroy the last traitor
in the land, and the victorious legions Of
the North tread under foot the cherished
idol OF the South; but the Union must
and shall be preserved.
lResozced, That as our fathers in the
days of the revolution supported then cour-
age and revived their hopes by continual
recurrence to the causes which led them to
war, so it is the duty of the Republican
party to keep the causes of this war con
tinually before the people. We are more
confirmed than ever in the belief that Afri-
can Slavery, rot the moral, political and
lawful opposition to it, is responsible fol
| the present war Treason is found in an
organizet. form only in these States where
Slavery exists, and the virulence Of treason
in the several cities and counties Of the re-
belljous States, is most exactly measured
by the number of slaves in such cities and
counties. No other institution among us
has ever attempted to strangle the freedom
Of speech and Of the press, by moral and
mobocratic opposition; no ether institution
has become FESTIVE and blood-thirsty under
the salutary correction of public opinion;
no other institution has dared to point the
murderous cannon at the symbol of our ma
tional sovereignty; no other institution has
dared to plunge our nation into fratricieal
war. The Republican party will therefore
sternly oppose all efforts made by those IN
terested in claiming property in slaves, to
exempt such alleged property from the for
tunes and chances Of war to which other
property is subject.
Resolged, That the government, in car
Tying on this war, is not limited or govern
Ell by the late act Of Congress or any other
act, in the confscation Of the property of
rebels. That the only law which can gov
crn in state Of war, is the law Of selfpre-
seryation. That the government has an
unquesiioned right, should necessity de-
mand it, to procure the slaves Of the South
ern States by ,he offer Of freedom, to take
up arms and fight the common battles of
the country, as Gen. Jackson did at New
Orleans. And we believe that the time
has come in which the minor right of the
government to confscate the property of
rebels in arms, and declare their slaves, if
any they have, TO be freemen, should be
rigidly applied in Missouri and Virginia,
as far as the armies of the United States
can enforce the order
Resolred, That the confiscation OF the
property. real aud personal, Of rebels in
arms against the government, and declar
ING their slaves to be free men, is no brus
tim fulmen or inpracticable threat, but
the most merciful penalty, as we'll as the
most effectllal cure Of treason; and that no
fallacious hope Of securing the aid Of slave
holders or others, should induce the gov
eminent to surrender this vital principle;
that we shall lose the sympathies of the
world, and the en- husiasm of Union men
will decline, if the government does not
deal earnest and impartial blows against
the institution that inspires the reasonable
purpose, organizes the armies, and furnishes
the compulsory labor by which this rebel
lion is carried on. We therefore insist
that the administration will at once adopt
a policy, point-blank in its aim, just in its
operation, merciful in its penalties, the jrst
advantage which the God Of battles gives
us over our enemies, the bond Of Union
among loyal hearts, and Tie sure path to
victory.
ResoIeeq. That the Republican party
should not be confined in he present crisis
TO its own party in making nominations
for office, but loyaland unconditional Union
men Of other parties are equally entitled to
its confidence and support.
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