The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-08-16

| ALBANY, August l5-The Breckenridge
State Central Committee met at the Delevan
| House in this city yesterday, and II mem
bers out OF is were present Mr.. John A.
Green, chairman, called the committee to
order. After an interchange of views, the
following resolutions were adopted unani-
mously: ~
ResotOsd, That this State Committee
representing that portion of the Demo-
cratic party of the State of New York
which sustained the Maryland Institute
platform at the last election, witness with
I deep concern and apprehension the long
predicted result of the Northern sectional
aggressions upon the rights of the South
ern States. That as we have uniformly
opposed in the past the policy which we
foresaw must produce disuniOn, so we are
equally brought to raise our voices against
civil war. That the worst and most inef
fectual argument that can be addressed to the
seeded States is war. That we deny that
the present struggle is in any sense a war
for the Union, and insist that those who
have precipitated the States into hostilities
neither care nor desire to restore the Union.
ResoEved That we advocate the PROPOSE
ton for an armistice between the now con-
tending armies North and South and the
immediate convocation of a convention of
delegates from all the States which acknowl-
edged themselves members of the Union in
November 1860, to the end that all differ
enees may be peacefully adjusted and our
land saved from bloodshed, and restored to
peace, concord and Union.
ReSoLOed, That the endeavor to coerce the
South has had its fitting counterpart in the
recent aggressions made Upon the rights of
free speech and free press in the land
that after the announcement that there was
a law higher than the constitution, we were
prepared to see the party now in power de-
clare the constitution suspended at and dur
ing their pleasure, and that the arrests with
out warrant and the incarceration without
examination, of citizens not adjudged guilty
of any crime, the denial of the right of pc
tition, the setting at defiance the courts of
law of our State by order of military Off
cials, the suppressiOns of newspapers, the
deprivstions of the military OF their arms,
the declaration and enforcement of mar
tial law, the unauthorized seizure and
searches without sanction OF legal proof, and
the conversions of our forts into military
batteries, demand at the hand of the people,
jealous of their liberty, an indignant and
solemn protest.
ResolUed, That the State Convention has
learned, with much satisfaction, of the refu-
sal of the State Committee, of which Dean
Richmond is Chairman, to accept the over
lures of the Republicans for uniting with
them upon a single State Ticket in the APP
preaching election that for this declared
determination to continue to labor for the
overthrow of the Republican party and poll
icy, we respectfully tender to them the right
hand Of fellowship. That, sacrificing all
minor considerations and burying the past
discussions, in a desire 10 see a consolidated
front opposed to the Republican party, the
State Committee will not call separate State
Convention, and that we recommend to
those democrats who have recognized this
organization, to join in the election of del
egates to the State Convention at Syracuse,
on the 4th of September, believing that the
Convention will distinctly declare them
selves for measures of peace and reconcilia-
ton.
The resolution was unanimously adopted,
expelling Mathew Mcmahon from the Com
mittee, he having accepted office under the
Federal Government, and declared himself
a supporter of its policy. .-.-s