Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-06-26
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION

Inc DemOcrauc State COMMITTEE mas
called State Convention to meet at
Bellows Falls, on the I'd of July, to NOM
mate State Ticket. The following
cordial invitation" is extended in the
call:
"All citizens who think that the Sec
tional and fanatical principles, and the
unconstitutional and meddling practices,
of the Republican party tend to disunion
and that the Government, the Consti-
tuition, and the Union, can be restored and
preserved, to the whole country, only
through the National and Conservative
principles of the Democratic Party-are
cordially invited to attend"
But no cordial invitation" is extended
to those citizens who think that the pres
ent rebellion was concocted by the slave
holders thirty years ago, as has been de-
clared by its leaders. There is not one
word of rebuke in the above call towards
those who have involved the country in
its present troubles. Not one word of
rebuke for Yancey, who wrote to a Brit
ish Minister that the South did not secede
because it feared any interference on the
part of the Republican Party with Slav-
cry as it exists in the States, but wholly
for commercial reasons, and sectional in
terests disconnected with the question Of
Slavery; not one word of rebuke for the
long catalogue Of crimes committed by
the band of infamous traitors who have
trampled upon the Stars and Stripes, and
who are seeking to build an oligarchic
government upon the ruins of the Repub-
lie! The call is simply to all of those
who think the principles and practices of
the Republican Party tend to disunion
So be it Democracy dates its birth
with Jefferson. You call yours 'Dem-
ocratic" Convention. On the 18th of
April, 1884, Jefferson, the father, the pro-
positus, of Democracy, proposed plan in
Congress prohibiting Slavery in the Ter
Iitories then belonging to the Colonies,
or thereafter to be acquired. That day
was the anniversary of the battle of Lex
ington. On the 18th day of June 1862,
Republican Congress passed an act pro-
hibiting Slavery in all the Territories be-
longing to the United States. That day
was the anniversary of the battle of Bun
ker Hill Which party, the modern
sham Democrats, or the Republicans, are
the followers of Jefferson, the founder of
true democracy? If Republican "prin-
ciples" and " practices" tend to disunion,
did we not imbibe those principles and
practices from the fountain of original
Democracy? Nay, how long is it since
the Democracy of all the Northern States
stood with Silas Wright, and Daniel
Webster, and Henry Clay, as respects
the question of Slavery? Look at their
resolutions passed in State Conventions
in all the New England and Middle
States from 1916 10 1850. 1t is from
that source that we derived our present
convictions. We sat at the feet of the
Democracy in those days, and We have
never departed from the faith.
We have no doubt the " Democratic
Convention at Bellows Falls will take care
to lay the responsibility of the present
rebellion at the door of the members of the
Republican Party, who are the followers
of Jefferson, and if any rebuke is admin
istered to Jeff. Davis & Co., it will be
drawn in the mildest terms.