Litchfield enquirer., 1862-03-06
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THE pEMocRATIc RESOLUTIONS.

stantially That the Democratic party has al< ways upheld ths Constitution and the Union against Northern Al Abolitionism and Southern Se
 cession, and that the Union can never be re stored, or the dominant Union sentiment arous- cd, ,atthe south until the Democratic party obtain control of the Federal and State governments. ;.
 These gentlemen are evidently of Puritan de- scent and ready enough to resolve s.sThat we are the Saints. " Butif it be true, as they say, that the Union sentiment at the South, upon which we all rely fora restoration of the Union, can only be aroused when the Democratic party has obtained control of the Federal and State Governments, it would then be highly injudici- ous for Generals Mcclellan, Haileck and Buell. to commence active operations till near March 4th, 1865, before which time such . result could not eonstitutonazly be brought about.
 We have been surprised to see that the ac- counts given by our naval officers of their recep- tion in Lower Tennessee, where old and young welcomed the Stars and Stripes with tears of joy, make no mention of previous inquiry as to the political prospects of the Democratic party !!
 We would advise the Democratic State Commit tee to see that the reports of those officers be amended, if they have dons injustice ts the Ten nessee' people in that respect for re.olstioas have, after all not quite the force of facts.
 The most important of these resolutions is the second. After the usual self laudatory flourish, they proceed. to say:-''' The Democracy of Con necticut earnestly appeal to all conservative ci- tizens, to unite with them in sustaining the Pre- sident in all Constitutional efforts to suppress
 our country against all foes whether at home or l abroad - ..- ...W ! Now the intention of this resolution depends entirely upon the construction given to the word 1 " constitutionaI." About six months since two sections of the Democratic party were opposing the war on constitutional" grounds. One sec tion believed in the right of secession; the other | held, with President Buchanan, that secession was illegal, but that the Constitution gave the government no po,cer to coerce a seeded state back into the Union. After the disastrous re- suits of the Peace movement, and after they saw the position assumed by the Democratic party in New York, opposition to tho war ceased; but we have yet to learn that either the Secession ists or Anti-Coercionists have changed their views as to it's '" constitutionality." There is little in these resolutions that the former, no- thing that the latter can object to. No man of any party denies the right and duty of the Pre- sident to expel invaders from Ky, Mo- and New Mexico, but both these sections of the Democra- of oou1d ha done consitutionally except by negotiation, com promise, coercion.
 This Convention has however given their con | struction of the word Constitutional in the jecting all propositions likely to result in sa- tisfactory adjustment of the matter ao's in dis pute 6eteeen the Yorth and tas South, O and es- l pecially such measures as would have secured 1 the Border States to the Union, and hearty CO., operation on their part, ,fn aA Constitutional and legal measures to procure he return of the se- ceded States, the Republican party assumed fearful responsibility" Sc. Now we all know that although the Border States would have agreed to remain with us if their demands had
 been acceded 10, they always insisted that there should be no var to coerce the seeded states, and openly declared their intention, in case of hostlittes, to support them against us. If, therefore, in the view of the gentlemen adopting this resolution, the Border States were ready heartily to cooperate in all constitutional and legal measures to procure the return of the se- ceded states, the inference is irresistible that they consider coercion of seeded state, by force of arms, illegal and unconstitutional. In short they have been so careful not to promise too much assistance that they have scarcely promised any. sa- r,......-. sr-. There is something inconceivably shocking also to Q true Union man in the third resolution, inserting, as it does, substantially, that it was our duty to have secured the Border States by concessions and to have allowed the Gu!f States to leaus the Union peacj sy-thereby giving up forever the efficiency of our government to null li6cation and secession s.. -f,.. es ..t E. .,a
 The resolutions proceed further to intimate, that the blame of this war rests on the Repub- lcan party ito denounce the financial policy of the Administration, and their arrests of per
 sons giving aid and comfort to the rebellion st the North, to accuse it of corruption, and finally they undertake to make political capital out of the State Military law. -.,-.s .t,.,s
 But it is the general spirit of these produc- tons that is most reprehsnsible. At this most terrible crisis when the government needs the hearty support of every loyal citizen, these men have not risen above the low, ordinary level of party morality. Just as con tractors have taken advantage of the extreme necessities of the government to get money. they have tried to take advantage of it's troubles and its tsnecessities,to getpotes. They seem not to un -derstand that these are no ordinary times. Af- ter nearly year of the sevcrest trial that this or perhaps any country tMs ever endured, they, like the Bourbons of France after their restora- tion, have learned nothing, have forgotten mo-, thing. The President has shown himself equal to theeccasion, above al party prejudice; and the heart of every true man in the loyal states warns towards him. Yet they have not one word of commendation for him. and when g delegate spoke with great warmth and severity upon the muzzlfng of the Press and of speech at the North, and of the unwarrantable suppression of the writ of Habeas Corpus, &c.,, his refaxks were received with rounds of applause which told the feelings of the Democrats assembled" And when every unprejudiced man is convinced by