Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-08-20
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ~ HMg
DEMOCRACY oF E0wA, IN STATE
CONVENTION, july 11u 1859.


CONVENTION, JuAx liz 1850.
!. That the Constitution and the Union
and the laws muss be preserved and main
tanned in sll their righsful supremacy,
and that the Rebellion, now in arms
against them, must be suppressed and
put down; and that we are in favor of all
Constitutional means for that purpose,
not merely by fores Of arms, bnt By such
other measures as common sense, reason,
and patriotism viii readily suggest to the
governing powers. -
z. That the true interests of the coun-
TIT, Is well as the dictates Of humanity,
require that no more war or acts Of war
should be prosecuted or done than are
necessary and proper, under the Oonsti-
tuition, for the prompt and complete sup
pEsssicn of the Eebalhan.
3. That the present war, as avowed by
e the President and Congress, and under
stoed By the people, was commenced and
prosecuted for the purpose of suppressing
the rebellion, and preserving and vindi-
eating the Constitution the Union and
the laws, and for fsdt purpose only.
4. That the doctrines OF the secession
lists and Of the abolitionists. as the latter
are now represented In Congress, are
alike false TO tia Constitution and IRE
concilable with the unity and peace Of
the country; the arst have already in-
EolVed US in a cruel civil war, and the
others [ths abolitioaiassl win leave TO the
country bat little hope of the speedy res
toration of union or peace, unless the
schemes of conhscation, emancipation,
9th
which have been lately carried aud at
tempted TO be carried through Congress,
be rebuked by the people.
5. That the doctrine Of State necessity
ID unknown to our Government or laws /;
that the Constitution and the laws are
sufficient for any emergency, and that
the suppg assiou Of the freedom of speech,
and of the press, and the unlawful arrest
of eitixsns, aud the suspension of the
writ OF hGbsGs corpus, IN violation of the
Constitution, in States, whore the civil
authorities are unimpeded, il most dan
garous to civil liberty, and should be re-
sisted at the ballot-box by every freeman
of the land.
6. That this ia 6 government Of white
men, and was established exclusively for
the white race; that the negroes are not
eptitled to, and ought not TO be entitled
TO political or social equality with the
white race, bat that 1t ia our duty to treat
them with kindness and consideration,
as an inferior and dependent race; that
the right OF the several States to deter
mine the position and duties of the race
is sovereign right, and the pledges Of
the Constitution require US as loya! citi-
gems not to interfere Herewith. That
the party fanatieisEn or crime, whichever
it may be called, that seeks to turn the
slaves of the Southern States loose to
overrun tho North, and enter into COM
petition with the white iaboTiug classes,
thus degrading their manhood by placing
them on an equality With the negroes in
their occupation, is insulting to our race
aud merits our emphatic and unqualified
condemnation,
I. That the purchase of the slaves, by
the Government, rs proposed by the Pres
ideHs, will impose aa eneroas and unea-
durable burden, upon the present gem
ez@tion aEsd entail upon posssSity griev-
ous exastions.
8. That Congress, in the enactment of
the late Tariff aud Tax bills, and the
President, by his approval of those acts,
have imposed unfair and unjust enact
msnts upoA the people as large, by dis
eliminating In these acts in favor of the
comparatively wealthy, aud against those
who are least able 10 bear the burdens OF
taxation.
o. That we recur with patyiotic pride
to the bravery and Ealor OF the officers
and soldiers OF all the Iowa regiments,
exhibited in the struggles, upon many
bloody fields in which they have been en-
gaged-and that this Convention in be-
bali Of the Democracy of this State ten
ders TO them o united testimony TO their
vaior aud deYotioa TO the Constitution
and the Union; and offers to the friends
and families Of those who have fallen up-
on the 6eid, its sincere sympathy and
coincidence.
10. That viewing the glories of the
past and contemplating the gloomy real
ities OF the present, We belisye there Ia
no hope tn the future for the perpstuity
Of our system Of Government, bat BY pre-
serving she Consultation inviolasa and In
respecting il by both Government and |
people as sacrea deposition Of indvid-
nal and State rights.
La an economical and Systematic ADJ |
zainlssrasaon OF the Government By which |
corruption win be prevented, sxtrava- /
gance restrained, expenditures reduced,
and heavy taxation rendered unnecessary.
Ia culfivssing among sha people shas
spirit OF American fraternity, which onps |
knew no Norshs no South, 30 Eass, no /