North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1862-09-03


E. N. Bacon, Eaton.
S. D. Ingham, Mehoopany.
VIM. Weller, Falls.
Henry W. Fassett, Windham.
DELEGATE TO STATE CONVENTION
DR.. j. V. Smith was unanimously nomina-
ted as Delegate to the neyt Democratic State
Convention.
RESOLUTIONS.
The following Resolutions were then offer
ed by Hon. r. r. Little, and unanimously
adopted:
ResolUed,- That we unanimously endorse
the Resolutions of the Democratic State Con
ventlon held at Harrisburg on the 4th of
July last.
ReSoiUed,--2 That the " unnecessary and
injurious civil war;" that is now desolating
the country and threatening the permanency of
our government ceased to be q political qxes-
ton from the time that Congress refused to
adopt any measures Of honorable compromise
of the difficulties that had grown out of
Northern and Southern sectionalism, and the
consequent commencement of hostilities in
the bombardment of Fort Sumter-that from
that time there has been but one proper mode
of dealing with the question, namely, by
keeping it distinct and separate from politics,
to unite the whole North in the effort to
bring the rebellion to an end by force; and
to :hiS end, all conservative men are called
upon to unite with us in a determined effort
to create United North, by putting down
and driving to the wall that misguided and
mischievous faction, whose sole aim is to i'm
pair northern unity of purpose, and paralyze
northern effort, by forever iutruding the most
unfortunate, fatal, and disastrous of all po-
litical issues, (the issue Of Negro emancipa-
tion) upon the peoples counsels by persist
emily striving to coerce the President into
the adoption of policy that must prove ia
tai to the Union by seeking to impair pub
lie confidence IN the integrity Of the Admin
istration; and by creating in the ranks Ct
our armies suspicion and distrust Of the f.
deity and loyalty Of their leaders.
ReS0jred 3, That the 'suspen5ion ofpolitica
parties until the close of the war; is only ad-
vocated by the party in power, and because it
is Is in power-that the utter hollowness and
hypocrisy Of the advocates Of this policy is
shown by the fact that they are scrupuIously
careful to keep up their own political organi-
zation, and to keep all their political machi-
merry in full operation, as well as by the fact
that in the multitude Of civil appointments
made and being made under Republican au-
thority, none but Republicans of the
straightest Sect" or renegade Democrats, are
recognized.
ReSoleed /, That i'll all free governments
there have always been, and must of necessi-
ty be at least two political parties-that the
integrity, permanency, and fidelity of such
governments to constitutional authority, i'm
peratiyely demand an opposition party that
without such party, there would be no &C
copntability, and without accountability no
government can be trusted. :" No Party,''
therefore, simply means let there be no op-
position TO the plundering of the government
by government officials and favored parti-
sans" 1t means, " let the party in power
remain in power, without question as to the
mode in which power may be exercised."-
It means no criticism of the ccuduct o
government officials, whatever disaster or ru-
IN may follow" 1t means no discussion
of measures of governmental policy II
means "silence, acquiescence, or imprison,
ment.3
ReSoIUed 5, That in sustaining the Presi
dent under the tremendous pressure to VIII icf
he has been subjected by the Radical wing
of his own party, the Democratic party has
afforded ample and conclusive evidence ofts
desire to give all its strength to the suppress
ion of the rebellion and the restoration o.
the Union; and that the responsibility fol
that absence Of unity of purpose in the North
which is essential to success, rests solely
with that party whose whole aim has been
to convert the war into a miserable crusade
against the domestic institutions of the South
ern States, ard in dong SO, to overthrow the
constitution, and render disunion perpetual
Therefore, t
ReSolUed 6, That the arrest and imprison
mcnt of loyal Democrats by order of an ad
ministration that ignores the open and avow
ed treason of large body of the members of
its own party, is monstrous exercise of des.
potic power that the Democratic party of the
North is called upon to resist by all Lawful
and constitutional means at its command
that it is no part of the business of Demo
Gratis to discourage enlistmeuts, and that this
is not the true motive of their arrest, is
abundantly shown by the fact that those
members of the Republican party who have
constantly and persstently labored to dis
courage enlistments because the war has not
haan DroStItutp6 to milo f,,I ard