Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-09-23

sneaker is Massachusetts, Democracy And
: you can find the same thing, open or covert,
in the platforms Of the party in other States
Franklin Pierce said war was not the way TO
put down rebellion, but We must use moral
saeasion. Iaughter.) The same idea was adj
vanced in Woods letter to the President.
How disloyal were such propositions
(Cheers1 Not a Southern statesman or anv
prominent exponent Of Southern views, had
uttered one word in favorof peace Oh of yield
ing TO the authority of the Union. Then
there is the fact of their immense army in
the feld-that must be put down before there
can be peace The rebellion can only be put
down by force. (Cheers.) We have the
men, the credit, and the power to do it. Re
newed cheers. What we want first is to
whip the rebel army. That must be done by
the soldiers in the field. trust the time
may come when we may hold out the olive
branch But that must come only after
Charleston and Mobile have been taken and
their army has been whipped. Cheers. |
These Democrats talk about Southern rights.
Their rights, they tell Us, must be respected !!
What rights have they II don't understand
what this language. means Does it mean
their slave Property? If so, 1 have given
YOU my views on that subject fCheers
They have forfeited all their rights Great
Cheering All the means known to Christian
and civilized warfare may be used against
them. We have the same right to take their
niggers from them as their cotton, their ships
their men or money
But, say these men, the Administration is
not carrying on the war to put down the re-
bellion, but to free the niggers Who has the
right to say this? Mr.. Lincoln ought to
know as much about this as Mr.. Sat Clark or
any one else. (Cheers.) In his drol way he
has reminded US that 1t will be time enough
to raise this objection when the rebellion is
suppressed If the rebels lose their slaves it
will be the consequence of their own acts
(Applause.) II they lose every one, if slavery
is utterly extingushed, shall shed no tears
(Great and enthusiastic cheerS) But say
these carpers, the revolted States will not be
allowed to come back on the same con-
ditions as before. Who has the right to say
that? What state that has seeded has yet
proposed to come back and been refused.
Let the Southern States first manifest will
TO return, and then will be time to discuss
the question of their status. Why Missouri
is already back, and when Tennessee and
Louisiana and others wish to return to their
allegiance, doubt not but they viii find way.
There is no Just foundation then for these
charges. They are made TO build up party
at the expense of loyalty, at the expense of
the country. These men have thrown cold
water on volunteering. Now they complain
of the conscription act; but if men will not
volunteer, how shall they be had without con-
scription Z: This hostility to the CONSUMPTION
is something more than partizanship, it shows
in a time Of war, in a cause like this, de-
plorable lack of patriotism, a want of loyalty.
They also eXclaim that this or that act of Con-
gress or, the President Is unconstitutional
And they say that we had better lose battle
than that the least infractiOn of the Constitu-
ton should occur. Who is to decide what
laws are constitutional? This man has one
opinion, that man another. The only safe
way is to obey the laws until they are pro-
nOunced unconstitutional by the courts having
authority to give such judgment.
The object of this Convention was TO re-
store, if possible, the Democratic party to its
old fealtyto the Constitution and the Gov
eminent, and to present an Ilnbroben front
for the crushing OF rebellion. We propose
to put ourselves under the old flag, to restore
the Constitution as it is, and preserve that old
Union, the manifest destiny of which is to
extend over this whole continent (Cheers)
There have been dark days before, there may
be dark days in store for Us, but we viii never
despair of the Republic. Great applause.)
1.-THE above IS but synopsis of Mr.. Arm
ODDS speech, which was a most eloquent and
powerful effort. 1t was received with I'M
bounded applause.-REPoRTER.]
Mr. A Hyatt Smith reported from the
committee an order Of business for the meet
ing, which was adopted
THE PLATFORM OF THE LOYAL DEMOCRATS.
Judge HubbeI from the committee on reso-
Iutions submitted the following. which were
read by Mat. II. Carpenter, Esq:
RESOLUTIONS.
ResoJUe9, That gratefully recognize the inf
mite goodness which spired our fathers with pat
rfo and wisdom. achieve by their he
blessing of national liberty, and secure by a
Constitutional Government, the enjoyment of
those blessings for themse elves and their posteri
ty forever and, sons of such sires deem it
first and hottest duty, to defend that Govern
ment and preserve that liberty, by every means,
which intelligent freemen may exert.
RsS0lred, That Constitutional Republican Gov
eminent, established by free and sovereign peo-
pie, for the safety and welfare of themselves and
their posterity, Is work next in subIimity, the
creations OF the Divinity; and that this offspring
OF human wisdom and patriotism, Is endowed, like
the creatures of God, with the inherent and nalen
able right of set pres ere alton.
R>solred, That as the Constitution vests in the
President, the Executive power of the govern
ment, creates him - Commander-in-Ch Chief of the
Army and Navy of the United States and of the
Militia Of the several states when called into the
actual service Of the United States, and commands
him TO take care that the laws be Faithfully exc.
Cutcd without defining the manner in which
any Of these enacted powers shall be executed, it
becomes his duty under his response bilties to
Heaven, to the People whom he represents, and to
the laws OF civilized natIons 1" TO judge, in times
OF and % great national peril what degree OF
select, from.
known yes of civilized warfare, such measures
he deeuls most efficacious to preserve the gov
eminent and it becomes the corresponding duty of
all such measures, their ready and hearty support.
RsS0rca, That the present rebellion was com
mcnced and il prosecuted for the dism mberment
OF the National Union, and the destru of the
Constitution and Government of the United States
that il view of the vast armies arrayed by the
rebels for the commission of this national murder
no individual and no party stand indiferently
by, and witness the perpetration of the crime, with
out becoming participator in the bloody treason
R.SUlrtd. That, as the inherent element of De-
mocraCy Is the rule of the People, its first principle
of action, Is prompt submission to the lawfully
Npressed viii of the majority; that the Democratic
party, finding administration of the G eneraI
though without its aid and against wishes, j.
bound, upon all questions affecting the national
safety, 70 yield to 1t the cordial and uncondi
tioHal support, which 1t would have yielded to an
administration of its own choice.
lssSOtUsG, That recur Wit h undiminis bed pride
IN the past history of the Democratic Party-a
history Interviews alike with the triumph of pom
lar liberty, and the defense and glory of the gov
eminent that cannot forget, that the oppo-
uents OF this eyer-oyaI party, in the of 1872,
refused to support the measures Of the national
coast as beacons to enemies and in the Mexi-
war factiously withheld supplies from brave
troops in the field, commencing them the
"bloody hands and .hospitable graves of the
foe that We have wish now, amid the bloodiest
and most provoked war that ever imp erilled the
gOyernlent, to initiate these bad examples, and,
by den un cling the measures and motives of the
administration by discouraging enlistments into
she army, ana decrying its victories, by spreading