Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-03-04
Resolutions OF the Democratic State
Convention Of Connecticut

their State Convention week before last.
aud nominated full ticket, with the gal
liant Thos II. Seymore at its head for Gov.
ernor The election takes place in April
The following sound national resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, lst. That the United States
are Confedoracy o. States. coequal in
sovereignty and political power indepen-
dent IN their several organizations, and
reserving TO each all rights not granted by
the constitution to the central governs
msnt.
I'd. That while as citizens of Connect.
CD. We assert our devotion TO the consti
tuition and the Union, and viii hereafter
as We have heretofore, support with zeal
and energy the authorities Of the United
States in the full constitutional exercise
of their poTers we deliberately avow that
the liberties Of the people are menaced by
congressional and Federal usurpatons,
and can only be preservad by the energet
ic action ofStale authority; and we are
determined to maintain and defend the
donor Of our State and the rights Of her
people.
Sd. That we denounce the heresy of
secession as undefended and unwarran ted
by the Constitution, we as confidently as
scr' that whatever may heretofore have
been the opinion of our countrymen, the
time has now arrived when all true lovers
Of the constitution are ready to abandon
the "monstrous allacy" that the Union
can be restored bv TIE armed hand and
= are anxious to inaugura,e such action
honorable al Ike to the contending sec,
; i'll - ba e
: universal bankruptcy, and unite all the
: States upon terms Of equality, as members
of one Coufederacy.
4th. That the democracy Of Connects
D cut. sympnthiziHg with their consel vat, G
Q brethern Of the Middle and Western
= States, pledge themselves to unite with
them in the adoption of all honorable
{ measures having in view the cessation of
hostliti 8 between the North and South ::
{ the reconstruction of the Union on such
terms of shall thoroughly define the
rights Of the States the reproduction of
those fraternal feelings which form the
: true foundation Of the federation, and the
erection upon a more enduring basis of
, the temple Of the constitution.
r 5th. That the militia of Connecticut
, are the natural guardians Of the liberties
Of her people, subject to the control of
\ her chief executive officer, acting under
and by authority of the laws of the State :;
and any, and all acts Of the Congress of
the United States violative Of the sover
eighty Of the State in relation thereto,
should receive the eSecraton of a people
Justly Jealous Of their liberties, "who
know their rights, and knowing dare
. maintain
| 9th. Thatihe militia bill recenly in,
4 troduced into the Senate Of the United
D States. by Senator Wilson, Of MassachusN
e rtts is subversivc of the sovereignty and
, rights of the States, and designed 10 make
2 them mere dependencies upon the cen,
. iral government unconstitutional in its
[ provisions and dangerous 10 the Liberties
e Of the people. the authorities Of each of
: the States should sternly resis. the opera.
ton Of a scheme so fatal to the just rela.
,ons which should always exist between
: the Federal and S'ato governments.
7th That the banking system" recent.
: Is passed by the Senate of the United
: States, based, as il is, upon an uncons' ilu-
tional and ilrednemable issue of paper
currency, cannot fail, i! forced upon the
people Of the States, to prove destructive
TO the existing moneyed institutions OF
: the several States, and covertly designed
10 establish n vast central"mon power"
alike unknown to the constitution Of the
United States, and dangerous to the prin.
ciples upon which our government is
: founded.
Sth That the President Of the United
States, by bis emancipation proclamation,
has struck a serious blow at the rights of
the States /; erected an almost impossible
, barrier between the North and the South,
! in attacking the people o! fifteen States
= through a domestic institution which is
blended with their social fabric, and over
which :be individual States possess exclu.
sive control and power; and regardless Of
n the great lessons Of the past, the Na'iou>
. al Executive, in pandering to the insane
p fanaticism Of the Abolition faction, has
e vantured upon a system Of public policy
: which, il successfully inaugurated, would
} disgrace our country in the eyes of the
civilized world. aud carry lust, rapine and
murder into every house of the slave,
holding States.
: Resolved, That the act Of the Federal
administration is suspending the writ of
habeas corpus. the arrest Of citizens not
snbject to military law without warrant or
uutuoIll9 poTlluB theIl W ulsNdnJ
tates-incarcerating them without charge
ar ccusaion-deuyng them the right of
trial by jury, Of witnesses in their favor,
f and counsel for their defence withhold-
! ing from them all knowledge of their ac>
cusers, and the cause of their arrest-an-
, swering their petition for redress by re-
{ peated injury and insult prescribing in
many cases as n cnndition Of their release.
test oaths' arbitrary and illegal
In the sbridgoment of freedom Of speech
and OF the press--in suppressing newspa-
pers by military force, aud establishing a
censorship wholly Incompatible with the
freedom of thought and expression of
opinion. In the establishment OF a svs.
tenn of espionage by secret police TO in.
vade the sacred privacy Of unsuspecting
citizens In declaring martial law over
! States not in rebellion, and where the
z courts ara oman and unobetruc,oJ G.. a.