The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-03-06
Connecticut Resolutions,


. in Hartford, Connecticut, last week, nomina
ted for Governor, Thomas Ii. Seymour.
The following resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, 1t is the privilege and duty of
free people, living under the guarantees of
written Constitution, which combines the pro
!, visions of ain organic law with the great prin
ciples Of federation and fraternity, to frank
and fearlessly assert their rights to freely can
vass the acts of their appointed servants and t,
ireaflirm the great truths which underlie the Gov
ernment, and upon which, for threc-quarters o
a century, have securely rested the people; ant
whereas, the present administration of the Gen
eral Government has, for nearly two years, beer
in armed collision with the people of more thar
one-third of the States composing the Confed
eracy, and in the prosecution of the existing
war has assumed powers utterly at variance
with the letter and spirit of the Constitution OF
the United States; it becomes us, the represen.
tatives of the conservative people of Connecti-
cut, while reasscrting our determination to ad-
here to the truo principles upon which our Uni
ON is founded, and proclaiming our devotion to
the Constitution, to firmly but temporarily con-
demn the errors of our public officers; and
whereas the administration of Abraham Lin
! coin has violated the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States in many of its most important par
ticulars; therefore,
| ReSolrcd, lst. That the United States are a
Contederacy Of States, co-equal in sovereignty
and political power; Independent in their sepa-
rate organizations, and reserving to each all
rights not granted BY the Constitution to the
central Government.
| I'd. That while, as citizens of Connecticut,
we assert our devotion to the Constitution and
the Union, and will hereafter, as we have here
tofore; support with zeal and epergy. the author
tiles OF the United States in the full constitu-
tional exercises of their powers, we deliberat G.
ly avow that the liberties of the people are
menaced by Congressional and Federal usurpa-
tions, and can only be preserved by the ener-
getic action Of State authority; and we are de-
termucd to maintain and defend the honor OF
our State, and the rights Of her people. j
Sd. That while we denounce the hcresy of se-
cossion as undefended and unwarranted by the
Constitution, we as confidently assert that,
whatever may have been the opinion of our
countrymen, the time has now arrived when
all true lovers of the Consultation are ready to
abandon the ''monstrous fallacy" that the Uni-
on can be restored by the armed hand; and are
anxious to naugurate such action, honorable
alike to the coutending factions, as will stop
IA, ages of war, avert universal bankruptcy
and unite all the States upon terms Of equali-
ty, US members of one coniederacy.
4ih. That the Democracy of Connecticut,
sympathizing with t.eir conservative brethren
Of the Middle and Western States, pledge them
selves to unite with them in the adoption OF all
honorable measures, having in view The cessa-
tion of hostilities between the North and South
the reconstruction of tho Union OH such terms;
the reproduction of those fraternal feelings
which form the true foundation Of the federa-
tion, and the erection upon more enduring ba-
sis Of the temple of the Constitution.
9th. That the militia of Connecticut are the
natural guardians of the liberties of herpeople,
subject to the control of her chief executive Of
ticer, acting under and by authority of the laws
of the State; and any and all acts of the Con-
gress of the United States vioative of the SOW
ereignty of the State in relation thereto, should
receive the execration Of people justly jeal-
Gus OF their liberties, who know their rights,
and
''knowing, dare maintain"
9th. That the Militia bill recently introduced
into the Senate of the United States, by Sena-
tor Wilson, of Massachusetts,, is subversive of
the sovereignty and rights Of the States, and de-
signed to make them mere dependencies upon
the central Government; unconstitutional in its
provisions and dangerous to the liberties Of the
people. The authorities of each of the States
should sternly resist the operation of a scheme
SO fatal to the Just relations which should al
ways exist between the Fedearl and State Gov
ernments.
7th. That the "Banking SYSTEM recently
passed by the Senate of the United States, ba-
sed as it is upon an unconstitutional and ire
deemable issue of paper currency, cannot fail,
if forced upon the people Of the United States,
to prove destructive to the existing monied in
stitutions of the several States, and is covertly
designed to establish vast central ''money
power" alike unknown to the Constitution of
the United States, and dangerous to the prin-
ciples upon which our Government is found
9Th. That the President of the United States,
by his Emancipation Proclamation, has struck
a serious blow at the rights of the States; erec-
ted an almost impossible barrier between the
North and the South, in attacking the people of
fifteen States through domestic institution
which is blended with their social fabric,
and over which the individual States possess
exclusive control and power; and regardless
of the great lessons of the past, the National
Executive, in pandering to the insane fanati-
cism of the Abolition faction has ventured up
OH system of public policy, which if success
fully inaugurated, would disgrace our country
in the eyes of tho civilized world, and carry |
lust, rapiue and murder INTO every household Of
the slavehoding States.
Resolred, That the act Of the Federal Admin
istration, in suspendnS the writ Of haJeas cor
pus, the arrest Of citizens not subject to militia
ry law, without warrant or authority-trans-
porting them to distant States-imprisonin
them without charge or accusation---denying
them the right Of trial by Jury, witnesses in