The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-06-24
Democratic State Convention at
Springfield, Illinois.


Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, June II.
To the Editor OF the Enquirer:
The meeting to day was the largest ever
held in the United States, and the enthusi.
asm greater than ever was known before
There were present not less than seventy
five thousand people. every part OF Illinois
being largely represented. The railroads
brought here immense numbers; and in sew.
ersl professions there we're counted, by Col.
Richards, 4,424 wagons, buggies and car
riages. There were, besides, thousands oil
horsemen: also, wagons which did not join
the procession.
Such vast sssemblage Of people was new
er before witnessed by any American at q
political meeting. The amphitheater in the
Fair Grounds was packed so iull that hun.
dred more could not have got inside the
space OF the inelosure, which is hull two a.
creS. Outside of the amphitheater, in the
Fair grounds, there were three stands around
which there were mqny thousand congrega
ted. From six stands speeches were made
by Richardson. Voorhees,, $. S. Cox, Mer.
rick, Allen, Knapp, Kribbers, Robson, Nc
Kinstry, Judge Marshall. and dOzea 9th
ers.
General Richardson was the President
There were fifty Vice Presidents and seven
Secretaries.
The military were kept in camp, and the
Convention passed off harmoniously and with
the most intense enthusiasm.
The speeches were generally condelnna-
tory OF the Administration, the war policy
Of the Government, and the military usurp
ations in preventing the freedom of speech,
and the liberty Of the press, g.,
Gen. Burnside, Judge Leavitt, President
Lincoln, Governor Yates and others were
handled without gloves, and were challenged
by the speakers to arrest them for the free
expression OF their opinions. Such scha
! thing rebuke to party in power was never
before known as that made by the speakers,
the resolutions passed by the Convention,
and the masses assembled here to day.
Resolutions were adopted declaring the
Constitution the supreme law of the land,
and to be always obeyed; giving citizens the
| right to exercise all the privileges and immu
mites guaranteed by that instrument. They
condemn orders abridgiDg the freedom OF
| the Press, and also the right to assemble
and petition the Government for the redress
ofgnevances; OF keeping and bearing arms;
| opposes arresting and transporting citizsns
without warrants of law; OF extending mar
tial law where war does not eXisf; suspend
ing the writ OF habeas corpus arrest and ex
! lie of fallandigham, and demand his re etuin;
suppression OF Chicago Times, arrest OF udge
| Constable and Others; right to elect public
officers and decide questions Of policy at the
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power, subject only to the Constitution OF
the United States. The Convention claimed
the right OF the people to govern themselves
as a free and independant State; thai no cit
izan is subject 10 court martial; it con
demnS the conduct of Governor Y ates in dis
solving the General Assembly, it promises
obeyanca Of all laws while on the statute
books, if right, to perpetrate them, and i
wrong to effect remedy by constitutional
means, by procuring their repeal; it denoun
ces the heresy OF secession aud these lIbelers
Of the Democratic party who represent that
Democracy are wanting in sympathy Tor the
soldiers in the field; they request the PreSI
dent 10 withdraw the Emancipation Proca
uation, and permit troops to fight only loi
the Union, Constitution and enforcement o
the laws and are opposed to the further Of.
tensive prosecution OF the war, as tending fas
to subvert the Constitution and the Govern
ment, and entail upon the nation all the dis
astrous consequences OF mlsrule and anarchy
and favors peace upon basis of the re-tora
tion Of the Union, and to accomplish which
they propose a National Convention, to set.
tie upon terms of peace, which have in view
the restoration OF the Union as it was, and
the securing by constitutional amendment:
such right to be the several States and the
people thereof as honor and justice demands
Meetings are being held in different parts o
the city to night, and speeches made by diff
ferent speakers. 1t has been the greatest day
ever experienced in the Northwest, and vii
never be forgotten. BELMAN.