Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-18
PennsylvanIa Demoernsle Convention.

PennsylvanIa Democratic Convention.
HARRISBURG, Pa, June 1.-THE demo-
cratic state convention met this morning.
Mr.. Nebinger of Philadelphia was elected
temporary chairman 10y 70 votes, over Mr..
Petmken, who got 80. Finley Patterson was
elected permanent president. Witte of Philaa
delphia is still the most prominent candidate
for governor, but will not be nominated, as
was seen by the small vote for Petriken his
friend. Messrs. Hester Clymer of Berks,
Judge Woodward Cessna of Fulton, General
Franklin Of York, and Cass of Allegheny, APP
pear to be prominent in the order named
Some OF the delegates talk of offering strong
war resolutions, and OF fighting against the
approaching rebels.
At the evening session the committee on
resolutions offered the following, which were
unanimously adopted: Resolved, that we APP
prove Of the resolution on the state of the
country passed by the house of representa-
tives of this commonwealth of 18th April
last, and in addition thereto and as a
further expression of our views upon
public affairs, do resolve as follows:
That we renew our fidelity to the consttu-
ton Of the United States, the great charter
for which our foretathers struggled and
fought, established, as they themselves ex-
pressed it, $40 form a more perfect Union,
establish justice, ensure tranquility, provide
for the common defence, promote the general
welfare, and secure the blessings Of liberty to
ourselves and our posterity;" and that, mas
much as the constitution embodes the only
guarantees we have for public liberty and pri-
vate rights,-as without it we can have no
hope of protection from bloOdshe /, sp0liation,
and anarchy,-the man who sneers at the con-
StitutiOn as it is, proves himself deficient in
the first elements of patriotism; and any Of
tcer of the state or federal government, who
swears to support the constitution, and after
ward, with that oath on his conscience, will
fully violates it, is wholly unworthy OF public
confidence; that among the rights the conSti-
tuition provides every citizen, is that Of being
secure in life and property, so that he cannot
be deprived of either without due process of
law, a fair trial by a competent jndge
jury of his neighbors, with Witnesses
to confront him, and counsel to defend
him, is so just in itself, 50 necessary to the
happiness Of the people; and this is so plain
ly written down in the trderal constitution,
that any person who can misunderstood it has
not in our opinion the mental capacity which
fits him for a public station. Resolved, that
we have heard with intense alarm and deep
Indignation that some of our political oppo-
nentS claim for the president of the United
States power hitherto unknown in America
and never exercised in Europe or Asia, except
by the most despotc monarchs, namely, pow
er to arrest free citizens for the expression Of
honest opinions on public officers; End that
the president has not only presumed to exer-
else this power himself with moderation and
mercy to which his nature might prompt but
has delegated it to many subordinates, and
they again TO others, in every part of the
country, until its hideous presence is seen and
felt all over the land.
On the ninth ballot, George W. Woodward
was nominated for governor, receiving Is
votes to 90 for Hester Clymer, and for n.
Strickland