Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-10-08
Resolutions Of the war Democratic
Convention at GAINESVILLE.

on the 18th:
Resozced, That as the Constitution
vests in the President, ''the Executive
power Of the Government, creates him
:sCommander-in-chief of the army and
navy of the United States, and of the
militia Of the several States when called
into actual service Of the United States, =
and commands him to ''take care that
the laws be faithfully executed = with
out defining the manner in which any
Of these enacted powers shall be exert
ed, it becomes his duty under his re-
sponsibility to Heaven, to the people
whom he represents, and to the laws Of
civilized nations, ito judge, in times Of
war and great national peril what de-
gree Of force the crisis demands )" and
to select, from the known usages of civ
ilized warfare, such measures as he deems
most eficacious; and it becomes the cor
responding duty Of all loyal citizens, to
yield to all such measures their ready
and hearty support.
Reso5ced, That the present rebellion
was commenced and is prosecuted for
the dismemberment Of the National
Union, and the destruction of the Con
stitution and Government of the United
States; that in view of the vast armies
now arrayed by the rebels for the com
mission Of this national murder, no in
dividual and no party can stand indif-
erently by, and witness the preparation
Of the crime without becoming a partic-
ipant in the bloody treason.
Resolced, That, as the inherent ele-
ment of Democracy is the rule Of the
people, its first principle Of action, is a
prompt submission to the lawfully ex-
pressed will Of the majority that the
Democratic party, now finding an ad-
ministration Of the general government,
constitutionally placed in power, though
without its aid and against its wishes, is
bound, upon all questions efecting the
national safety, to yield to it the same
cordial and unconditional support, which
it would have yielded to an administra-
ton of its own choice.
Rcsolped, That we recur with undi-
minished pride to the past history Of the
Democratic party-a history interviewer
alike with the triumph Of popular lib
erty and the defense and glory of the
government; that we cannot forget that
the opponents Of this ever-loyal party
in the war Of 1872 refused to support
the measures of the national admins
tration, and burnt blue lights along the
coast as beacons to our enemies; and in
the Mexican war, factiously withheld
supplies from our brave troops in the
field, commencing them to the ''bloody
hands and hospital graves" of the foe !;
that We have no wish now, amidst the
bloodiest and most unprovoked war that
ever imperilod the government, to imi-
tate these bad examples, and, by de-
nouncing the measures and motives Of
the administration, by discouraging en-
listments into the army, and decrying
its victories, by Spreading throughout the
loyal States the fire brands Of faction,
and by giving aid and comfort to trai-
tors in arms, thus to sink the Democrat
ic party to the odious level, and fasten
upon it the endless shame of Hartford
Convention Federalism.
Rcso}rcd, That this is not the time
to theorize upon what will be the "sta-
tus" Of the rebel States, after they shall
again acknowledge their allegiance to
the Constitution and laws Of the Union.
The great mission Of our army is to de-
feat the army Of the rebellion; this
event accomplished, the rebellion must
fall to the ground; and when the bow
Of peace shall again span our political
horizon, stretching it's golden arch over
every State and Territory of the Union
we confde in the magnanimity of the
loyal people of America and in the con
stitutional tribunals of the country, to
assign and secure to the rebel States,
their proper position and to the rebels,
themselves, every constitutional right
Resozvcd, That, as Democrats, we
support the Government, in this war
prosecuted against it by the rebel States,
with no purpose, either to protect or de-
stroy the institution Of slavery; but as
the slaveholding States have causelessly
and recklessly attempted the subVersion
Of our common government, if, in the
foray. that government is unable to pro
tect either their lives or their property,
upon their own heads mustrest the blame
Yet as citizens Of free state, we are
utterly opposed to the admission Of the
black population Of the South, among
US, so as to disturb our domestic peace,
or create competition with labor
Resolged, That the Plattorm adopted
at Madison by the late SO called Demo
cratic Convention" is an artfully cor
trived and cunningly drawn, but cold
and factious attempt to array the people
Of the loyal States, against the constitu-
tional head Of the Governments to re-
press their patriotism to prevent their
support of the army, and to expose the
army itself to disaster and destruction
that its real effects is to inculcate law
lessness, provoke violence and inspire
sympathy with treason, with no higher
nurnose than to accomnliSh \ nolitical