The Placer herald., 1863-04-04
Connecticut Democracy.

venton, nominated r. Ii. Seymour for Gov.
ernor, and passed Resolutions as below
The election takes place we believe, April
9th, and there can be no question as 10 the
ground occupied by the Dmocracy. Even
the Sacramento Union, the concentration Of
all that is evil in politics, owns that the Con.
necticu. Democracy have placed themselves
square out for peace without hesitation or
reservation. Read their platform, and watch
the resnlt:
WHEREAS, The Administration of Abra.
BAN Lincoln has violated the Constitution
Of the United States in many Of its most
important particulars; therefore.
Resolyed, |. That the United States are
Confederacy of States, coequal in sovereignty
and political power, Independent in all their
seperate organizations, and reserving to each
all rights not granted by the Constitution to
the Central Government,
4. That the Democracy of Connecticut,
sympathizng with their conservative breth'
rem in the Middle and Western States, pledge
themselves to unite with them in the adopt.
ion Of all honorable masures having in view
the cessation ofhostlities between the North
and the South.
| U.
duced into the Senate of the United States
by Senator Wilson of Massachusetts, is sub
versive of the sovereignty and rights of the
States, and designed to make them mere de-
tendencies upon the Central Government;
unconstitutional in its provision, and danger
Gus to the liberties OF the people, the author.
tiles of each Of the States should sterny rel
sist the operation of scheme so fatal to the
Just relations which should always exist be.
tween the Federal and State Governments.
7. That the "banking system" recently
passed by the Senate of the United States,
based as it is upon an unconstitutional and
irredeemable issue of paper currency, cannot
fail, if forced upon the people of the States,
to prove destructive to the existing money
institutions of the several States, and is cow
erty design to establish q vast central
money power" alike unknown to the Com
sitution of the United States, and dangerI
Gus to the principles upon which our Gov
ernment is founded.
8. That the President Of the United
States, by his emancipation proclamation,
has struck serious blow to the rights Of the
States; erected an almost impossible barrier
between the North and South, in attacking
the people of fifteen States through adomes-
tic institution which is blended with their
social fabric, and over which the Individual
States possess exclusive control and power;
and, regardless Of the lessons of the past,
the National Executive, in pandering to the
insane fanaticism Of the abolition faction,
has ven,ured upon n system Of public policy,
which, if successfully inaugurated, would
| in Of tho ivil
lied world, and carry lust, rapine and muir
der into every household Of the slaveholding
States
Resolved, That the act Of the Federal Ad-
ministration in suspending the wri. OF ha-
beas corpus, the arrest of citizens not sub
ject to military law without warrant or auth
orty-transportng them to distant States
incarcerasing them without charge or accusa-
toin-denying them the right of .riaI by jury,
of witnesses in their favor and counsel for de.
Withholding from them all knowledge
of their accusers and the cause Of the arrest
answering their petitions for redress by
repeated injury and insult, prescribing in
many cases rs q condition OF their release,
test oa,hs, arbitrary and illegal.
In the abridgment of freedom of speech
and of the press-in suppressng newspapers
by military force, and establishing censor
ship wholly incompatible with freedom of
thought and expression of opinion;
In the establishing of a system Of espion-
age by a secret police to invade the sacred
precints of unsuspecting citizens;
In declaring martial law all over States
not in rebellion, aud where the Courts are
open and unobs.ructed for tho punishment OF
crime;
In attempting to strike out of existence
the entire value of property in slaves through
out the country;
In the attempted enforcement Of compeni
stated emancipation.
In the proposed taxation of the laboring
white man to purchase the freedom Of the
negro, and place his labor in competition
with the white man thus taxed;
In the dismemberment of the State of Vir-
gna, erecting within her boundaries a new
State without the consent of her Legisa,
ture.
Are each and all arbitrary and unconsti
tutional, subverting the Constitution, State
and Federal, invading the reserved rights of
the people and sovereignty Of the States,
and if sanctioned, destructive of the Union,
establishing upon the common ruins Of the
liberties of the people and the sovereignty
the States, a consolidated military despot
ism.
Reso!ved, That in connection with our
fellow citizens of other States, we will use
our utmost influence to prevent the payment
Of single dollar of the money of the peo-
pie, unconstitutionally appropriated for the
upwarranted project of compensated emaucil
patton.
Resolved, That the enormous plumber Of
the public treasure by self constituted patri-
OTIS, which has been rife through the country,
demands the closest scrutiny, and the sever
est punishment should follow a jIst expo,
sure, and we insist upon their being prompt.
ly paid for services rendered