The Plymouth weekly Democrat., 1863-09-24
New York Democratic State Con
VentiOn.


VentiOn.
The Democracy of New York met in
convention at Albany on Wednesday and
Thursday last and made the following
nominations: Secretary of State, D. H. St
John; Comptroller, Sanford E. Church
Attorney General, NJ. B. Champlain State
Treasurer, w. B. Lewis.
The following platform was unanimous
ly adopted without debate:
Resolred That We reaffrm the platform
adopted by the Democratic Convention in
1862, viz:
/. That We will continue to render the
Government our sincere and united sup
port to the use of all legitimate means to
suppress the rebellion and to restore 1.-The
Union as it was and to maintain sthc Con-
stiution as it H." believing that sacred in
strunent, founded in wisdom by our faith
Tiers. clothes the constituted authorities
with full power to accomplish that pur-
pose.
,. That by the following resolutions,
unanimousl y passed Congress in July, 1861
the Government was pledged to the policy
inculcatcd therein. and which cannot be
departed from without violation of the pub
lie faith viz:
R"@c'd, That the present dcplorable
evil war has been forced upon the country
by the disunionists in the Southern States
now in arms against the constitutional gov
ernmcnt, and in arms around the capital
that. in this national emergency, Congress,
banishing all feelings of mere passion or
resentment, will recollect only its duty to
the whole country. that this war is not wa
gcd on their part in any spirit of oppress-
ion, or for any purpose of conquest, or for
interfering with the rights or established
institutions of these States, but to defend
and maintain the supremacy of the Con
stitution. and to preserve the Union, with
all the dignity and rights of the several
States unimpaircd; and that as soon as
these objects are accomplished the war
ought to cease.
Third-That We having confidence in the
loyalty Of the citizens Of the State of New
York, rcitcrate the sentiment heretofore
expressed by the Democratic party that H.
legal and unconstitutional arrests and i'm
prisonment Of citizens Of this State are
without justification or necessity and should
be discontinued; and we dcnounce such ar
rests as usurpation and a crime, and that
the freedom of the press equally protected
by the Constitution, ought to be maintain
ed
RcsoIvcd, That in view of our recent
victories and the manifestations of return
ing allegiance on the part of North Carolina
and other seeded States, it becomes the
government to manifest policy of concii-
alton; that such policy is demanded alike
by patriotism and wise craftsmanship,
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the future, by bringing this exhausting
war to speedy close, not only by the
excrtion of power, but by an enlarged
line of action which shall encourage the
union sentiment of the South and unite
more thoroughly the people of the North !;
that, therefore, We regret President Lin
coin 5 late letter, which, while reitcrating
the visionary and unconstitutional eman-
cipation policy, contemplating no measure
for the restoration of the Union, but look
ing to an definite protraction of the war
for abolition purposes, points to no future
but national bankruptcy and subversion of
our institutions.
Pesolved That the doctrine Of the right
of States to secede from the Federal Gov
ornrnent is not more false to the Constitu-
ton than the claim of the right by the Fed
eral Government to obliterate State boun-
daries and State rights, and that Therefore,
we rcpudiate the doctrine put forward by
the adminstratiOn-"that no seeded State
returning to its allegiance shall be permit
ted to resume its place in the Union until
Il has conformed in its Constitution TO the
will of the party in power
Resolved That the Constitution of the
! United States is obligatory upon the Gov