Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-19
Maine Democratic State COnven-
tiOn.

BANGOR, Me, Aug. 16.-The Democratic
State Convention is very large and enthu-
siastic-eight hundred and sixty-one dele
gates, representing four hundred towns, be-
ing present. Jonathan Smith, of West
brook, ,..presides. Hon. James w. Bradbury,
chairman of the committee on resolutions,
reported the following which were unani-
mously adopted:
Resolved, That the Democratic party is,
and ever has been, the true Union party of
the country. Under its conservative prin-
ciples and enlightened policy the United
States have hitherto been preserved in con-
cord and in strength, our territory extend
ed, our resources developed, our wealth in
creased, the rights of the people maintain
ed, public peace and domestic tranquility
secured, and the respect of the world for
our free Government established, and God
helping us, this Union we will maintain
intact, and hand it down as priceless her.
itage to our posterity.
Resolred, That the existing fratricidal and
calamitous war is the result of the political
ascendency into power of fanatical factions
and extremists; that the deliberate invasion
by the National Administration, of the
rights of the States, the elective franchise,
the freedom of the press, and personal Sc
curity of citizens, and its avowed purpose
to prosecute this war for the abolition of
slavery, until that institution shall be aban-
doned, exhibits policy at once unconstitu-
tional and revolutionary, aDd in direct vio-
lation of the most solemn pledges of the
President when he entered on the duties Of
his Office, and of the unanimous voice of
Congress when it resolved that "this war
was not waged in any spirit of oppression,
or for the purpose OF conquest or subjuga-
tion, or for ovcrthrowing or interfering
with the rights and established institutions
of the States, but to defend and maintain
the supremacy of the Constitution and to
preserve the Union, with all the dignity,
equality and rights of the several States
unimpaired; and when these objects are
attained, the war ought to cease"
Resolred, That the only ground of hope
for the preservation of the Union under
the Constitution, and of maintaining the
rights of the people and of the States, and
of securing an honorable peace, is by ex-
pelling from power the present corrupt,
imbecile, and revolutionary Administration,
and substituting in its place an Admins
tration which will conduct the Govern
ment according to the requirements of the
Constitution, and protect all parties in the
full enjoyment of their constitutional rights,
privileges, and immunities.
Resolred, That the Administration, by its
corruption and imbecility, has shown itself
incapable of the successful prosecution of
the war, and from its levity, tergiversations
and bad faith, is manifestly incapable of
negotiating an honorable peace.
Resolved, That we stand where the DEM
ocracy always has stood, in favor of the
Constitution and the rights of the States
and the people, and of the entire Union, in
all its integrity, and of an honorable peace
at the earliest practicable moment.
Graham L. Boynton withdrew his name
from the Convention in favor of the Hon.
James Howard, of Portland. who was
unanimously nominated tor Governor. Hon.
VIM. p. Haines, Of Biddeford, and Adams
Treat, of Frankfort, were nominated as
electors.