Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-06-30
Resolutions Adopted by tIae Ken.
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tuclxy Democratic State Convene
ton.
LOUISVILLE, June 28.--The State Demo-
cratic Convention met this forenoon. @. A.
Wicklitie was appointed permanent Presi-
dent. Nine Vice Presidents and three Sec
retaries were also appointed. The follow
ing resolutions were adopted:
ReSotred, lst, That the people are the su-
preme soyereigns, and the Constitutions
which they have ordained are the supreme
Government. and that all assailants and en-
cmies, either of the people or of their Gov
crnment are traitors alike, whether their
treason be manifested by slppressing free
elections, by claiming the press, by estab-
fishing political bastiles, or by ridiculino
and repudiating the observance of oaths
and Constitutions.
I'd. That In the interpretation of the Con-
stitution we are guided by the declarations
of Its authors, by the deliberations of the
Federal Convention, by the resolutions of
l79S and 1893, prepared and expounded by
Jefferson and Madison, and by thedecisions
of the Supreme Court. Guided by these
lights we declare that the coercion and
subjugation of eleven or more sovereign
States was never contemplated as possible,
or authorized by the Constitution, but was
pronounced by Its makers an act of suicidal
folly, and If the people of the United
States would have and restore their shat
tered Constitution, and avoid for them
selves and their posterity the slavery of
military despotism and p1 debt, the in
terest upon which can n@ met, they
must bring this war to al close.
Sd. That the revocation of all unconsti-
tutional edicts and pretended laws, an i'm
mediate armistice, and national conven-
tion for the adjustment of our difficulties,
are the only means of saving our nation
from unlimited calamity and ruin.
4th. That the Administration now in
power has attempted to strike down State
sovereignty; it has interfered with the
right of suffrage reserved to the power
and control of State legislatures; it has de-
prived citizens of their lives, liberties and
property without due process of law; it has
placed military above civil power, against
the spirit of free governments; and the
President has unblushingly proclaimed the
Constitution he has sworn to support to be
no longer of any force or effect, whenever
he may determine it should be disregarded.
The party in power have deluded the peo-
pie into the granting of men and money to
their unrestricted control for the pretended
purpose of preserving the Government,
which they have used and are still using
for the base end of overthrowing State in
solutions, advancing mere party interests,
and establishing them in permanent and
despotic power.
9th. That a tree press, free speech, free
ballott, free religion, and the writ of habeas
corpus to protect the personal liberty of
every citizen, are the essentials of free
Government, and free people will have
and maintain them at all hazards.
9Th. That we are uncompromisingly op-
posed to the elevation of the African race to
citizenship, and their formation into stand
ing armies, to control the white free men of
our country.
9TH. That the overthrow of the arrogant
and corrupt party in power should be II
primary objectwith every freeman, and we,
a portion of the citizens of Kentucky, in
Democratic State Convention assembled, do
declare it to be our duty, as well as the duty
of all good citizens, to defeat the election of
Abraham Lincoln and Andrew johnson to
the offices of President and Vice President
of the United States. That delegates be
sent from this Convention to the Democratic
Convention to be held at Chicago, Illinois,
and that we pledge our united efforts to the
support of the nominees of said Conven-
ton.
Stb. That committee be and hereby are
appointed Democratic Central Committee
for Kentucky, with power to fill all vacan-
cies that may occur, and to call a future
convention, and to make any reasonable
adjustment by which all opponents Of the
Abolition administration can be allotted in
the support of one electoral ticket, and with
general powers to act with the party we
appoint.