The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-07-28
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION
ATVALPARAISO.
Hon. David Turpie Nominated.

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called to the Chair and r. McGee, of Pu-
laski county, chosen Secretary. The con-
vention proceeded to the selection OF COM
mittees on permanent organization, ap-
port lment, and resolutions.
After the appointment of these commit
tees and the transaction OF some other I'M
important business, the convention took
recess until clock.
The convention having reasscmbled, the
committee on permanent officers reported
the following:
Ptes,dent-P. A. Kent, of White.
Wee Presiedns-JoSep bartholomew
of Porter; 4. II. Rogers, Of Laporte; ia
cob Slower, of St. Joseph: j. L. Van ' al
kenburch, of Marshall; Thomas Meredith,
of Fulton; Dr. James Thomas, of Cass;
N. O. Ross, of Miami; Rollin Hughes,
of White; A. Sharp, of Newton; and
Thomas H. Keys of Pulaski.
Priucipal Secretary-S. \. Hall, OF Cass
assistant Secretaries-R. McGee of
White; p. Mcdonald, of Laporte; W. IL.
Draper, of St. Joseph; James McEwen, OF
White; and w. b. Longhridge, of Miami.
On taking the chair permanently, the
President, Mr. Kent, rendered his thanks
to the convention for the honor it had con-
ferred upon him in calling him to preside
over its deliberations.
s. 4. Hall, chairman of the committee
on resolutions submitted the following,
which were unanimously adopted, viz:
Whereas, The constitution of the Uni
ted States guarantees liberty offs peech,
and of the press, and the right to worship
God according to the dictates of con
science; and
UhereDs. Governments were instituted
among men more fully to secure those IN
alicnable rights against the lawless usur-
patton of those who possess an lnordinate
love of power; AID
UHercos, The mad and reckless misrule
and usurpations that have marked the con-
duct of our National Executive are threat
ming to or erthrow the rights of the States
and the liberties of the people, and are
tending to establish a centralized dcspo-
tism; therefore we, the democracy OF the
9th Congressional district, in convention
assembled, do solcmnly resolve:
l. That it is the duty of free people
to meet with firm resistance, upon the
, very threshold, every encroachmcnt OF
, power upon their rights as guaranteed to
, hem; and, to DO this, it is necessary and
right that they should not only remon-
strate, in plain, unvarnished terms, with
the usurpcrs. but they should resist, with
theii lives and fortunes, every usurpatlon
upon their rights; and that we will resist,
, by force if necessary. any attempts to
abridgc the elective franchise, whether by
the introduction of Illegal votes under
military usurpation, or the attempt by
t Federal Office holders to prevent votes 10y
threats OF violence.
.. That the present civil war is the le-
r gitimatc result of the teachings and blast
ing influences of abolitionism, which has
becu sown broadcast through church and
, school for the past quarter of century;
until the doctrine Of an irrepresslble con
ilict had become the faith and corner stone
of a great sectional party.
3. That the unnatural war in which we
, are engaged has been wickedly perverted
, by abolition fanaticism from the purpose
for which it was commenced, and instead
of being waecd for the restoration and
perpetuity ofthc Union Gas the President
and Congress assured us in the commence
ment that it should be) it has, through
5 the influence and wicked Vaccinations OF
I an abolition faction, been changed into .
war to obliterate State lines,-to abolish
slavery; and. as conducted, is calculated,
in all its tendencies, to destroy the Union
, forever, to destroy all hopes Ola rccOncll-
D iation, and to sink our unhappy country
from the high position it has heretofore
occupied to a miserable and grinding des-
potism; and therefore we believe it to be
fully demonstrated that this war, as a
E means of restoring the Union has proved
: a disastrous failure, and that an armlsticc
and negotiations for an honorable peace
r are the only hopes left us for the restora-
ton of the Union.
1. That We arc distinctly in favor OF
? such an adjustment of the difficulties that
! distract the country as will concede al
reasonable demands consistent with honor
with the perpctuity of the Union, and the
maintenance of the rights of the State:
Q and the people under the constitution, and
that We condemn unqualifedly those twin
\ heresies. southern secession and northern
r aboltionism.
c 5. That as the present unhappy diff
h cutics in our land have resulted through &
departure from the time honored princi
5 Piles of the constitution, as enunclated and
applied by the democratic party, the only
Y hope for peace, Union and prosperity tC
. the country, is by return to those prin
pies in tue administration. of the govern
} ment.
{, 6. That the suppression of the right o
t the writ Of haJeos corpus in States or pla
ces not in actual rebellion, and the suppress
9 sion of the freedom of speech and of the
press, by the administration, are alike
: crimes against civilization and the highes
) hopes and interests of mankind.
I. That the prohigate and reckless ex
penditures of the public treasure by the
administration, and its criminal ineffcicn
c cy in the management of the general busl
) ness and finances of the country, Away
$ either leading to or directly tolerating pub
:, lie Immortality or the sharneessly dishon