Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-01-30
Democratic State Central Com
mittee.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. l3 1864.

lhe committee met pursuant to the call
Of the Chairman. Hon. G. J. BIDDLE in
the Chair. A Committee from Chester
county was admitted to confer with the
State Central Committee.
On motion of Col. T. 3. SEARIGHT, of
Fayette county, Committee on Resolu.
tions were appointed to report to au ad.
jourucd meeting. Mossrs BIGLER, CAss,
SANDEasoN, PACKER and EVANS were
appointed on this Committee, to which, on
motion, Hon. G. j. BIDDLE, Chairman,
was added.
On motion, Thursday, the twenty fourth
day of March next, at IL NJ. was fixed
for the meeting of the State Convention,
at Philadelphia. The Committee, after
the transact IN of further business, ad.
journed to meet on Thursday, January
18th, at IL NJ.
THURSDAY, Jan. Ia.
The Committee met. The Sub Com
mittee on Resolutions reported the fol.
lowing:
ReSOlred, That Notwithstanding the ap-
| parent result Of the late election in this
I State, the consequence, as we believe, of
an unfair use of the military power and
the practice of gross frauds on the ballot
by our oppoaenss, we are still firm in the
belief of the ultimate triumph of Demo-
cratic principles and policy, and hat their
ascendency is the surest means Of redeem
ing our country from its present a fflc-
tions and 10 thDt end We earnestly invite
and entreat Democrats and all conserva-
tive citizens, in the several counties, wards
townships and districts Of the State, to
unite themselves together in more perfect
and complete organization, as the best
means to re-establish the purity of the
ballot, maintain personal and public liber-
ty, and to provide for a final effort, at the
next election, to dspace the men now in
authority at Washington, whose policy
and measures have proved so prejudicial
to the cause of the Union, subversive of
the rights of the citizens and oppressive to
the people.
Resolved, That we deplore the enunoi-
alton Of the schemes and purposes embodi
ed in the late Proclamation OF the Presi-
dent, appended to his message, the inevi-
table effect ofwhich must be to prolong
and extend the bloody strife now raging
among the people Of the United States
and to furnish an additional verifcation OF
the worst apprehensions entertained as to
the purpose Of his administration, to wit
! h.. Al, Il
the Union to the cause of Abolition.
ReS0l0ed, That no State can withdraw
from the Union by its own action; and
that the assumption Of Mr., LINCOLN, as
indicated in his late message and procla-
nation that the revoited States are now
out of the Union and are no longer States
and that they can be reconstructed as
States and re-admitted into the Union by
mere fractional vote of one.teuth of thoir
people cast within the limits Of each is a
proposition at once revolutionary and pre-
posterous, manitesting an astounding in
cination on his part to act in utter dlsre-
gard oil the Constitution and the elementa-
~ principles of our republican form oi
government, and at the same time fore
shadowlng scheme through which stu
pendous frauds may be practicod upon the
ballot at the next election, and a still
more stupendous fraud upon sovereign
States that have furnished without limit OF
their blood and treasure to put down reb
els and rebellious States, by admitting in
to the Electoral College men who would
have no legal or constitutional right to
seats in that body the consummation oi
which scheme would be so gross an out
rage upon the rights of the people and the
States, as might fully warrant resistance
on their part, by all the means which
Cod and nature have placed within their
reach.
HcSolUe@, That it is our deliberate jndg
ment, that the enunciation of wise and
judicious political policy, at this time, on
the part of the Administration at Wash.
ton, to the effect that, any State hereto.
lore in revolt, within which resistance tC
the authority of the Government shall
cease, should be allowed, through the
vote of majority of its electors, to re.
sumo its former status and functions in
the Union, would promptly draw to Che
cause Of the Union thousands, if not hun
dreds Of thousands, of citizens Of the re-
volted States, thereby Fastening the res
toration of peace and union among The
States, and saving the lives of thousands
Of our fellow citizens now in the field.
ReSySved, That the Democratic party
will continue their efforts to uphold the
Constitution of the United States, and tc
re-establish its supremacy both at the
North and at the South; SO that neither
the revolutionary schemes Of the Adolf
tionist nor of the Secessionists shall avail
against it.
The resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed.
On motion Of the Hon, GEORGE SAN
DERsoN, of Lancaster, il was unanimously
ResOLUed, That the thanks of this Com
mittee be rendered to the Hoe. CHARLES