The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-09-08

That our democratic readers may SCI
where they stand, as well as for the infor
nation Of our Union readers, we publish be
low the Platform adopted by the Copper
head Convention in Chicago last week.
/! ReSolced, That in the future, as in the
past, we will adhere with answering fideli
ty to the Union under the Constitution Cd as
the only solid foundation of our strength,
security and happiness as people, and as
"a framework Of government equally con
ducive to the welfare and prosperity of all
! the States, both northern and southern.
Resoired, That this Convention does ex-
plicitly declare, as the sense Of the American
people, that after four years of failure to re-
store the Union by the expedient ofwar %
during which, under the pretense of mill
| tary necessity or war power higher than the
! Constitution, the Constitution itself has been
disregarded i'll every part, and public liberty
and private right alike trodden down, and
the material prosperity Of the country es-
sentialiy impaired 60 justice, humanity,
liberty, and the public welfare demand that
immediate efforts be made for cessation of
hostilities, with view to an ultimate Con-
vention Of the States or other peaceable
means, az to the end that at the earliest
practicable moment peace may be restored
OH the basis of the federal States
ReSolced, That the direct interference of
the millitay authorities of the United States
in the recent elections held in Kentucky,
Maryland, Missouri aud Delaware, was a
shameful violation Of the Constitution (5)
and a repetition of such acts in the approach
ing election will be held as revolutionary,
and resisted with all the means and power
under our control ...
ReS0t0ed, That the aim and object of the
Democrat party is to preserve the Federal
| Union and the rights of the States unimpair-
ed: co and they hereby declare that thev
consider the administrative usurpation of
extraordinary and dangerous powers not
granted by the conslttution-the suhversion
OF tn civil by military law in States not in
instruction; the arbitrary military arrest,
imprisonment, trial and sentence of Ameri-
can citizens i'll States where civil law exists
IN full force; CD the suppression Of freedom
OF speech and OF the press 90 the denial of
the right or asylum; the open and avowed
disregard OF State rights; the employment
OF unusual test oaths; and the interference
with and denial OF the right of the people to
bear arms in their defense, (9) is calculated
to prevent restoration OF the Union and
the perpetuation Of government deriving its
just powers from the consent of the govern
ed.
Res0lDed, That the shameful disregard of
the administration to its duty, in respect to
our fellow citizens who now are, and long
have been, prisoners of war in suffering
condition, 40 deserves the severest repro
baton on the score alike of public policy and
common humanity. ~
Resot0ed, That the sympathy of the DEM
ocratic party is heartily and earnestly ex-
tended to the soldiery of our army, who are
and have been, in the field under the Aan
OF their country; and in the event of its at
tanning power, they will receive all the care
protection and regard that the brave sol.
dlers OF the Republic have so nobiy earn
ed. I'D
l. Can the people of the United States af-
ford to put the Democratic party again in
power on the assurance that they will adj
here to the Union in the future az in the
past? 1t will be recollected that this war 70
destroy the Union was inaugurated under
the rule of the Democratic Party and nv
Democrats in good standing in that Party.
1t will be recolleeted, also, that all the States
now IN rebellion, seceeded under a demo |
cratic administration and with the acaui-.l
escence If not the approval of the democrat
&c party We were constantly told by dem
ocratic editors and orators, in the Presiden- !
tial campaign of 1860, that fthe PeopIe re- !
used sd to elect the Democratic Candidate the
south would seaede and destroy the Union |
md that they would he justified in doing s.
The assurance therefore, that the dernocra-
y wll adhere to the Union in the future as
III the past, must be taken to mean, that