Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-10-19
CHICAGO.

The Democratic National Conven-
ton which gathered at Chicago on the
29th of August, and presented the
names of GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN,
for President, and GEORGE H. PEN
DLETON, for Vice President, agreed
on and adopted the following
PLATFORM.
Resolved, That in the future, as in
the past, we will adhere with unswerv-
ing fidelity to the Union under the
Constitution, as the only solid founda-
ton of our strength, security, and
happiness as a people, and as a frame
work of government equally condu-
Give to the welfare and prosperity of
all the States, both Northern and
Southern.
ResoIued, That this Convention does
explicitly declare, as the n of the
American People, that, after four years
of failure to restore the Union by the
experiment of war, during which, un-
der the pretense of a military necessi-
,ty of a war power higher than the
Constitution, the Constitution itself
has been disregarded in every part,
and public liberty and private right
alike trodden down, and the material
prosperity of the country essentially
impaired, justice, humanity, liberty,
and the public welfare, demand that
immediate efforts be made for a cessa-
ton of hostilities, with a view to an
ultimate Convention of all the States,
or other ~peaceable means to the end
that at the earliest practical moment
peace may be restored on the basis OF
the Federal Union of the States.
RESOLVED, That the direct interior
ence of the military authority OF
the United States in the recent
elections held in Kentucky, Maryland,
Missouri and Delaware, was a shame
full violation of the Constitution, and
the repetition of such acts in the ap-
preaching election will be held as rev
oIutionary, and resisted with all the
means and power under our control.
ReSolued, That the aim and object
of the Democratic party is to preserve
the Federal Union and the rights of
the United States unimpared and
they hereby declare that they eonsid-
er the Administrative usurpation of
extraordinary and dangerous powers
not granted by the Constitution, the
subversion of the civil by military
law in States not in i~nsurrection, the
arbitrary military arrest, imprison-
ment, trial and sentence OF American
citizens in States where civil law ex1
lists in full force, the suppression OF
freedom of speech and of the press, the
denial of the right OF 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
as calculated to prevent a restoration
of the Union and perpetuation of a
government deriving its just powers
from the consent of the governed.
RESOLVED, That the shameful disre-
gard of the Administration to its du-
ty in respect to our fellow citizens who
now and long have been prisoners of
war in q suffering condition, deserves
the reprobation, on the score alike of
public interest and common humani-
ty.
RESOLVED, That the sympathy of the
Democrat party is heartily and earn
estly extended to the soldIery of our
army, who are and have been in the
field under the flag of vi country;
and, in the event of our attaining pow
er, they will receive all the care and
protection, regard and kindness, that
the brave soldiers of the Republic
have so molly earned.