The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-07-21
Legislative Convention.

Pursuant TO previous notlce, the Dc-
mocratic Delegates of the counties Of Mar
shall and Stark met in Convention at
Grovertown, Stark County, Indiana, on
Saturday the 1G.h inst, for the purpose
Of nominating candidate for Representa-
tive in the State Legislature.
The Convention was organized by call
ing Horace Corbin, Esq, to the chair, and
J. II. Alair Secretary.
On motion, committee of five was ap-
pointed to DRAFT resolutions. The follow
ing gentlemen were appointed such COM
mittee: j. c. Cushman, NJ A. o. Pack
AID, \. 3. Ellis, s. y M'Craekin and D.
Mcdonald.
On molten, a committee of three was
appointed to ap portion the vote Of the two
counties in the Convention The foilow-
ing gentlemen were appointed j. G.
Osborne, s. O. Nhitson, and Dr. j. NJ.
Confer. Committee reported as follows:
Marshall g votes, Stark T. Approved
The Committee On resolutions reported
the following, which were unanimously
adopted:
WHEREAS The Constitution Of the Unit
ed States, guarantees liberty Of speech,
press. and ihe wight to worship God accord
in@ to the dictates Of conscience; aud
NnE8EAs Governments were instituted
among men. to mere fuily secure those M
alienablc rights, against the laNless usur-
patton Of those who possess an inordinate
love Of power; and Whereas, eternal
vigllence s The Price Of liberty" therefore
we the Democracy Of Marshall and Starke
Counties IN Representative Convention as
semjled to resolve.
/ TLat it is the duty ola free People to
meet with firm resistance upon the very
threshhold every entertainment Of power
upon their RIGHTS as guaranteed TO them.
And that to do this it IS not olly necessary
but right, that they should demonstrate in
plain unyarnisLcd terms with the usur-
pcrs.
That The present civil war, is the lc-
climate result OF the teachings and bias
ting influences of abolitionism, which has
been sown broadcast through church and
school for the past quarter Of q century,
until the doctrine of an irrepressible conflict
had become the faith and ccrnc. stone of a
great sectional party.
3 That Tie war itself as prosecuted is
unconstitutional, a gross act Of usurpation
and wrong on the part of its origra.ors,
will if continued ruin the Country, dcs-
troy social and personal rights, and by the
aid ofthe gigantic military force, created as
we believe for this very purpose. destroy
the entire structure of our civil liberty, and
rear upon the ruins of Constitutional
freedom, a military despotism with It's
twin evil shoddy aristocracy.
/ That as TIE prophecies Of aboli;ionism,
that sixty or ninety days, seventy FIVE
thousand or Five Hundred Thousand
men, the proclamation Of emancipation to
the negro slaves Of the south, the arming
Of Blacks and placing them on IN equality
with white soldiers, the confscation of
rebel property, would crush the rebellion
and suhjugatc the southern people, have
each in turn failed. and the only result be-
ng the frlner Union of the south in de-
Tense of what they believe to be their
rights. therefore we believe it to be fully
demonstrated that war as 4 restoration Of
the Union Is disastrous future. and that
al immediate cessation Of hos;ilities and
negotiations for peace is the only hope left
us.
5 That it IS The duty of the Democracy
to proclaim to anxions and long suffer
ing people their una,erable determination.
that if the alternative should ever be pre-
scented Of choosing between the prosecution
Of the present civil war for the subjugation
of Ten Millions Of nit men woncn AMI
children. thereby destroying our own civil
and .eligious liberties, and acknowledging
Their Independence, every dictate Of civil
izatioa and humanity demands that we
should choose the latter
That as freedom of speech and the
right to criticize the acts Of our public
servants have been stricken down in the
person of the Statesman, Patriot and schol-
ar Clement L. Valiandigham, and he
having returned from exile in defiance Of
tilc 1idIt diit uohi l'i ~ w 'Hh'hS VA, IL
s the duty Of the Democratic Party to
protect him from iuther unlawful violence
and wrong, at every hazard, and failing to
do it, they viii. and justly so, consign
their name down the vista of time to
eternal infamy.
That the Democratic party should in
the coming campaign prefer principles. to
men, and firmly advocate what has always
been their cardinal doctrine, viz: Freedom
of speech and of the Press, the right of
trial by Jury, the sovereignty of the States,
with the right to regulate their domestic
institution to suit themselves, subject only
to the constitution of the United States.
A sound system of finance regulated upon
a specie basis, and the driving out Of
circulation a worthless irredeemable paper
currency, and il they fail to do this they