The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-09-17
New Yotk Democrstic C4nven-
ton.

New Yofk Democrsiic C4nven-
ton.
ALnArY.sept. 15-The Democratic State
Convention re-assemb led this morning.
The Credential Committee reported the
Tammany Hall delegation was the regu-
lar delegation from New York city, but
that the otner delegations be allowed seats;
Tamnany to cast votes, ana the otners
2 each.
The committee on permanent organlza-
ton made report, which was adopted.
Horatio Seymour was nominated for
Governor, David r Floyd Jones for Lieut..
Governor. Jarvis Lord for Canal Commits
siouer. and David d. McNiel for Inspector
Of State Prison. Each by reclamation.
The following are the resolutions passed
by the Convention:
Resotsed, That the Democracy OF New
York through their representatives in
Convention assembled, ratify and endorse
the nomination of Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan
for President, and Geo. II. Pendleton for
Vice President Of the United States, and
that we pledge to them the electoral vote
Resolred. That the patriotic principle de-
clared by the National Democracy, as no.
bly, and eloQuently expounded by its can
didate for the Presidency in his recent Lett
ter of acceptance embody line of public
policy upon which alone the American
people can re-establish constitutional lib
erty, give security to individual rights. and
secure the return OF permanent and
honorable peace -.
Resoived. That we heartily respond to the
pledge of our candidate, George B. McClel-
Ian, that he Will ii elected exhaust all the
resources of statesmanship to secure peace,
re-establish the Union and guarantee for
the future the rights of every State. That
with this pledge and the JacksoniAn decla-
ration that the union must be maintained
at all hazards; that it is the one condition
Of peace. that without it no peace can be
permanent, we present him for the suffra-
res Of the electors of New York, confident
they will accept him as the only candidate
capable of res toring the Union under the
constitution.
Resolped, That the Democratic party Of
the State of New York is, as it has always
been, opposed to the rebellion, and that we
recognize in the victories OF the national
army and navy, and in the manifest popu-
lar determination to change the present
administration and return to the policy to
which the Executive, Congress and the
People were solemnly pledged IN the Crit
tendeu Resolutions, cooperative move
ments towards Peace and Union.
Res0lred, That the Administration Of
Abraham Lincoln, by its usurpations, Ito
disregard Of the Constitution, it's violation
OF personal liberty and State rights, its re-
sort to military power to subvert civil au-
thority, its temporizing and cowardly deg
radiation of the nation in its foreign policy,
its perversion Of the war from its original
object, aud its avowed determination to
proiong it. in the language Of Abraham
Lincoln,s. to compel the abandonment of
slavery, has becc.me revolutionary in iis
character, and that 1t IL the duty of the
conservative men Of all parties to unite in
substituting in it, place an AdmsniStra-
ton which will seek in the Constitution OF
the United States and the laws passed in
accordance Herewith the rule Of its duty
and tho line of its power.
Resolved, That the thanks Of the people
Of New York are rendered to the soldiers
and sailors Of the State and Of the Union
who have so nobly defended our dag and
nationality. That We honor the nberality
and generous care for the sick aud wound
ed, and gratefully cherish tho memory OF
re dead.
RESOLVED, That to Gov. Horatio Seymour
the gratitude Of the Democracy IL ever due;
they can never forget that it was he who
in the midst Of our disasters and in the
face Of an Overlooking adversary, was the
foremost in uplifting the banner Of Consti-
tutional liberty which he has since borne
unsullied through every battle; that il
was he who BY his wisdom arrested public
discord: by his f1rmness repealed aggres.
sions upon State rights and personal lit-
erty, and by the purity Of his public life
and the elevation Of his purposes exhibited
in the midst Of general corruption the
highest quality Of = statesman and pa
triOt. ts