Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-01-15
.esOllItiOns OF the Democracy Of
New Hampshire I'm Their Late
State Convention nt Concord.

|. Resolred That we recur with satisfac
ION to the uniform fidelity with which the
)emocratic party have sustained the Union,
he Constitution, and the laws, and that we
.epel with the contempt they merit all I'M
utations of infidelity coming from men
yho openly denounce the Constitution as a
ovenant with death and an agreement with
.iell, or assail the integrity of the Union by
overt attacks upon the elements of its Or
lsaniZation. lr % ~
g. Resolced, That we have foretold and
forewarned the people of the disasters which
have come upon the country as the certain
result of Abolition agitation, and that now,
when our worst apprehensions are likely to
be realized, we shall not unsay the truths
that we have spoken by acquittlng the ABB
olitionists of the primary and principal
guilt of these disasters.
3. ResOlued, Nevertheless, that Secession
was crime against lis and against the
Union, and that we always have been and
still are determined to defeat its purpose,
and that we have undoubting faith that this
end may be attained by the adoption OF u
civil and military policy, which looks to the
restoration of the Union as the paramount
object of the war.
4. Resolced That the distrust with which
the policy of the Administration has been
regarded from the first is justified and
strengthened by the terms and tone of the
late Presidential Message and accompany
ing proclamation, which we denounce as
absurd and unconstitutional in detail and
barbarous and revolutionary in purpose.
5. ResolUed, That we do not believe that
the interests of either section Of the Union,
or the white race or the black, demand the
immediate and violent abolition of slavery,
that cunh a ig a NECESSARY.
proper or constitutional object of the war,
and that we are opposed to the policy of
the administration as unwise, impolitlc,
cruel and unworthy the support of a civil
lied and christian people.
G. ReSOlUed, That we have seen, with dis
trust and alarm, the repeated encroach-
ments of the administration upon the re-
straints of the Constitution and the rights
of the people, and that we believe that the
government isnow administered with to-
tai disregard of the natural and constitu-
tional rights of the American people.
These alarming inroads are seen in the sup
preston of newspapers, the denial OF free
speech, the suspension of the hdbedS corpus,
the partition of States, the military inter-
ference with elections, the imposition of
obnoxious oaths as the condition precedent
to the eexercise of legal rights, and that still
greater enormities are foreshadowed in the
late Presidential message and the early ac-
tion of the present Congress.
Z. ResOlred, That the Administration is
| not the government, and that we owe it no
allegiance beyond its own allegiance to the
| Constitution.
8. Resolred, That we would hail with de-
| light any manifestation of a desire on the
part of the seeded States to return to the
| Union, and that in such an event we would
cordially and earnestly cooperate with
their people in the restoration of peace and
Union upon the basis of the Constitution
and that we believe it to be the imperative
duty of the Administration to proclaim its
readiness for peace upon such conditions.
8. ReSOlued, That we are opposed to the
bank-destr0ying, contract-impairing mon
ey-controlling, dollar-diluting, uncOnstitu-
tional financial policy of Secretary Chase
10. Resolred, That our financial system
prior to this Administration was successful,
satisfactory, safe and conservative; that un-
der this system each State provided such q
paper currency as its wants required, leav-
ing its use optional with the people, and the
Federal Government coined money and reg
ulated the value thereof and thus made, as
in the case of weights and measures, Il uni
form standard of coin.
IL. RESOLVED, That the assumption by the
Administration of the right to issue paper
currency and make it a legal tender, and to
establish banking corporations in the differ
ent States, is one of the most dangerous as
sumptions of the times, and not only an out
rage upon State, corporate and individual
rights, but calculated and designed to con-
troll the moneyed power of the country, and
thus centralize political power in the Fed
eral Government.
rhNk{ {l,a f.otY II
which are constantly disclosed in every
ligacy and corrupt expenditures of the
public moneys in our National and State
administrations, most fully justify the sol
emn declaration in Congress of Republic
can Senator from this State, viz: II declare
upon my own responsibility as a Senator,
that the liberties of this country are in
greater danger to-day from the corruption
and from profigacy practiced in the vari-
Gus departments of the Government than
they are from the enemy in the open field.'
The speedy return to the Democratic prin-
ciples of strict accountability and economy
in National and State affairs alone can save
the country from hopeless bankruptcy and
ruin. ......-l ....
13. Resolued, That we remember with be-
coming pride and gratitude the conduct of
our sOlulerS III camp ana III the uelu, ana
that we extend our hearty sympathies to
the friends of those who have fallen by the
bullet or disease.
ADDITIONAL RESOLUTIONS.
Hon. Edmund Burke, of Newport, rose
and read the following preamble and reso-
lutions, moving their adoptiUn:
WHEREAS, The freedom Ol: he elective
franchise is essential to the re eryation of
public liberty, and while that remains, all
Outrages and assault upon the peoples rights
can be ultimately redressed and remedied
without a recourse to arms; and
WHEREAS, The Administration at Wash
ington has in several instances interfered
with the elective franchise in several of the
loyal States of the Union by military force,
thus defeating and suppressing the true ex-
preston of the people of those States, and
subverting every fundamental principle of
Republican government; therefore
Resolred, That the freedom of the ballot
must and shall be maintained sacred and
inviolable; and that we, the Democracy of
New Hampshire, will unite with our breth-
rem of other States, by force of arms, if
need be, in resistance to every attempt, from
whatever source it may come, to overturn
;'r abridge, by menaces or direct interfer-