Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-09-14
RUTLAND HERALD.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1865
New York Democracy.


Albany laid down platform and NOM
mated ticket of officers. They appear
to have had very harmonious time,
and to have separated in good humor
and excellent spirits. 1t cannot oe
denied that they have managed their
cards very airoitly, and if the kepuoh-
cans in that Statejdo not lay aside their .
persona, quarrels and recrlmlnanohs'
and ,a nrepared to act in a liberal states
smanlike and patriotic manner, they may
as well prepare themselves for another
thing-namely an ignominiouS delcaV
at the coming election.
The Democrats no longer denounce
the war as unjust impolitic or hopeless
Very little, if anything, was said in the
convention about the Union as 1t was
and the Constitution as it is" Nothing
of the growing and fault-tinding OF the
last four years, and no threats OF armed
resistance were heard, 1t would seem
as if the Chicago stripe OF croakers and
copperheads were entirely in the back
ground. Whether they were present and
refrained from out-spoken hostility from
motives of policy, or whether they were
kept down by the ne'0 men, does not
clearly appear.
The resolutions declare that the creed
. of the democracy is the Constitution;
rejoice in the return of peace; demand
the subordination of military to civil
rule; endorse the policy OF Presi-
dent Johnson, and promise him the
most cordial support; declare that the
national debt must be fully paid; urge
the admission of the Southern States
without waiting for negro suffrage
4 thank the soldiers and sailors; re-affirm
the Monroe doctrine; and praise the
. frank and generous acceptance by the
Southern people of the condition in
which they have been felt by the war"
The names of at least three military
men are found among the nominations J;
Major General Slocum, Secretary of
State, Major General Patrick, Treasurer
and Colonel A. j. McNett, Inspector of
] State Prisons.
General Slocum had previously de-
4 clined the nomination to the same Office
rendered him by the Republicans, and
although it was stated at the conven-
ton, apparently son authority" that
he would accept it Of the Democrats if
they would endorse President Johnson's
policy, we will for the present take the
liberty Of doubling it. The Albany
Journal says that so far as he is at all
known as politician, he is ranked with
! the Union party. AS a general in the
\ feld, upon the subject of emancipation
and conhscatiOn, his measures have al
ways been in conformity with govern
ment policy. 1t is only few days since,
by an arbitrary exercise of military
power, he prevented the enlistment of
I the local militia in Mississippi where
4 he now is-coming into collision with
4 Governor Sharkey, and exciting the
. democracy to a bitter complaint against
him.
2 LuCius Robinson who is nominated
for Comptroller left the democracy ten
years ago, and since that time has been
known as one of it's most uncompro-
missing opponents, John Van Buren, who
was nominated as candidate for Attor-
ney. General, and who is probably ex-
pected to marshal the embattled hosts,
got of rather smart and characters
tic joke when he demanded his own
domination on the ground that " there
should be one true Democrat on the
ticket somewhere"
3 The Troy Times says: off we are
amazed at the audacity, the public ad-
vertisement of shame on the part of the
Democratic leaders in putting these men
In nomination as their representatives,
: we shall be still more surprised if they
consent to occupy aposition that so be-
lies their political record and impugns
their patriotism"