Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-07-06
Democratic Resolutions,

AS we have not yet published the res
olutions passed by the recent Democratic
Convention at Burlington, we print
| them below, so that if our readers wish
to compare notes" at any time they can
| do so:
l. ResolgedI That we have renewed
confidence in and veneration for Demo-
cratic principles. Because those prin-
ciples We're disregarded. we have been
afflicted with one of the worst civil wars
the world has ever known, destroying,
probably, half million Of our citizens
in the prime of life and the vigor of
health, and depressing us and our pos
terity with u national debt of more
| than four thousand millions of dollars,
and the consequent taxation to provide
| for the same. And deploring these and
other evils to the country which have
| come upon it in consequence of disre-
gard of the principles of the National
| Democratic Party, we here to-day renew
our devotion to that Party and its prin-
ciples, as the only basis of national lib
erty and self-government.
2. Resolved, That armed resistance to
| the General Government having ceased
| in all the States and Territories, civil
law should Immediately be restored, not
only in the States which have been true
to the General Government, and which
have been arbitrarily and uniustly de-
prived Of it, but throughout the whole
country.
8. Res0lvea, That this being the millt-
airy condition of the country, the con-
| troll of the several States, as they exist
ed before the rebellion, should at once
be given to the white citizens thereof
| who have borne true allegiance to the
| General Government and those who will
now take an oath to hereafter bear true
| allegiance to the State and National
Governments.
4. Resolved, That believing, with the
immortal Douglas, that the Government
of this country was organized for, and
should be controlled by the white races
therein, and that the good of all will be
best promoted by combining the right of
suffrage to the white citizens thereof we
are unalterably opposed to confding the
right of suffrage upon the ignorant ne
groes of the country.
5. Resolved, That we congratulate the
men comprising the Democratic Party
for their patience and patriotism during
the terrible crisis through which the
country has just passed. They have
done their duty as good citizens, and no
amount of party Misrepresentation will
prevent the country and the world from
extolling misrepresented and oppressed
| party for those virtues
6. Resolved, That we call the attention
of the citizens of the State to, and in
woke their condemnation upon the law
| of the last Legislature, excluding foreign
ers, inhabitants who own property and
have grand list, from the right of vot.
ing in this State, in town and school
district meetings. This right that class
of citizens have exercised since the for
nation of the State; and as proper cor,
rection to this unjust legislation, we
hope they will all get natural lied, and
vote against their oppressors.
| Z. ResoEred, That in the wise and con-
stitutional policy of President Johnson,
to restore all the States to their consti-
tutional Notwithstanding them
with rights and corresponding duties
and cementing anew the integrity Of
the Government,-we discern a mos
happy augury that the malignity which
istrife and collision have engendered