New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-01
NEW-JERsEY.

The Democratic Convention held at Trenton
on Wednesday, on the report of the Hon. A. j.
Rogers, unanimously
Reolred That the late fratricidal war is chargeabe
TO the Aboltousts Of the North and the SecessOniss
of the South and in their refusing TO heed the wise
counsel OF the Democracy, who, long ago predicted
that the election OF sectional candidate sectohu
princpl would be the foferunner OF civl war nave
been tbe means of desOlating land, nIng IL Win
widows lnd orphans sending to The grave HUNDREDS Oh
thousands OF brave men. ana weighing tbo pcope INV
with an enormous debt that will take generations IN
born TO pay; which debt. though now fearful Is con
tinualy increasing. -, o.A.
election for President in 1850 aud for more than year
after the Inauguration OF the President then elected
cardinal principle of all political parties, from the
formation Of the Constitution. that all powers nor
delegated by tho people TO the General Government
were 10 The States the People and that eaoh
state had ght to control its own domestic policy ac'
cordug To its Judgment exclusively; and phptd''
All the States are the Union aud their acts oil Seces'
sion null and void and they have not by reason OF tue
war lost any rights that were guaranteed 10 them o
the Constitutions therefore, be u
Resoired In the language Of the thnd paragraph
of the Republican Platform. adopted at Chleago IN
1890 That the right Of each state to regulate ana
control its domestic institutions according 70 Us
own Judgment exclusively is essential to that balance
of power which the perfection and endurance oil our
| political fabric depends .
Re,olred That We are most emphaiicaly opposed ~
Negro Suffrage. aud entirely agree win IIeslu..'
tina, the people Of each state have the rgt 70
control that subject as they deem best.
THE People of each State here meant
are. in the South, those who have been fight
ing TO destroy the Union; those Carolinians,
Mississppans, &C, who CALAMITY fought to
preserre il are not People, according TO Demo
cratic notions, but merely breed OF cattle,
whom 1.-the People that is, the late Rebels
Arc to deal with as they shall see fit. And,
"a to the late Rebels Of South Carolina having
two votes in Congress and in choosing Presi-
dent to every Jerseymen's one, why that, these
Jerseymen hold, is only their fair proportion.
Perhaps they are right
We have quoted above every word of the
Jersey Democratic Platform which bears upon
or squints at the Constitutional Amendment;
and every one can see that its spirit is intensely
hostile to ratifying that Amendment. II each
State has stll-as it clearly had prior to the
Rebellion-"the right to regulate and control Its
domestic institutions according to ITS own
Judgment exclusively" then the constitutional
Amendment is a usurpation, which ought not
to be ratified. And if Gen. Runyon should be
elected on this platform, it will be claimed
and rightfully-that New-Jersey repudiateS the
Amendment, insisting that each State-that Is,
the White population of each State-has still a
right TO enslaye her Blacks, and Congress has
no right to interfere.
From beginning to end, the Jersey Demo-
cratic platform regards the Rebels as quite as
much in the right as their hearty antagonists in
our late struggle, and shields them from re-
proach to the extent of its power Rodman M.
Price, who in 81 publicly urged Ncw-Jersey to
Withdraw from the Union and join the Confed-
eracy, is if still living, as good a Democrat now
as he ever was, and could poll the full party
vote. The ,oldiers-who, by Democratic failure
to lcgislate were precluded from voting for
President last Fall-are now to decide the polit-
ical character of the State.