The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-07
Denocrafac STATE. .Oeavenfion.

ALBANY, Dept. D.
The Democratic State Convention assem-
bled here this noon.
Hon. Chas. S. Winfield was chosen Presi
dent pro tem., and proceeded to address tn,
meeting.
The following resolution was adopted:
resolved, That the organization known a
the Tammany Hall Organization. is the regula,
organization of the Democracy, and that til,
delegates claiming seats here under that or
ganization have been regularly elected q,
delegates to this Convention.
John A. Green, of the committee on nor
manenf organization, submitted the following
which was adopted unanimously:
For President, Hon. James NJ. Humphrey
of Erie; and eight Vice Presidents.
On taking the chair Mr.. Humphrey said
Gentlemen Of the Concention
For the unsolicited and UNEXPECTED homo,
Of being called to preside over your deIibers-
tions please accept my siscere thanks. When
l glanced over the list Of delegates to thi,
convention and saw the name of Horatio Sey.
mour, who has been our standard bearer and
our champion IN many well fought battle
for Constitutional liberty and individual riehta.
| had supposed that he, above ali Others
would be called to the chair. In his absence
! shall, to the hest Of my ability, discharce
the duties of this position. We are assem
bled under the call of time honored oreaui.
zation, but not as partisans are here as rep.
resentatires of large class of our citizens
who are, and always have been, obedicnt tr
the Constitution and the Laws, and determin.
ed that these shall be respected by the people
and rulers alike
The war for national integrity having beer
brought to successful issue, it is our DUTY a,
American citizens to address ourselves to the
work Of restoring the waste Of this terrible
conflict and the blessings of civil government
to the people in all the relations OF our com
mon country. To this end it is very impor
tant TO the Empire State, which has fur
nished more men and money for the suppress
SION OF the rebellion and the restoration o
peace and Union than any of her sis,e,
States, should stand in the front rank in tbs
struggle for the supremacy Of Constitutions
government over military dominion. The
war has done its work II now remains 70,
craftsmanship TO solve the problem of bring.
ing the people into harmony with our demo
cratic system. The efforts of the Presiden,
in this regard are deliberately and malicious
ly opposed by a faction which asserts that the
Southern States are mere territorial der,en-
denotes, and not only declaring that secession
is an accomplished fact, but proposing an
amendment of the Constitution to record the
falsehood
1t is In accordance with Democratic princi-
Piles, he holds with MS, that the Union has
never been dissolved that the act of seces-
sion was null and void that the States exis,
with all their dignity, equality and rights nn-
impaired that the citizens of the States who
acknowledge their allegiance to the federal
government. have the right to form their con.
stitutions, to regulate for themselves the cleo
tive franchise without interference bv the
United States authorities, or Northern reyo-
lutionists. to be represented in Congress. and
in brief 10 resume their proper relations with
the general government.
The President held further, with is. that an
attempt to force negro equality upoh the peo-
pie OF these States is in derosation of con.
stitutional right which We have enipyed from
the formation of the Government TO the pres.
ent time.
In these positions President johnson should
be sustained, because he is clearly and un
mistskably right
While we thus endorse the President no, Of
our choosing, we abate nothing of bur previ-
ous declarations of Democratic urinciples.
We stand for the supremacy Of civil over mil
itary rule; for the indefeasible right of trial
by jury; Of haJeas corpus; Of the freedom of
religions opinions and opposed to ell usurpa-
tons OF power and infraetions of privilege.
The war has created that national curse. n
great national debt, but the public faith
must be kept and the public credit preserved.