Nebraska advertiser., 1865-09-28

We have before as the proceedings o.
the Democratic Territorial Convention
HELD at P attsmouth on the 21st. T. w
bedford and H. C. Lett were the dele
3gates from this county.
"On motion Of ]. Sterling Morton, 6
committee of three, to draft resolution;
errressing the sentiments of the Democra.
Icy OF the Territory, was appointed by the
Chair, and the following appointed :
j. Sterling Morton, E P. ChiIds and
John Rlckley.
The Committee on resolutions reported
as follows. The resolutions were read
and adopted one by one, there being no
dissenting voice ia the Convention:
/. ReSOtved, That he measures adopt
ed by President Johnson for the resto-
ration Of the Southern States to their
|rightfuI position 10 The Union, and has
recent public expressions on that subject
Iare wise, safe humane and patriotic thai
lthey coincide with the time-honored
theories of the Democracy of the Ma
.tion upon the relations Of the States to
.the general government, of whSch tHeo
rles the present chief erecutive has, IN
times past, been an eloquent and powerful
champion ; that The sentiments recently
{ expressed by him towards the people Of
the South are an emphatic rebuke and
population of the policy, theories and
public expressions of the Republican par
by on the subject of the relation not only
Iof the Northern, but Of all the States to
the Federal Power, and that the pretend
ea endorsement, by the late convention of
|Repu Sean Office holders in this Terri
cory OF the views and measures of the
President, is a fiat contradiction of the
they have, unIll now, advocated
and deserves, therefore, to be treates
thai Contemps and distrust which
honest men always pay 10 deceitfuI words
which stultify those who utter them.
2. RESOLVED, That the qualifications of
electors should hereafter, as heretofore,
lie regulated by each State for itself and.
that the attempt of the Republican party
to compel the Southern people to admit
negroes to the elective franchise is as
and unwarrantaLle an interference
with the reserved rights of the States as
it would be to force California to permit
Cinnamon to vote. anu that the silence.
on this great question of the Republican,
holders in their late c|onveutlopS
when pretending to speak for their party
and when speaking in vague and general
terms of the policy of the President To-
wards the Sou'h, clearly shows that they
are dishoasst IN Whaf they do say, ands
they holding their opT1i5ns upon
this subiees in reserve. to be suited to'
the uncertain developments of these
shifting times.
3 ReSolUed, That negroes are neither
by nature nor by education, entitled to|
political nor social equality with the
white race, that we are opposed to per-
them TO hold office in this Ter
ritory themselves or to vote for others.
for office that we are bitterly hostile to-
he project OF amending the Organic
.Act so as to permit them to vote, now
to be secretly accomplished byE
Republicans, and we denoance as coWard-.
and deceptive, alike to friends and foes,
the silence of the ofice-holder's Con-
on this most important point.
A. Resolced, That we deem the vote
Of the people. but lately taken, by which
hey declared themselves in oyerwhelm-
majorities opposed to the admission.
Of this Territory as a State ints the
Union, as decisive of that question and
are astonished at the persistent renewal
Of the effori OF Republican ofiee-hOiders
% force such a change of our condition
upon Us hat in order again to test4he
opinion on that subject, which
should always be determined by the peO-
pie in their primary capacity, we de-
nand that all laws thereafter enacted,