The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-09-02

new J0fvey DeAnSS"Sye
The Democratic State Convention Of
New Jersey met on last Wednesday and
nominated General THEODORE RUNYoN
for Governor The resolutions adopted
by the Convention are very SIM
liar to those passed by the Ohio and
Pennsylvania Conventions, and, like
them, have great deal of the old Jack
sonian spirit. They affirm that the
power of the Federal Government is
limited by the Constitution, and de-
nounce all violations of that instrument
They are anphatically opposed to negro
suffrage; in favor of gold and silver
currency; and demand the equalization
OF the Federal taxes They affirm the
right of tue State to control its own
militia, and the duty of the Congress OF
the United States to admit as members OF
that body all persons duly elected ac-
cordiug to the laws of their respective
States They applaud the soldiers for
the valor they displayed in the late war
and favor an appropriation by Congress
to give to the soldiers of 1861 and 1862
the same pay, bounty and allowances
afterwards given to the soldiers who en-
listed in 1863 aud 1864. They express
faith in the Monroe Doctrine and think
it should he enforced with arms, if neces.
sary, and while they deprecate the con-
tinued suspension of the habeas corpus
and other civil rights and regret that the
President has not offered wider and
more general amnesty to the Southern
people, they promise to support his adj
ministration heartily in all constitu
tional efforts for restoring harmony and
prosperity to the Union.
The following resolution, which is one
of the series adopted, expresses the doc
trine of States rights so clearly and coll
tains withal such home thrust at the
Republican party that we give it Ell
tire:
until after the election for President in
1860 and for more than a year after the
inauguration of the President then elect
ed, cardinal principle of all political
parties, from the formation of the Con-
stitution, that all powers not delegated
by the people to thegeneral Government.
were reserved to the States or the people
and that each State had a right to con-
troll its own Judgment exclusively; and
whereas, all the States are i'll the Union
and their acts of secession null and void,
and they have not, by reason of the war,
lost any rights that were guaranteed to
them by the Constitution; therefore, be
il resolved, in the language of the third
paragraph of the Republican Plat
form, adopted at Chicago in 1860 that.
1.-THE right of each State to legislate and
control its own domestic institutions ac-
cording to its own judgment exclusively,
in essential to that balance Of power oil
which the perfection and endurance of
our political fabric depends"
1t is one of the curiosities of Amcri-
can politics that the very men who, five
years ago, believed ill the principles of
the Chicago platform and thought that
they embodied the essence of political
wisdom, are to-day found dcnouncing
the Identical sentiments enunciated in
those resolutions us 'pestilent" and
"heretical" and declare themselves in ia
vor of visiting some infamous punish
ment upon all who believe III the doc
trine of States rights" as they them