Litchfield enquirer., 1867-02-14
Republican Senatorial Convention.
The Democratic R ssolutions


 Resolred, That those lately in insurrection against the Federal Government hdutng laid doacn gser arms, and fully resumed their duties as citizens @tie United &ates, there is no obstacle in the ray flte hdvTRoaious toorking of our Republican h. Estions sare the fact,ous course c nssIdted Con- gross, tcho haze inaugurG:ed q new reoolution and are determined to rule the country, Tn violation of the Constitution, and to establish their wild and fanatical will, substitute for the Union framed by the Father of the Republic.
 Resolred That the only way in which peace and concord can be re-established is by conforming to the requirements of the Constitution, and defeat ing the Radical party, who spurn it's provisions, and imperl the Union by their mad and seditious course.
 Such are the assertions the Democrat ic party of this State has dared to make in its annual statements of facts and princi- ples. From them, let us turn to the facts recorded in executive papers and proola- nations, in the transactions of legislatures, in the reports of Generals sent by our Con- servative President to administer Southern Departments. in the voluminous reports published by Courts and Committees, after days spent in laborious investigation, and see whether this bold platform is support cd by reliable evidence.
 It is undeniable that the Southern peo- pie renounced their allegiance to the Con- stitution, and were only compelled into obedience to that, our fundamental law, by force of arms; finding that their insur- rectionary State legislatures would not be allowed to re-assemble, they formed other State governments, not differing ma- tsrially in spirit, and having no claim to le- gality beyond mere executive permission. Under these governments, not only is ev- cry man who was loyal during the war de- nied any official position, but he has no adequate protection for life or property; laws have been enacted to keep the black laborer in subiection to his employer; "the trial of white man for the murder of 8 negro would be farce" and by an act of the Texas legislature, the bodies of Union soldiers were ordered to be removed from their public cemeteries. In the chief city of the South, loyal Ameri- can citizens were massacred by the score while asserting that right to assemble and that freedom of speech secured to our people by the national instrument for which Democrats pretend such reverence. It further appears that those men were. murdered because they supported the Un- ion and that their known assassins walk the streets, unharmed, without fear of pros- eeution, because they had supported the Con- fsderscy. In the meantime a national Congress chosen by such states as at the time of election acknowledged allegiance to the constitution, denied the validity of State governments so obviously organ iEed by unrepentant traitors, refused ad- mission to the paroled prisoners and others returned to their body under such auspices, and asserted their constitutional right to impose such conditions upon the return of the South to the national councils as the national safety demanded An appeal was taken to the people which resulted in a most overwhelming defeat of the opponents otCongress; and, that body ,on reassembling, finding that the mild terms previously of fered had been contemptuously refused by the present Southern State governments, have been taking steps for the establish ment of State authority which may af- ford protection to loyal citizens at the South, both white and black and which it may be safe and just to admit to represen- tation in Congress.
 Such are the Jfacts concerning the men who have "fnly resumed their duties as citi. sens of Lke Unised Ssases," and concerning that national legislature here stigmatized as "wild and fanatical," mad and rebell. ious." The murder of innumerable un. armed blacks in cold blood is " the harmo. nious working of our Republican Institu- dons, ," and the only obstacle in the way'' M "the factious course of mutilated Con- gress who hayeinaugurated new revolu- hon and are determined to rule the coun- try m spite of the Constitution"
 Statements so devoid of truth and fair. ness, language so incorporate, coupled with the transparent demagogueism of their bid for the votes of workingmeu. which is severely rebuked even by the N. ' World, all show to what straits the Demo cratic party is reduced, and how unsafe il would be to trust even their most mode, atc men with power at the present impor tant junctnrs a
 
 ~ The Congressional Convention il xhe 2d District, meets Feb. 20th, at New