Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-08
CONSERVATION IN ALAnAMA.


The Conservative State Convention z0f
Alabama-the first convention Of the kind
held in any Of the ''nnreoonstructed" States
since the war-adopted at Montgomery on
the 9Th inst, the following:
The Conservative men of the State of
Alabama, in convention assembled in the
city of Montgomery, adopt as an expression
of their views, the following resolutions Of
the State of Pennsylvania, adopted at a re-
cent convention in that State:
lst. The constitution of the United
States being that form of civil government
established by the founders of the Union,
with such changes as have. been subse-
ouently made therein in the manner pre-
scribed by itself is the only rightful gov
eminent, binding upon every lnhabltant OF
sill ranks, sexes, colors, ages and conditions;
and it is the duty of each and every one,
without exception or modification under
any circumstances, to adhere to, protect
and defend the same.
ID. In all conflict of powers under that
instrument, the Supreme Judiciary power
is the only arbiter, which is independent
of, and in its province, superior to, each Of
the OtheIs, anu Which they aiS DOuHu "
obey.
Sd. The Union Of the States is decided
by the war, and accepted by the Southern
people TO be perpetual, and the authority
of the Federal government is supreme with
in its constitutional limits.
4th. Congress is not the Federal governs
ment, nor is the President, nor the Supreme
Court. The Federal government is that
form of civil policy established by the con-
stitution consisting of all three, each SUI
preme in its own limits, and each entitled
equally with the Others to the loyal
obedience of every inhabitant of all the
States.
5th. By the constitution, and under the
fundamental law of the Federal govern
ment, which is superior to Congress, and of
which Congress itself is the creature, rep
resentation in Congress and the electoral
college is a right, fundamental and indie
structible in its nature and abiding in every
State being duty as well as right per
tanning to the people of every State, and
the denial Of which is the destruction of
the Federal government"
9th Each State under the constitution
has the exclusive right to prescribe the
qualification of its own electors.
The Conservative men of Alabama adopt
as a further expression of their opinions
and purposes, the following:
7th. Resolved, That it is our earnest
aim and purpose to cultivate relations
and friendship, harmony and peace be-
tween the two races to deal justly with
the blacks; and to instruct and aid in in
structing them in proper understanding
Of all their duties to themselves, to the
society and TO the country and we de-
nounce as treacherous and base, all at
tempts by bad men, to engender or encour-
age antagonists between the two races.
9Th. That we are inhabitants of a COM
mon country, sharers and sufferers of
common destiny; and we will do all in our
power to instruct and elevate the colored
race in its moral, social and political res
sponsibilities.
9th. That while we have much charity
for the colored man and feel inclined to
look indulgently and tolerantly on his
prejudices of race inculcated and encour-
aged as they have been by recent events,
and by insidious counsels of bad men, we
appeal to him by the common interests of
a common country, to place his trust in
those he knows to be honorable and to deal
cautiously with strangers, who bear no eV-
idence that they were honored where they
are better known.