Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1867-06-19
Third District, Hon. Samuel J. Randall.
Fourth District, Albert II. Schofeld.

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Tenth District, Peter Gilbert.
Eleventh District, Joseph J.. Mcrriman
Twelfth District, David r. Randall.
Thirteenth District, G. o. Diese.
Fourteenth District, Major Jack Cum
mings.
Fifteenth District, John A. Funston.
Sixteenth District, David Mitchell.
Seventeenth District, W. P. Brinton.
Robt Crane.
Eighteenth District, William NJ. Penrosc.
Nineteenth District, Henry J. Stahle.
Twentieth District, John o. Gemmoll.
Twenty-frst District, General o. p. Will
son, Joseph Swartz.
Twenty-second District, J. NJ. Thompson.
Twenty-third District, Thomas j. Nc
Cullough.
Twenty fourth District, W. T. H. Pauley.
Twenty. fifth District, James P. Barr,
Wm. ID. Moore.
Twenty-sixth District, freeman Brady,
Jr.
Twenty District, David s. Morris.
Twenty-cighth District, Robert NJ. De
France.
Twenty ninth District Pierson Church.
Mr.. Francis w. Hughes offered the fol-
lowing resolution
That the term of Hon. w. A. Wallace,
Chairman Of the State Central Committee,
and that Of the Committee, be extended to
January, 1869.
Adopted by vote Of 81 to As.
A resolution was passed, unanimously
rendering the thanks Of the Convention to
Mr.. G. E. Boyle for the able manner in
which he had presided over its deliberations.
Several resolutions of an unimportant
character were disposed Of, when Mr.. Boy
c!r, Chairman Of the Committee on Rcsolu;;
tions made report, which was adopted
amidst storm Of applause.
RESOLUTIONS.
Hon. B. NJ. Boyer, Of Montgomery
County, from the Committee on Resolutions
reported the following platform:
We the delegates Of the Democratic par.
ty Of Pennsylvania in general State Con.
vention assembled, for the nomination of
candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court,
profoundly grateful to the Supreme Ruler
Of the Universe for the return Of peace to
account Of the trials and delays which I'M
pede the complete restoration and reunion
Of all the States, and appreciating the dan
gers which still threaten the safety Of our
political institutions, and the future peace,
liberty and prosperity of the people,.
Resolced, That We steadfastly adhere to
the principles of civil government establish
I'd by the founders of the Union, andin the
present canAict oflegislative usurpation with
constitutional law, we esteem a wise, up
Fight, and fearless judiciary the great bull
wark of public liberty and individual right.
That the Union of the States is perpetu-
al, and the Federal government supreme
within its Constitutional limits.
That representation in the Congress of
the United States and in the Electoral Col
lege is right, fundamental and indestruct-
iblc in its nature, and abiding in every State,
being duty as well as right pertaining to
the people Of every State, and essential to
our republican system Of government. Its
denial is the destruction Of the government
itself.
Each State having, under the Constitu-
ton, the exclusive right to prescribe the
qualifications of its own electors, we pro-
claim as usurpation and an outrage the
establishment Of negro suffrage in any, OF
the States by the coerciye exercise Of Fed
eral power, and we shall resist to the last
resort the threatened measures of the lead
ers of the Republican party to interfere by
acts of Congress with the regulation Of the
elective franchise in the State Of Pennsyl.
vania.
We are opposed to any amendment Of the
Constitution Of the State giving to negroes
the right Of suffrage.
That the failure of the tariff bill in the
last session of the late Congress, more than
three fourths Of whose members belonged,
to the Republican party, is an Illustration OF
their infdelity to their pledges and their ne
glect of their profession in relation to the
great industrial and financial interests OF the
country.
That the radical majority in Congress, and
those who sustain them, have overthrown
the Constitution, dismembered the Federal
Union, and subverted our republican form
of government by a long. series OF usurpa-
tions, among which are the following: The
denial of the right Of the States OF the
Union to representation in Congress; the
treatment Of ten States as subjugated pro.
vinccs, and governing them by military force
in lieu of peace; the enactment OF laws
denying indemnity for arrest and false I'M
prisonment made without authority of law;
The resistance of the authority Of civil tri.
bunals, and their overthrow by the substitu.
ton Of military commissions for the trial Of
underlined offences their efforts to destroy,
the Executive and Judicial departments Of
the government by threatened impeachment,
to control executive action, and projected
remodeling of the Supreme Court OF the
United States, to force obedience to the
yenal mandates of Congress; the ejectment
from their seats in the Federal Senate and
House Of Representatives Of members duly
and legally chosen: the purpose Of confisca-
tion, avowcd by the Republican leaders, in
violation of the declaration OF rights and
other guarantees Of Federal and State con.
stitutions, tending, as it does, to destroy. all
protection to private property, advancing
them far on the highroad to reputation. :,
That strict conformity, both by Federal
and State government, to oil powers, re-
strictions, and guarantees, as contained in
the constitution Of the United States; a
rigid and wisy economy in. the administra,.
ton of public affairs, and the election oil
capable, honest and patriotic men to office,
arc measures absolutely necessary to restore
public confidence, avert national bankruptcy,
and to insure the perpetuity Of our free in
That the late Republican Legislature Of
this State has distinguished itself. for the
number of its unwise and unconstitutional
onactments. Some Of these laws have al
ready been judicially determined to Dc un'
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