The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-06-21

Hon. George Sharswood of Philadel-
phia, having received a majority of all
the votes cast, was then declared the
nominee of the Convention. On mo-
ton of Judge Black, who had voted
for Judge Fisher, of York, the nOmina-
ton of Judge Sharswood was made u
unanimous, amidst the most tumultuous
applause.
The Convention then proceeded to
select a State Committee, and elect a
chairman of the same. Hon. w. A.
Wallace, of Clearfield, was reelected
Chairman of the State Committee, and
the Convention decided that his term
of office should continue until January
1, 1869. J.O. Kimmell, Esq, of Som
erset, is the member of the State Com
mittee for this district. The Committee
on resolutions, then reported the fol-
lowing platform, which was unani-
mously adopted, after which the Con-
vention adjourned sine die:
PLATFORM.
We, the delegates of the Democratic
party of Pennsylvania in general
State Convention assembled, for the
nomination of a candidate for Judge
of the Sup eme Court, profoundly CRATE
ful to theSupreme Ruler ofthe Universe
for the return Of peace to our beloved
country, but deeply anxious on account
of the trials and delays which impede
the complete restoration and reunion of
all the States, and appreciating the dam
gers which still threaten the safety of
our political institutions, and the future
peace, liberty and prosperity of the peO-
! pie, resolve,
1. That we steadfastly adhere to the
principles of civil government estab-
| lished by the founders of the Union :,
and in the present conflict of legisla-
/ tive usurpation with constitutional
law, we esteem wise, upright and
fearless judiciary the great bulwark of
public liberty and individual right.
2. That the Union of the States is per-
petual, and the Federal Government
! supreme within its constitutional linn
| its.
| g. That Representation in the Congress
of the United States, and in the cleo
tOral college, is right fundamental
and indestructible 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 Re
publican system of Government. Its
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ment itself.
| 4. Each State having under the Con-
stitutiOn the exclusive right to prescribe
! the qualifications of its own electors, we
proclaim as usurpation and an outrage
the establishment of negro suffrage in
any of the States by the coercive eXer-
else of Federal power: and we shall re-
| sist to the last resort the threatened
measures of the leaders of the Republi-
can party to interfere by acts of Con-
gress with the regulation of the cleo
! tive franchise in the State of Pennsyl-
Vania.
5. That we are opposed to any amend
giving to negroes the right of suffrage.
6. That the failure of the Tariff Bill
in the last session of the late Congress,
more than three-fourths of whose mem
bers belonged to the Republican party,
is an illustration of their infidelity to
their pledges and their neglect of their
professions in relation to the great in
dustrial and financial interests of the
country.
7. That the Radical majority in Con-
gress. and those who sustain them, have
overthrown the Constitution, dismem-
bered the Federal Union and subverted
republican government bya long series
of usurpations, among which are the
following:
Their denial of the right of States of