Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-03-12
New YORK democratic ConventIon.

ALBANY, March lin the Democratic
Convention to-day, Gov Seymour made an
eloquent speech, closing with an appeal
to bondholders to rescue our country from
the hands of corrupt and wasteful men.
By so doing they will not only best secure
their own interests, but will gain the good
will and gratitude of oppressed laborers
and taxpayers. The speaker was warmly
applauded at the close. Samuel ]. Tilden
spoke at length, reviewing the history Of
| the two political parties, cOntending that
| the policy of the Republican party has
been and is to impoverish the country, cen
tralize power, Paralize industry, multiply
taxation, and elevate the negro while de-
| grading the white man.
\ The following are the resolutions:
The Democracy Of New York are as
sembled at this extraordinary juncture Of
| public affairs to deliberate upon the solemn
/ obligations they owe to themselves and
1 their fellow-citizens in the other States of
| the Union, and to express their high salts
| faction that the representatives from every
other State are to meet again "a Of old, in
| the spirit which animated the fathers of
the republic, to lay a new foundation of
| civil liberty. The Democratic members
Of this State, with a unanimity never
before surpassed have brought to this Con-
/ ventiou the assurance OF their unbending
purpose to lay aside all personal aspira-
| lions and local interests, TO devote their
entire energies to the work before them, so
as to secnre as the first necessity OF pOliti-
| cal and social life the restoration of the
| Union and re-establishment of the Consti-
tuition as the supreme law of the land, and
| to this they are impelled by the peculiar
exieeney fthe terrible peril to which they
are brought, for they find that by subver-
sion of the time-honored policy which the
people of this country established for
furtberance of their high interest, both
Houkes of Congress of the United States,
by successive violat 81 of their pledges and
infractions of the organic law, and of the
public faith, to encompass mere partizan
ends, have brought our people and institu-
tions to the very verge of ruin. They
have broken the resolutions, affirmed so
often in the face of the world, that the
warlike measures and energies of the gov
eminent should be directed only to a resto-
ration of the States unlawfully sought to
be taken out of the Union. They have,
after tapping the life blood of the people
and expanding millions of treasure to ac-
complish this end, driven restored States
out. denying their existence in the
Union, and treating them as sub
jugated provinces, and as held by right !
of conquest, and now hold ten sovereignties !
subject to control and military supervision, |
and the guaranteed dominion of an infe-
rior race They have defantly apurned |
the Constitution as the organic law of this |
land issued their decree and erected their |
will as the higher law, in which the &C. |
ordinate departments Of the government |
the judiciary and eXecutiVe-are to acqui- |
esce, and to which the people are bound |
in letters to submit without murmur They |
have under pretense of diminishing the |
public debt imposed heavy tribute upon
every citizen, saving always those who |
have riches, and on the poor they have i'm |
posed an exorbitant tariff, which has |
driven our commerce from every sea they |
have paralyzed our manufactures by ex- |
cessive imposition of taxes they have in |
vented the most aggressive system of taxa
ton to take from the laborer the hope |
of reward; they have filed the land !
with swarms of public officials, who !
harrsss the people and eat out their |
SuDSbdHCC dIlu lliSII An
the pending canvass, and to complete a
full conspiracy to overthrow the govern
nent of our fathers, they resolve to depose |
the President and install one of the chief |
conspirators in his place, an act which the |
conservative freemen Of New Xork de- |
clare to be without justification or plausi- |
bic excuse, and denounce az an outrage |
without parallel in the history of civilized |
government; by such methods they aspire to
complete usurpation which will subject the
people Of the North as we'll as of the South !
to military domination, which causes them
to be enemies to the peace, prosperity and |
liberties of this republic, and we invoke |
the aid Of all lovers of civil liberty in
every State to join us in one grand and !
successful effort to rid the country of such |
tyranny, secure the triumph Of Demo- |
cratic principles and the restoration of |
perfect union of these States.
The resolutions were unanimously |
adopted and the convention adjourned.