The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-08-12
ANDERSON DEMOCRATIC CLUB.

The following resolutions were submitted at o
meeting of this Club on Saturday night, August
1st, and enthusiastically adopted. They were
dcrcd to be published
RESOLVED, That We cordially approve und hearth
ly endorse the declaration of principles recently
enunciated by the National Democratic party, in
convention assembled in the city of New York.
Based us they arc upon the Constitution ITSELF
they accord fully with the practice of the Gov
ernment in the earlier and better days of the Re-
public, and, constituting in the present posture Of
political affairs the only means Of preserving the
country from centralized despotism, they COM
mand, and should receive, the support of patriots
throughout the length and breadth of the Union.
RssoLucd, That in the Hon. Horatio Seymour
and Gen. F. P. Blair the Democratic party has
presented to the American people statesmen of the
most distinguished merit and patriotic worth for the
high and exalted positions to which they have
been respectively nominated. The selection of
such men for the Offices of President and Vice
President Of the United States increases its claims
upon our confidence and support and affords ad-
ditional evidence that the party is resolved, in
case of success, TO administer the Government
inside and not outside of the Constitution and the
laws made in pursuance thereof.
Resolved, That the movement thus inaugurated,
constituting rs it does the first national effort that
has been made since the close of the war to rally
the people OF our common country 10 the standard
Of the Constitution the auspicious circumstances
attending it, and the unbounded and unprecedcnt-
ed enthusiasm with which it has been hailed in
all sections of the country, inspire the hope that
the time is not distant when We shall rejoice again
in the blssings of Union fully restored in MI of
its original strength and glory, and the oblitera-
tion of all unhappy traces of that bitter struggle
which, but for the evil genius of passion and Sec
tionalisni, would never have been wagcd
Resolred, That the bold and patriotic position
assumed by our political friends in the North,
East and West. OH the subject of Reconstruction,
entities them to the homage and gratitude Of the
Southern people, who are most deeply interested
in this question above all Others oppressed as we
now are by ilic Calling yoke of despotism, with
no power to cast off its burdens. But we feel
assured that our counirymcn are alive to the dan
gers which besct the Government and political
Institutions and being fully aroused, are deter
mined through the agency of the Democratic par
ty to hurl from power all those who arc not seek
ing the nations welfare; and by placing the
Government once more under the guardianship Of
wise, honest and patriotic statesmen, restore the
Union, and every State comprising it, TO their
rights under the Constitution.
Resoircd, That in contest of such vital impor-
tancc, there can be no compromise of principles;
that the success of the party and final triumph of
our principles demand unqualified opposition to
Radicaism, and we cannot recognize any man as
faithful 10 our cause ,cho lends his nunie or influence 10
the opposition