The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1868-08-29
Democratic state Central Com
mfttee - COngratulatOry Adj

RooNs DEMOCRATIC STATE GENERAL Con-,
FRAsKFor, KY, August 10, 1868.
To the Democracy Of Kentucky:
The signal victory which you have
achieved in the election of Governor
by majority unprecedented in the his
tory of State calls for copgratulation
from your Central Committee. You have
won the thanks not only of US, to whom
you have intrusted the organization of
the Democratic party in Kentucky, but
also the gratitude of the Democracy
throughout the entire Union.
1t was fitting that you should thus
speak at the very threshold of the Pres
ide ntial canvass. The honor belongs to
you of having first, after the war, reor-
ganized the Democratic party on its dis
tinctive principles, and it was meet that,
after having established its supremacy
here, you should thus have inaugurated
tile campaign, which promisest2 exalt
into Federal power a NATIONAL Arty
e uunciating the same principles advoca-
thd by you.
Animated by love of Constitutional
liberty, you have rebuked the spirit Of
/ L III LOnCS hulCI Will ECdCl tnc
hores of both oceans, and the echo OF
hich will return to US in their Autumn
lections.
You have indorsed the nomination Of
S Seymour and Blair as emphatically as the
ii rket put forth at Chicago was repudia
ted by Oregon. By the same majority
y'su have indorsed the platform of prin
ci Piles promulgated at New York.
Kentucky, speaking through you, has
declared that the usurpations of the Con
lgl.essional faction must cease;
That the Government at Washington
shall henceforth be administered in &C
That il shall not longer traInPla undsi
foot the rights and liberties of the white
: citizens of this country;
That negro supremacy, neither in th'
country at large nor in the Southern
fStates, shall prevail as the main prop o
Radical power;
That the civil authority shall be hence
, forth superior to the military;
That taxation shall be equally distri
f buted, and that labor shall not be tn
slave of capital.
/ In a word, you have declared that tn
. Democratic theory of the Government
! giving full authority to Federal powe
{ within its constitutional limits, but re
r serving to the States all their rights no
3 delegated to the General Government
t shall henceforth, as far as the voice Q
: Kentucky command, prevail over tn
5 Radical theory of National centraliza
: ton and unequal and unjust legisl-s.ar
s You have demonstrated that, whilsnsdfce
' ly mere than twenty five thousand voter
e in Kentucky support and countenanc
I the Radicalism of to-day, nearly hy
; times as many of her freemen repudiai
r its principles and candidates. !.
S We congratulate you upon your mob
It work-upon the harmony and unity whic
y you have everywhere manifested. "
o point with pride to this monument
Y yous zeal aud patriotism. Our brethre
o in other States rejoice with US over th
+ magnigifcent victory. 1t cheers the
te in their own labors, aud will incite the
g to emulate your noble example.
D. Let the victory teach you how valu
d, bic is rganization--how important
al united action, Let it not induce you
e. feel, however, that all has been do
which is required OF you. The Noyci