The Tarboro' southerner., 1868-08-20

Rssofped, That the Union established by
the constitution is a Union of States, federal
in its character, composed OF States thereby 4,
united, and is incapable of existing without
the States as its continuing integral parts,
and therefore the perpetuity OF the Union IN
its integrity depends on the preservation OF
the States in their political integrity, the gov,
eminent of the United States being federal
republic and not consolidation OF the whoie
people into one nation.
Resolved, That the perpetuity OF the Union
and the maintainance of the government, as
both were established by the constitution,
and as both under the constitution. have been
expounded in the foregoing resolutions, In
conformity with the venerable teachings OF
Jefferson, Madison and Jackson, have ever
been held as cardinal doctrines of the demo,
cratic party, and they are now reiterated
with increased earnestness, under the solemn
conviction that constitutional liberty can be
preserved on this continent only by bringing
back the administration of the government
to those time honored principles on which,
for sixty years, there was such unparalleled
happiness and prosperity, and IN resculng 1t
from the hands Of those who have ever held
the constitution itself to be no better than
covenant with death and al agreement with
hell, whose revolutionary policy and meas
ures have brought such general discord.
strife and war. with its attendant ills, upon
large portion of the country. and such wide
spread decentralization throughout the whole
of it.
Resolred, That the Democratic party In su-
tanning the Federal adminiSt ration i the late
unhappy conflict OF arms did SO IN good faith
with the hope ard earnest wish 10 maintain
the principles above sci forth, and with no
view of waging war on the part OF the Nor.
lhern States in any spirit of oppression
against their brethren ofthe South, nor tor any
purpose ofconquest or subJugalioD nor for anv
purpose Of overthrowlng Or interfering with
the rights or established institutions OF those
States, but to defend aud maintain the supre-
macy of the constitution, and to preserve the
Union with all the dignity, cqu --hy and
| rights of the scvera! States un'mpaIred.
| The subjugation of these States, or holding
| lhem as conquered territory, would be, in
| the judgment of this Convention, the de-
| struction of the Union itself
Res0lved, That the highest need of patri
| otism is due and should ever be extended to
| all those who in the recent war perlled life or
| fortune for the maintenance ofthe Union and
| the benehcIent system OF American govern'
ment thereby established upon the fundamen-
| tai principles set forth in the foregoing reSo-
| lutlons; but we have neither thanks nor SYM
| patny for those who entered and carried on
the contest for the subjuga1ion of States and
| for the subsection by Federal authority of the
| white race in any of the States to the domi-
| nation of the black. The rig ht of suffI age
| or who shall exercise political power. is &
| matter that rests under the constitution ex>
clusively with the several States; there il
properly belongs. and there it should con.
| tnue ever 10 retain.