The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-07-28
SOMETHING OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM

ocratie party is not for the acceptance
OF any earnest loyalist. As clearly as
need be stated, it promises that upon
tie accession to power of a Democratic
administration, the whole force of the
Presidency would be employed in over
throwing the results of Congressional
reconstruction. That instrument sets
forth THAT we regard the Reconstruc-
ton Acts, SO called, of Congress as
such, are usurpations, unconstitutional
aad void" Prominent among these
acts is the clause engrafted in the
Constitution abolishing slavery and
directly under those acts is the adopt
ion of the 18th constitutional amend
nent which recognizes the sacredness
of the national debt and the nuility of
the rebel debt. If reconstruction is
uzcons,itutional, revolutionary and
void then are those Southern States
which have lately been admitted to rep
resentstion in Congress still governed,
if at all, by the cid rebel constitutions,
siill possessing the right to hold slaves,
and still free from the responsibility for
any expression Of concurrence in the
18th article of the Constitution. If the
declaration which we have quoted from
the Democratic Platform be true, then
is Vance still Governor of North Caro-
lima and Toombs a Senator from Geor-
gia. We have in another part of this
same platform the following declara-
tion: - That in the future, as in tie past,
we vii! adhere with answering fidelity
t. tie Union under the Constitution,
&C. We have italicised the express
sion which reveals the iusincerity of
this enunciation. I" AS in the past -
Says reporter OF the proceedings of
tie Taumany Convention: 4
Among the ex-rebels were Wade Tamp-
ton, Gen. Bonham, ex-senator Chestnut Of
South Carolina; ex-rebel Secretary of the |
Treasury Trenholm, Gen. Garland, Gen.
Thomas L. Price, Gen. \. B. Forest (of
Fort Pillow memory, "Bob' Ould CHE
rebel Commissioner Of Exchanget. and
nanv aVther who did his best to overthrow
the Government
The adherence to the Union " as in
tae past" BY such men, is a character Of
fidelity from which it is the duty of
every patriot to pray for deliyerance.
" TIE Union under the Constitution"
was construed by these and snch as
these TO mean O fimsy fabric from
association with which any sovereign
State, st any tine, had the right Of Sc
cess;on.- And Wise frankly says it is
lie fron the mouth of Tammany that the
is dead. Farther If we un-
derstaud the purport of another declara-
ton OF this Platform, the Union may be
dissolved whenever State may choose
to withdraw therefrom. 1t says: THAT
The Union established by the Constitu-
lion is union of States, Federal in
its character, comprised Of States there
BY united, and is incapable of existence
without the States as its continuing in
.egrsl parts" Does this not smack of
something reserved to the doctrine of
'ecession3 Arguing from the Demo-
ratio standpoint which recognizes the !
. iudestructibility Of States " and the b
existence as a State Of a non
econstructing State like Virginia, does $
lot this averment 60 the length of de- a
laring, by inference, that Virginia be- u
ng virtually out of the Union, the a
Jnion no longer exists ? The fact is b
hat the extreme doctrine Of State d
tights is as much part of Democracy a
ow as ever it was. The pre,enses of Ia
lavery are still aa active principle in m
hat party aa9 they will not cease to ia
ppose themselves to the national idea b
hich holds this Government: together nj
, long as the present generation Of C.
opperheads and rebels have life enough ,r
-bora fo. a sncceccfn1 terminqfion oel A,