The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1868-03-26
TIE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

assumed at the North, by the great
parties which rule it, with respect to
the mighty events and issues now in
fuencing their destinies. The Dem
ocratic party of New York, has just
had a grand convention at Albany.
Every district in the State was rep
resented. Tanmany Hail carried up
the undivided Democracy of New
York The convention was called to
order by that sterling old Democrat,
the Honorable Samuel J. Tilden,
Chairman of the State Committee
If this gentleman counsel had been
followed in the Charleston Convention,
the Democratic party would have been
saved, and the war prevented. With
a brief and emphatic speech ne began
as follows: "Gentlemen of the Con-
vention-I congratulate you that
amid the booming of Republican CAN
non, we have not lost entirely, but
only a little, in one of the small States
of New England, and that the Demo
cratic army, is still in all the strength
of its array, standing to day self-con-
fient and unterri6ed." Governor
Seymour addressed the convention
in speech which will undoubtedly
be printed. eth, speech throughout
was bold and out spoken. 1t met
every question now at issue, in a
clear and positive manner, and will
prove one Of the best campaign docu-
ments that can be spread before the
people" He was followed by a long
and able speech from Mr.. Tilden
"which challenged and arraigned
Congress, for ali its high crimes and
misdemeanors against the rights and
liberties of the people, and the integg-
rity of the constitution" and the
convention finally adjourned after
the report submitted by Mr.. Conger
from the Committee of Resolutions.
We beg leave, to call the attention Of
our readers to this exposition ofprin-
ciples, put forth by the Democratic
party of New York. We have ven-
tured to counsel, that organizations
everywhere throughout the South
be formed, to act in unison with our
friends-(rather the s:.friends of the
constitution) throughout the North.
Now, here are their principles and
their policy fairly and boldly declared.
Can We doubt, that they are our own !
And ifso, why should we not organ
ize in the South, as they are organi-
zing in the North, who are striving to
lift from of, our necks the intolerable
yoke of negro rule and military des-
potism? Whilst, down to every negro
hut, the activity of our enemies ::, ex,
will we make no effort to organize for
our protection, and to join in the
grand army Of deliverance, which is
marching. we trust, to victory in the
North? Let every citizen read this
admirable address from the Demo
cratic party of New York, and de-
termine for himself: ...
The convention nreassembied atseven
o'clock, Hon. A. B. Conger, from
the Committee on Resolutions, repor-
ted the following: ~
E. THE PLATFORM.
The Democracy of New York, as
sembIed at this extraordinary juncture
of public affairs to deliberate upon
the solemn obligations they owe to
themselves and their fellow citizens
in the other States of the Union, and
to express their high satisfaction that
the representatives of the people
from every State in the Union are to
meet again as of old; and in the spirit
which animated the Fathers of the
Republic to lay anew the foundations
ofcivil liberty, the Democratic masses
of this State, with an unanimity never
before surpassed, have broughtto this
convention the assurance of their
unbending purpose to lay aside all
personal aspirations and local inter-
ests, and to devote their entire ener-
gies to the work before them so far
as to secure, as the first necessity Of
political and social life, the resfora-
tion ofth Union and the re-establish-
ment ofthe constitution as the supreme
laao of the land, and to this they are
impelled by the peculiar exigency of
the terrible peril to which they are
brought-for they find that by sub
version of the time-honoured policy
which the people of this country es-
tablished for the furtherance OF their
high interest, both Houses of Con-
gress of the United States. by sue
sessive violations of their pledge,
infractions of the oragnic law and OF
the public faith to compass mere par