Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-18
MISSISSIPPI CONSERVATIVES,
The Right Kind of ResOlu-
lions.

The Convention of the Constitutions
Union party of Mississippi, which as
sembled in jackson Wednesday, repre-
scented nearly every county'in the State
The following preamble and resolutions
we're adopted. We clip them from
Thursdays Clarion;
WHEREAS, The people of the ten Sc
ceding States, through their Constitu.
tional Conventions, have declared their
ordinances of secession to be null and
void; and
WHEREAS, The Constitutional Conveu-
tons Of said States recogized the sboli-
ton of slavery as previously declared by
the federal government-conceded to
freedmen the protection of life, liberty
and property, common to all citizens and
conformed their organic law in all re-
sr,ects to the Constitution Of the United
States; and
WHEREAS, Said States have elected
Representatives and chosen Senators. in
Congress- in accordance with the laws of
the United States, who have presented
their lawful credentials to Congress only
to be denied their constitutional rights
of representation in that body; and
WHEREAS, The. Republican majority
now controlling the legislative power of
Congress have established military des.
potism over ten States of the Union, in
violation of the federal constitution, in
defiance of the executive and judicial
departments of the Government, threat
eping the executive with impeachment
and the Supreme Court with an abroga-
ton of its constitutional powers, and
showing bold and persistent design to
maintain their partisan power by the
entire overthrow of constitutional lib.
erty; and
WHEREAS, The popular struggle upon
these great questions has resulted IN q
union of all conservative men, without
regard to former party ties, aud IN the
establishment of a powerful and success
full opposition to this hateful despotism
under the lead of the National Demo-
cratic party, whose principles and policy
on these questions are In strict accord
anec With the political views of this Con-
vention. Therefore,
RESOLVED, That we hereby adopt the
said principles of the Democratic party
and their conservative associates, and
will do battle under that banner until
the Union is restored to a constitutional
basis, and all the States are recognized
as equals in the great confederation of
American sovereignties.
Resolred, That the military bills of
Congress for the reconstruction of the
so-called rebel States, are unconstitu-
tional and oppressive in all their parti c.
ulars, and should be resisted by the
unanimous voice Of the people at the
ballot.box. rt
Resolred, That for the purpose of &C.
complishing this result the people Of
Mississippi are hereby recommended to
organize Central Democratic Associa.
ton, with similar associations in every
county, and in all the principal cities
and towns in the State, and to this end
this Convention will appoint Central
Committee of nine, resident at the capi-
tai of the State, with power to complete
this party organization in all respects.
Resolved, That the nefarious design of
the Republican party in Congress, 10
place the white men Of the Southern
States under the governmental control of
their late slaves, and degrade the eau.
casian race as the interiors Of the Ameri-
can negro, is crime against the civih-
cation of the age, which needs only to be
mentioned to be scorned by oil intelli-
gent minds, and we therefore call upon
the people of Mississippi to vindicate
alike the superiority Of their race over the
negro, and their political power to main
tain constitutional'liberty.