Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-06-12

b. EISEMAN, WV. .SCHOULFIELD
X. @. GIST A. SERSSEL. 1890
of former party affiliations, or differ
ences of opinion arising out Of the late
civil war, in convention assembled fol-
the purpose Of appointing delegates to
represent them in the National Demo
cratic Convention, to meet ia the city oi
New York on the 4th of July next, are
profoundly senaiblef of the troubled con-
dition of public affairs, and regard the
| approaching election of Chief Magis-
trate as the most important ever held
since the establishment of the Govern
ment. In its result to the nation at
large, they conceive is involved the
preservation of the Constitution, and its
guarantees of equal and exact justice,
individual liberty, the general welfare
and domestic tranquility. To them
selves, in great part laboring under dis
| EMBELLISHMENTS and unjust dispossession
of the primary and essential rights OF
citizens of the republic, they esteem II
to be a crisis on which depends their
personal freedom and future prosperity
as community. Thus deeply impressed,
they have convened in spirit oblivious
of past Misunderstanding, and resolved
am ong themselves to exclude from their
deliberations, for the common good, all
questions decided by the war, and to
Danish from their breasts all unkiDd
feeling they may have excited; and to
take counsel only how best they may re.
establish political intercourse and asso-
citation with that portion of their fellow
citizens of other States who coincide in
opinion with them, and desire to assert,
in the administration of the Federal
Government, principles and measures
which will restore it to its integrity. In
this step they deem it proper to adopt
the name and designation borne by the
only political organization with which
they can associate, and in Thus formally
uniting themselves with the Democratic
party as ID aop erists, they herewith
declare the principles they maintain,
and the measures they hold necessary
for the wise and safe administration OF
the public interest:
l. Resolped, That, as in the course of
events, the question whether State OF
the American Union could, under the
compact, secede, was submitted to a con-
test of arms, and decided in the mega
tive; and as it is wise that theories in
government should be abandoned when
found imPracticable therefore, the
American people, North and South,
should accept such decision as final and
conclusive nevertheless we assert and
maintain that the Constitution created
AL EaJo,ol Govarn ~, ant ounraua uudar
we'll defined limitations aud restrictions,
leaving to the State large mass ofresdu-
ary rights and powers over their domes-
tic concerns, and making the States
coequal in respect of such rights; and
that the result of the war has not, and
should not in any manner be construed,
to impair these rights, or aggrandize the
power of the general government to the
enlargement of public liberty.
2. Resolced, That we recognize the
system of African slavery formerly ex-
isting in portion of this country as
extinguished by the result of the war,
and that fact is ratified by binding con.
stitutional amendment; but that we
regard the measures of the Federal Con-
gress bestowing the elective franchise on
the black race in ten States, and with
holding it from large numbers of the
white race-the owners of the soil and
payers of the government taxes-as a
gross usurpation of power, and that such
subjection of these States to the political
and social control of negroes, is a policy
unjust, unwise and oppressive, aud tend
ing to excite a war of races /; and that
any measure which seeks to deprive the
white men of America Of their rightful
position of superiority and supremacy
in the administration Of the governments,
both Federal and State, or to divide or
impair il, is fraugh; with great danger to
the perpetuity of free republican insti,u-
tions.
3. Resolvsd, That Notwithstanding the
enormous frauds 10 the creation OF the
puSlie debt, and the corrupt and rui nous
extravagan ce by which it is being in
creased the faith of the nation is pledged
to lis payment principal and interest, 10
the terms of tn 9 acts OF Congress issuing
the bonds which represent It, but not
otherwise; and we are opposed to extend
ing the time of pay 'ment and the eonse-
quebt increase of the amount OF gold in-
terest TO more than the principal; and
also to the view that tce principal Of
large portion of these bouds is payable
in gold; and, that while We hold gold
and silver TO be the true Constitutional
We declare that the & Se ~ enty
bonds shonld be paid in the SAME cur
rency received by the Government i9r
their issue, aud that by the withdrawal OF
the money granted to the national banks,
We hold this result can be accomplished 4
without an undue increase OF paper mo-
ney, nov ihe only circulating medium;
aod that By this means the people can
soonest be relieved Of the burden Of
p1blie debt cOrrupting and enslAving in