Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-21
MISSISSIPPI.
Platform OF the white Party, Adopted
In Convention al JACKSON, January
Ik Rsas

Platform Of the white Party, Adopted
In Convention al JACKSON, January
rs, 1855.
Whereas, The people of the ten seeding
States, through their constitutional COM
yentions, have declared their ordinances of
secession to be null and void
And whereas, The constitutional conven-
tons of said States recognized the abolition
of slavery az previously declared by the
Federal government-conceded to freed
men to the protection Of life, liberty, and
propertv. common TO citizens and con.
formed their organic law in all respects 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 repre-
sentation in that body;
And whereas, The Republican majority
now controlling the legislative power of
Congress, have established a military des-
potism over ten States of the Union, in
violation of the federal constitution, in de-
fance Of the Executive and Judicial De-
partments of the government, threatening
the Executive with impeachment and the
Supreme Court with an obrogation Of its
constitutional powers, and showing a bold
and persistent design to maintain their
partizan power by the entire overthrow of
constitutional liberty;
And whereas, The popular struggle up
on these great questions has resulted in a
union of all conservative men, without re-
gard to former party ties, and in the es-
adjustment Of powerful and successful
opposition to this hateful despotism under
the lead of the national Democratic party,
whose principles and policy on these ques-
tions are in strict accordance with the
political views of this convention; there
fore,
Resolved, That we hereby adopt the name
of and the principles for which the said
Democratic party are now contendiDg, and
that we will dc battle under that banner
until the Union is restored TO 4 constitu-
tional basis, and all the States are reeog-
nized as equals in the great confederation
of American sovereignties.
Resolved, That the military bills Of Con-
eress for the reconstruction of the so called
heDel STATS are hHCOhStAtu'iohoA aHN "
pressive in all their particulars, and should
be resisted by the unanimous voice Of the
people at the ballot-box.
Resolved, That for the purpose of ac-
complishing this result, the people of Mis-
sissippi are hereby recommended to organ
ize a Central Democratic Association, 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 nihe, resi-
dent at the capital Of the State, with power
to complete this party organization IN all
respects.
Resolved, That the nefarious design OF
the Republican party in Congress to place
the white man Of the Southern States mn =
der the governmental control Of their late
slaves, and degrade the Caucasian race as
the interiors of the African negro, Is
crime against the civilization of the age
which needs only to be mentioned TO be
seorned by all intelligent minds, and we,
therefore, call upon the people Of Missis-
sippi to yindicate alike the superiority Of
their race over the negro, and their politi-
cal power to maintain constitutional Ibis
erfy.