Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1868-06-18
The State Convention.

The State Convention.
The Democratic State Conven-
ton which assembled in Nashville,
Tuesday, 9th inst, was largely
attended. Hon. Edmund Cooper
was elected Chairman, and the
Democratic editors, Secretaries
The following gentlemen were
elected delegates for the State at
large to the Democratic National
Convention: Thos. A. r. Nelson,
A. o. P. Nicholson, N. B. Forrest,
and Edmund Cooper. Hons. EN-
erson Etheridge and Geo. W. Jones
were appointed electors at large.
The following resolutions were
adopted, after expressing a prefer
ence for Andrew johnson for Pres.
ident:
| WHEREAS, The people of Ten
nessee, irrespective of former par
ty affiliations, or differences of opin-
ion arising out of the recent civil
war, in convention assembled, for
The purpose of appointing delegates
to represent them in the National
Democratic Convention, to meet
in the city of New York on the
4th day of July next, are profound
ly sensible of the troubled condi-
ton Of public affairs, and regard
the approaching election of a Chief
Magistrate as the most important
ever held since the establishment
of the Government. In its result
to the nation at large, they con-
ceive is involved the preservation
of the Constitution, and it's guar
antees of equal and exact justice,
individual liberty, the general
welfare and domestic tranquility.
To themselves, in great part labor
ing under disfranchisement and
unjust dispossession of the primary
and essential rights of citizens of
the republic, they esteem it to be
a crisis on which depends their
personal freedom and future pros.
perity as a community. Thus
deeply impressed, they have con-
vened ina spirit oblivious of past
misunderstanding, and resolved
among themselves to exclude from
their deliberations for the common
good all questions decided by the
war, and to Danish from their
breasts all unkind feeling they
may have excited; and to take
counsel only how best they may
re-establish political intercourse
and association with that portion
of their fellow-citizens of other
States who coincide in opinion with
them, and desire to assist in the
administration of the Federal
Government principles and meas
ures which will restore it to its
integrity. In this step they
deem it proper to adopt the name
and designation borne by the on
ly organization with which they
can associate, and in thus formally
uniting themselves with the Dem
ocratic party as 1t moa0 EXISTS, they
herewith declare the principles
they maintain, and the measures
they hold necessary for a wise
and safe administration of the pub
lie interests:
Resolved, That, as in the course
of events, the question whether a !
State of the American Union could |
under the compact, secede, was
submitted to contest OF arms, and |
decided in the negative; and as it
is wise that theories in Govern
ment should be abandoned when
found impracticable, therefore,
the American people, North and
South, should accept such decision
as final and conclusive; neverthe-
less, we assert and maintain that
the Constitution created the Fed
eral Government supreme under
we'll defined limitations and re-
strictions, leaving the States
large mass of residuary rights and
powers over their domestic con-
Germs, and making the States CO.
equal 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 aggrandise the pow
err of the General Government to
the endangermentof public liberty.
Resolved, That we recognize the
system of African slavery former.