Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-30
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We republishto-day the platform adopt
ed by the State Convention of June, 1868.
1t will be read, we are sure, with pride
and admiration by the Democracy of
Tennessee, and by none more than those
who participated in its framing and adop-
ton. In our view il is in its expression
OF principle, even more fortunate than
the platform recently adopted by the De
mocracy of Ohio. From singularly APP
propriate preamble, concluding with the
adoption of the name and designation
borne by the only political organization
with which the Convention could associ-
ate, thus formally uniting themselves with
the Democratic party, they proceed to
declare the principles they maintain and
the measures they hold necessary for q
wise and safe administration of the pub
lie interests.
The decision, in the appeal to arms,
having been against the right of State
to secede, that decision is accepted as
conclusive; nevertheless, the well defined
limitations and restrictions of the Consti.
tuition are insisted upon, and the residuary
powers of the States over their domestic
concerns are maintained as unimpaired by
result of the war.
The abolition of slavery is recognized
and acquiesced in, but the measures of
Congress calculated to deprive the white
men of America of their rightful position
of superiority and supremacy in the ad-
ministration of the government, Federal
and State, or to divide or impair it, are
appropriately denounced.
The faith Of the nation is acknowledged
to be pledged for the payment of the pub
lie debt in the terms of the acts of Con-
gress creating the debt, 6utnot otherwise.
The payment of the 5-20s, it is declared,
| should be in greenbacks.
The taxation of government bonds is
demanded as an act of justice to every
other species of property in the country
which bears an equal share of the burdens
of taxation. The payment of favored
class in gold, while the mass of the peo-
pie are paid in deprecated currency, is
empathicaIy condemned.
Attention is called to the attempt of
Congress to absorb all the powers of the
Executive and Judicial departments of the
government, and it is resolved that the
highest dictate of patriotism requires that
this attempt should be opposed at every
step, and to render such opposition effec-
tual the party in convention assembled
cordially allied itself aOith that party
aOItoSe creed sOaS esaunciated by Jefer-
son an 1901:
Equal and exact Justice to all men of
whatever state or persuasion, religious OF
| political; peace, commerce and honest
friendship with all nations, entangling al
liances with none; the support of the
L OtntC SONtIuuIcuI5 III all bu6lI TlS0lS as
the most competent administration of our
domestic concerns, and the surest bull
wark against anti-republican tendencies;
the preservation of the general govern
ment in its whole constitutional vigor as
the sheet anchor of peace at home and
safety abroad; jealous care of the rights
of election by the people; and the su-
premacy of the civil over the military
authority"
We cannot too highly commend this
platform to the people of Tennessee. 1t
is one of those valuable political docu-
ments which may be improvingly studied
in the present and carefully laid away for
future reference. We cannot believe
that our next State convention will be
persuaded to descend from the exalted
and patriotic platform upon which the
Democracy of Tennessee planted them
selves in June, 1868. LET TIE COUNTY
| CONVENTIONS LOOK TO IT.