Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-27
THE RING OF THE True METAL

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The Democracy of Connecticut held
their State. Convention on the ODD of
February, and nominated their candidates
for Governor and other State officers.
We extract from their platform the fol-
lowing resolutions, which have the ring
of the true metal:
Resolved, That the Democrats of Con-
necticut, now as in the past, occupy the
proud position of the defenders of the
true principles of constitutional freedom,
based upon the equality of the States,
and for the success of their cause rely
upon the intelligence of the people and
their devotion to the same ideas illustrated
by the example of the fathers in the
purer days of the republic.
Resolved, That the State of Connect
cut is to-day the same free and indipen-
dent State that it has been for more than
two hundred years, with the full power to
declare who shall and who shall not be
clothed with the elective franchise within
its borders, and when the power is forci-
bly, taken away, and its ballOt-boxes sub
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Government, the State will have lost its
boosted sovereignty and become degraded
to the position of conquered province.
Resolved, That the Fifteenth amend
ment, so called, to the Constitution of the
United States, is in no sense an amendment
TO said instrument, but is a radical change
thereof, striking at the principle of State
rights, which lies at the base of the COM
pact formed by the various States in the
Convention of 17SS, and its forced and
fraudulent adoption at the point of the
bayonet, will be the deadliest blow ever
struck at the sovereignty of the States,
and the liberty of the people.
Resolved, That the Democracy of the
State now as heretofore are the strenuous
advocates of tariff for the purpose of
ton for the sake of protection is at war
with the diversified interests of the people
of the States, and experience has shown
its tendency to aggrandize class in the
community at the expense and to the in
Jury of the producing and neutrality-suspicious.
taxing their industry equally in violation
of the authority of the Constitution and
of the great principle that should govern
this people in their intercourse with the
family of the nation.
Resolved, That the language of Mr..
Dawes, of Massachusetts,, in which he
asserts that in the work of Government
economy in the House could expect "no
aid from the other end of this Capital
meaning the Senate, "or from the other
end of the avenue" meaning the Presi-
dent, should startle the country and arouse
all good men to unite in overthrowing q
profigate Administration which is con-
fessedly extravagant and reckless at
time when all business interests are
pressing their heavy burdens, and labor
is being pauperized with interminable
taxation.
Resolved, That the bill now before
Congress for the purpose of changing the
laws regarding naturalization is direct
attack upon all foreigners seeking the
United States as home for themselves or
families; and that the present corrupt and
unprincipled leaders of the Republican
party, having destroyed the constitutional
rights of the people of all the States, rob-
bing them of the power to determine the
status of the citizens, now seek to degrade
the white immigrant below the level of
the native negroes.
Resolved, That the Democracy of
Connecticut sympathize with the people
who struggle for freedom everywhere,
and send their cordial greetings to the
patriots of Cuba who are valiantly con-
tending for their freedom and their rights.
Resolved, That direct tax levy on
Connecticut of over $500, 600 beside half
a million more upon savings banks and
other corporations, is a larger amount
than should be taken from the people an
nually, and we demand that the public
burdens be diminished by equality in tax
alton and economy in expenditures.