Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-14

The Convention re-assembled at q
o'clock p NJ, and was called to order by
the Chairman. The Committee on Reso
lutions reported the following
PLATFORM.
We, the representatives of the Demo-
cratic party of the State of Tennessee
here in Convention assembled, forgetting
all past differences and deprecating all
attempts to engender old animosities,
meeting on terms of perfect equality and
animated by common hopes and purposes,
do heartily unite for the support and vim
dication of the principles and policy pro-
claimed by the great National Democracy.
RESTORATION OF STATES
l. Resolved, That the Southern States
should be Immediately restored to their
rights under the Constitution of the Uni
ted States as sovereign States of the
American Union.
POLITICAL DISABILITIES.
2. Resolved, That all citizens of the
United States, under political disabilities,
should be Immediately relieved therefrOm.
THE TARIFF.
8. Resolved, That we denOunce the
present tariff, as well as the substitute
lately introduced in the House of Repre-
sentatives, from the Committee on Ways
and Means, as gigantic robbery of the
labor and industry of the country: that
they are solely designed to advance the
interest Of few monOpOlists, and that
this should no longer exist; and that no
candidate is worthy of support who is
not in favor Of allow revenue tariff, which
closely approximates to free trade; that
in the arrangement of any revenue tariff,
the necessaries of life should be free of
duty.
INTERNAL REVENUES.
4. Resolved, That the internal revenue
system of the United States is oppressive
in its exactiOns; that it should be RENE
died; that its annoyances of stamps, Ii
censes and taxes upon sales aud income
should be abolished; that the tax itself
should be collected by State and county
officers; and that the multiplication of
Federal officers is wholly unnecessary
and eats out the substance of the people,
and that we pledge ourselves to labor for
a thorough reform in this particular.
WHISKY AND TOBACCO SEIZURE.
). Resolved, That the practice of the
Government in the enforcement of the
revenue laws which authorizes the seizure
and confscaiOn of the property of the
citizens and their imprisonment, aided by
Che bayonet, without trial by jury and
conviction, is subversive of the rights of
the people and in cOntraventiOn of the
Constitution and should therefore be
abandoned.
GRANT ADMINISTRATION
6. Resolved, That we denOunce the
profiigacy in the present administration
of the Federal Government; the corrup-
ton which has entered all its official sta
tiOns; the favOritism which, overlooking
fitness for office, has appointed to posi-
tions of public trust friends or tools of
those who control public patronage; and
the imbecility which directs the destinies
of the Republic without an apparent pur-
pose, and manages its affairs with such
embarrassment and disaster to the mutual
interests of its people at home, and with
such disregard of the rights and liberties
of its citizens abroad.
ENFORCEMENT ACT.
Z. hesOIVeu, lnaG We IegLu Ine aCI
recently passed by Congress to enforce
the fifteenth amendment as unconsiitu
tional, unjust and oppressive, an invasion
of the rights of the States, subversive of
the best interests of the people, and there
fore urge its unconditional repeal.
TAXATION OF BONDS.
s. Resolved, That the power of the
Federal Government IN aSSess and collect
taxes on the bonds of the United States is
clear and unquestion, d, and we demand
of Congress that share of taxation equal