Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-17
CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY.

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CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY.
Resolutions Adopted at the Recent
Convention in New Haven Union
with the Liberal Republicans.
The telegraphic synopsis of the
resolutions adopted by the Demo-
cratic State Convention of Connec-
ticut was anything but a faith III re-
port of the spirit of the platform
really adopted, which is pronounced
by the political press of the North,
irrespective of party, eminentIy pro-
gressive. We give the platform in
full, as we find it in the New York
papers, as follows:
Resolved, That the Democrats of
Connecticut regard emancipation,
equality civil rights and enfranchise-
ment as established facts now en-
bodied in the Constitution, and de-
serving the support of good citizens
Of all parties.
Resolved, That true and lasting
peace can come only from such pro-
found reconciliation as enfraRchise-
ment has brought to the State of
Missouri, nor can those govern
ments be pure or great in which tax
payers have no active part. We
therefore demand, with equal suf-
frage for al, complete amnesty for all
he int -
every State may be welcomed to
active service for the common well
fare.
Resolved, That no form of tsxa-
ton is just or wise which puts need
less burdens upon the people. We
demand genuine reform of tariff,
so that those duties shall be remov-
ed which, in addition to the reven-
ue yielded to the Treasury involve
an increase in the price of domestic
products and consequent tax for the
benefit of favored interests.
Resolved, That the shameless a.
buse of government patronage for
the control of conventions and cleo
tions, whether in the interest of an
individual faction or of a party,
with its consequent corruption and
decentralization of political life, de-
mands thourOugh and genuine
reform of the public service. Those
who would suppress investigation
forget they owe higher duty to
the country than to any party. We
honor those Senators whose coura-
geous course has compelled the dis
closure of gross misdeeds, and they
deserve the thanks and hearty sup
port of all good citizens.
Resolved, That local self-govern-
ment, with impartial suffrage, will
guard the rights of all citizens more
securely than any centralized antho-
rity. 1t is time TO stop the growing
encroachments of the executive DOW
er, the use of coercion or bribery to
ratify treaty, the packing of a Su-
preme Court to relieve rich corpo-
rations, the seating of members OF
Congress not elected by the people,
the resort to unconstitutional laws
to cure the Ku-klux disorder. We
demand for the individual the lar
gest liberty consistent with public
order, for the State selfgovernment,
and for the nation the return to the
methods of peace and the Limitation
of power.
Resolved, That it is like the duty
of honest men of all parties to ex-
pose corruption, denounce the I'M
urpation of power and work for re-
forms necessary for the public well
fare. The times demand an upris-
ing of honest citizens to sweep from
power men who prostitute their OF.
fetal positions to selfish interests.
Resolved, That we repudiate with
scOrn the oft-repeated SANDER OF
our opponents, that the Democracy
of Connecticut are in favor of repu.
dating any portion of the national
debt, even so much as as been fas-
tened upon US by extravaganza and
fraud, and that we are for paying
the debt to its last dollar.
Resolved, That the Democratic
party, remembering the example OF
their fathers in the expression OF
their sympathy for the struggling
Republics of South America, as well
as the oppressed Greeks-and CRATE
full for the aid which the founders
of our own Republic received from
the countrymen of Lafayette, Mont
gomery, Stueben and Pulaski-feel
impelled by these considerations,
as well as by our obligations to our
common humanity, to lift up our
voices in behalf of the suffering Gu
bans now desperately struggling for
relief from their oppressors, who
set at naught all the usages of civil
lized warfare in their savage butch
cry of captive men, women and chill
dren.
Resolved, That we are in favor OF
a liberal system of free schools, and
protest against all interference by
the General Government with insti-
buttons so purely local, and concern
ing so deeply and tenderly the ties
which bind them to our homes and
TO the State.
The Chairman of the committee on
Resolutions, in presenting il, said the
convention would observe that the
body of the platform was word for
word with the resolutions adopted
several days ago by the Reformed
Republicans of Missouri. The COM
mittee, he said, thought the ques-
ton to be whether Mahomet should
go to the mountain or the mountain
should go to Observation-Disclosures the
Democracy should go to the Re-
formed Republicans or the Reform
ed Republicans come to them. The
Reformed Republicans had adopt
ed these resolutions, and the COM
mittee thought the way out of the
difficulty was for them to adopt
them, join hands with the Reform
ed Republicans, and go to victory
with them or to defeat with them.
The Connecticut democracy has
always been remarkable for its de-
votion to principle, and we beliye
she was the first State after the war
that broke away from radical thral-
dom. She nobly chimes in with the
new movement that is to reform
and purify the country. The de-
feat of Grant, We repeat, is the OBJ
jective point towards which patri-
OTIS, conservatives, democrats and
liberals are moving,