The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-01
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

| AAoN Aid, JulN O1-1ue DcLlOCTdtlt
Convention adjourned at 2 o'clock this morning
| Geo. 5. Houston, as previously stated, is the
| nominee for Governor. He was for twenty year.
member of Congress, and for several terms
chairman OF the Committee of Ways and Means
| b. b. Lewis and W. H. Forney are for Congress
at large.
All the nominations sat factory.
The resolutions are as follows: The Democratic
and Conservative people of Alabama in conven-
ton assembled, do hereby resolve and declare
| that the Radical and dominant faction of the Re-
publican party in this State persistently, by false
| and fraudulent representations, have nt1amed
the passions and prejudces of the negroes, as a
race, against the white people, and have thereby
made it necessary for the white people to unite
and act together in selflefense for the protection
| of white civliiZation
| 2. That the rights Of all classes of men, under
the Constitution and laws OF the land must be re-
! spected and preserved inviolate. But deny
that Congress constiutionallv enact rules to
force the two races INTO social union equality.
/ 3. That the so-called Civil Rights Bill recently
passed by the Federal Senate, and now pending
| III the House, is q fragrant and dangerous lnva-
sion OF the ancient conservative principles Of per-
| sonal liberty and free government, and is a pal
pablo violation of the Federal Constitution and
presents an issue of vital moment to the Ameri-
can people and calls upon them to decide at the
ballot box whether they will or Will not be coerced
to the absoluteSocial well as political equal Of
the negro with themselves
We view, with adherence, the attempt on the
part OF the Federal Government to take control
of the schools, colleges, churches, hotels, rail-
roads, steamboats,, theatres and grave yards for
the purpose of establishing negro equality and
enforcing it under the numerous penalties of
fines, damages and imprisonment.
4. Civil remedies for the protection of civil
rights, are adequately provided by the common
law to all races OF men in this State, and added
to these are local remedies for social wrongs
which every race and class of men are properly
left free by the law to adopt for themselves. so
that the negro race has the same means of pro-
tecting itself against the invasion of it's civil
rights under the law and against intrusion upon
its civil rights and privileges by the white race
that we have preserve and protect ourselves
and families against the intrusion Of the negro
race under the laws
The race to which, int the Providence of God,
We belong. has achieved an eminence among the
people OF the world, which is our proud inhen-
lance, and has become to us a trust we cannot
resign without dishonor.
We, therefore, denOunce as vlOlative OF the let
ter and spirit of our Constitution, and as dishon-
orlns to the genius OF our race, all Legislative
enactments which ATTEMPT to convert into
crimes. the rules and maxims of our
social intercourse, to which we are in
debted for the excellence and glory of our civil
cation, or to punish with degrading penalties our
refusal to admit an ignorant and barbarous race
to equal participation with our families in our So
cial institutions.
s. That we extend to all of our race in every
cline the right hand of fellowship, and cordial
invitation to come and settle among us and unite
their destlnles with us.
g. That proper laws should be enacted by the
Legislature to secure to the employees of rail-
road corporations liens upon the property of such
corporations for the payments OF their wages.
Z. The exigency OF the times and the impov-
erished condition of the pc )ple render it impera-
tive that the State Government should return at
once to that system Of economy in public ex-
penditures which cOnduced so much to sue
cessful administration of the government and
the prosperity OF the people before the war.
Through Radical legislation and misgovern-
ment, new and unnecessary offices and agencies
have been created with large salaries, and every
conceivable device have our enemies and OPP
pressors resorted to, until our State Government,
no longer under the control of the people, has in
its practice and precepts reversed, abro2ated and
annulled the democ ratio Ecaxim, that govern
ments are based on the consent of the governed
Retrenchment in the reduction of these burthens
in official salaries and Ill the fees or commissions
OF agents Is necessary and indispensable to the
public welfare. We pledge ourselves to reduce
every public expenditure and abolish and dis
pense with every Office demanded by an econom-
zeal administration of the Government.
8. The Democratic Conservative party of Ala
bama is pied ed, so soon as it shall be placed ia
power by being intrusted with the state Admin
to cause to be made such speedy and
thorough investigation shall by its result make
known to the people Of the tate and world our
true financial condition, and that by it's repre-
here assembled, it resolves that
every dollar justly owing by the State shall be
faithfully and fully paid when it is able to do So
At the same time it is firmly determined that
the welfare OF the people Of the Slate, and inter-
est of honest creditor shall not be put in
jeopardy by the payment of unlawful and fraudu-
ent claims of any kind