Year: 1864

vention was held in City Hall, Concord, on
Friday, January slh-the anniversary of the
Battle of New Orleans-to nominate Gov
ernor, at the election to be held on the Sec
ond Tuesday in March


The following are the resolutions adopt
ed:


Resolved, That we recur with satisfaction
and pride to the uniform fidelity with which
the Democratic party have sustained the
Union and the Constitution and the laws
and that we repel with the contempt they
merit all nputations of infdeity coming
from men who openly denounce the Consti
tuition as covenant with death and an
agreement with he'll" or assail the Integrity
of the Union by covert attacks upon the
elements Of its organization.


Resolved, That we have foretol aud forel
warned the people Of the disasters which
have come upon the country as the certain
result of abolition agitation, and that now,
when our worst apprehensons are likely to
to be realized, we shall not unsay the truths
we have spoken, by acquitt.ng the abolition
lists of the primary and principle guilt of
these disasters


Resolved, Nevertheless, that secession was
q vi huO SolHoI luo OuIO anu ludL we al
ways have been and still are determined to
defeat its purpose, and that we have undoubt
ing faith that its end may be obtained by the
adoption of civil and military policy which
looks to the restoration Of the Union as the
paramount object of the war.


Resolved, That the distrust with which
the policy of the Administration has been
regarded from the first, is justified and
strengthened by the terms aud the tone OF
the late Presidential Message and accom-
! panylng proc lamation, which we denOunce
as absurd and unconstitutional in detail, and
revolutionary in purpose.


Resolved, That we do not believe that the
Interests of either sections of of the Union,
or of the white race, or ofthe black, demand
the immediate and violent abolition of slav-
cry, nor that such purpose is a necessary,
proper or constitutional object of the war;
and that we are opposed to the policy of
the Administration, as unwise impotic,
cruel and unworthy the support of a civil
lied aud Christian people


Resolved, That we have seen with distrust
and alarm, the repeated encroachments of
the Administration upon the restraints of
the Constitution and the rights of the people
and that we believe that the government is
now administered with a total disregard of
the naturel and constitutional rights of the
American peope. These alarming inroads
are seen in the suppression of newspapers,
the denial of free speech, the suspension of
the habeas corpus, the partition of States,
The military Interference with elections, the
imposition Of obnoxious oahs as the condi-
ton precedent to the exercise of legal rights,
aud that still greater enormlies are fore
shadowed in the late Presidential Message
and the early action of the present Congress.


Resolved, That the Administration is not
the government, and that we owe it no al
legance beyond its own allegiance to the
Constitution.


Resolved, That we would hail with delight
any manifestation of desire on the part of
the seeded States to return to the Onion.
and that in such an event we would cordial
ly and earnestly cooperate with the people
IN the restoration Of peace and union upon
the basis of the Constitutions; and that we
believe it to be the imperative duty of the
Administration to proclaim its readiness for
peace upon such conditions


Resolved that we are opposed to the
bankdestroying. contractIimparing, money
controlling, dollardilutng unconstitutional
financial policy of Secretary Chase.


Resolved, That our financial system prior
to this Administration was successful, salts
factory, safe aud conservative that under this
system each State provided such currency
as its wants required, leaving its use optional
with the people, and the Federal Government
ooipa6 an1 rar,,lot oJ tho nj,
of, and thus made, as in the case of weights
and measures, uniform standard of coin.


Resolved That the assumption by the Ad.
ministratou Of the right to issue paper
currency and make it a legal tender, and to
establish banking corporations in the differ
ent States is one of the most dangerous rs
sumptions of the times, and not only an out
rage upon State, corporate and individual
rights, but calculated and designed to con
troll the moneyed power of the country and
thus centralize political power in the Federal
Government.


Resolved, That the enormous frauds which
are constantly disclosed in every branch of
the public service, and the prohigacy and
corrupt expenditure of the public moneys in
our National end State administrations
most fully justify the solemn declaration in
Congress of Senator from this State, viz
Il declare upon my own responsibility, as a
Senator, that the liberties of this country are
in greater danger to-day from the corruption
and from the prohigacy practced in the
various departments Of the government, than
they are from the enemy in The field" The
speedy return to the Democratic principles
of strict accountability and economy in Ma
tional and State affairs alone can save the
country from hopeless bankruptcy and ruin


Resolved, That we remember with becom
ing pride and gratitude the conduct of our
soldiers in camp and in the field, and that
we extend our hearty sympathies to the
friends of those who have fallen by the bullet
or disease.


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