Year: 1873

FRANKFORT, KY, May 1.-The DEM


ocratie State convention to nominate q


candidate for State treasurer met i'm this


city to-day, and was the smallest State


convention ever held here, there being


only delegates from fifty-One counties


in attendance, and quite number OF


these were proxies.


At eleven O'clock the convention was


called To order by the chairman of the


State central committee, Hon. g. w.


Craddock. Hon. @. G.. Perkins, OF


KenOn county, was elected permanent


president. Committees on resolutions
and the permanent organization of the
party were appointed. The chairman
then announced that nominations for


the Office of State treasurer were in or
der, when Mr.. James w. Tate, the
present incumbent, was nominated by
a unanimous vote to be the choice of the
convention for that Office. The present
central committee was continued, with
the addition of an extra committee OF
one from each congressional district.
The following resolutions were adopted.


ResOlUed, That the federal union was
formed by and composed of cO-equal
sovereign States, and its government
possesses none but delegated powers, all
other powers not prohibited to the
States being reserved by the several
States respectively, and any attempt to
exercise any power in violation of these
fundamental principles are subversive of
the constitution, in direct conflict with
the rights of the States, and destructive
of the interests of the people.


ResoIUed, That while we earnestly
maintain that the federal government
should be sedulously sustained in the
proper exercise Of every power delegated
to it in the constitution carefully
and strictly construed as the established
means of securing justice and harmony
among the several States, the chose n
medium of communication between
them and other nations, and the safest
means of defense against foreign aggres-
sion, we hold it to be essential to the
preservation of the liberties of the citi-
zen that the several States shall be
maintained in all their rights, dignity
and equality, as the most competent
and reliable administration of their own
domestic concerns, and the surest bull
wark against anti-Republican tenden-
cies.


Resolved, That every attempt on the
part of the federal government to exer-
else a power not delegated to il in the
or to exercise a delegated
power in a manner not therein pre-
scribed, is an act of usurpation demand
ing the instant and unqualified con-
demnation of a people Jealous Of their
and especially that eve
ry unconstitutional interference by
the general government with the To-
cal affairs of any State, to any extent or
under any preteXt whatever, should be
at once repudiated and condemned by
all classes, in every section of the
Union, as all such acts tend directly to
the destruction of our federal system,
and the consolidation of all power in a
centralized desHotism; and as a most
instance in point, we de-
as we feel that all good men
should everywhere, the atrocious con-
duct of the present administration
toward the sovereign State Of Louisi-
ana.


RESOLVED, That the only power dele
gated to congress to impose laws upon
the people consists in the right toeollect
revenue for the purpose of paying the
current expenses of the governments and
for the payment of the federal debt; and
all other duties, imposed for the purpose
Of protecting one class of labor at the
of another, are a violation of
the federal compact, and subversive of
the rights of the people.


ResotUed, That justice to the people
as well as the dictates of common hon
esty, demands the most rigid economy
in the administration of both State and
federal government; the speedy and
impartial arraignment of all abuses of
public trusts, of whatever character or
description, both before the established
tribunals of justice and the great bar of
popular judgement; that Jealous care
Of the elective franchise, recognized by
the founders of our government as the
property of the several States
and the palladium of their indepen-
dence, is essential to the perpetuity of
our republican institutions and the pres
ervatiOn ofcivil liberty itself, requiring at
all times, and under all circumstances,
the absolute subOrdinatiOn of the mill
tary to civil authority.


ResoLUed, That, referring to the spirit
Of generosity and sympathy which the
Democracy has uniformly exhibited to
our citizens of foreign birth, as a guar
antee of our sincerity we will in the fu-
ture as we have always done in the past,
extend a cordial and hospitabIe well
come to the honest, industrious, intelli-
gent immigrant, not only to the rich
fields of enterprise present in our State,
but to just participation in our rights
as freemen.


ReSolued, That the Democracy of
Kentucky, forgetting all past political
and looking to the best in
5erests of the whole country, cordially
invite all who are opposed to corup-
ion and consolidation to cooperate with
hem.