...unimpaired." Making practical application of its doctrines, it resolved " That this Convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that...which, under the pretense of a military necessity or war-power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part,...

...citizens.] FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM OF 1864. THE WAR A FAILUSB. THIS convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that...by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretext of a military necessity of a war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself...

...Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of a military necessity or warpower higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself...liberty and private right alike trodden down, and tlie material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity. liberty, and the public...

...devotion to utioa, and the indissoluble Union Democratic. 1864 — That this convention does explicitly declare ,as the sense of the American people, that,...of failure to restore the Union by the experiment oficar, during which, under the pretence of a military necessity of war power higher than the Constitution,...

...etc." Democratic. PART II. The Rebellion. 1*JG4— That this convention does explicitly declare, ae the sense of the American people, that after four...failure to restore the Union by the experiment of toar, during which, under the pretense of a military necessity or war-power higher than the Constitution,...

...time was in the threes of a Presidential canvass. The Democratic party had just resolved against " four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war," and before the delegates had returned to their homes, the telegraph spread the news throughout the...

...do at Chicago. Here is what he actually did : — " Resolved, That this Convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that...by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of a military necessity of war, a power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself...

...Government and embodied the following resolution : "Retolved, That this Convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that,...Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and pubUc liberty and private rights alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially...

...resolution becomes intelligible. It was in these words: "Resolved, That this convention does especially declare as the sense of the American people, that...which, under the pretense of a military necessity, or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part,...

...— That this convention does explicitly deflare, as the sense of the American people, that of ter four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of a military necessity of war-power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself...