"That the aim and object of the Democratic party is . . . the interference with and the denial of the right of the people to bear arms"

OUR PLATFORM.

   The Union--The Constitution--Peace-Public Liberty, Private Rights,-- Free Elections--A Free Press--Free Speech--Trial by Jury--The Right of Asylum--Justice to our Soldiers.

   Resolved, That in the future, as in the past, we will adhere with unswerving fidelity to the Union under the Constitution as the only solid foundation of our strength, security, and happiness as a people, and as a frame work of government equally conducive to the welfare and prosperity of all the States, both Northern and Southren.

   Resolved, That this Convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, daring which, under the pretense of a military necessity or war power, higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private rights alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities with a view to an ultimate Convention of all the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that, at the earliest .practicable moment, peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States.

   Resolved, That the direct interference of the military authority of the United States in the recent elections held in  Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware, was a shameful violation ef the Constitution, and a repetition of such acts in the approaching election will be held as revolutionary, and resisted with all the means and power under our control.

   Resolved, That the aim and object of the Democratic party is to preserve the Federal Union and the rights of the States unimpaired ; and they hereby declare that they consider the administrative usurpation of extraordinary and dangerous powers not granted by the Constitution, the subversion of the civil by military law in States not in insurrection, the arbitrary military arrest, imprisonment, trial, and sentence of American citizens in States, where civil law exists in full force, the suppression of freedom of speech, and of the press, the denial of the right of asylum, the open and avowed disregard of State rights, the employment of unusual test oaths, and the interference with and the denial of the right of the people to bear arms, as calculated to prevent a restoration of the Union and the perpetuation of a government deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed....

- The Star Of The North, Bloomsburg, Columbia County, PA. Wednesday September 7, 1864. Volume 15. Number 46. Pg. 2.

   Are we in the Twilight Zone or what?