Official proceedings of the National Democratic convention, held at New York, July 4-9, 1868.: Reported by George Wakeman, official reporter of the Convention.

OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Resolutions from Aler. M. Stephens.
Mr. WRIGHT, of Delaware. - I hold in my hand a series of resolutions,
which I have received from Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia -
(Applause) -which I ask to have read and referred to the Committee on
Resolutions.
The resolutions were read as follows, and were received with re
peated applause.
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 framework of gov ermment equally conducive to the welfare and prosperity of all the States both Northern and Southern.
Resolved, That the Union established by the Constitution is a Union of
States Federal in its character, composed of States thereby united, and is
incapable of existence without the States as its continuing integral parts;
and, therefore, the perpetuation of the Union in its integrity depends upon
the preservation of the States in their political integrity,-the government of
the United States being a Federal Republic, and not a consolidation of the
whole people into a nation.
Resolved, That the perpetuation of the Union, and the maintenance of the
government as both were established by the Constitution, and as both under
the Constitution have been expounded in the foregoing resolutions, in con formity with the venerable teachings of Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson,
have ever been held as cardinal doctrines of the Democratic party; and they
are now reiterated with increased earnestness under the solemn conviction
that only by bringing back the administration of the government to the
time-honored principles (on which for sixty years there was such inparal leled happiness and prosperity); and in rescuing it from those who have ever
held the Constitution itself to be no better than a "covenant with death and
an agreement.with Hell;".vwhose revolutionary policy and measures have
brought such general discord, strife and war with its attendant ills upon a
large portion of the country, and such wide-spread demoralization through out the whole of it.
Resolved, That the Democratic party, in sustaining the Federal administration in the late unhappy conflict of arms, did so in good faith, with the hope
and earnest wish to maintain the principles above set forth, and with no view
of "waging war" on the part of the Northern States "in any spirit of
oppression" against their brethren of the South, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthlrowing or interferinlg with the
rights or established institutions of the States; but to defend and maintain
the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the
dlignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired. The subjugation of these States, or the hlolding of them as conquerred territory, would
be, in the judgment of the Convention, tlie.destruction of the Union itself.
Resolved, That the highest meed of patriotism is due, and should ever be
rendered to all those who, in the recent war, perilled life or fortune for the
maintenance of the Union, and the beneficent system of American Government thereby established upon the fundamental principles set forth in the
foregoing'. resolution; but we have neither thanks nor sympathy for those
who entered or carried on the contest for the subjugtation of States, or for
the subjugation by Federal authority of the white race in any of the States
to the dominion of the black. The right of suffrage, of who shall exercise
political power, is a matter that rests, under the Constitution, exclusively
with the several States. There it properly belongs, and there it should continue ever to remain.
The resolutions were referred to the Committee on Resolutions.
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