The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-03-07
From tie ohio Old Seooi Republican.
THE STATE RIGHTS ASSOCIATION.

From he Ohio old Seooi Republican.
1 THE STATE RIGHTS ASSOCIATION.
! We have pleasure in laying before our read
ers the proceedings of our political friends
which will be found beiow--though the APP
| pearance of them excludes other articles pre-
pared for this DAVIS paper. We commend the
views which they present to the careful and
candid consideration Of all our countrymen
into whose hands they may fall. We do
this NOT simply because we think them right,
but because we believe them worthy for the
strength Of their argument and the truth of
their affirmation. This exposition comes not
from Convention Of Office holders" fatien-
ing upon The spoils of plundered country
nor from an assemblage Of Office seekers hun
gering for the fat things Of place and power.
II comes from men who love their country for
all the causes which excite the principle Of
pure patriotism, and who are interested in the
right administration If the best form Of GO
vernment known to the world, because their
own prosperity and happiness and the pros
perity and happiness of their children are in
volved in its success. They belong to
class of citizens who have stood aloof from
the strife and the trials which have distracted
the people for the last six years, anxiously
awaiting the arrival Of the period in which
they could strike with effect for truth and the
right-for the publication Of corrupted 60
vernment and the re establishment of correct
practices. In the belief that we have reached
that desired junciure-in which it is pract-
cable to save and 10 restore the country, by
committing its management TO able and viz
tuous hands, they are ready to strive as it be-
comes patriot TO strive, and they forbear not
to speak as patriots ought to speak. II Is,
therefore, that we venture to invoke in behalf
OF this exposition of the State Rights Asso-
citation the dispassiOnate attention OF those
who, like the citizens who address them,
have deep interests-yea, the dearest inte-
rests pertaining to men-involved in the issue
of the subjects which they discuss.
| AT meeting of the State Rights Associa-
ton Of the city Of Columbus and county Of
Franklin, held on the evening of Thursday,
the goth of January, 1910, at their room in
d. W. Deshler's new building, on High street
ID. w. Deshler, President, Isaac Taylor,
Vice President, and George Jeffries, Secre-
tary.
The object Of the meeting having been
stated by the President,
On motion, N. M. Miller, Robert Ware
and Robert Neil were appointed committee
to draft for the consideration of the Associa-
ton preamble and resolutions expressive OF
their views on the approaching Presidential
election.
N. Nj. Miller, from the committee, pre-
scented the following preamble and resolutions,
which having been read and discussed, were
unanimously adopted.
| ha ,,a.,hor, nc th1, Cfota RiUhtS
ton Of the city of Columbus and county of
Franklin, feeling in their full force the ext
gences Of the present crisis in political affairs,
and acknowledging in all their extent the obi
cations resting upon them, so to direct their
efforts in the part they shall act with reference
TO the contest now going on between the two
great parties which divide the people on the
approaching Presidential election, as to restore
the practical government to the purity which
they believe it to have lost, and TO the iHhu-
ence of those fundamental principles from
which they believe it to have departed, con-
slider il appropriate to make public decara-
ton of their opinions and Of the views which
determine their conduct AT period when
the condition of the country excites the fears
and doubts of many true and honest admirers
OF its free Institutions, when its people are no
longer blessed with that safety and prosperity
and happiness which they enjoyed in the bet
ter days Of the Republic, while its guardian
ship was entrusted to men confessedly no
nest and capable and faithful TO the Constitu-
ton" they are called on TO determine the most
important question which can be submitted to
the decision of an American citizen. They
are required to deterpine whether they will
contribute to the reelection, to the two highest
Offices Of the government, OF Martin Van Blu
rem and Richard M. Johnson, and thus to
perpetuate power in the hands of pnrty
which, during the eleven years Of its admins
tration Of the government, has violated every
principle that republicans of the State Rights
school have held to be fundamental to our
system and conservative of our liberties, or TO
aid in elevating to these exalted places, WIN.
HENRY HARRISON & JOHN TYLER,
and thus commit to their hands the future adj
ministration of the government in the hope of
accomplishing the neediul reformation of it.
We. therefore, the members Of the said Asso-
citation, in pursuance of our views OF duty and
propriety, do Resolve,
LIST. That the true interests Of the Country
and the safety Of the public liberty are identi-
fed with the fundamental principles Of the
| Constitution as expounded and acted upon by
Jefferson.
I'd. That the Van Buren, party in assuming
to themselves the exclusive name of Demo
cratic, have offended against justice and the
intelligence OF the people.
Sd. While we deny TO the Van Buren, party
the right to appropriate TO themselves the
name Justly dear 10 every friend of liberty,
we recognize amo:g them many true Demo-
crats corract in their oninions on the doc