The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-01-16

Lewis Shaeer, of Stark,
p" Charles Moore Of Hamilton,
J. T.. Coleman, of Ashiabulu.
Dr. NJ. Il, KRrlDFR conducted to the chair,
when he addressed the Convention is substance as
follows:
Gentlemen ofthe Convention
hank you for the honor you have conferred upon
noe, in selecting me your President This occasion
We have met, trust freemen of the great State of
Ohio TO discuss in spirit of candor, the great prln
cipes of the Repnblic-to canvass the measures pro
posed for the adoption of the People, and to do jus
uce To the Chief Magistrate of the Nation.
The time is fully come, appIehenJ, when the Peo-
Pile should know their own powers and their conse-
quent responsibilities. TIE lime has when wild
party spirit, goaded on by supreme sefshness, should
be broken down, and the self-governing and most
thinking soveregns Of the country learned 10 support
and defend honest and faithful Executive, slrug-
Cling 10 defend their ri hts and advance their inter-
eats.
Again, (sod Mr.. Kreider,) Genllemen of The Con
vention, thank you and express the hope that Wis
dom and prudence, but resoule and liked deteImna-
ton, will characterize all our proceedings.
Delazon Smith, Esq. chairman of the committee on
that subject, reported The following
ADDRESS.
In conformity with me invitation of two thousand
of our fellow citizens free and responsible suragan
of the State of Ohio who address you for ourselves
and our Republican fellow-ctxens, have come up 10
The Capital In solemn convention, TO inquire together
and consult for the good of country, and
especially hou, in pursuance of our duty may best
vindicate and secure at this crisis of our national
progress the highest prosperity of the whole people
and the great principles which lie at the foundation
our insti uions aud Government. We have confer
red loge'her-we have sought anxousy with each
other for the way of truth and duty We have done
this in spirit, trust worthy Of the hertes Of the
great achievements of '16. In The light which patr-
osm, just ice the admonlons of honor and the claims
OF liberty shed over the prospect, our pathway
broad and straight before and now, satisfied tina.
we are right, and earnestly socitous for the happi
ness and glsry OF beloved country we desire to
submit to you, our countrymen, the reasons of our
convictions, and the oil ects of ouI endeavors.
We are together embarked in the same voyage for
he same port, subject TO the same liabilities of wind
aud wave, hurricane and breaker, and committed TO
the same ultimate destiny of wreck and ruin safety
al d success
IL you require further knowledge concerning those
who make this appeal to you, ready to answer
that IN respect OF the fundamental principles OF the
Government and of the early dssensions Of its foun-
ders in reference them, they are Republicans Of the
JeJersonan school In regard To the political divisions
which distinguish their contemporaries and
opposing political parties the body of American ci,i-
zens, they republicans Of The Jetfersonan school
They insist upon the truth of the doctrine which
teaches political equaty-they claim strict inleIpre-
taon OF the Constitution of the United Slates-they
deny to the agencies created by it, the xefcse Of any
power not specially granted in terms necessary
and proper 10 carry into effect the powers thus spe
cihcalIy seegated. They refuse, therefore, to Con-
gress the constitutional right to incorporate Bank
They believe such an institution mex pedent and
dangerous t. liberty They reject the system as er-
roneous and as hostile 10 the intentions of The Con
suuuon which prescribes tax goods imported into
The country for the primary object protecting domes
TIC manufacture. They concede the propf,ty of Just
and equitable discrimination, encouiag cling home pro-
duc''ons, imposing duties for reuenue. They are
against splendid and costly mode of administering
Representative Government, but admire the plain nd
economical style suggested by Republican simpllcity
They are against the creation OF national debt M
time OF peace They are against the assuming of the
debts Of individual States by the Government of the
United States. They are against the di tribution
among the States Of the public lands belonging to the
United States. They advocate cheap adminis,ra-
tion-imited expenditures, low taxes light burdens
upon the people, and public faith unsuled. They
admire the provision Of the veto power il is esab
ished by The Federal Constituiion-they vindicate
mat glorious and unerampled specimen of wisdom
worth and patriotism, as uu-as their ancestors sage
and patuos-nobb ma" holding their titles of no
bilty under The seal of the great Jehovah"-as thew
made 1t. They vindcste that noble work AZ IL i,-as
II has secured 10 US all he possession Of life bber
ty and the pursuit Of happiness" for three quarters of
a century, and promises to continue il. benehcent
operations towards Us and our posteritv for ali time
TO come, If preserved from the sacriepous hands of
selfish and ambitious men-savej from the RUTHLESS,
passion and malgnIy of the disappointed and vndic
tive demagogue.
Very remarkable are the events which have marx ed
our national history since ten years and deeply inte
resting are the circums ancos with which II is no,s
connected, whose results to be for our county
It's glory or It's shame-its blessing or calami,v On
an occasion Ike this, may consider these in
detail, but we requ red by all the interests tina,
bind us 10 our country-by all the considerations
Which impaft priceless value to its nstituiions--by
all The love we bear TO the treasure Of liberty we en-
JOY and 10y all the obi gaons owe IN respect to
this hiood-bought her,lage-io those who have gone
before, and to those who shall come after us TO in
qHre with our counrymen concern ng the chief tonic,
to which we refer and call upon them to hear nd
Judge II II I've true our forefsthers taught md our
own experience confirms that eternal pigilonc. i, m,
plee o. liberty ii It be true, as they have 40 iousy
sdmonshed US again and again, that "a Gto,vnf 70.
ewTenos fundamental principles, essential 10 IA. IL
bsrfies Of Republic in making this earnest amen, 10
our ieLow citizens, we perform a duty from which
there IS no way of escape. A. watching for our
couDrys welfare and espyinP sources of danger and
signs OF coming disaster how shall we forbear to "crv
aloud and spare not )" how withhold our e.bor,
ton to avert the threatened stroke'
Whatever may have been the opinions a nd eroec,.
tons OF the sagacious and far.sig hed man who laid
The foundations Of this glorious Confederacy the er
perience of half century and more now assure, nc
that, the wefa Of the people The purity of The Cv
eminent and the bene6oent influences of its admins
uation depend mainly upon IL Er ecutve branch and
therefore, fundamentally UPON the wisdom which the
people may themselves employ in the choice of their
Chief Executive Magistrate. Be il for ultimate good
or ey'l-bc IT, as political arrangement, happy or
unfortunate, tbs practical results OF our system as
established by the Federal Constitution show ih,,
The iollies and iniquies Of weak corrupt and in
competent man al the head of the State are not Gke
" to he prevented arrested by the coordinate de-
partmen-if, pcradyen,pre, they can bc-nnd that an
'o'e, intrepid, vrtuous and patriotic statesman CT
,fIne me legitimate powers entrusted 90 the Pres,.
lent o. this Republic, asy conduct his country sue