The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-12-15
WHIG MEETING.

Pursuant to notice, respectable num-
Der of the Wings of Fairfield county met
at the Court House, in Lancaster, ,onTu
day Evening, Dec. 18th, for the purpose
of giving an expression of their opinion
upon the present alarming condition of
our State Government.
Upon motion, ,Dr.G. w. BGRSTLER
was called to the Chair, and GEO. WEA-
YER appointed Secretary.
Upon motion, Messrs p. Van Trump,
J. M. Bigelow, Joshua Clarke, Robt. II.
Caifee, and George Weaver, were ap-
pointed committee TO draft resolutions
expressive of,he sense of the meeting
The committee reported the following
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas, 1t is not only the right, but
it is tho solemn duty, of every freeman,
to express his sentiments and opinions
upon all great State questions, Involving
the permanence and existence of those
civil institutions. guaranteed to the people
by the written laws and Constitutions of
the land-And whereas in accordance
with this primary and fundamental privi-
lege, we, tho Wings of Fairfield county,
in public meeting assembled, feeling a
deep and abiding interest in the Consti-
tuition and Laws of this Commonwealth,
as well as common stake with our fel-
low citizens generally ofall political par
ties, in the good order, well.being and
dignity of civil society, feel ourselves
bound by the obligations which we owe
to our common country, to give a full,
free and candid expression of our opin-
ions upon the fearful crisis now impend-
ing over us, growing out ofthe desperate
attempts, through the einstrumentality of an
organized mob, to overthrow the Legis-
lative branch of the State Government at
Columbus.-And whereas, we have learn.
ed with feelings ofthe most profound re-
gret, not unmingled with sentiments of in
dignant surprise, of the recent bold, un-
precedented and unprincipled attempt
on the part of band of disorganizers
and revolutionists, within our legislative
Halls, to trample all law order, and con.
stitutional government under foot.-And
whereas, for the first time in the history
Of our hitherto peaceful and well.ordered
State Government, the attempt has been
openly and unblushngly made to organ
ize the Legislative power of the State by
,Jorce-to compel its orgaSization, through
the means of mob of lawlcss and un.
scrupulous revolutionists, contrary to III
laW standing unrepealed upon our statute
boOks-to trample all precedent and au
thority in the dust. and substitute in theil
place the iron.will, the tyrannic decree o
a faction of usurpers, unknown to the
Constitution and Laws of the State
And whereas, the recent unfair, fraudu
lent and unprecedented action Of the
democratic members of the House o
Representatives, in rushing to the Hall
at an unusual hour, without notice to the
Wing members of that body, and willis
they were quietly taking their hreakias
totally unconscious ofwhat was going on
and swearing in their members, with al
indecent haste which betrays a con
sciousness of wrong, among whom wer,
those not entitled to seats under the Law
bywhich alone aHouse could be organized
at all, was as much an act of mere brut
.force,-as complete an usurpation of pow
er, and as open violation of the lega
and constitutional rights of the Viii,
members,a as though the same had been ac
complished by band ofmercenary troop
at tho point ofthe bayonet.-And where
as, in all this jacobinical manifestation q
/, misrue and disorder. we discover the le
I, climate offspring of the revolu,ionar
+ spirit of the late Dorr Convention of ,h
, 10th of May last, at which aud by whicI
it was most solemnly resolved that tn