Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-08-02
u From the Ancient Metropolis.
ROSS COUNTY wHIG MEETING
RE-AFF1RMAr1oN OF PRINCIPLES
DECLARATION AGAINST rnE FUSION STATE
TICKET.

DECLARATION AGAINST TIE FUSION STAT
TICKET.
A large and enthusiastic meeting o
the Wings of Ross county, Ohio, as
sembled, upon public notice, by hand
bill and advertisements, at the Publi
Hall in Waddell's Building, Chillicothe
on Saturday afternoon, July 81, 1855
at 2 O'Clock P. NJ.
On motion, Col. White Morgan, o
Concord township, was called to the
chair, Dennis Mcconnell Esq, and Col
John Mace, were elected Vice Presi.
dents, and B. 2. B. Doddridge, was ap'
pointed Secretary.
On motion, the following gentlemen
were appointed committee to report
resolutions expressive ofthe sense of the
meeting, viz: Seneca w. Ely, William
! Carson, George W. Renick, Presley
Morris and NJ. Scott Cook.
Thos. C. Jones, Esq, of Pickaway
county, was then invited to address the
meeting, and complied in most elO-
quent and impressive speech, nearly an
hour in duration. He exhibited graph
ically and truly, the inconsistency OF
such Wings as purpose supporting Mr..
Chase in October.
/ On the return of the committee, their
chairman, Mr.. Ely, presented the fol-
lowing report:
Whereas, this meeting, representing
the Wing party of Ross county, an in
teger of the great Wing party of the
United States, now as ever party in
tact, and fully susceptible of the impor-
tance of measures and events, affecting,
for veal or for evil, our State and coun-
try, assembled in the capacity of Amer
lean citizens to declare our sentiments
and opinions, do
1st. Resolved, That the great nation
al principles, universally distinguished
by the advocacy of Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster, and their compatriots; which
obtained pre-eminence in the Executive
branch of the Government on the cleo
ton of William Henry Harrison and
Zachary Taylor to the Presidency, and
which were illustrated in the wise and
useful administration of Millard Fill
more, still remain oar principles, and
will endure, the broad, manly and true
basis of conservative republicanism,
amid all the changes of factions, so long
as this Government may last. ,.r
Cd. Resolved, That we deprecate Sec
tional political action or Legislation, as
short sighted, unpatriotic and mischiev-
ous;-and, planting ourselves on the
Constitution and its compromises, we
most emphatically condemn the leading
features of the Kansas Nebraska act,
as culpable disregard of fair ana
honest understanding, higher than law,
established between the North and the
South-nor do we esteem with more IA
vor the measures of retaliation ealculat-
ed to feed the flame of discord, propos-
ed by various ambitious parties in our
own section of the Union.
Sd. Resolved, That the new dogma
of the present National Administration,
designated as "Squatter Sovereignty" "
by which the civil governments of large
and thinly settled territories are thrown
into the hands of few hundreds of pi-
oneer adventures, struggling for mere
physical subsistence, is not only absurd
and ridiculous, but fraught with conse-
quences the most pernicious to the new
settlements, and dangerous to the peace
of the country.
4th. Re8olved, That while protesting
against the career of recriminatlOn,
which wicked men and shallow dema-
gogues, in either great section of our
Union delight to pursue-thus far with
only 1nmized eva as its legitimate effect
we are most sensible to the grieyous
wrong inflicted on the public morals by
the abrogation of the Missouri Compro-
mise, and we would hail its restoration
as an act of comfy and patriotism, be-
tween the North and South, best calcu-
lated to weld the bonds of union and
perpetuate domestic tranquility.
5th. ResolUed, That course Of the
Hon. John L. Taylor-a citizen of our
own county, and lately our Representa-
tive in Congress, on the leading ques-
tons presented him as a public man,
merits our hearty and distinguished ap-
probation;-we embrace this, as the
first occasion offered US, as Wings, for
so doing, since his return home, to com
mend his able, consistent and patient
conduct towards the adjustment of the
most difficult measures of national con-
cern, to the applause of all right-mind-
ed citizens, as that of one who loved his
country better than ephemeral selfish
distinctions.
9th. Resolued, That the wasteful and
pernicious legislation of the dominant
party in Ohio, which has entailed the
new Constitution, and a set of crude,
contradictory and mischieyous laws up
on a patient and trebly-taxed people.
furnishes the best proof of the gross in
competency of our rulers, or their hear
ty contempt of the public interests-and
calls loudly for thorough, sweeping re
farm.
9TH. Resolved, That the State nomi-
nations made at Columbus on the 18th
inst, were effected without our partici-
patton or consent, have not cur sympa-
thies, and shall not receive our support.
Ohio, at the last Congressional elections