Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-08-25
Iscpnbiicnm PInlrnrrn.


gence, the patriotism, and the discrimina-
ting justice of the people. we, the delegates
of the Republican party in State Conven-
tion assembled, submit to the candid and
enlightened Judgment Of the freemen of
Ohio. the following declaration Of Repub-
lican principles and measures:
l.. We adhere to the platform adopted
by the Republican Convention held at Phil
adelphia in July 1776, and re-affirmed in
June 1856, and solemnly consecrate our
political and moral powers to support its
doctrines.
2. We maintain the Union of the States.
the Rights OF the States, and the Liber-
ties of the people.
3. We submit cheerfully to the legiti-
mate and constitutional exercise of the
powers of the Federal Government; but
we Protest against the arrestend vexatious
prosecution under writs of Federal Com
missioners, of our Judges, Sheriffs, JUS
tices of the Peace, and private citizens, for
acts required, by State Law, as oppressive,
tyrannical and unwarrantable,
4. We insist that the lawful process by
the State Courts for the maintenance of
right, and the prosecution and punishment
of crime committed within the limi.s OF
Ohio and against her sovereignty, shall be
executed without let or hin ndrance by Fed
eral officials
s. We deny the right of the Federal au
thorities, under the color of Fugitive
Slave act or any other act, to suspend the
writ OF habeas corpus, or defeat its due
execution and operation in this State.
g. We condemn the doctrines of the
majority of Federal Supreme Court, in the
Dred Scott case, as anti Unconstitutional,
antirepublican, anti-democratic, incom-
patibe with State rights, and destructive
of personal security.
7. We regard Slavery as great evil
and wrong, ever aggressive, constantly
mischievous, and prospectively fatal both
to Union and Liberty and we therefore
earnestly oppose its extension or encour-
agement by the Federal Government.
8. We concur with vast majority of
the people of the free States, and with a
respectable portion Of the people Of the
slave States, in reprob,.ion OF the action
of the Federal Government. under the
control of the Slave Power, in breaking
down the barriers against slavery extension
provided by the wisdom of our fathers,
and in forcing Slavery into free Territory
under The fraudulent preteuses of the Ne
braska- Kan as Bill, in disregard Of settled
national policy and plain Constitutional
provisions.
9. We adhere cordially to the doctrine
of Popular Sovereignty, as taught i'll the
Declaration ol independence; but condemn
as gross perversIon Of that doctrine, the
modern protention that one portion of a
community may rishtfully enslave another.
10. We hold to the old fashioned notion
Of our Fathers, ga fair days wages for a
fair days work, and repudiate with scom
the sentiment that ''slavery is the natural
and normal condition ofthe laboring man."
and will resist as anti-Republican and un-
just. every attempt, by whomsoeyer made,
To degrade the free labor of freemen here
and elsewhere. AMI proclaim IL as one of
the leading objects Of the Republican par
ty in seeking to prevent the further spread
OF slavery, to secure to the free white labor
of the country its just reward and its full
social and political rights.
II. We condemn without qualification
the embezzlement of the public moneys
recently discovered, and we demand the
prompt and rigorous enforcement OF tho.
laws in the punishment of every person
implicated in the same.
12 We are in favor of the free grant of
the public lands by the General Govern
ment in limited quantities to actual settlers.
13. We approve the acts of the last
General Assembly providing for the better
security of the State Treasury; rectifylng
abuses; reducing State taxation and ex-
penditure, limiting the amount oflocal tax
alton by county,and municipal authorities;
and we demand such further legislation as
will most surely and effectually protect the
money of the people from embezzlement
and misapplication, and most perfectly Sc
cure economy and efficiency in every de-
partment in the State Administration.
IA. The administration of Salmon p.
Chase, as the Chief Executive of the State
Government has been honest. abba and
dignifed, commanding the admiration and
confidence of our own people, and the re-
spect of our sister States.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. l8.-The Kansas cor
respondent of the Democrat says that
nearly two hundred indictments have been
found against persons in the neighborhood
of Topeka.
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