Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-10-07
From the Ohio Statesman, February 81, 1858.
"LET THE PEOPLE RULE.o
Mass Convention of the Ohio De-
mOCracy.

mOcracy.
The following call for Mass Convention
of Ohio Democracy, to be held at Colum'
bus, on the 10th day of March, has been
handed to US for publication. We are un.
able 10 make room for more than q small
number of the names attached to the call,
in this issue; but we shall publish them
hereafter, from day to day. From the
names to this call it is apparent that oppo-
sition to the Lecompton scheme IS deep
seated, widespread, and universal. The
largest Democratic assemblage ever held IN
Ohio may be confidently looked for upon
the 10th of March to protest against it.
Gov. Wise, of Virginia, Gov. Walker,
Frederick T. Stanton, George Bancroft, j.
w. Forney, and Col. Harvey, of Louisville
will be here to address the people; and it
is nearly certain that Senator Douglas will
also be with US. He will be unless his
presence is imperatively required in the
Senate. We have also added the names Of
the Committee of Arrangements, and the
Committee of Correspondence to invite dis
tinguished gentlemen from our sister States:
The Democratic papers of Ohio are reques
ted to copy the call as follows:
ssThe Rights of the States and the Sow
ereignty Ofthe People,"
The undersigned National Democrats of
Ohio, believing that the rights of the States,
the liberties Of the people, and the welfare
of the Democratic party are seriously me-
naced by the attempt 20 force upon the peo-
pie of Kansas Constitution repudiated by
the majority, conceive that it is time for
the Democracy to assemble In mass, and
denounce this abandonment ofpriuciple aud
breach Of faith. Because, the Lecompton
plan contravenes the cardinal principle up
on which this government was founded by
our revolutionary fathers-because II SUBJ
jects the great majority to the fraudulent
devices of a small minority-because it has
created temporary Dietatorship,and set
up renegade in it, TO admit whomsoever
he pleases TO seats in the Legislature and
offices in the Administrative departments,
| in defiance of the vote lawfully cast by the
people-because it proceeds upon the her
esy, that the bare majority Of delegates in'
Convention may clotne themselves with,
absolute power at will, in the formation Of
the organic law and original compact, under
which The people are TO lire-beeause it
permits no appeal from the fat of these
few individuals, even though all the rest of
the people opposed it-beeause it infringes
the Nebraska Act and the Cincinnati plat
form, because it contains an antl-republlcan
and oligarchical provision, and Is clearly at
war with the letter and the spirit of tho
Constitution of United States-beeause
it attempts to interpolate into the Demo
cratic creed, Federalism in its most odious
form-because it requires the Democracy to-
forfeit the pledges every where made by
them in the last Presidential eanvas-te-
cause it requires them to become the instru-
ments of ballot-box stahers, forgers and
pesjurers; and finally because it is utterly.
indefensibIe as Democratic measure, and
not to be tolerated even as matter of ex-
pediency, We are unalierably opposed to its
consumation, and the admission of Kansas
under it.
Fully convinced that such are the senti-
ments of the Democracy of this State, and
desiring that they should be heard upo,.
this subject, We invite our brethren from
every township in the State, to assemble in
Mass Convention at Columbus, on We'd
nesday, the 10th day of March, 1858.
II. B. Payne
Dan, o. Morton,
Alex, P. Miller,
Jos, H. Geiger,
Jere, Williams,
And one hundred others whose names
we omit.