Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-02-02
Congress.


Pugh presented the sham resolutions OF
the Ohio Legislature, purporting to be the
feelings of the people of Ohio on the
policy Of enforcing the Lecompton swindle
upon the people of Kansas. Mr.. Wade
made few well-timed remarks on them,
and gave their perpetrators just rebuke.
Mr.. ,Pugh must certainly have felt like
convict adjusting the fatal moose to de-
stroy himself in this presentation, which
is a censure of his conduct by the party
which placed him in the position which
he now so ignobly fl!s. The blush of
shame must mount the cheek Of all honest
Democrats in Ohio to behold the cringing
spirit Of their Legislators to the President
whose pet and prominent Administration
movement they condemn, but in whose
person. ''the Cincinnati Platform" they
express the utmost con6dence-laid open
by Mr.. Wade for the whole country to
scrafinqfe. We take the following from
the telegraphic reports of the eth:
Mr.. Wade declared they were dis
reputable in their character. He remarked
that the reason why he stigmatized the
resolutions as disreputable was, they did
not speak out with that manly indeben-
dence with which the Legislature of
sovereign State should always speak upon
any question of sufficient importance for
EXPIRE ssing any opinion at all.
These resolutions indorse the President,
and pledge themselves to support every
jot aud title Of the Administration.
When they intend to conclude by in
structing their Senators to go against the
only great and daring measure which the
Administration has presented, why not
come directly to tie question at Issue, and
with that calm dignity which becomes
sovereign State. declare and announce
their purposes and their will? Why 60
crouching like miserable slaves to the Ad-
ministration and hypocritically declare
that they have the fullest confidence in it,
when they mean to end by declaring their
stern determination to oppose the only i'm
portant measure it has brought forward?
The President not only announced his
determination not to allow the people of
Kansas to name their own Constitution,
but to force upon them one made by their
enemies, and compel submission TO it with
the point of the bayonet. ~
Mr.. Wade proposed, if it should come
to that, to resume the same argument
where our fathers left it. The South had
not upon their plantations a more craven
spirited set of people than those who
passed those resolutions. Laughter.)
OF course there was no necessity for
their instructing him how to vote. IRE
newed laughter. If the Executive should
persist in this policy, he was tyrant, and
deserved the froWns and reprobation OF
every man.
The resolutions call his policy unfortu-
nate; but he called it downright knavery
and tyranny, which demanded not argu-
ment, but action. 1t tends to a breach of
the peace, and to stir up civil war; and
Notwithstanding all these, they do not lose
their confidence in him. They say, that
we are adverse to him, we in
sTruct you to throw his message in his
face, and for one, he was ready to do it.
Laughter. ~
The resolutions were not the voice of
the people of Ohio, and met with no SYM
pathy or acquiescence from the Repub-
lican party They were crowded down
the throats of the Republicans in the
Ohio Legislature by a cowardly majority
under the gag rule, because they dared not
10 face the, scorn and contempt which
would have been heaped upon them had
they been permitted the liberty of speech.
The brave and generous people Of Ohio
would have spoken out directly, without
to favor any man; boldly and in
asPendently would they have pronounced
heir will,
The resolutions were passed under a
that haste was indispensable,
md yet more than ten days have elapsed,
iuriDg which time they have slept in some
mans breaches pocket. He was willing
o 60 with the Legislature, and resis. to
be death any attempt 10 force the Leoomp-