The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-03-24

as much bound under the laws and con-
stitution thus ordained, as though all
had participated in the election that
we regard this as the true theory of
Representative government; and that
otherwise anarchy aud despotism would
remain the only alternatives.
RcsolUed, That the people of Kansas,
having been invited by the highest au-
.thority known to the Constitution, to-
participate freely and fairly in the cleo
tion of delegates to frame q Constitution
and State government, and having vol
UNFAIRLY refused to participate in any
such election, are estopped, by every
principle of law and ethics, from com
planning of the acts of that convection.
Resolvea, That in our judgment the
best interests of the country requirs the
immediate admission of Kansas into tho
Union as an independent State, and that
it is the bounden duty of Congress, to
declare by solemn enactment, and with
out further decay, the State of Kansas
to be one of the United States OF Amer
lea, and admitted to an equal footing
with the original States i'll all respects
whatever.
Resolved, That the dictum Of Hon. s.
A. Douglas, in his late Report to the
Senate, that the people of Kansas swere
not authorized, at their own will and
pleasure, to resolve themselves into a
Sovereign power, and ordain a constitu-
ton and State government, aoithout the
consent Of Congress-" is inconsistent
with the principles of the Kansas Ne
braska Act v hich leaves the people there
of perfectly free to form and regulate
their domestic institutions in their ewn
way, subject only to the constitution Of
tho United States" and wholly at war
with the principles of Popular Sovereign
ty as maintained by the great Demo
cratic party.
Resolved, That Robert j. Walker, the
author of the two-third rule in the Dem
~ocratic National Convention-the father
of that stupendous swiDdle upon the
National Treasury, the Ocean mail
Steamer system-of the interior Depart.
ment, and thes agent of Corcersn and
Riggs in securing the government loan
in the Mexican war, is a fit representa-
tive of the Shriekers for bleeding Kan
sas in their traitorous resistance of the
laws, and the regularly constituted au.
thorities of the government.
RESOLVED, That, while we fully recog,
Mise the right of the General Assembly
when fully advised of the wishes of theil
constituents in regard to any public
measure pending In Congress, to %instruct
our Senators in congress, either for OF
against such, measure, we nevertheless
regard the recent ~Instructing Resolu
tions of the Legislature of Ohio, al
wholly repugnant to the feelings and
wishes of nine-tenths of the Democracy
of the State, and we therefore unhesita
iingly declare that said Resolution
should be expunged from the Journals
of both Houses by drawing black.linel
around the same, and writing across thu
face thereof, ErplmgeG 6y order Of TIL
Senate and House Of Representatives.
RESOLVED, That Hon. S. A. Douglas
by inauga,ating the most stupendou
system of public plumber, in bestowin!
large grants of public lands upon private
corporations, that has been devised sine
the days of Alexander Hamilton-mor,
corrupt even than the monster Bank;
ssytem which no honest Democrat ooult
ever defend, and one which brought in
= delible infamy Observation-Disclosures
Republican -Hoase-ef Representatives
? has, by his last and GROWING act, o
treachery-his base desertion of tn,
principles of his own Kansas Nebrask;
law, Identified himself, with the enemie
of the Democratic party throughout tn
Union.
RESOLVED, That the Almighty neve
made a mere man SO great that the De
mocracy would worship him ; principle
not men is a great cardinal article in tn
Democratic creed ; let Democrats kee
down their pride and arrogance les
t they be their ruin.
j RESOLVED, That the Democratic part,
POUNDS itself upon a glorious array of IN
changing principles; when men forsak
J these principles they are no longer Q
b us they need no reading out-they rea
g themselves cut by their desertien of tn
e brotherhood of Democracy.
o ReSolved, That the institutions c
/ America are Democratic to a degre
unknown in all the past history of man
: that by the wisdom and foresight of GU
d ancestors they are so improved as to b
applicable to the largest extent of terri
tory-the highest degree of population
thing unknown to ancient Democracies
that the great popularity of our syster
: which gives it this great superiority cor
lists in its re preventative character ; thu
c a mas Democracy in a country of the wild
extent and great population of ours
wholly in praeticable-and this tb
u federal party well know; The sovereigut
of the people our Democracy doesnot co
n sent in voting upon laws directly but
choosing representatives and delegates I
constitute assemblies for making thes
q laws; that the action of these assemble
in all our American governments, al
in contemplation of law uniformly bel
to be the action of the people then
selves; any other system than this tt
a enemies of our Democracy wei kno
would be impracticable and wholly de
y tsuctiye of our form of governments; an
Q for this reason especially do the feeders
Abolition party favor the change.
RESOLVED, That we are In favor of
resort totae ancient usage of the govern
ment--a President for two terms, col
stituting as it does. the only true te
of the sanction of the people.
ReSolved, That a dogma tenaciousI
!, chung to and insisted upon by the Of
y Federalparty, now the Abolition R,
70 publican party, was and is that poo
White men should not be allowed
: vote.-That when defeated and owe
= whelmed in this odious position, by tt
= Democracy of America, they immedi
tely adopted that hateful Abolitic
y doctrine that negroes also should vot
This they did through sheer malev'