New-York daily tribune., 1858-03-16
OHIO STATE DEMOCRATIC ANTI
LECOMPTOE CONTENTION
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CoLUssus, Ohio, MARCIA IL, 1853
The State Convention of the Democratic Anti-Le'
componites held yesterday was the whole success
iul and emphatic Hundreds Of the rank and 6le OF
the party ana very large proportion Of the leaders
present. The thester the largest room IN the
city was crowded 10 it, utmost capacity, an hundreds
were compelled to leave IoT wan. Of places eyea to
stand.
Col Gee. w. Manypeuny presided. He referred to
the Federal ofice.hoisrs who talk Of reading men,
bers of this Convention out of the party. He would
merely say to them that books would be opened on
the let April and continued open to the st of June
and whoever among them failed 10 register his name
by that date would 6nd himself outside the Demo
cratic party in Ohio II high time the servants
Of the people heard from their masters upon the
question Of the LecomptOn hsud And We will be
fesrd and wo be 10 tue who will not listen TO
Doubtless Mr.. Pugh was IN Mr.. Manypennys eye
when he made that remark.
In the afternoon +. =. Stanton addressed the meet
ing in q speech of Just three hours eogth IL Tss
emnenty able and convincing, but being snostsn-
italy the same as delivered IN New-lcrk, shsI net
abstract il.
He hit Mr.. Buchanan and his Administration right
and left. and every such blow brought down tue
house. lie referred to the opening OF the saVeuade,
declared that il was seriously urged by many al the
South ami he had no doubt il would find its defenders
among the office-ho OF the North Ii was not
more improbable than II would have been one year
since to have supposed that the Leccmpton swinde
would find advocates in the Free States. Letters
were read from X. j. Walker, ID. '. BrOdersok ana
H. A. Wise. The latter asks:
Shall pr,,ended Constitution which adopted by tia,
Cou,ertion-f on the submitted tot sopi oy
the people which Do, adopted by the people to theN
not allowed to vote dgan't oe oTcrd oy ae
ere IN vii Shall this be done too the Bourbon doctrine '
of ,he Dor doctrine Of the Rhodr Island
Dcncca,ic bow lawful authority II AT cratic a.to
cratic ohgsrchc and despoc thus TO consn FopuM So
cr,iguty by the OF legitimacy.
Walker says:
fundamental pnciue Of public liberty and the Constitution but
10 spprove also Of rsuds and toEers the most psPaoe
wicked which have dsraced any age OF
Try and thus forfeit 'piresP and mat OF tne
civilized world which must be the spectator OF ts iniam
there be crime which il more aocious than snv 0tne
the forgery election returns and especially III an
yoyius ali the dearest rights Of free people IA the essol
mont OF state Government lt is proved ncontestsoy
by legal evidence taken oath before LeSissve Comne'
that precincts only in Kansas where more than
pretended to lave been given that oil tns wo
were entirely fictitious and THAT the return. were oIsed ana
fraudulent No man can or dare deny tis s,,OnS ~ % ,b
precincts know that this testimony te and ytt we are
asked sanction Constitution based upon cT'e' hke these
81 have great con6dence notwithstanding the Democratic
votes in Congress which in the culpsble silence the cI
tuens have ranged themselves with the President IN h Nan
tyranny that the day will come when no Dera csu
found 70 ahnowledse that he ever IN r
forms or legal eChnicaties that free people SHOULD oe
obliged accept Government which they were DENIED 'n'
a series of resolutions were reported by Commit
tee of which the most important are the TWO iono"
| ing:
Resored Tha, the Lscompon Constitution ia th offspring
usurpaion and not the act and deed OF the Pop
Kansas but on the contrary has been repnated ana e
nounced by overwhelming majority OF the ls"iu .oteIs
aid Territory and TO impose It unTLiiu aud potts,
peoplr would OF injustice e1d tyrt IN cons
yenion Of the platform and pighed fsh ot the Dsoca
party subyersy the principle OF seq government ad pYo
tive aud alienation betwees he different e'
| the Union .. ,..-.. -,
Roed That the enforcement of this rejected insrmSnt 1
the people of against their known and Expressed ""
merits our unqualified dsspprobson, aud will unless Arrests
and defeated lead the unfortunate and disastrous result
| TO the Democratic patty aud the | nion.
| In the evening Concert Hall was crowded TO suiio
cation. Speeches made by Stanley Mathews q
Cincinnati, Henry b. Payne Of Cleveland, snd other:
| This meeting confirms what every sensible man |
Ohio already knew, viz: that the people are bltterl
and unaerably opposed to the Lecompton swindle an
| its authors aiders and abettOrs.
| Mr. Stanton speaks in Cleveland tonight. Citize
Sam Medary ha. arrived and BY posters on the col
ners this morning, see he is to address the II" NJ
tional Democracy tomorrow evening, and will doub
less convince them that the lecompton Constitution
the quiutessence of popular sovereignty. Poor San
clever fellow once the ~ar-horse of Ohio Democracy
and the fast friend of Douglas now Postmaster in tn
! city and the spoogiss for Lecompton, But he w
find that bis scepter is gone, and that his power h'
| departed,