The Nevada Democrat., 1858-04-21
An,,-I.eeomDton Meeting in ohio.

Anti-LeeomptOn Meeting In Ohio.
A mass convention of the AntiLeeompton
Democracy of Ohio was held in Columbus, on
the 10th of March. The meeting was the lar
gest which has been held in that State for many
years, and nearly every county was represent
ed. Col. George W. Mannypenny, Commis-
sioner of Indian affairs under President Pierce,
presided, and Frederick P. Stanton. ex-Secre-
tary of Kansas and Henry B. Payne, the late
Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio,
were among the speakers The resolutions
passed by the meeting, declare their firm adhe-
renee to the doctrine Of popular sovereignty
embraced in the Kansas Nebraska Act and the
Cincinnati platform, and recognize the right of
the people of Kansas, through the legally and
fairly expressed will of the majority Of actual
residents to form constitution, with or with
out domestic slavery, and be admitted into the
Union upon an equality with the other States;
that the Leeompton constitution, is the offspring
Of usurpation and fraud, and not the act and
deed of the people Of Kansas, and to impose it
upon them would be an act of gross injustice
and tyranny, in contravention of the plghted
faith Of the Democratic party, and subvsrsivs
Of the principles Of sslf-gevernment; that the
enforcement Of this instrument on an unwilling
people, against their known and expressed will.
must lead to the most unfortunate and disas-
trous consequences to the Democratic party
that the only tests Of party fealty which are ae
knowledgsd are those prescribed by the regu-
larly constituted National Conventions, and
they repudiats the attempt to make the sdmis-
sion Of Kansas under the Leeompton constitu-
tien q test Of Democratic orthodoxy. They ap-
prove Of the resolutions passed by the Demo-
cratic members Of the Legislature Of that State,
against the admission Of Kansas, and applaud
the courage and wisdom Of Senator Douglas,
bis associates In Congress, and others, in their
vindeation Of popular sovereignty. A COM
mittee was appointed to confer with similar
committees In other States, in relation to the
holding Of . grand mass convention Of the
Democracy Of the Northwest.
Among the letters read on The occasion, was
one from Senator Broderick, which We annex
WASHINGTON, D. c.. March 9th, 1858.
GENTLEMEN Your invitation to be present
at meeting in Columbus, Ohio, the object Of
which is to protest against the passage Of the
Lecompton Constitution, has been received, and
/ much regret that duties here will prevent my
attendance. I will, however, take this oppor-
tunity to say, that it affords me great satisfss-
ton to perceive that the Democratic passes are
waking up to the Importance Of the issues in
volved in the Kansas question, and to the enor-
mty OF the fraud which the Administration is
eeeking to force upon the country in their name.
1t might seem surprising that the people have
not exhibited this interest before. but when it
s-eeasidered that they had nothing to attract
their attention to the Kansas question but the
common cry of fraud, and only looked upon it
as the opening of an apparently new chapter in
the slavery topic, their long repugnance to its
discussion is the more easily understood. Now,
however, il is rapidly becoming known that sla-
very is not the material feature Of the present
contest The real issue is, the right Of white
men to govern themselves and to have voice
in the adoption of the Constitution under which
they arc to live When this shall be thorough
ly understood, we shall doubtless receive an
earnest response. There cannot possibly be
any Indifference in the public mind on such an
issue as this. l have great confidence, notwith-
standing the Democratic votes in Congress,
which, in the culpable silence of their constitu-
ents have ranged themselves with the President
in his Kansas tyranny, that the day will soon
come when no Democrat can be found to ac-
knowledge that he ever cUuntenanced the mon
strous doctrine, that fraud can be rendered ac-
ceptable by any forms of legal technicalities, or
that free people should be obliged to accept
government which they were denied the right
to reject or ratify. Trusting that your meeting
may be speedily followed by others of similar
character, am, gentlemen,
Very truly yours, ete.,
d. g. BRopERICK.
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Miller, and others.