Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-03-04
THE STATE BALL START
ED;-LET THE PEOPLE
RULE.

racy hus been called, to be held in OOlum.
bus on Wednesday, the 10th Of March,
to protest agains1 the Lecomptou swindle.
The call which appears in the Ohio States
mrn of the 23d, is headed II. B. Payne,
which says
We are unable TO make room for more
than small number Of the names attach.
ed to the call, in this issne; but we shall
publish them hereafter, from day to day.
From the names to this call it is apparent
that the opposition to the Lecompton
scheme is deep seated, wide spread, and
universal. TIE largest Democratic assem-
bIage ever held in Ohio may be confident
ly looked for upon the 10 Of March to
protest against it. Governor Wise, of
Virginia, Gov, Walker, Frederick P.
Stanton. George Bancroft, John W. For.
ney, and Col, Harney,o! 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.
The call for the Convention is pointed
and peppery, and we have no doubt it
will be overwhelmingly responded to by the
Underground and unterri6ed. 1t is as
follows:
'THE RIGHTS OF THE STATES, AND THE
SOVEREIGNTY OF THE 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 serious
" menaced by the attempt to force upon
The people of Kansas Constitution
repudinted by the majority, conceive that
it is time for the Democracy to assemble
in mass, and denoance this abandonment
of principle and breach cftaiM. Because
the Lecompton plan contravenes The
cardinal principle upon which this Gov.
srnment was founded by our revolutionary
fathers-because it subjects the great
majority to the fraudulent devices of a
small minority-becBuse il has created a
temporary Dictatorship, and set up q
renegade in it, to admit whomsoever be
pleases to seats in the Legislature, and
offices in the Administration departments,
in defiance of the notes legally cast by
the peopIe-because it proceeds upon the
heresy, that the bare majority Of delegates
in Convention may clothe themselves
with absolute power, at will, in the fOrma'
ton of the organic law and original com"
pact, under which the people are to live
because it permits no appeal from the
fiat ofthese few individuals, even though
all the rest of the people opposed it-be,
cause it infringes the Nebraska Act and
the Cincinnati Platform-because it con-
tains an snti Republican and oligafchicaI
provisiau, and is clearly at war with the
letter and the spirit Of the Constitution oil
the United Stares-becsuse it attemps tc
interpoiate into the Democratic creed
Federalism in it most odious form because
il loquires the Democracy to forfeit the
pledges every where made by them during
the Presidential csnvas-b0canse it re
ouires them to become the instruments o.
baRot-box suffers, forgers and pajurers,
and finally, because it is utterly iudeteOs'
bic as Democratic measure and not ia
be tolerated even IS matter Of expediency
we are unalterably opposed to its consuma
ton, and the admission of Kansas unde
lit.
Fully convinced that such are tn
sentiments Of the Democracy Of this State
and desiring that they should be hear'
upon this subject, we invite our brethrel
from every town ship in the State, t
assemble in Mass Conventi1n, at COlumbu
on Wednesday, the 10th day of Marcl
1858.