Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-05-28
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Afternoon Meeting.
The temporary Chairman, Judge Spalding
called the meeting to order at halEpast o'cl'k
Judge Tilden, from the Committee upon per.
manent organization, reported the following of.
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PERMANENT OFFICERS.
Hon. j. r. Giddings, President,
VICE PRESIDENTS.
John P. Converse, Geauga.
John f. Morse Lake.
Geo. III. Howe, Trnmbull.
Joseph DeWolf Portage.
james Dumars, Mahoning.
j. W. Vance, Knox.
Jacob Heaton, Columbana.
james Monroe, Lorain.
Herman Garfield, Medina.
Sidney Edgerton, Summit
DIR. A. d. Skillenger, Huron.
N. Wentworth, Ashland.
Felix Nicola, Cuyahoga.
SECRETARIES.
John G. Grannis, Cuyahoga.
j. S. Herrick, Portage.
Augusta Theme, Cuyahoga
Joseph II. Dickerson, Lorain.
The report of the Committee was accepted
by three cheers, and the officers took their seats.
Judge Tilden was then introduced to the
audience and made short and telling speech
full of appropriate and cutting illusions to the
Federal Court and to the officers who have in
carcerated these Oberlin men. After throwing
hot shot into their castle and sufficiently punish
ing them for their infamous actions, he passed
into the features of Congressional politics, show
ing that the Chairmen of all the important COM
mittees were of the unterri6ed Democracy
Passing rapidly over these, he threw into his re.
marks many capital hints at the dominant party,
which kept the immense audience in a roar.
Three hearty cheers thanked Judge Filden as
be sat down.
The assembly was then respectively address
ed by J. w. Vance, Esq, of Mt. Vernon, and
Hon. j. r. GIDDNGs, when the following reso-
lutions we're presented and read by John Coon,
Esq, chairman of the Committee on Resolu-
tious, and adopted by laundering vote.
DECLARATION.
This Assembly of the People of the State of
Ohio, holding:
That, next to our duty to the Supreme Being,
is our obligation to preserve our free institutions
and our civil liberties
That the greatest tyrants have been those
whose titles have been least questioned;
That every violation of the constitution
should be watched with Jealousy and resented
with spirit;
That the history of every free people has
shown the impossibility of cordial compliance
with laws which neither embody nor execute the
public will;
That the enforcement of such laws against
an unwilling people, is productive only of evils
threatening public order the stability of gov
Institutions: And holding further
more,
That the history of the government Of the
United States as recently administered is bis
tory of repeated injuries and unsurpations, all
having, in direct object, the Africanization of
this continent by the diffusion and establishment
of slavery and the restriction and limitation Of
freedom thus reversing the ancient policy of the
founders of the Republic, which looked to the
extinction Of slavery, and the extension of liber-
ty; and
That the Dred Scott decision, reversing all the
we'll established rules which for ages have been
the bulwark Of personal liberty, yields its egiti-
mate fruits in the recent atrocities committed
10 the heart Of the Western Reserve, and calls
upon US Tor new efforts and new sacrifices for
constitutional liberty, do, therefore, publish and
DECLARE,
lst That the several states composing the
United States OF America, are not united on the
principle of unlimited submission to their een-
eral 20 yernment, but that by compact under
the style and title of a constitution for the ii.
States, and of amendments thereto, they con-
stituted general government for special pur-
poses. and delegated 10 that government certain
definite powers, reseFViDg each State for ITSELF
the resdnaTy mass Of right to their own self
government; and that whatsoever the general
government assumes undslegated powers, its
acts arg nnauthoritative, void, and OF no force,
and being void can derive no validity from mere
Judicial Interpretation; that to this compact
each State aeeeded as State, and is an integral
party; that this government. created by this
compact, was not made the exclusive or RnRl
Judge Of the extent Of the powers delegated 10
ftsall sinee that would have made its discretion.
snd not tho constitution the measure OF It's
powers; bat that, as in all other cases Of com
pact between parties having no common Judge
each party has an equal right to judge for ITSELF
as well Of inifsetiOns. as Of the mode aud mea-
sure Of redress
I'd. That the law commonly known az the
Fugitive Slave Law Of 1850, was. 10 the opin-
ion Of this assembly, passed by Congress in the
exercise of powers improperly assumed; and
had il been presented as an original question 70
a wise and impartial court, must have been held
in conflict with the constitution, and. therefore,
poid
30. That one OF the most alarming symptoms
Of degeneraey 10 the general Government IS