The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-06-01
From the Ohio Statesman.
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
OHIO DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION,
Held at Columbus, on 26th May, 1859.
i EFT NOniINATE6.
From the Ohio Statesman.
Perfect Harmony and Great Enthusiasm
among the Delegates.
TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION.

G"h1 al
The Democratic State Convention met yester-
day, Thursday, May 26, at Armoryr,Hall in this
city, and organized, temporarily, by %electing
WIN. B. WOODS, of Licking county, President,
and CHARLES b. FLOOD, Secretary. The FOL
lowing gentlemen were elected assistant Secro-
%taries: W. C. HOOD, of Scioto, L. H. CRITcH-
FIELD, of Holmes, B. BRowNELL, of Cuyaho-
ga, and w. G. HALL, of Brown.
The Congressional Districts, as called by the
Secretary, came forward and presented the
names of members of the following committees,
for their respective Districts:
CFrom the 14th District, j. J. HOFFMAN was
AIMED as the member of the Committee on
Credentials A. P. Dayton for the Committee
on permanent officers, and VIM. Green for the
Committee on resolutions.
The places of meeting of the several Com
mittees were then announced, and the Conven-
ton took a recess until 2 o'clock.
SESSION.
The Convention assembled at 2 o'clock P. M.
The Chairman, Mr.. WOODS, stated that the
Committee on Credentials was prepared to re-
port, and that all contests in regard to seats
had been amieably adjusted by the delegations
themselves. Some discussion arose at this
point as to the propriety of agreeing to the re-
port of the C0Gmittee, which was finally dis
posed of by a motion to dispense with the
reading of the Report, which was agreed to.
fAs the list of Delegates is imperfect, we
omit them altogether. Ashland County was
represented by VIM. r. McCarty and J. j.
Hootmanl
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
The committee on Permanent Organization
reported the following officers, which was unan-
imouSlv adoDfad-
FOR PRESIDENT,
BARNABUS BURNS, of Richland.
Zone Vice President and one Secretary were
chosen from each Congressional District.
RESOLUTIONS.
G.. VoLNEY DORSEY, from the Committee
on Resolutions, submitted the following report,
which was adopted with great enthusiasm:
The Democracy of Ohio, by their Delegates
in Convention assembled, hereby affirm the
platform of principles adopted by the General
Convention of the Democratic party, at Cincin-
natl, on the 4th of June, 1856.
/. ResoLoed, That the organized Territories
of the United States, although not endowed
with all the attributes of sovereignty, are only
held in the territorial condition until they at
tain a sufficient number of inhabitants to au-
thorize their admission into the Union as
States; and, therefore are justly entitled to the
right of self-government, and the undisturbed
regulation of their domestic or local affairs, sub
ject to the Constitution of the United States
and that any attempt by Congress, or any of
the States, to establish or maintain, prohibit or
abolish, the relation of master and slave in a
Territory, would be a departure from the origin
al doctrine of or American institutions; and
that we adhere, immcvably, to the principal of
Anon Intervention, by Congress, aeih Slavery IN
the States and Territories" as declared in the
Kansas Nebraska bill, and openly disclaim fell
lowship with those, whether at the South, or
North, or the West, who council the abandon
ment, limitation, or avoidance of that principle.
2: Resotued, That the suppression of the
African and foreign slave trade, by the FEEDER
al Government, after the year eighteen hundred
and seven, is one of the compromises on the
and our Union Of sla1eholding and non-slave-
holding States firmly established that a reyi-I
val of that trade would not only renew those
c~ruelties which once provoked the indignation
of the civilized world, but would expose the
slaveholding States to a constant terror of SER
vile instruction, and the non-slayeholding
States of the border, like Ohio, to all the mis-
chiefs and annoyances::ofa free black population;
for these reasons, with others, the Democracy
of Ohio are opposed TO any such revival, and
to any measures tending IN that direction.
8, Resol1e9;; That Che rendition of fugitive
slaves, upon demand of the persons entitled to
their service or labor, is a duty imposed on
every State of the Union by the termsof the Fed
eral compact that the laws passed by Congress
to secure such rendition, in 1890, and 1850,
ught to be promptly and faithfully executed: