The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1859-06-01
TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION.

on Thursday, May 26, at Armory Hall
in Columbus, and organized, temporarily,
by electing WM. B. WOODS, of Licking
county, President, and CHARLES B. FLOOD,
Secretary. The following gentlemen were
elected assistant Secretaries: VIC. Hoop,
of Scioto, L. II. CRITCuFIELp, of Holmes,
B. BRowNELL,. Of CuYAHoGA, and W. G.
HALL, of Brown.
The Congressional Districts, as called
by the Secretary, came forward and pre-
sented the names Of members Of the usual
committees:
The II tn district announced the follow
| ing
On credentials. T. w. Peacock.
On permanent officers, Jere Williams.
On resolutions, J Ii. Heaton.
The committee on resolutions was one
of the ablest, if not the very ablest, ever
assembled in the State The following
are among the names, George e. Pugh,
Henry B. Payne, G. L. Vallindigham,
Durbin Ward, VIM. Gwin, G. V. Dorsey
and other eminent men.
| The Convention adjourned until two
o'clock. At that hour it assembled
again. The committee on permanent or
ganization reported for president of the
Convention BARNABAS BURNS. of
Richland; for Chief Secretary, EDWARD
KINsMAN, Of Cuyahoga, with one vice
president and one secretary from each
district. For this district B. +. SpRIGGs
was vicc-president, and Joseph II. Mitch
ell Secretary.
The committee On resolutions reported
the following
/ PLATFORM,
which was adopted with great unanimity,
and with vociferous cheering $,
The Democracy of Ohio. by their Del
egates in Convention assembled, here
affirm the platform of principles adopted
by the General Convention of the Demo-
cratic party, at Cincinnati, on the 4th of
June, 1856. -. ......-.. ...... r.
l. Resolred, That the organized Ter
| ritories of the United States, although
not endowed with all the attributes of
| sovereignty, are only held in the terrific
rial condition until they attain sufi-
ciGnt number of inhabitants to authorise
their admission into the Union as States;
and, therefore, are justly entitled to the
right of self-government, and the undis-
turbed regulation of their domestic or
local affairs, subject to the Constitution
of the United States; and that any at
tempt by Congress, or any of the States,
to establish or maintain, prohibit or abol-
ish, the relation of master and slave in a
| Territory, would be departure from the
original doctrine of our American insti-
tutions, and that we adhere, immoveaby,
to the principle of "Non Lntervention 6y
Congress, ,oih Slarery IN the States and
Territories" as declared in the Kansas
Nebraska bill, and openly disclaim fellow
ship with those, whether at the South, or
the North, the East or the West, who
counsel the abandonment, Limitation, or
avoidence of that principle. ... ...
l 2. ReSOlred, That the suppression of
the African and foreign slave trade, by
the Federal Government, after the year
eighteen hundred and seven, as one of the
compromises on the faith of which the
Constitution was adopted, and our Union
of slaveholding and -slaveholding
States firmly established; that revival of
that trade would not only renew those
cruelties which once provoked the indigna-
ton of the civilized world, but would ex-
pose the slaveholdng States to q constant
terror of servile inSurrectlon, and the
non. .slaveholding States of the border, like
the Ohio, to all the mischiefs and annoy
ance of free black population; for these
reasons, with others, the Democracy OF
Ohio are opposed to any such revival, and
to any measure tending in that direction.
3. Rcsoired, That the rendition of fu-
gitive slaves, upon demand of the persons
entitled to their service or labor, is duty
4 imposed Oh every State of the Union by
the terms of the Federal compact: that
the laws passed by Congress to Sc
cure such rendition, in 1893 and 1850,
ought to be promptly aud faithfully exc
cuted; AND that the leaders of the self
styled Republican party, in Ohio, by a
persistent disregard of the Constitution
l.of the United States in this particular,
have shown themselves unworthy of the
confidence of wel-dsposed, patriotic,
and peaceable citizens. ..r
4. Resoired, That the opposition Of
the Republican party in Congress to the
admission of Oregon, exposes fully the
utter hypocrisy of their pretensions to be
the peculiar. friends of free states
A. Resofred, That we affirm the abso
lutte sovereignty Of the States of thi;
Union in regard to their domestic insti
4 tutions, and the perfect compatibility O
the confederation of free and slave States
; to exist harm oniously together under the
: provisions of our Federal Constitution.
6. Resolyed, That the ACQUISITION O.