The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-02-13
Opposition County Mass Meeting.

Pursuant to adjournment of the Opposi-
tfon meeting of the 9TH inst, and an invita-
ton extended to all the Opposition of Van
derburgh county, a mass meeting was held
in the Court House of said county on Sat
| urday afternoon, Feb. II, 1860. 49,
The chairman appointed at the meeting
of the 7th called the meeting. to order, and
announced its business to be the adoption
of resolutions expressive of its political
views, and the appointment of delegates to
the Opposition State Mass Meeting on the
/ 22d inst g
| Whe first business in order being the re-
| port of the Committee on Resolutions and
Delegates appointed at the former meeting
The committee (through their chairman,
Blythe Hynes), reported the following pre-
| amble and resolutions: -
WHEREAS, A crisis has arrived in the af-
fairs of this country, the threatening ma
ture of which warns all lovers of our
free institutions, to whatever party be-
longing, that they should unite and make
common cause against the corrupt oligar-
chy which now rules the country to the
utter destruction of its best interests:
Therefore,
ReSoLUed, That we, representing different
parties and varieties of political sentiments,
will coalesce and cooperate with each other
under the declarations herein set forth, in a
united endeavor to oust the present Ad-
mnistration party from power in State and
Nation. ,- l- ~.
~ ResoIUed, That the prescription and tyran-
nical policy of the present Administration
and its unexampled extravaganza and cor
Tuption, deserve the condemnation of every
lover of honesty and fair dealing. @
II ResoLUed, That we are firmly opposed TO
the extra judicial dogmas of the Dred-Scott
decision, and to the doctrine announced in
the Presidents Message that Slavery exists
10 all the Territories by virtue Of the Con-
stitution of the United States, and that nei-
ther Congress, the Territorial Legislature
nor any other human power can exclude it
therefrom.
Y ResotUed That we are opposed to all in
terference with slavery where it exists, and
IN fsy or Of the enforcement of the Fugitive
Slave Law while ii remains a law; and that
while We deprecate the extension of slavery
into any of the present Territories of the
United States, we recognize the right of the
people thereof to be admitted into the Union
as States, with or without the institution Of
Slavery, as they themselves may elect.
ResOLOed That Kansas ought to be admit
ted without delay as a State, under the Wy
andotte Constitution, in accordance with the
wishes of a majority of her people, fairly
expressed.
ResoEved. That it has been demonstrated
that the people are opposed to any extern
sion of the term of naturalization; and that
we deem it unwise and impolitic TO agitate
that question further, and that we are OPP
posed to all inequalities among citizens, and
condemn the odious doctrine of the Admin
istration declared in the LIE Clerc letter,
believing that foreign born citizens are en-
titled to all the rights and privileges of
native citizens at home and abroad. M
ResolUed That we advocate the Free
homestead principle-the granting of
tract of land to every actual settler upon
our national domain. .-....ef
RssolOed, That in the deliberate declara-
tions of three Southern Democratic Gov
ernors and Legislatures, and of more than
forty Southern Democratic Representatives
and Senators in Congress, that the Union
shall be dissolved in the event of the cleo
ton of a Republican President, and in the
servile acquiescence of Northern Democratic
Representatives and Senators in that afro
cious sentiment we recognize conclusive
proof that the Democratic party is purely
sectional and disunion party, and despite
these threats, we of the Great West, intend
that "our federal Union shall be pre-
served" and are prepared in that or any
other event, to fight in the Union for the
preservation of the Union.
ResolUed, That we will respond to the
call for mass meeting of the Opposition to
be held at indianapolis on the 22d Februa-
ry, 1860, by attending through our delegates,
and urging on said meeting our views, as
expressed in these resolutions.
ReSoLUeL That it is the sentiment of this
meeting that the fairest attainable basis
upon which to predicate the number of votes
| to which each county should be entitled in
| the Opposition State Convention of the 22d
of February, would be formed by taking
! into the calculation the vote cast in 1858
for Opposition candidates for Congress in
the various districts of the State.
On motion of Francis Fares, of Perry
Township, they.were unanimously adopted.
The committee then reported the following
list of delegates for the action of the meet
ing:
Centre T'oscnship.-Judge Silas Stephens,
| VIM. Atchinson, Andrew Erskine, Phillip
Schmidt.
German 1o0nshlP.-J. V. FARES, John
Bumb, Phillip Koehler.
Knight To10nship. Aiken, Wilson
Collins, William Howard.
Perry TOacnship. Kron, William
| Barker, Francis FARES.
r Pigeon oaonship.-Henry Schaeffer, " m
Hubbell, Phillip Decker, August Lemcke
c. Baker, J. J. Chandler, John S. Hopkins
f. M. Thayer, a. Defrees, G.. W. Rathbone
a. NTum DertS. y. Kahn.
Scott I7o11ship. Charles Schaus, Johr
Potts, John Whitehead, sen.
Union 1oacaShip.-SamuelB Barker, Alex
Maddox, W, g. Mcdowell.
On notion the persons suggested by the
committee were appointed as delegates by
the meeting. -.-
John W Foster moved that the persons
composing the committee wAe suggested
delegates, be appointed delegates. Carried