Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-09-21
Proceedings OF the Great Union state Con.
vention nt Columbus.

ficial report Of the proceedings Of The great =,
Union Convention at Columbus on the 5th, an =
,utline Of what was done aud said on the acca. /,
ion. The attendance was immense. Prompt q
y at the appointed hour the Delegates swarm :
d into the building appointed for the meeting. S
This was found too small, aud an alarm spread t
hat it was unsafe for so great number In {
he afternoon and adjournment was had to the
Hall Of the House of Representatives but this
100 was found to be too small. Thereupon the ,
vast throng adjourned to the Eastern Portico :
Of the Capitol, aud the Convention was organic. ,
al in the open air, with the venerable and dis
tnguisbed 'Tuos EwISo as President, assisted
bv a Vice President from each Congressional {
District
Mr.. Ewing, on taking the chair, made very
pertinent speech, practical and right to the
point. In the course Of his remarks, he
| said:
Now, Gentlemen, the only method by
which the power Of the Nation can put forth
is through the arm Of the lawfully constitut-
ed authority Of the country. In any other
mode We are pOWerleHS.
As to the manner in which the proper
authorities are to proceed, different persons,
again. have different plans some think
this and some think that. Now all this is
of no avail. We can't throw off the legal
" constituted authorities In order to
support the Nation we must support the
Executive of the Nation (Great ap-
plause.) The time may have been when it
was otherwise But that time is not now
When cur contry and its capital are threat
ened by hostile force of armed rebels, is
not the time to refuse our support TO the
National Executive. Now force must be
met by force.
remember at one time, when rebellion
threatened the country. and when Gen
jackson planted his foot upon it, that !,
with twenty other good Wings, called mp
on the old General TO assure him Of our sup
port of bis measures to crush incipient re.
bellon Aud l would do 50 again.
Cheers
Under the troubles that have so ogrevious
ly assailed our country, there has been much
Of elimination and rccrimnation. The Re.
publican has said to the Democrat, you
have brought these evils upon us aud the
Democrat has replied to the Republican,
you did it. But it seems to me that the
representatives of party had better just
agree to close aud balance accounts with
each otter. daughter and cheersl But
the fact is, my friends, the origin of this re-
bellion is with neither of the two parties,
as such. The source of the evil lies much
deeper down and further back than all this.
From the time that Gen. Jackson planted
his foot upon notification in South Carolina,
in 1888, there has been a general progress
in the schooling for rebellion in that State.
Within that time whole generation of
young men has there been reared up and
educated to disunon. She is q dsuniou
State And the fact is now unquestion.
able that she can be kept in the Union on.
ly by the strong arm of power and !
would stretch out that arm with an unhesi
tnting firmness, aud force her to remain
Immense applause. Other States have
been by degrees, seduced from their aIcg
ance to some extent, by influence similar to
those which have proved so pestiential tC
South Carolina. You all remember the
wild buccaneering that was set on foot ir
l849, when organized bands of adventurou:
young men invaded the Island of Cuba, il
which invasion an unfortunate and miSguid
ed nephew of the venerable John G. Crit
tenden was taken prisoner and garroicd
Now, these young men and their assOcia
tes and sympathserS trained TO live with
out labor, many Of them poor and all o
them proud, became the knights of tht
Golden Circle,"-n secret organization
p set on foot to carry out their desperate aut
. villaBous plans But this was put down
' They organized anew, and were again pu
down, but not till after desperate strug
D gle. l have conversed with Judge Camp
bell, U. S. Judge in Alabama, on this sui
jcct, aud he informed me that so strong an
10 so violent had become this secret organiza
ton, that he expected on some occasions t
u be violeatly torn from the bench aud cas-
is into the waves of the Gulf These secre
conspirators then turned their attention t
the North to educate political school
II their desperate doctrines They sought I
Of distract the country on the exciting sube(
"a ofslaVery. They so far and SO well mana
ed their Vaccinations rs to break up Il
Democratic party at Charleston. BY til
/, rupture they so weakened the political POI
~ er of that party as TO bring about the ee
SIS tiou Of Mr.. Lincoln, and thereupon sez
IS, upon his election as o Pretext for dissolvir
of the Union.
We also heard much about the Admin
trAtion going too far, and doing too muC
- My Objection is, on the other hand, that Il
~ Government has been too long suffering al
as patient. Ny voice would have been Civ
'el to stop the proceedings Of the rebels
NY once upon their rearing Notifications
Fort Moultrie. Yes, my friends, | th
the Administration, if mistaken in auy,hu
10 has made the mistake of waiting too Ion
~ and has not at any time been too strong
nj its movements. Cries Of "thaL'S so."]
=. Another charge that is sometimes p
~ ferred against the Administration is tn
e, it has transgressed the letter Of the law, b
:renched upon private rights, and has lille
ally suspended the Habeas Corpus. As
20 this l am not ready to say that, we're thC
- acts done under the ordinary circumstanC
"e of the peace, they would be sustainab
'u' But what is the state of things no
en under which these acts were done Th
are circumstances Of war and of most iml