The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-06-24
'Ehe Great State Convention of
the DemOcracy-Fhe Uprising
of the People in Behalf of Civil
Liberty.

Il ne GreHt St1Jc convention Ol
the DemOcracy-Fhe Uprisins
of the People in Behalf of Civil
Liberty.
Elsewhere will be found the procee'
dings ofthe immense Democratic State
Convention held at Columbus yester'
day. Originally designed simply as {
delegated meeting of some five hundred
and fifty persons representing the or
ganization in the State, duly chosen
in the ordinary Or usual manner, it was
swollen, by the remarkable events
which have transpired within the last
few weeks, into the greatest, the most
imposing and formidable public assem-
blage, as respects numbers and entthu-
siasm that ever convened in Ohio. If
ever the people (the Cincinnati Com
mercial very respectfully terms them
the ''rahble") were aroused, alarmed
and excited about the condition of
public affairs, it has been in Ohio pre-
vious to this Convention. It has been
emphatically an IMPRoMPTU meeting
of many tens of thousands of the bone
and sinew of our State of the men who
largely represent its patriotism, its
honesty and its devotion to Republi-
can institutions. Nothing but deep
and overwhelming emotions, and ter
ribly earnest convictions that our pubs
lie affairs are being mismanaged to an
extent as to threaten both national
and individual ruin and destruction,
could have called such an immense
assemblage of people to the Capital of
Ohio on this occasion.
The Convention was not held be-
meath the smiles, but beneath the
frowns of power, and under circumstan>
ces that will appear incredible to our
recollcctions i'll "a few years. Against
it was arrayed. the most enormous
patronage and corruption fund of
which history had any mention; the
most tremendous influences of Church
and State; the most wide spread and
infamous misrepresentation of it's OBJ
jects, and the most unscrupulous libels
of its leading friends and supporters.
Despite all this, the lion hearted De-
mocracy Of Ohio bravely, gallantly,
generously and potriotically persever-
cd, and made demonstration of their
strength which has confounded, if not
struck terror into their malignant as
sailants. Such an arousing of the
Democratic element has not been seen
during the lifetime OF this generation,
indeed if it has been witnessed in this
century.
1t marks the beginning Of the great,
peaceful, political revolution which,
more important than that Of 1901,
wnen our fathers overthrow the Alien
and , Sedition Law Administration of
John Adams, is to restore the Govern
ment back to its democratic purity,
and cause the Goddess of Liberty
once more to be set up an6 respected
in this land.
The Democracy of Ohio, bold, ar
dent and progressive, have taken the
lead, and are marching in the vah of
this movement in behalf of violated
and insulted Constitution. The ball
to restore the Constitution--to restore
to us again the rights Of freemen, of
citizens, under the Common Law--has
been set in motion, and it's momentum
has already acquired overwhelming
force.
Those who are opposed to these
great objects, who are in favor of an
inquisition over thought and speech,
whose policy will subvert the pillars OF
our Government, and make our coun-
try despotism like that of Russia,
are men of the thirteenth but not of
the nineteenth century. They are not
in Austria or Naples, but in America.
The action of this Convention is the
action of the State of Ohio. 1t repre-
sents the organization and the party
which triumphed by handsome ma
jority at the last election, and is now
vastly stronger, for it's ranks have
been and are daily swollen by access
sions in all parts of the State. The
great waters of the political deep are
breaking up, and will sweep out Of
power and place that organization
which has shown such implicable hos,
tility to human liberty, and whose
leaders have evinced disposition and