Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-02-24

the s0gereignty and rights OF the otateB, anu
designed 10 make them mere dependencies upon
the central Government; unconstitutional In its
provisions and dangerous to the liberties OF the
people; the authorities Of each Of the States
should sternly resist the operation Of scheme
so fatal to the just relations which should al
ways exist between the Federal and State Gov
ernments.
7th. That the "banking system" recently
passed by the Senate Of the United States,
based, as Il is, upon an unconstitutional and ir-
redeemable Issue of paper currency, cannot fall,
IL forced upon the people OF the States, to prove
destructive to the existing moneyed institutions
Of the several States, and is covertly designed
to establish O vast central "money power" I"
alike unknown to the Constitution of the United
States, and dangerous TO the principles upon
which our Government is founded.
9Th. That the President of the United States
by his emancipation proclamation, has struck Q
serious blow at the rights Of the State, erected
an almost impossible barrier between the
North and the South, in attacking the people
of fifteen States through domestic institution
which is blended with their social fibric, and
over which the individual States possess exclu-
sive control and power; and regardless OF the
great lessons of the past, the National Exeou-
tive. In pandering to the insane fanaticism OF
the Abolition faction, has ventured upon sys.
TEN OF public policy which, II successfully in-
augurated, would disgrace our country in the
eyes Of the civilized world, and carry lust, ra-
pine and murder into every house in the slave
holding States.
Resoiued, That the act Of the Federal Admin.
istration in suspending the writ fhabsas corpus,
the arrest Of citizens not subject TO military
law without warrant or authority-transporti
them TO distant -incarcerating them
without charge or ccusation--depying them
the right Of trial by jury, of Witnesses in their
favor, and counsel for their defense--wiIhhold'
ing from them all knowledge Of their accusers
and the cause of their arrest--answering their
petition for redress by repeated injury and in
suit, prescribing, In many cases, as condition
of their release, test oaths, arbitrary and ille'
gal:
In the abridgmsut of freedom Of speech and
OF the press-in suppressiDg newspapers by
military force, and establishing Censorship
wholly incompatible with the freedom OF
thought and expression Of opinion:
In the establishment of system of espion-
age by secret police to invade the sacred pri.
vacy of unsucpecting citizens:
In declaring martial law over States not in
rebellion, and where the courts are open and
unobstructed for the punishment Of crime:
In attempting to strike out OF existence the
entire value OF property in slaves throughout
the country:
In the attempted enforcement Of compensat-
ed emancipation:
In the proposed taxation of the laboring white
man TO purchase the freedom and secure the
elevation Of the negro:
In the dismemberment OF the State OF Vir.
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State without the consent of her Legisla-
ture-
Are each and all arbitrary and unconstitu
tional, subverting the Constitutions, State and
Federal, invading the ;eeerved rights of the
If sanctioned, the destruction Of the Union, es.
tablishing upon the common ruins of the liber
ties of the people and the sovereignty of the
States consolidated military despotism.
And We hereby solemnly declare that nc
American citizen can, without the crime Of In
fidelity to his country's Constitutions, and tht
allegiance which he bears to each, sanction such
usurpations. Believing that our silence will b,
criminal, and may be construed into consent
in deep reverence for our Constitution, which
has been ruthlesslJ violated, We do hereby en-
ter our most solemn protest against these usur
pations Of power.
Resolped, That in connection with our fellow
citizens OF other States, we will use our utmos
influence to prevent the payment of singl'
dollar Of the money of the people unconslitu
tionally appropriated for the unwarranted ex
ecutive project Of compensated emancipation.
Resolued, That we sympa,hize with the sol
diers who enlisted to sustain the Constitution
and the Union, in the great deprivations an,
hardships to which they have been subjected il
sickness and in health; and demand, in th,
name of justice and humanity, that the grea
frauds which have deprived them OF prope
food, raiment, and care, shall be exposed, an,
their authors duly punished.
RssOlUed, That the enormous plunder of th
public treasure by self-constiluted patriots
which has been rife throughout the country
demands the closest scrutiny; and the severes
punishment should follow o just exposure.
Resolusd, That as representatives of larg
proportion OF the people Of Connecticut, we de
mand the fullest public exposure Of the name
in which the vast sum of Jour millions of dol
lars, appropriated by our State during the pas
two yeaIs, or any portion of it, has Been ex
pended, with detail of the objects for whic
the money has been used; and we protes
against the extraordinary and uDcaled for az
preparation by the last extra session of our Leg
islature of ten thousand dollars to the Cover
nor of this State, TO be used by him in secret TO