Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-03-25

ther vested in him, delegated to the ma
tioual government, or existing anywhere
in a free government, therefore
I. ResoEued, That it is the duty of al
lovers of the constitution and the Union
after an experiment of two years of use
less waste of treasure and blood, such as
the world has never known, to turn then
thoughts from blood to the contemplation
of the prosperity and blessings of peace
in this land; peace, not by separation,
not by disuniOn, but by return to those
instrumentalities alone by which the con.
stitution and the Union we're first made
by our fathers, the spirit of humanity,
Cancellation and compromise, the found
alton of this grandest and greatest tenn
pie Of liberty, rooted strong and deep in
the beginning of this government, that
tin our OPinion) by these instrumental
ties alone, the temple erected by cur ia
theirs can be restored.
2. Rssol0ed, That we have no hope in
our country but by the people, who have,
when their will was properly expressed,
always been for the constitution and the
UniOni that we have lost all confidence
in the President and his advisers, as they
have trodden under foot the constitution
and the laws of the land; they have ar
rested citizens in a free government with
out warrant and without constitutional
authority, ineareerated them in prisons
without legal accusations, without trial
BY jury, without the benefit of counsel,
without the right to be heard in their
own defense, thing unknown in any free
government, and to which we as free
people cannot longer submit.
8. ResozDed, That it is to the people
we must look for a restoration of the
Union and the blessings of peace, and to
these ends We should direct our earnest
and honest efforts, and hence we are in
favor of the assembling of a national con
yent:on of all the States, at the most con
yenient place, and at the earliest practi-
cal period, to so adjust our national diff
culties that the States may live together
in harmony, each being protected in their
rights guaranteed to all by our fathers
under the constitution.
4 Resoteea, That we earnestly recon-
mend a cessation of hostilitics for such
time as may be necessary to allow the
people of the North and South to express
threugha a convention, their wish for peace
and maintainance of the Union as it
was, and the Constitution as it is.
5. ResolUed, That we have always
granted our opponents the right to in
vestigate our dOings in war and in peace,
alike public and private, without mob
violence, or any other resistance, and we
as freemen claim the same under the con-
stitution and laws of free government,
and if forced will resist to the last ex-
tremity, any and all attempts to take
away from US a free utterance of our sen
timents under the constitution, from what
soeTer source they may come.
6. ResozUed, That we will in future
mark the renegades who will join the
enemies of their country's constitution,
and protest against them as being traitors
to their party, renegades to principle,
and unworthy our support or confidence.
Z. ResozUed, That the proclamation of
Abraham Lincoln, of Sept. %, 1862, and
of Jan. 1, 1863, proposing to give free
dom to the slaves of the Southern States,
is unconstitutional and contrary to the
rules of civilized warfare, calculated to
bring shame, disgrace, and eternal infa-
my upon the hitherto uusullied flag of
the nation-that it will unite the South
and divide the North, and thus prolong
the war, and that democrats, ever ready
and willing to do battle for the constitu-
ton and the Union, will protest against
any war which has for its object the exc
eution and enforcement of said proclama-
ton.
8. ResozUed, aThat we have no sym
pathy with any man or set of men, be
they called by whatsoever name they may,
who under pretence of restoring the IN
ion" not only consent to but urge the
destruction of the constitution of our
country and the liberties of the people,
and the erection of a monarchy instead,
that every man who is not willing to be-
come oringing slave and the supple
tool of an unscrupulous despotism, owes
it to his country, his posterity, his neigh
Dor, himself, and his God, to oppose in
every lawful manner the terrible crimes
and monstrosities imposed and attempt
ed to be imposed upon free people by
the present wicked and imbecile party in /
power.
9. RESOLVED, That all wars are unohris-
ian and barbarous in their tendencies
md effects upon society, and that having
low tried two years of such war as the
world never witnessed before, that hav-