Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-07-02
AIE'ORNH
or the
DEMOCRACY OF OHIO.
PREAMBLE,

and yet is, law. abiding party. II asks
nothing but its rights under the Consti-
tuition and the laws. IL resorts to no vi.
olation Of either; it countenances no vio-
lation of either. 1t has right to all the
guarantees of public and private liberty,
and OF property contained in our funda-
mental laws, and it will surrender not
one of them. 1t has the right to dicsuss
public measures, and will discuss them
1t has the right to propose and advocate
that policy which it deems best for the
nation, and it will exercise that right. 1t
has a right to nave its policy passed up
on by the specple at peaceable and un-
trammeled elections, and it will maintain
that right. If found in a minority it
yields obedience to all lawful rules of the
majority; il il be the ma ajority itself, it
claims that its lawful rules be respected.
Whether in majority or minority, it
obeys all laws that are in force. Those
that it dsikes, it seeks to overthrow, not
by violence, but by legitimate repeal
Those that it proposes, it seeks to carry,
not by force but by legal enactment. And
what it docs in all these respects, it de.
mands, and has right to demand, that
all others shall do. They owe the same
obedience to tue Constitution and the
laws that Democrats owe. They have
the same interest to maintain free gov
ernment. to protect liberty, to be secure
in their houses, persons and property,
that Democrats have. 1t is neither their
interest nor ours that bespotism or an
a:chy should prevail; and If they wish to
avert both, let them see to it time that
they give no occasion for either. We
will DO our duty, let them remember to
do theirs.
RESOLUTIONS
l. That the win Of the people is the foundation
Of all free government. That to give effect tc
this will, free thought, free speech and free
press are absolutely indispensable. Without free
discussion, there is no certainty of sound udg
ment there can be no wise government.
/ 2. That it is an inherent and constitutional
right of the people to discuss all measures of their
government, and to approve or dsapprove as to
their best judgement seems right. That they
have like right to propose and advocate that
policy which in their judgement is best, and to
argue and vote against whatever policy seems to
| them to violate the Constitution to impair their
| liberties, or to be detrimental to their welfare.
3. That these and all other rights, guaranteed
to them by their constitutions, are their rights in
time of war as well as in times of peace; and of
far more value and necessity in war than in peace
For in peace liberty, security and property are
seldom endangered: in war, they ever in peril.
4. That we now say to all it may concern, not
by way of threat, but calmly and firmly, that we
will not surrender these rights nor submit to their
forcible violation. We will obey the laws our
selves, and all otheurs INST obey them.
5. That there is manifest difference between
the Administration of the Government and the
Government itself. The government consists OF
the civil and political institutions created by the
Constitution, and to it the people owe allegiance
! The Administration are but the agents of the peo.
| pie, subject TO their approval or condemnation,
according to the merit or demert of their acts
| 6. That in the exercise of the right to differ
with the Federal Executive, we enter our solemn
protest against the proclamation of the President
of the United States, dated the first day of Jan
uary, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three
by which he assumes to emancpate slaves in Ger.
tain States, holding the same to be unwise, un
constitutional, and void.
| 7. That we declare our determined opposition
to system of emancipation by the States upon
compensation to be made out of the treasury OF
the United States, as burdcnsome upon the peo
pie, MUST in its very nature, and wholly without
warrant of the Constitution.
B. That we declare that the power which has
recently been assumed by the President of the
United States, whereby under the guise of mill.
tary necessity he has proca lined and extend or
asserts the right to proclaim or extend-nartial
law over States where war does not exist, md has
suspended the writ Of hajeas corpus, it is unwar.
rantcd by the Constitution, md its tendency is to
subordinate civil to military authority, and to sub.
vert our system of free Government.
Q. That we deem it proper further to declare
that we, together with the truly loyal people of
the State, would hail with pleasure and delight
any manifestations of n desire on the part of the
seeded States to return to their allegiance to
the Government Of the Union, and in such even,
we would cordially and earnestly CO operate with
them in the restoration o: peace and the procure
ment of such proper guarantees as would give Sc.
curty to all their interests au1 rights.
10. That the soldiers composing our armies
merit the warmest thanks of the nation Their
country called and nobly did they respond. Liv
ing, they shall know u nations gratitude; woun
ded nations care; and dying, they shall live in
our memories, and monuments shall be raised to
teach posterity to honor the patriots and heroes
who offered their lives at their country's altar
Their widows and orphans shall be adopted by
the nation, to be watched over and cared for as
objects truly worthy nations guardianship.
II. That Ohio will adhere to the Constitution
and the Union as the BEST it may bo the last, hope
of popular freedom, and for all wrongs
may exist, will seek redress, under the Consttu
ton and within the Union. by the peaceful but
powerful agency of the suifagcs of free people.
~. That we hail with pleasure and hope the
manifestations of conservative sentiment among
the people of the Northern States in their elec
tons, and regard the same as the earnest of a
good purpose upon their part to cooperate will
all other loyal citizens in giving security to the
rights of every section and mainta ining the I'm
ion and the Constitution as they were ordained
by the foundation Of the Republic,
| l3. That whenever it becomes practicable tC
obtain convention of all or of three fourths o
the States, such body should be convened for the
purpose of proposing such amendments to the
Federal Constitution rs experience has proved
to be necessary to maintain that instrument il
the spirit and meaning intended by It's founders
and to provide against future convulsions and
wars.
| II That we will earnestly support every con
stitutional measure tending to preserve the Union
of the States No men have greater interest
in its preservation thun We have--none deserve it
more; there are none who will make greater sac
rifices or endure more than we will TO accomplish
that end. We are, rs we ever have been, the
devoted friends of the Constitution and the Un.
on, and we have no sympath with the enemies OF
either.
~. That the arrest Imprisonment, pretended
rrial, and actual banishment Of Clement l., Vail
andgham, a citizen of tho State OF Ohio, not be
longing TO the land or naval force of the United
States, nor to the militia IN actual service, by al
legged military authority, for no other pretended
crime than than that of uttering words OF legiti-
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