The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-08-26


Is. That the arrest. imprisonment and
pretended trial of Clement L.. Vallandigham,
a citizen of the State of Ohio, not belonging
to the land or naval forces of the United
States, nor to the military in actual service,
by alledged military authority, for no other
pretended crime than that of utteling words
of Legitimate criticism upon the conduct of
the administration in power, and of appealing
to tie ballot box for q change of policy-(said
arrest and military trial taking ploce where
the courts of law are open and unobstructed,
and for no act dono within the sphere Of ac-
tive military operations in carrying on the
war)-we regard as a ~palpable violation CT the
following provisions of the Constitution of the
United States.
l. Congress shall make no law * * =
abridgiDg the freedom of speech or of the
press, or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the Government for
a redress of grievances.
2. "The right of the people to be secure
in their persons, houses, papers and effects
against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated, and no warrant shall is
sue but upon probable cause, supported by
oath or affirmation, and particularly desert
oing the place to be searched and the per
CONS or things to be seized.
8. No person shall be held to answer for
a capital or otheswise Infamous crime, unless
on a prcsentment or Indictment OF a Grand
Jury, except IN cases arising in tie land or
naval forces, or in the militia when in actual
service in time of war or public danger.
"ln all criminal prosecutions, the &C
cused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and
public trisl by an impartial jury of the State
and district wherein the crime shall have been
committed, which district shall have been pre-.
viously aseertained by law"
And we furthermore denounce said arrest,
trial and Punishment as a direct insult offered
to the sovereignty of the people of Ohio, by
whose organic law it is declared that "no per
sons shall be transported out of the State for
any otfense committed within the same
To- That Clement L.. Vallandigham was
at the time OF his arrest a prominent candi-
date for nomination by the Democratic party
of Ohio for The office of Governor of the State;
that the Democratic party was fully con petent
to daelde whether he was q fit man for that
nomination, and that the attempt to deprive
them OF that right by his arrest and Danish
ment, was an unmerited imputation upon their
intelligence and loyalty, as vel as a violation
OF the Constitution.
II. What we respectfully and most earn
estly call uron the President of the United
States to restore Clement l.. Vallandigham to
his home in Ohio and that a committe of one
from each Congressional District of the STATE,
~ NC oClSCttu ny II pTGSlufuS OAIC0 VI IuIS
Convention, is hereby appointed to present.
this application to the President.
Is. That the thanks Of this Con 7%ention
are hereby rendered to Horatio Seymour, Gov
ernor of the State of New York. for his noble
letter in relation to the arrest of Mr.. Vallan-
digham and the President of this Convention
is hereby directed to communicate a copy OF
this resolution to Governor Seymour.
.-19. That the establishment of a military
over the loyal States wheIe war
does not exist, to supercede the military au-
thority and suppress the freedom of speech
and of the press, and interfere with the cleo
franchise, is not only subversive of the
Constitution and the sovereignty of the States,
out the actual Inauguration of revolution.
20. That it is the sworn duty Ct the Gov
ernor of the State to protect her citizens in
The senjoyment andexercise of all their con-
rights and We have beheld with
ieep humiliation and regret, not only the fail
Ire of David Tod, Governor of Chic, to per-
form that duty, but what is still worse, his ac- |
participations in the violation of those
lights.
2I. That we denounce as traitors to the
country the Abolition Jacobins who are seek
ng to bring about civil war in the loyal States,
with the view of turning, if possible, the bay ]
,nets of the army against the breasts of the
brothers and friends of the soldiers,
md subjecting those states to a military sur
and dominion.
%. That we denounce, as libelers of the
party and enemies OF their coun
Try, the men who arc engaged in representing
he Democratic party as wanting in sympathy
with our soldiers in the field. IL is a base
SANDER upon human nature to assert that the
Democrats, who have hundreds of thousands
Of brothers and sons in the army do not sym
with them-and it is an outrage Upon
The Democratic party, that has always stood by
'he country, to assert that 1t is not the lrierd
IF its gallant defenders.
%. That the conduct of Brigadier Gener-
sral Nason, the Military Commandment at Co.
umbus, and of the officer commanding the
Provost Guard, in preventing all app earances
IF military restraint upon the proceedings OF
his Convention, show that they have ADJUST
appreciation of the Constitution of their coun-
ry and the rights of the people and that
hey are wise and patriotic officers, and that
heir conduct on this occasion is in striking
contrast with contrary conduct of the military
authorities upon the occasion of the late Dem
'cratic meeting at indianapolis. And we take
pleasure in expressing our confidence in Gen
.ral Mason aud the officers and soldiers under
lis command.
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