Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-03
Declaration and Resolutions of the
Crawford County Meeting Inst
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Declaration and Resolutions of the
Crawford County Meeting Last
Saturday.
At a meeting of the people of Crawford
county, Ohio, held at Bucyrus, on Saturday,
July 30th, the following Declaration and
Resolutions were adopted:
DECLARATION AND RESOLUTIONS.
WHEREAS, 1t is the privilege of the
| people TO peaceably assemble, and to petit
| tion the Government for redress of griev-
ances: and whereas, the President of the
|. United States has just issued his call for
100000 more troops, to fill up the thinned
ranks of the army, and has proclaimed that
unless the quota is filled by volunteers by
| the 9TH Of September next, he will fill it by
CONSUMPTION, that discriminates in favor of
| the rich and against the poor man; and
whereas, the quota of the State of Ohio is
about fifty thousand, a number equal to
halt of the able-bodied men of the State
| Therefore, we, the people of Crawford cOun-
| ty. in convention assembled, respectfully
make the following representations, and
| adopt as an expression of our opinions the
following resolutions:
All the difficulties between the two sec
tions of the country might have been set
tied without shedding single drop of
blood. The war was commenced with To-
600 men under the most solemn assurances
that the rebellion should be put down and
the Union restored in ninety days. When
volunteers were demanded for the three
years service they were promised by the
President and by resolution passed by
both houses of Congress, that the laws
should be faithfully executed, and that the
institution of slavery should not be inter-
fered with.
The sacred pledge to the soldiers, and to
the people of both sections of the country,
and to the world, has been grossly violated
by the President in his Emancipation Proc
lamaton, and by Congress in the Contisca-
tion act.
The war has been. carried on for more
than three years, with disaster and defeat
to our armies and humiliation to the coun-
try, deluging the land with fraternal blood,
turning every household from Joy to mourn
ing, burdening the citizens with the most
oppressive taxation, and bringing bank
ruptcy and ruin to the people. During all
this time the contest has been waged by the
authorities at Washington and by their Of
ficers in the field, in spirit of bitterness
and malignity, amounting almost to bar
barism. Persons who have differed in
opinion with the President, or who have
criticised his acts he has hunted down and
persecuted with the most merciless yigor.
He has denied to sovereign States their
constitutional rights. 81
He has destroyed the nation in order to
establish military despotism upon the
ruins of constitutional liberty.
He has stricken down the freedom of
speech and of the press.
He has deprived American citizens of
their liberty without due process of law.
He has held persons to answer for capital,
and infamous crimes without presentment
or indictment of grand jury.
He has denied the right of trial by jury.
He has punished individuals and the press
| for condemning his lawless acts.
He has disregarded the right of the peo-
pie to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers and effects, against unreasonable
Searches and seizures.
He has arrested citizens contrary to law,
and punished them without conviction.
He has suppressed the ballot by military
violence, and dictated elections at the point
of the bayonet.
lie has suspended the privilege Of the
writ Of habeas corpus.
| He has divided a sovereign State without
| its consent.
He has seized by force and imprisoned a
Legislature elected by the people.
He has proposed to allow less than one
tenth of the people Of State to govern and
control more than nine-tenths of the people
| of the same State.
| He has assumed the right to command
| the militia not in the actual service of the
United States. s,a
He has denied to the people the right to
bear arms for their own defense.
| He has surrounded himself with q satur-
MALTA of officers, who have plundered the
treasury and burdened the people with
i taxes. ~ tslp ft
1 He has destroyed the freedom Of religion
He has annulled every constitutions
guarantee for the protection Of the citizen
and subjected him to the irrepressible tyran
ny Of military violence. a3
He has rendered the military superior +,
the civil power.
The people, trained to submission to tn
authorities. have patiently submitted Il
these repeated wrongs. fc
But with all these outrages upon tn
rights of the people, combined with the as
saults of 2500, 900 men, who have at differ
ent times entered the service, the rebellio
has not been put down, and the Sout
stands to-day as determined and defiant q
ever. ry9
We believe that the people of the Sout
would to-day consent to toarestoration of Il
Union under the Constitution, and that Il
only obstacle In the way 0fa peaceable Sc
tIement OF all difficulties, Is the determin
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