Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-06-18
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SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE IS
FROM NEBRASKA.
The Attempt Make aState Outof that Territory
A. Majority of the Members Elect of the
Constitutional Convention Pledged
Against state Organization.
Correspondence of The Chicago Times.l


l Correspondence of The Chicago Pmesl
NEBRASKA CITY, June s.
The grand scheme of workers sin the in
terests of God and humanity" to make
State out of the Territory of Nebraska, and
candidates of the Baltimore convention at
the Presidential election in November next
was, at the election held in this Territory
on the 9Th inst, most effectualiy spoiled.
The enabling act, passed by the present
Praise God-Barebones Congress, gave the
people no opportunity to vote whether they
desired to become State or not. 1t simply
provided for an election on the 9Th of June,
at which members of the Constitutional
Convention were to be elected. They were
expected to meet, and, at an expense Of
twenty thousand dollars or more, form a
constitution, which the people of Nebraska
were to vote upon next October. But the
Democracy of the Territory. ever true to
the best interests of the producing classes
and the taxpayers, saw, i'll this cruel
political trick, nothing to be gained by the
masses except unprecedented taxation,
bankruptcy and ruin; and they took
measures to defeat it. The Democratic
Central Committee OF Nebraska met at
Plattsmouth on the 18th day of May, and
authoritatively committed their party
against State organization. At the same
time they called upon good men of all par
ties to unite with them in defeating the
State movement, which, as they Justly
charged, was put on foot by place hunters
and plundering politicians, for the sole pur-
pose of personal and party aggrandizement.
They recommended that the anti-State men
in each county should nominate an anti
State ticket of reliable men, and that these
men should be instructed and pledged to
move and vote for an immediate adjourn
ment of the Constitutional Convention sine
die upon the first day of its session. This
plan has been generally adopted. The
counties of Douglas, Cass, and Sarpy have
elected anti-State and immediate adjourn
ment tickets by overwhelming majorities.
Those counties send fifteen delegates to the
convention.
In this (Otoe) county we printed on our
anti-State ticket the words Against State"
We elected the entire ticket, and the major
ity against State in the county is about six
hundred! In Nebraska City there were
only forty-two votes for State, and five
hundred upon which the words "Against
State" were plainly printed. This county
sends seven delegates pledged to immediate
adjournment of the convention, without
forming a constitution, and upon the first
day of the session. This, with those first
named, gives us twenty-five out of fifty
two members pledged in opposition to State
and against makinga constitution. And the
counties of Washington, Bent, Dakota, Cedar,
Dixon and L'Eau Qui Court will send down
eight more members similarly pledged,
which gives us majority of the conven-
ton, against State" and for immediate ad-
journment.
We fiatter ourselves that the work was
good work, and that it was successfully and
gloriously executed. We have no fears
now of being brought into tax paying and
ruin under the administration of a knave, a
fanatic, or Lincoln, unless very heavy
greenback pressure be brought to bear upon
the impecunious members OF the convention
which may hire them to break their pledges
and remain and form constitution and go
'for State" We do not fear that the Dem
ocrats will do such thing, but some very
''loyal" Republican may, though we have
selected their best men, and hope not
to be sold out. Nevertheless, the habits of
contractors, of custom-house officials, of
naval agents under Gideon Welles, of the
operators in the greenbank department, and
many other baneful influences have sadly
demoralized party which claims to be
founded on a morality, the purity of which
exceeds the whiteness OF freshly fallen
snow And, when ! reflect upon the easy
virtue OF aumlnlSJrdIlOnlSUS Sellerally, an
led to the indulgence of suspicious and
fears that patronage from Washington, to-
gether with wheedling and bullying, may
make Nebraska a State against the will,
and to the destruction of the material in
terests and prosperity. of her people.
If so, the Democratic party can not be
charged with being in any way accessory
to the outrageous crime. 1t washes its
hands of the fearful responsibility, and the
people can and will only charge the calam-
ity to the selfish, willtul and unholy ambi-
tiOn of fanatics generally and Abraham
Lincoln particularly.
We have only five thousand voters, less
than thirty thousand people, and not a third
the wealth that a single ward in Chicago
possesses. If they must make a new State,
let them make one out of Cook county
The State of Cook would be five times as
populous poll five times as many votes, and
bear taxation five times easier than the
State of Nebraska. You could have two
Senators-say Nancy Arnold and DR.. Whit
tier-one Representative, and give three
Electoral votes for Abolition and Abe Lin
coin next November.
CALEB CoRNBREAD.
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