Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-08-15
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Republican parties, large number Of the
citizens Of Montgomery county, met at Beck.
81 Ball, IN tbsicity Of Dayton, on Saturday.
August 18th, 1864, for the purpose Of PRO.
testing against further draft Of our able.
bodied young men, and to demand the imme.
disie Inauguration Of measures for peaceful
settlement Of our difficulties.
On motion, Rev Jacob Belvile was chosen
President Of the meeting Apple, George
Getter, Peter Long, ST., William stsudel, and
DR. S Hawkins, we're elected Vice Presidents,
and George " Meyer, N n. Kimmel, and
]. L. Robertson, SECRETARIES. ...
4 .oh.tno,ioh, fhos r Tbresher, William Il
Gillespie and Alfred Ian5, we're appointed
esmmittee to draft resolutions expressive Of
the sense Of this meeting.
being impossible for more than onethird
of the people present to find seats within the
Hait the meeting adjourned after recess of
fifteen minutes, to meet at the east side Of the
Court House.
After the meeting had been called to order,
the Committee on Resolutions, through T. f.
Thresher, their chairman, reported the follow.
Ing, which we're unanimously adopted
RESOLUTIONS
WHEREAS, 1t is the privilege of the people
topeaoeabiy assemble, and to petition the gov.
ernment for a redress of grisvances and
whereas the President Of the United States
has just issued his call for 100000 more
troops to fill up the thinned rauks of the ar
my, and has proclaimed that unless the quota
is filed by volunteers by the 5th Of September
next, he will fill it BY conscrption, that dis.
eliminates in favor Of the rich and against
| the poor man and whereas, the quota Of the
State Of Ohio is about forty thousand, nun.
Der equal to half Of the able bodied men Of
the State Therefore, we the people Of Mont
tgomerJ county in convention assembled, re.
spectiully make the following representations
and adopt as an expression Of our opinions
the following resolutions
Alithe difficulties between the two sections
Of the country might have been settled without
shedding single drop OF blood The war
was commenced with 900 men under the
most solemn assurances that the rebellion
should be put down and the Uuion restored
IN ninety days. Wnep volunteers were de-
manded for the three years service they we're
| pIuHilbtu Ul IEestutOl, una Dy n reBOlu-
lion passed by both Houses Of Congress, that
the constitution should be maintained, all laws
obeyed and enforced, and that the war should
not be prosecuted, for the purpose of subju-
gation and conquest, or interfering with the
local institutions ofthe several States
This sacred pledge to the soldiers, to the
people Of both sections Of the country, and
10 the world, has been grossly violated by the
President 10 bis Emar cipatioD Proclamation,
10y Congress in the Coniscation act and by
the recent rejection of overtures for peace on
the part of the South, unless upon condition
of the abandonment Of slavery, u
Toe war has been carried ou for more than
three years, with disaster and defeat to our
arms au0 humiliation to the country, delugiDg
the land with iraternal blood, turning every
household from Joy to mourning, burdening
the citizens with the most oppressive taxation
acd bringing bankruptcy aud ruin to the peo.
{pe. During all this time contest has been
waged by the authorities at Washington and
by their officers in the field, in spirit Of bit.
terness and malignity amounting almost to
barbatism Persons who have differed in op
) ipiOn with the President or who have crit
cizedhis acts, he has hunted down and perse
/ cuted With the most mereiless rigor IL
He has denied to sovereign States then
constitutional rights y.
BE has destroyed the nation in order to
} establish military despotism Ppon the ruins
Of constitutional liberty
He has stricken down the freedom of speech
and Of the press " .t
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 eondemning his lawless acts.
: BE has dsregarded the right Of the people
/. 10 be secure in their persons, houses, papers
and effects against Unreasonable searches
l. and seizures ~
If he has arrested citizens contrary to law,
!, and punished them without conviction
II He has suppressed the ballot by military
S violence, and dictated elections al the point
q of the bayonet
He has suspended the privilege of the writ
D Of haheAs corpus
l. He has divided a sovereign Slate without
its consent
BE has seized by force aud imprisoned 6
e Legislature elected by the people.
+ He has proposed to allow less than one
tenth Of The people Of a State to govern apd
> control more than uins-tehtns Of the people
Of the same State. -
He has assumed the right to command the
o militia not in the actual servies Of the Uuited
I, States
IL He has denied to the people the right Ia
% bear arms for their own defence.
a He has surrounded himself with a horde
Of corrupt officials who have pundered the
Z treasury and hurdened the people with taxes
He has DESTROYED the freedom of rslivion