The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-03-16
RKOeeedfnss OF the Ashland County
DemOeraffc Convention

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appointed a Committee of three on resolution.
expressive of the sense of the meeting. e.
W. Hill, Esq, of Montgomery, John Charles,
Esq Of MiH,in,. and James Hamilton, Esq !,
of Orange, were appointed said COMMITTEES.
On smotion of VIM. B.. McOarty. Esq., a
committee of 1ivo was appointed to select ave
delegates and FIVE altsrnates to represent the
Democracy Of Ashland County in the Demo
cratic State Convention, to be held in the city
of Columbus on the 23d inst. WIN. Albert
son, Of Orange, John Van Nest, Esq, of
Perry, il. Winbigler, Esq, OF Mohecan,
J. p. Devor and Fl. S. Knapp,ef Montgomery,
were appointed as that Committee. as D1
On motion Of VIM. b. Mc0arty, Esq dele
gates we're instructed to bring before the next
STATE Convention the policy OF fixing perma-
nsntly the 9Th Of January as the fine for
holding the State Convention, which was
adopted.
The Committee on Delegates reported the
following names, which report was adopted !:
Fl. SEE, Montgomery
WM. LARw1LL, Hanover; @
J.. 8. W~ETHKRBEE, Of MohecaA
EMANUEL FrsaER, of Orange;
JAMES r. CHASE, of jackson.
ALTKRNArBs
John Cory, of Perry;
ROBERT CowEN of Vermillion ;
Paul Oliver, of Green
! Scott Nelson, of Milton;
Benjamin Kritzer, of Rusgles.
The Committee on resolutions reported the
following, hich we're unanimously adopted
Reso7ued, That in our opinion the true the
DRY of the Federal Union is set forth in the
FIRST Of the series of resolutions adopted by the
Legislature CT Kentucky. in 179s, and drafted
by Thomas Jefferson. "That the several
States composing the United States of Amer
ca are not united on the principle of unlimited
submission to their General Government, but
that by a compact and under the style and
title Of a Constitution for the United States,
and Of amendments thereto, they constituted
La General Government for special purposes,
delegated to that Government certain definite
! powefs, reserviDg each State to itself the re-
siduary mass of right to their own self-govern-
ment and that, whenever tie General Gov
eminent assumes undelegated powers, its acts
are unauthoritative, vcid and Of no force that
to this compact each State acceded as a State
and is an Integral party, its co-Statcs forming,
as to itself, the other party /; that the Govern
mcnt created by this compact was not made
the exclusive or FINAL judge of the extent of
the powers delegated to itself, since that would
have made its discretion, and not the Consti-
tatioa, the measure of its powers /; but that, i
as in all other cases of compact among parties
having ne common judge, each party has an
equal right to judge for itself, as well of in
fractions as Of tn, mode and manner Of re-
dress
Resozred, That on the subject Of eoercing
and ~subjugating sovereign States by military
power, we cordially endorse the opinion ex=
pressed by Dir. Madison in the Convention
which framed the Federal Constitution "That
the more he reflected on the use of forge, the
more he doubted the probability, the justice,
and the efficacy of it, when applied to persons
collectively, AID not individually. A union
of tie States containing such an Ingredient,
seemed to provide for its own destruction. The
use of force against a State wotld look more
like a declaration Of war than an i~nfiction of
punishment, and would probably be consid-
cred by the party attacked as a dissolu ton Of
all previous compacts by which it might be
bound" And in relation to the same subject,
We recall with sentiments ct profound appro-
val, the following language of Alexander Ham
ilton, in the Convention of New York, by
which that State ratified the Constitution /:
coeree the States is one of the maddest
projects that was ever devised. A failure of
compliance will never De confined to a single
State. This bsing the case, can We suppose
-igwise to hazard a civil war ? Suppose Mass
oohusetts, or any other large State, should re-
fuse, and Congress should attempts.to compelt
them, would they not have influence to pro
euro assistance, especially from those States
which are in the came situation as themseivcsI
What picturesdoes this. idea present to our
View A complying State at war with non
complying; Congress marching the troops of
one State into the bosom OF another; this
State collecting auxiileries, and forming, per-
Tlaps, a majority against its federal head.
Here is a nation at war with itself. Can any
reasonable man be well disposed toward a gov
eminent which makes war and carnage the on
ly means of supporting i~tself--a Government
that can exist osly by the sword Every
such war must involve the innneent with the
guilty. This single consideration should be
sufficient. to dispose every pesceabie citizen
against such a Government.
EResolUed, That we heartily concur in tho
opinion expressed by General jackson. in his
Farewell Address to the American people in
1897, that "the Constitution cannot be main
tanned, nor the Union preserved, in opposition
to public feeling, by the mere exertion of CO.
ercive powers of the Government. The foun-
dationl must be laid in tho affections sof the
people In the security it gives to life, liberty
and property in every quarter. of the country,
and in the, p~aternal attachments which the cit
izens eff the several States bear to one another
as members of one political family, materially
contributing to promote the happiness of each
ether"
Resolced, That we are opposed TO the pros
ecution of the present war Tor the s~abjuRation
of States, or for the purpose of divesting them
of their sovereignty, or Of infringing or Impair
ing their Constitutional rights, or of forcibly
compelling any State to return to or remain
10 The Federal Union, in opposition to the