Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-01

On the 25th of May, 1859, convention OF
the Sons of Liberty was held in Cleveland
for the avowed purpose of setting at def
ance the authority of the Federal Govern
nient, declaring the State-of Ohio outside
of Federal jurisdiction, and looking to the
ultimate withdrawal of the State of Ohio
from the Federal Union. That this was
powerful and influential convention is at
tested by the fact that the Governor Of the
State attended and addressed 1t in favor OF
this avowed object. One United States Sem
ator from Ohio was upon the committee
and drew up the resolutions; one member
of Congress presided and several others
were in attendance. -
The proceedings Of this convention were
published in The Ohio State Journal OF May
2, 1859, and indorsed editorially, as they
were by every Republican paper in Ohio.
The following is the organization as given
by the State Journal
PERMANENT OFFICERS,
J.R. GIDDINGS, President.
Vice Presidents-John 2. Converse, John
F. Morse, Geo. H. Howe, Joseph DeWOlf,
James Dumars, j. w. Vance, Jacob Heaton,
James Monroe, Herman Garfield, Sidney
Edgerton, DIR. A. d. Skellenger, N. Went
worth, Felix Nicliola.
Secretaries-John G. Graniss, J. S. Her.
rick, Augusta Thiemf, Joseph I'll. Dicker-
son. ..
Committee on Resolutions-John Coon, w.
H. Upton, b. +. WADE, James Monroe, j..
r. French, Ii. G.. Blake, o. p. Brown, VIM.
II. BASCOM, r. w. TAYLER, DR.. Geo.
Howe, PETER HITCHCOCK, S. Minor,
JAS. M. ASHLEY, Frank Sawyer, Jacob
Heaton, j. w. Vance, w. I. Day, A. Burke,
A. II. Palmer, j. M. Keeler. a,
Mr.. WADE, from the committee on Reso-
lutions, reported the following, among other
equally violent and treasonable resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted and APP
proved of by the convention:
Resolued, That the several States COM
prising the United States of America are
not united on the principle Of unlimited
submission to their General Government,
but that, by compact, nnder the style and
title of Constitution for the United States,
and of amendments thereto, they constitu-
ted General Government for certain def
Illt DOMtiS, OdSh OoooS w heSNA,
the residuary mass of right to their own
self-government; and that whensoever the
General Government assumes undelegated
powers, its acts are unauthOritative, void
and of no force, and being void, can derive
no validity from mere judicial interpreta-
ton; that to this compact each State acce-
ded as State, and is an integral party; that
this Government, 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 dis
cretion and not the Constitution the meas
ure of its power but that, as in all other
cases of compact among parties having
no common judge. each party has an equal
right to judge for itself, as well of infrac-
tions as of the mode and measure OF re-
dress.
SALMON P. CHASE, then Governor of Ohio,
late LINCoLN's Secretary of the Treasury,
and now stumper for the disunionists in
Ohio-SALMON P. CHASE made speech
warmly indorsing the resolutions and the
object of the Convention.
COLUMBUS DELANO, member of the
Legislature, and now candidate for Con-
gress in the 18th District, also made speech
iifuOTSinS anu dpPiONih5 ohO hOoViuoiohS'
VIM. DENNISON, ex-Gov. of Ohio, now
Postmaster General, wrote letter to the
Convention of the Sons of Liberty approx
ing its object and indorsing its declara-
tions. THos. SPooNER wrote letter to
the same effect.
DR.. J. H. COULTER, of Columbus, now a
leading "Umon" Abolitionist of this city,
also wrote a letter fully as reasonable and
revolutionary in its character as any that
ever came from JEFF DAVIS.
Fellow-citizens of Ohiol These are the
men who now pretend to be loyal, and ask
you to vote for the Union as they want to
make it. They are not to be trusted. To
put down their treasoa as well as the treason
of the South, the real Union men of Ohio
must march under the Democratic banner
and keep step to the original and genuine
music of the Union. . iIr TyJ