The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-08-24
DEMOcRATIc sovEREIeNTY CON.
vENTION.
A Wild and Weakly ARair-VaIIanding-
ham Pronounced a Slow Coach-state
Rights and No More cOlOred POpuIa-
tiOn-AleCk Nominated for Governor
COLUMBUS. August II
Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette

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Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette.
COLUMBUS, August II.
The Democratic State Sovereignty
Convention assembled at Naughtons 8
Hall, IN this city at 10 o'clock this
morning, and organized by appointing
Judge NJ. H. Mitchell, of Knox Com
ty, Chairman, and W. II. Munell, Of
the Hillsboro Gazette, Secretary. The
following were appointed Committee
on Resolutions and Address: Robert
Hutcheson, of franklin County, Will
liam NJ Cory and Samuel A Miller,
OF Hamilton, Virgil Shaw, of Fairfield,
D S. Miller of Highland, James NJ.
Hoyt, OF Hardin, and BF. Welch, of
Madison. ,''n+
Hon. Robert Hutchinson, Of Frank
lin County; was loudly called for, and
responded in an address, which was
frequently and loudly applauded He
said the present was an occasion not
to be estimated in Importance by the
numbers present, but by the magni.
tude ofthe questions TO be brought be-
fore the people to- -day-an occasion on
which popular liberty and popular
government are to be investigated up
on this continent He traced the his
tory of progressive democracy back to
the days Of Calico, when the world
moved in spite of declarations to the
contrary. He denied that any thing
had been settled by the war; denounc-
ed the party represented by the Con-
vention of tho 24th as consolidation
lists, who had left us the measures Of
the Convention of to. day to take up
and save what has been sacrificed by
the false and mischievous course of the
Democratic party. Hc opposed the
tyranny of majorities as worse than
that Of single tyrants; denounced Val
landigham as having been nero fac
ZIONIST throughout the war, and, as
now, semi consolidationist; and went
into an extended argument in favor of
the doctrines OF secession and nullifica.
ton as constitutional rights,
The Committee on Resolutions re-
ported platform, which was adopted
with enthusiasm, and is, in brief, as
follows:
The first resolution pledges the Con-
yention to State Sovereignty, as the
only salvation from civil and military
Capitalization, which will terminate
in the ruin'o Of civil liberty. ae.
The second and fourth resolutions
indorse Jefferson and the Resolutions
of '96, The fifth denies the right of
the Federal Government TO raise ar
mics OF conscription or draft, and de-
clares tho Emancipation Act unconsti.
tutional and void The sixth denies
the power TO suspend the writ of ha-
beas corpus. The next declares that
military commissions can have no le.
gal existince in this country, and that
they are only Republican Vigilance
Committees, without respect to age,
sex or condition. The, next denies the
the constitutionality of the legal-ten.
der act. The next favors the taxation
of Government bonds, the Same as
other property. The several following
resolutions were in relation to free
trade, protective tariff, &c.
The twelfth resolution declares that
the Democracy of Ohio have nothing
to do withNslavery; that it belongs on
ly to the Southern States, and we
would avoid the painful subject if pos
siblo, but it is thrust upon us by the,
Abolitionists and consolidationists,
who say they have emancipated and
elevated the slaves, and have only to
issue their decree that all shall
have suffrage and occupy an equal
place with the whites. We believe in
white superiority and negro subordi-
nation. Our opponents wish to dc,
grade our producers and laborers, as
we'll as to degrade the south by black |
soldiers, black suffrage and black Of |
fice-holders. Tho west can, and will, |
dissolve her losing tariff and bank
partnership with New England, and
will approach the South and free trade,
hard money and State sovereignty and |
good Government. In selfdeiense,
also, we announce that not black
vote shall ever bo cast in Ohio, and
no moro black freedmen should bo al
lowed to settle among us. We will not
allow our suffrage nor our society to
be sunk under the weight of u race in
capable ofself government,
The next resolution opposes Gener-
al Cox's scheme of setting apart q
State for the negroes as an attempt to
wipe out the reserved powers of the
State, and consolidate in the Federal
Government absolute monarchcal
power,
The next declares we must resort to
the obvious means of success. In the
first place, let us reject all schemes for
the waste and violence of
the war, by which we are going deep.
er into debtevery day, Let the army
be disbanded and the negro soldiers
bo withdrawn from the Southern
States. Let us reject the schemes of
excluding any white man from the
polls, or from Office in these States, by
any subterfuge whatever; and lot us
not presume to dictate To any State |