The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1865-08-16

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State Convention and act as a~ltornatcs.
A committee, consisting of I. j. Ken.
ny, W. Chesrown, John Vannest, John
Peterson and John Rickett, was appoint.
ed to select a Central and an Advisory
Committee fer the ensuing year, which
reported as follows:
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
DR.. ] P, Cowan, Chairman,
David Bryte,
j. B. +, Sampsel,
j. p. Devor,
Michael Miller.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
Ruggles-Wm. Brown,
Troy-Jehn Smith,
Suiliyan-John Rickett,
Clearcreek-Hugh Elliot,
Orangc-Emauuel Finger,
Jackson-Jacob Fast,
Milton-John Woodburn,
Perry-John p. Smalley,
Mifhin-n. D. Ruth,
Vermillion-John Jarvis,
Mohican-Lucas Naylor,
Hanover-Wm. Larwiil,
Lake-Wm. Wycuf,
Green-Paul Oliver.
DR.. Crane, after making some appro.
pirate remarks, offered the following res.
%olution, which was unanimously adopted ::
ResOhoed, That it be the duty of each
member of the Advisory Committee in
each township to use every laudable effort
to increase the circulation of the ASH.
LAND UNION among Democrats, and to
circulate Democratic documents among
Republicans, and persons of doubtful
politics.
The Committee on Resolutions offered
the following, which we're adopted with.
out a dissenting voice
Resolrea, That the Democracy of Ash.
lard County, in Convention Assembled.
endorse and adopt the resolutions of the
Licking County Convention, as follows:
Ra0lced, That tho administration Of
Government by the party in power has
proved that its continued control of pub.
lie affairs must be destructive to the Re.
pu6l'c and the liberties of the people.
1t haI, by usurpation and violence.
broken down the barriers of the Censtitu.
ton established by our forefathors, for the
protection OF life, liberty aud property.
1t has taken from the people The bro.
lection Of the writ Of haJeas corpus and
trlal by jury, the sheet anchors of Eng.
llsn and American liberty, and violently
subjected them to unrestruincd caprice.
passion, and will of military power.
1t has kidnapped our people, torn them
from their families and homes, and i'm
INJURED them in foreign prisons, without
charges Of %oifense, and without trial.
1t has instituted illegal and mock tri.
bupals, of its w parasites, "organized to
convict" and has doomed 10 death its
victims, in defiance of law and the civil
courts,
1t has stimulated and protected armed
mobS in the destruction Of life and prop.
erty, and refused redress for grievances.
1t has ussailed and suppressed the lib.
erty of speech aud of the press, and pun.
ished private thoughts and opinions as
felonious crimes, with the penalties Of
connscation, Imprisonment and death.
1t has prosecuted and punished virtue
as a crime, and dignifed and houored
vice OF the most revolving character in its
stead.
1t has obstructed the administration of
Justice and made judges dependent on
tho sole will Of executive officers.
1t has erected a multitude of new off.
ces, and filled the land with swarms Of
officers to harrass our people and cat ont
our substance"
1t has invaded the elective franchise,
and overpowered the ballot.box by mill.
taFy force, aud has recently exercised this,
power over the electors Of Tennessee and
kentucky.
Il has subjected our people to illegal
and oppressive assessments and taxes.
1t has consolidated the whole money
power Of our country into the hands Of
Federal Office holders, and given thom
unlimited control over the currency.
1t has Frustrated the reserved rights of
the States and Of the people, broken
down the judiciary and the laws Of Con,
gross, even Of its own making aud con.
centrated all material power in the hands
Of Executive officers, and thereby trans.
formed the Republic into a consolidated
and arbitrary despotism,
1t has enriched its partisans by public