Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-08-18

calls for the disbandment of the army, and
the withdrawal of negro soldiers from the
Southern States, and also the rejection OF
the exclusion of any white man from the
polls or from office in those States by any
subterfuge whatever, and of any interfer-
ence directly or indirectly in their domes-
tic affairs. N
1t was also resolved that the schemes for
governing the Southern States by Mr.. Lin
coins tithe of so-called "loyalsts," or Mr..
Johnson's plan of disabling the leaders OF
the South are preposterous and unconsti-
tutional; and that the war has not in any
wise changed our Federal system, but that
1t must be respected.
It,was resolved that the war was the re-
suit Of unjust mutual recriminations, and
Western Congressman are blamed for not
exerting their power to part the belliger-
ents by explaining the matter to their con-
stituents and by showing them the dangers
to themselves.
A protective tariff is condemned as the
subtlest and most grievous imposition ever
consummated under any syster, the cause
of all the beggary of the West and the rup-
ture with the South as it has been Aladdin's
lamp to the Atlantic manufacturing States
A resolution declares that the Atlantic
policy of abolition and consolidation has
come to its natural end with the war, or we
are to be enslaved. M-lH. yay
The scheme of Gen. Cox, the Republican
candidate for Governor, for setting apart a
State for the negroes, composed of South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, is
condemned as not only wiping out the re-
served powers of the States, and consol-
idating in the Federal Government absolute
monarchical power, but as unfolding in the
future the untold horrors of another war
the fiendish atrocities OF barbarous ne
groes; and making negroes citizens of a
Southern State, and emitting them to the
privileges and immunities of citizens of the
several States. 1[- -
1t was resolved that military commissions
have not, and cannot have, any legal exist
ience in this country; that they are nothing
less nor more than vigilance committees of
the Republican party, that administer
Lynch law to their political epponents, in
their own way, without regard to age, sex
or condition in life.
The Convention resolved that whenever
the General Government, constituted for
special purposes, assumes.undelegated pow
ers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and
of no force; that the Government created
by the constitutional compact was not made
the exclusive or sole judge Of the powers
delegated to itself, but that, as in all other
cases of compact among Powers having no
common judge, each party has an equal
right to judge for ITSELF as well of infrac-,
tion, as of the mode and measure of re-
dress. r.....r,
A resolution declares that the opponents
of the party represented in the Convention
wish to degrade our producers and laborers
as well as to degrade and rob the South, by
black suffrage, black soldiers and black
office-holders, but that the West can and
will dissolve her losing tariff and bank
partnership with New England, and will
approach the South with free trade, hard
money, State sovereignty, and good gov
ernment.