Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-08-01
[For The Ohio Statesmsn.l
LicIEiDg County Democratic Con-
ventiOn.
NEWARK, July 20, 1860,


forthe purpose of appointing delegates to |
represent the county in the approaching
State Convention, appointing time ano
mode of making nominations, appointing
Central committee, and transacting such
other business as usually comes before such
Conventions. The Court House was crowd
ed, and the very best spirit prevailed. 1t
was quite q contrast to the Abolition fan
dango which came off here some time since.
The Democrats of Licking are, as usual,
ready for the fight, and will make vigor-
GUS struggle. Atter-the ordinary business
was transacted, excellent speeches were
made by j. +. Follett, j. III. Putnam and MIR.
Zollers, which were well received. The
following delegates were chosen to repre-
sent the county in the State Convention:
Hon. Charles Follett, Hon. Geo. B. Smythe,
Hon. VIM. Parr, r. H. Yates, Daniel F. Ho-
bert, Benz. Palmertere, II. j. Gully, John
McFadden and Jonathan Smith. They are
all excellent men. The committee on Res
olutions, through their Chairman, Hon.
George B. Smythe, made the following re,
port, which was received with applause ana
unanimously adopted:
We, citizens of Licking county, in Con-
vention assembled, do solemnly proclaim
as sentiments which animate us, the follow
ing, VIZ; ,,..,o 80 eoauorur,o,t
by the party in power, has proved that its
continued control of public affairs must be
destructive to the Republic and the liberties
of the people.
1t has by usurpation and violence broken
down the barriers of the Constitution estab-
lished by our fathers for the protection OF
life, liberty and property.
1t has taken from the people the protec-
.: - kl,a xxt,.if Of bnb
by Jury, the sheet anchors OF English and
American liberty, and violently subjected
them to the unrestrained caprice, passion
and will of military power.
1t has kidnapped our people, torn them
from their families and homes, and immur-
ed them in foreign prisons, without charges
of offense and without trial.
1t has instituted illegal and mock tribu-
| nails of its own parasites, "organized to con-
yict," and has doomed to death its victims
| in defiance of law and the Civil Courts.
1t has stimulated and protected armed
mobs in the destruction of life and proper
| ty and refused redress for these grievances.
1t has assailed and suppressed the liberty
of speech and of the press, and punished
private thoughts and opinions as felonious
crimes, with the penalties of confiscation,
| imprisonment and death.
1t has prosecuted and punished virtue as
| a crime and dignitied and honored vice of
the most revolving character, in its stead.
1t has obstructed the administration of
Justice and made judges dependent on the
sole will of Executive officers.
| 1t has erected multitude of new and un-
necessary offices, and filled the land with
swarms of officers toharass our people and
eat out their substance"
1t has made 1.-THE military Independent of
and superior to the civil power"
| 1t has invaded the elective franchise and
overpowered the ba lot-box by military
force, and is, at this hour, organizing this
power over the electors of Tennessee and
Kentucky.
| 1t has subjected our people to illegal and
| oppressive assessments and taxes.
| 1t has consolidated the whole money
| power of the country in the hands of Fed
eral office-holders, and given them unlimit-
ed 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 Congress,
even of its own making, and concentrated
all material power in the hands of the EX-
ecutive officers, and thereby transformed
the Republic into consolidated and arbi-
trary despotism.
1t has enriched its partisans by public
plunder, and exempted them from the bur-
thens of taxation, national and State, there
by imposing double oppression on the la
| Dor and industry of the country and in de-
| fance of the Constitution OF the state OF
Ohio.
1t has sought and is now striving to de-
grade the white man to the level of the
negro, and attempting to force them into So
cial and political relations, by extending to
the latter the elective franchise-a project
which must inevitably end in anarchy and
a war of races, fatal to the African and to
the restoration of free government.
'Let these facts be submitted to candid
world" We solemnly affirm that each and
all of the foregoing allegations are founded
on indubitable evidence patent to every
man who sees, reads and understands.
While we live and are permitted to be
heard, we will demonstrate and protest
against these grievances, and we now be-
seech and implore every honest achtte man
who loves liberty and the welfare of him
self and his country, to unitewith us at the
ballot-box, in an earnest effortto rescue the
peoples Constitutional rights. We ewill ad-
here to these cardinal principles laid down
in the trampled and discarded bill of rights
of our fathers Constitution, viz:
l. That private property shall be invio-
late.
3. That the people shall be secure in their
persons, houses, papers and possessions,
| from unwarrantable searches and seizures.
8. That the freedom of speech and OF the
press shall not be violated. !.
4. That the right of trial by jury shall
be inviolate.
5. That no power of suspending laws
shall be exercised unless by the Legisla-
| ture.
6. That no person (not in the military SER
yice) shall be imprisoned and treated with
unnecessary rigor or be put to answer any
criminal charge, but by presentment in
dctment or impeachment. gs
z. That no person shall be transported
out of the State for any otfense committed
within the State. gif
8. That standing armies in time of peace
are dangerous to liberty; they shall not be
kept up, and that the military shall be
kept under strict subordination to the civil
power.
8. That no person Except such as are
employed in the military or naval service)
shall be subject to corporal punishment un-
der the military power.
10. That the privilege of the writ OF hdbeds
corpus shall not be surrendered when there
is no rebellion or invasion, and the public
safety doesnot require 1t. 1W ~
II. That we accord with General Sherman
In the doctrines proclaimed by him, that
each State should be leIt free to regulate its
own internal and domestic affairs, in its
own way, subject only to the Constitution
of the United States; and that the elective
franchise shall not be prostituted to the en-
brace of the negro race, .iI