The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-18
SPECIAL DISPATCHES.
FROM COLUMBUS
The States Rights Convention.
AIeck. Long Nominated for
Governor.
A Thoroughbred Secession
Platform and Ticket.
FROM coLUM BUS.
special Dsp4toha. to the cleveland IIADal.l


IN STATES RIGHTS CONVENTION.
il, The State Sovereignty Stste Democra,
N Convention is thing of the past. 1t h
e. met transacted its business, and sdjourne
Though weak in numbers, the delegai
exhibited. an unfinching will and dete
a mination to carry ont their schemes at 8
hazards, and the disruption CT the oppos
:. ton ranks msy how be regarded SIS fxe
fact Its leading spirits were Citizen Corr
Alex Long and men of that stripe, an
thst they represented the views of q larg
portion of the Democracy of Ohio no on
can deny, and the result of their labor t.
: day viii soon be felt throughout the Stat,
M. H. Mitchell, of Mount Vernon, wa
called to the Chair, and W. H. Munnel
:, Of Hillsboro, was made Secretary.
After appointing Robt. Hutchison, WIN
y N. Cory, Samuel A. Miller, Virgil Z
Shaw, D. S. Miller, james NJ. Hoyt and D
F.. Welch as Committee on Resolutions
: the Convention wss entertained with {
: State rights speech from Hutchinson, oi
1
or striking beyond the declaration that the
war was a failure, as it had decided sbso-
lutely nothing at all.
In the afternoon the Committee on Re-
solutions reported platform, of which the
following is q synopsis;
RESOLUTIONS.
4 The Convention resolves to stand BY the
sovereignty of the States against all
schemes for their degradation, as the only
alternative to the horrors of civil and
military consolidation, which will termi-
nate presently in the close union of the
purse and sword, imperial confscation and
murder by wholesale.
The second, third and fourth declare
JEFF Davis to be the master spirit of the
revolution, and resfirm the resolutions of
1898.
The fifth denies the right of the Federal
Government to raise armies by CONSUMPTION
or draft and declares the conscription act
unconstitutional.
The sixth denies the power to suspend
the writ of nsbeas corpus.
The seventh declares that military
commissions can have no existence in this
country, and that they are only vigilance
committees.
The ninth opposes public debts and
banks created by Congress- and the issue of
paper currency.
The tenth fsvors uniform taxation.
The eleventh f&vors free trade, hard
money, and As low duties TnssiSlo.
The twelfth denies the right of the
Government to emsncipate the slaves,
declares the democracy to be in favor of
white supremacy and negro subordid alton.
"0ur opponents wish to degrade our pro-
ducers and laborers, as well ss to rob the
South by black suffrage, black soldiers, and
black oficeholaers but the West can and
will dissolve her losing tariff snd bank
partnership with New England, and will
approach the South and free trade, hard
money, State sovereignty and good govern |
meDt, in self-defenss. We also announce
that not black vote shall ever be cast in
Ohio, and that no more black freedmen
should be allowed to settle among us. We
to be sunk under the weight of a race inca
psble Of self-government"
The next resolution opposes General
Cox's scheme Of setting apart State
for the negroes as an attempt to wipe out
of existence all the reserved powers
of the State and consolidate in tine feder- |
al Government absolute monarchicsl Gov
ernment. Another declares that while a
portion of the democratic party are vast |
ing their time and their strength, IS usual,
about negro suffrage and negro equality
in the South, the real question is not |
stated, namely, shall free white men in the
South continueto enjoy the rights which |
always belonged TO American freedmen, |
or shall they be held as a conquered people |
and governed like Hungary, Ireland and |
Poland.
flResolUed, That we must resort to the OBJ. |
Vious means of success. In the first place |
let US reject all schemes for continuing the |
waste and Violence OF the war by which we
are going deeper into debt every day.
Let the army be disbanded and the negro
soldiers be Withdrawn from the Southern
States; let us reject the scheme of exclu-
ding any white man from the polls and
from office in those States by 81 ~ subter-
fuge whatever, and let US not p resume to
dictate TO any State, directly or Indirectly,
nor continue for day any intrI lsion into
their domestic affairs, and we hol,l that all
the schemes for governing them by Mr..
Lincoln's 1.-THE Of so called loyslists or Mr..
Johnson's plan of disabling the leaders of
the South"
The last regular resolution must be read
in full to be appreciated. Itis
sResoLvcd, That the Western Democracy.
has been divided on these doctrines, but
the sccumulsting proofs OF bad, designs
during and since the war demonstrate that
they must reconstruct their party on the
basis of State sovereignty if they expect to
rule the country, for which now is the
golden opportunity. On that foun dstion
honest, intelligent men of every par ty will
have to stand. The Eastern Demo craey,
the Southern Democracy, the Westel n De-
mocracy, can stand together on nothing
else. The party has no other future. But
the eternal aggression Of force upon truth,
capital on labor, despotism on liberty, con-
solicitation on State rights, the commercial
seRboard upon the agricultural Mississippi
valley, will be defeated, and finally, and
altogether because this day, in this place,
the faithful men assembled plant their
standard on the mighty bulwsrk Of Ohio
State sovereignty, and assert the equal SOW
ereignty Of every other State"
The resolutions were adopted without
dissenting voice, when State ticket was
nominated, IS follows: |
Governor-Alex. Long, of Hamilton
Lieutenant Governor, Chiffon A. White,
of Brown; Treasurer, John G. McGufey,
of franklin; Supreme Judges, NJ. Il.
Mitchell, of Knox, and Alex. S. Boys, of
Highland; Attorney General, Robert
Hutchison, of Franklin; School Oommis.
sioner, James NJ. White, of Hardin Clerk
of the Supreme Court Y. E. Shaw. OF
Fairfield; Member of the Board of Public
Works, w. Il Creighton, of Madison.
The main business of the Convention
having been completed, Alex. Long was
ralsed upon for speech. He responded, by
-extolling the ticket that had been noni.-
mated and the platform that had been