The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-05-28

of these facts, do not hesitate to say
that the doings of the present so-called
Congress of the United States are plain
usurpatiOns of power.
If the representation of State Is TO
depend upon the will of Congress IN
stead of the provisions of the Constltu-
t,on of what use is the Constitution, OF
What vitality has our form OF govern,
rnentq What would have been said had
Congress, when the Hartford Convention
was in session, and when Massachusetts
forbade her militia to pass her border
| 70 defend the country, excluded the New
EnUland States from representation
What would the Summers and Wades
and Stevens of that day have said to
tbat9 And vet there was just as much
right TO do so then as there is to exclude
the Southern States now-that is to say,
there was and is no right to exclusion
in either case. The wrong done to the
Southern States is not done to them
alone. 1t is q wrong to all the States, 10
Ohio as much as to South Carolina.
Gen. GEO. W. MORGAN, chairman OF the
Committee on Resolutions, reported the
following admirable platform, which
was unanimously adopted:
"Resolred, That the Democracy Of Ohio
will adhere in the present and future,
as in the past, with unfaltering fidelity
and firmness to the organization OF the
Democratic party and to its ancient and
well settled principles, as enunciated
by Thomas jefferson, the great apostle
of American Democracy, and as acknowl'
edged and accepted by the party from
the foundation of the Government, and
I especially of equal taxation and represen'
tation of all States subject to taxatlon'
Resolved, That the one great question
of the day is the immediate and uncon'
ditional restoration OF all the States 10
the exercise Of their rights within the
Federal Union under the Constitution,
and that we will cordially and actively
support Andrew johnson as President
of the United States, in all necessary
and proper means to carry out his policy
as directed to that end, and especially
in securing immediate representation in
the Senate and House of Representatives
to the eleven States from which 1t is
now unconstitutionally and arbitrarily
withheld, unless on the degrading con
dition of inferiority in the Union and OF
political and civil negro equality, en-
forced by the Federal Government
RESOLVED, That for the purpose above
set forth, we will cordially cooperate in
| public meetings, conventions and at the
| polls, with all men without reference to
| past party positions, who honestly and
by their acts and votes as we'll as by
their professions, support the President
in his policy of restoration as now de-
clared."
General BEN. LEFEvER, OF Shelby
county, was nominated for Secretary Of
State. General LEFEvER entered the
army as private soldier at the begin
ming of the war, and at its close bore the
rank of Brigadier General. He is life
long and consistent Democrat, having
voted for VALLANDIGHAM while in the
army in 1868. Hon. THOMAS n. KEY, OF
Hamilton county, was nominated for
Judge of the Supreme court, and VIM.
LARwILL, Esq, of Ashland, was placed
in nomination for member of the Board
of Pablo Works.
a resolution was adopted calling upon
the county committees for the oontribu-
tion of funds for the erection of monu'
ment over the grave of the late SAMUEL
MEDARY.
After the conclusion of its regular
business, the convention was addressed
by Hon. Geo. H. PENDLEToN, OF Cincin.
cinnati. In the course of his remarks,
he said:
The question of to-day is Union or
disunion-the old Constitution Oh a new
Constitution-the old Government as
our fathers gave it to US or revolution
and change and a new system. The Con-
stitution is in danger; the Union is
broken, not by the collision of arms, but
by the political action of parties. Its
enemies are in the high places of power
they sit in the seats of the Capitol.
They have their grasp upon its throat;
they throttle it to the agonies of disso-
luton The President confronts them,
and tbs question presented to day to the
Democratic party and the people Of Ohio,
IS SIMPLY this, whether they will support
| WV Il tCottSut Ills w uldlQlalD,
or the Congress in its effort to overthrow
the Government.
Nj PENDLEToN reviewed the action
of Congress in the passage of the Freed.
mans Bureau, and Civil Rights bills and
other class legislation, and continued
as follows:
Not content with striking thus di.
rectly at the States. these Radicals are
striking at the well-settled system of
the Executive authority. They find
now, in time of peace, that the patron.
age of the President is enormous; that
| il may he used to thwart their schemes ;
that it is dangerous to their liberty We
heard nothing of this when the officers
of million Of soldiers were to be sp-
pointed by Mr.. Lincoln, and tho con-
scription law and internal revenue bill
clothed him with the power Of filing
the land with Presidential partisans
They now seek to break down and de.
grade the Presidential office, and to re.
duce it to a mere dependent upon the
will and whim of this Congress, which
has,-in- its frenzy and folly, degraded