Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1866-06-13

as IN Onl0 Ihere IS nOb an aEneC
enemyin the Confederate States. There
is hot show of opposition to the Federal
authority, even as great as the shadow
when it deolineth and yet, for months
the equality Of the States has been vio-
J Tated, and the people Of those States have
been denied the first great right which
is essential to free goYernment-that
right, without which it is always right
and frequently duty, to resist, with all
the means which God and nature have
put into our hands--I mean the right oi
representation.
We have 4 wonderful spectacle pre-
sented to US scarcely year has elapsed
since Lee surrendered, yet the confeder-
ate Government has entirely disappeared,
and the Federal Government has taken
its place. In the States the old consti-
tutions have been abolished, and new
ones have been established old govern
ments have been thrown down and new
ones set up; old officers have been ex-
PEELED and others selected. The States
are exercising all the functions of the
Government necessary to the preserva-
ton Of civil rights. Yet Congress for
six months has devoted itself to the in
vention of odious Constitutional amend
ments, which were intended to deprive
the States of their just powers, and to the
passage of Odious laws, which we're in
tended, if obeyed, to reduce the people
to the most degrading submission, or if
not obeyed, to produce irritation and
bitterness and threats Of resistance, from
which it was hoped to deduce the neces-
sity Of establishing military governments,
and enforcing martial law. And why is
this 1t is because they hate the Con-
stitutiOn Of the United States, because
they hate our system of Government
They hate its two fundamental ideas,
confederation granted and reserved
powers,
Mr.. Pendleton continued with an
analysis ofthe measures passed by one or
both houses of Congress, the Freedman's
Bureau Bill, the proposed Constitutional
Amendments, Civil Rights Bill, &c, and
condemned them all, and continued
Not content with striking thus di-
rsctly 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 patronage of the
President is enormous that it may be
used to thwart their schemes; that it is
dangerous to the liberty we heard moth
ing of this when the officers of a million
of soldiers were to be appointed by Mr.
Lincoln, and the conscription law and in
ternal revenue bill clothed him with the
power of filling the land with Presiden-
tial 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 aud Whim of this Congress, which
has, in its franchise and folly, degraded
itself to a mere central directory, and
these are the proofs which I adduee of
desire and determination to overthrow
our system.
1 know, of course, these gentlemen
will deny my conclusions. Understand
their theories and arguments by which
they support them understand their
thimble-rig logic, by which the States
are in the Union in order that they may
be governed, and out of it that they may
have no rights; under the Constitution
when duties are TO be expected, and not
under it when protection is to be accord
ed within the law when taxes are to be
paid, beyond it when representation is
demanded.
The President of the United States
confronts these gentlemen. He denies
their theories he brushes away their
cobweb sophistries he stands consistent
ly on the ground occupied by him and
them at the beginning of the war he
denies the doctrine Of State suicide he
denies that the ordinances of secession
we're valid in law; he denies that they
were made effective by success Of arms
he maintains that the States never were
and are not out the Union and he is
prepared to secure to them the enjoy
ment of all their rights, as they are ready
to perform all their duties. Gentlemen,
let us give him, in this effect, cordial
and happy support. Let us give him a
warm, effective, magnanimous support
Let it be the more jealous and outspoken,
because he is not the President of our
choice because we have no favors to
ask no Offices to seek no patronage to
enjoy. Let us verify unselfshly the
claim-the claim which we made during
the heat Of the war-that we were devo- |
ted to the integrity of the Union and the
of the Federal compact
We disagree with the President in many
things. We dissent from his doctrines.
We question the wisdom of many of his
acts, but we agree with him on this ques-
tion of restoration, and it does seem to
be our highest duty to cooperate with
him in making it effective.
SPEECH BY C. L. vALLANDIGHAM.
The first Democratic meeting of the
was held in the evening. Fol-
lowing the adjournment Of the Conven-
ton. Clement L. Vallandigham spoke
first, thanking the Convention for the
call made contrary to righteous Gin
cinnati editors remarks, and as long as
legal tenders were receivable as railroad
fares, he would persist in attending Dem
ocratio Convictions.
"The work of the day has been done
we'll, and the platform had been adopted
with singular unanimity. A ticket of
men up to the JefersOnian principles