The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-04-16
Conservative Meeting in Putnam
County,

Conservative Meeting in Putnam
County.
A meeting of the oppon ents OF radi'
calism was held at the Court House in
Putnam County on the 9Th inst. Daniel
Carr, Esq, was President, and Geo. W
CargilI, Secretary. The following reso.
lntons were reported by DR.. j. j.
| Thompson. who was chairman of the
committee appointed for that purpose:
WHEREAS, The people of the United
States once had free Government, de-
fined a ID limited by written Constitu
ton, II der which they were educated in
principles of liberty that they are ur-
Willing to yield, and
WHEREAS, That Constitutional Gov
eminent has been overthrown, and the
governing power of the United States
usurped by a cabal in Congress, who
assume to execute as well as make laws,
regard less Of all restraint but their own
will, t. the exclusion of patriotic
President; and our State Government
being conducted in the same tyrannical
manner, the citizen being deprived of
his constitutional rights and subjected
to the caprice aud mercy of dominant
faction, even to the attempted annihi
lation ef the freedom of speech and of
| the pres, and,
WHEREAS, We wish restoration and
reconsl uction of the government, and
| a re esta blishment of the supremacy OF
| the constitutions, State and Federal and
intending to cOnfne our efforts to the
arena If debate, and the exercise of
petition and remOustrance until and
even beyond the time when all the world
shall say "forbearauce has ceased to be
virtue" therefore,
ResOlrcd, That we cordially endorse
aud approve of President Johnson's pol
icy of reconstruction of the Union, and
Of his sTatesmanlike vetoes upon the
Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights
bills, ami pledge ourselves to sustain him
to the utmost of our ability in the ad-
ministrujion Of the government upon the
principles enunciated by him
!. 'ReSOlrgi, That we view with no less
satisfaction, the tact with which the
President foiled the prying curiosity of
the Congressional junto, until, by the
passage of that atrocious Freedman's
Bureau Jill, they exposed their design
upon the liberties of our country; thus,
and with his courage and virtue, proving
himself prominently the man for the
emergencies of his difficult and trying
situation.
Resolrtd That the President has emit
tied himself TO the gratitude of his coun
try, and the friends of constitutional
liberty throughout the world, and that,
by refusing to accept the lions share of
a military oligarcby of the United
States, he has earned name in the
pantheon of history, where he will be
placed among the foremost OF the ben
efactors of man, and as one of the most
enlightened statesmen of the world.
RGsolred, That in our government all |
power resides in the people, and that |
tie occupants of the offices are the ser |
wants of the people, and possess no more |
and no other powers than are delegated |
to them by the written constitution |
which they are bound to obey, and that
an act Of theirs, not in strict conform.
ty with the constitution, is null and void.
Resolred, That we disapprove the test
oath act, the registration act, the rebel
debtors act, and the act for the suppress
sion OF the freedom of speech and of the
press, aud all the other unconstitutional,
tyrannical and demoralizing acts of the
West Virginia legislature, and especially
OF many OF the acts and doings of that
body at its last session, and that we will
discuss ana criticise these and all other