Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-01-17

Presidential election the threatened over.
throw oftheir State Governments, and re.
duction of those States to the. condition OF
territories, ake each and every one of them,
unconstitutional, revolutionary and despctic
measures, destructive not merely to the
rights Of those States, but also Of the rights
Of every other State 10 the Union. That
those measures are parts Of plan TO- nulli-
fy the Constitution, virtually overthrow the
State Governments, to erect q consolidated
despotisn on their ruins, and to establish
and psrpetuate a tyranicalrule of minority
over majority of the American people. -
That the people cannot, without q loss Of
their liberties, prosperity and honor, submit
to such result and We, therefore, in the
hope that the warning will be Needed, and
the danger Of our institutions be peaceably
averted, do solemnly warn the advocates OF
the plan, that it will not be submitted to.
g. Resolved, That Congress is not an ON
nipotent law.making power That the Con.
stitution provides that no bill shall become
law without the approval Of the President,
unless it be passed by two.thirds Of each
House of Congress. That one Of the OBJ
jects Of the present so-called Congress in
excluding ten States from representation,
is to pass bills by two-thirds vote which,
were all the States represented, could not
SO pass and thus virtually abolish the con-
! stitutional provision aforesaid. That ifthis
precedent be acquiesced in, there will be
nothing to prevent bare majority of Con.
gress, at any time 10 the future, from null
lifying the constitutional veto of the Presi.
dent and usurping uncontrolled legislative
power, by an, exclusion Of the minority from
their seats. That the exclusion of even a
single State might give the control, and o
pretext for such an exclusion would not be
wanting to an inscriptions and revolution
ary party.
4. Resolred, That the people, and espe.
cially those of the agricultural States. have
suffered teo long the exactions Of high pro-
tective tariffs, and, as the representatives
Of on agricultural and laboring population,
we demand that their substance shall nc
longer be extorted from them 10 order to
fill the pockets Of Eastern menopolists.
5. Resolved, That unequal taxation j.
contrary to the first principles Of justice and
sound policy and we call upon all Govern
ments, Federal aud State, to use oil neces.
sary Constitutional means to remedy this
evil.
6. RESOLVED. That the Radical majority
in the so-caled Congress have proved them
SERVES 10 De IN JhNOr VI NeRTO 6uHThEb Dy
forcing it upon the people of the District o.
Columbia against their almost unanimou.
wish solemnly expressed at the polls; b,
forcing it upon the people of all the terrific
ries in violation of the Constitution, and BY
their various devices to coerce the people o
the South to adoptit. That we are opposed
to Negro suffrage. believing that it would b'
productive of evil to both whites and blacks
and tend to produce a disastrous conflict O
races.
7. Resolred. That for all their efforts t.
uphold the Constitution. we tender to th,
President and the majority Of the judges o
I the Supreme Court Of the United States
our hearty thanks.
8. Resolred, That we are in favor of I
Democratic Convention of delegates from
all the States, to be held at such time ant
place as may hereafter be agreed upon. -
And that the State Central Comnittee b
authorized to concur with other proper
committees in fixing the time and place. =
That we prefer Louisville, Kentucky, as tht
place. ..
o. Reso1red, That the Democratic news
papers of Ohio deserve an earnest and lib
eral support; and that an early and thor
ough organization of the party is indispen
| sable.