Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-16
Democratic County Convention.
PoMEpoy Auoust IN 1897


Pursuant to previous notice the Conven-
tion met and organized, by appointing
Judge. ,Ledlie, President; Josiah Smith,
ESQ, Vice President; ). v. Stevens, Secre-
tary; Samuel Catlin, Assistant Secretary
&gil On motion of John Bates committee Of
five was appointed to examine the ereden-
ptials ofthe delegates. ~ fis. u. 7j El
baF On motion, committee of five was ap-
rpoipted to draft resolutions expressive of
the sense of the Convention. Whereupon
the Chairman appointed j. " Stevens, John
Bates. r. N. Hysell, James Carr and VIM.
Calwell. S'' h--s' - 81 s4Se.S
.sr1 The names of candidates presented to the
Convention for Representatives were F. C..
Russell and Wm. Macoby. f. G. Russell
was chosen on the first ballot. go
The following officers were chosen by
acclamation - s@T-oaH ~ liz .ai't
Surveyor. j. G. Golden; Sheriff, Harvey
Winget; Commissioner, long term, Mar
tin Dye; short term Matthew Dudder !;
Infirmary Director, Josiah Smith; Coroner,
Sebastian Rhem. .-A-,- e. -s~.-e
-lHu5ls@ RESOLUTIONS. AZ -@
WHEREAS, The late rebellion has been
entirely suppressed. the power of the Fed
eralt Government fully vindicated, and the
nold Union of the States firmly established
of our Federal Government, by the for
ymeruinsurgents, impossible, and iasgdq te
fiWHEREAs, The nevents of the late war
4have swept away many of the old issues on
(which the people were divided, and, Il
a. WHEREAS, New and grave questions
have arisen. on which honest men will ne
cessarily differ in their opinions, it there
fore becomes the duty of candid people to
tread cautiously the new ground which
they are to occupy, and weigh well the im-
portant questions presented for their con-
ssideration, and not allow themselves to be
plunged into an inextricable vortex of po-
1itical ruin by q set of self-conceited fire.
brands, who arrogate to themselves more
wisdom than they are willing to accord
to- our fathers, who were the trainers OF
the6est Government the world ever saws
and. ea@ iHq slei'2 - . ..,,s.,e, r .,',
WHEREAS, We, as Convention of Amer
.ican citizens, feel it a privilege, as well as
which we deem proper for the Govern
ment to pursue, adopt the following reso-
lutiops as our platform of principles:
1. RESOLVED, That we are in favor of re-
storing the action of the Federal Govern
ment to the principles of Washington and
jefferson, as far as is practicable, under the
altered condition of affairs. '.i''
q q, That the maintainanee of the princi-
pies promulgated in the Declaration of In
dependence, and embodied in the Federal
Constitution are essential to the preserva-
,tions of our Republican institutions, and
that the Federal Constitution. the rights OF
the States, and the union of the States shall
be preserved. 80. ea.ir'5a,Ft --
=; 8. That, with our Democratic Fathers.
we hold it to be self-evident truth, that s'all
men are> endowed with the inalienable
rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness and that Government derive
their Just power from the consent of the
governed, and that the party that will at
tempt to wrest those sacred rights from any
people, without due process of law, are
tyrants and revolutionists, let them be call
ed by whatever name they may.oI
.or4. That the elective franchise is political
right, which each and every State of this
Union holds the prerogatiye to withhold or
confer upon any class of her citizens at
Will; and that the attempt of Congress to
interfere with the reserved rights of the
States, is only another evidence of the
despotic tendencies of the dominant party,
and should be arrested by the people at
once. ,Hfs ss2s go
s. That we are opposed to comforting the
elective franchise upon the African race,
believing that it would be productive of
evil to both whites and blacks, and tend to
produce most disastrous conflict of races.
6. That the present Congress is not only
the aoedkest, but the toickedest Congress that
ever assembled at the National Capital, and
that the unwarrantable course which it
has pursued for the last three years, in per-
sistinp to tax one fourth of the States of
this Union without allowing them the
right of representation, a right which the
Declaration OF Independence declares to-
be Questionable to freemen and formidable
to tyrants only is unworthy of the head
Of american law givers, and burning
disgrace to the American people, and call
aloud for correction at their hands.
n. That the States which lately attempt
cd to secede are still States in the Union,
and have been re-organized as such by ev-'
erv department of the Government, Con-
9ress not excepted, since the surrender of
Lee. and the ambiguous position which
Congress occupies is simply the result of a
desperate effort to retain power in the
hands of few and that the attempt to
make the military superior to the civil
power in time of peace, and thus hold ten
millions of American people in bondage,
oiitrages every principle OF natural justice.
81. That we are in favor of paying off the
National bonds by an issue of legal tender
greenbacks, and thus place them in po-
sitiorl to be taxed, and at the same time to
save to the people, $ls0,000 900 annually,
in gold, which they now pay to capitalists
for holding their bonds. r8
8. That the business of the country, and
the people generally, demands retrench
ment In the enormous and frightful ex-
penditures of the General Government.
TO-. That whatever Kind Of money is good
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