Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-01-17
The Democratic State ConVen.
ton,

The two wings OF the Democracy,
the EXpediency and the State SOver-
eighty, had their representative men
in the Columbus Convention These
representatives. were Mr. Vallaudig
ham, of Dayton. and Mr., CORY, OF
this city. The former drew up the
resolutions which were adopted, and
the latter labered in vain to give
them the logical sequence of the
Kentucky Resolution.
Mr.. Vallandigham and 5Tr. Cory
do not differ so much in principle as
in the mode of asserting it. The
former enters his protest against the
policy of the party dominant in
Congress, denounces their acts relat
iag 20 the Southern States rs Gun
constitutional, revolutionary and des-
potic," and with q feeble menace
that the plan of Congress for the re
construction of the States "will not
be submitted to-" prudently takes
his seat. Mr. Cory, less careful
about consequences, believing, per-
haps, all that Mr.. Vallandigham as
serted, proposes efficient action If
Congress is guilty Of all that Mr..
Vallandigham accuses it, its policy
and measures should be met by Z
stern resistance, and that resistance
can be madeefectiVe, says ATr. Cor
ry, onlv through State interpositon
Resolutions, he tells the Convention,
go for nothing with these sturdy
Radicals. If they are put down,
their infamous legislation set aside,
we, the Democracy, reasserting, as a
fundamental principle, the sover-
eighty OF the States, mast call upon
our party wherever it is in power, as
it is in Kentucky, to enact laws put
ting their veto on those acts of Con
gress that threaten the very exis
tence of the States themselves, and
the liberties OF the people thereof.
Mr.. Cory proposes notification as
the only adequate remedy for the
evils which Mr. Vallandigham mag
ines he can exercise by the potency
of his awful voice. A very powerful /.
voice it is, responds Mr. Cory; but |
there is nothing Of it but sound IL
Mr.. Vallandigham admits that the |
Revolutionary party now controlling
the country" care nothing for resO-
Iutlons, but hesitates when asked TO |
take step which will result in de
cisive action. Ii the ballot IS de !
and o resort to any other
remedy is necessary, it will not be /
to resolutions, he says in a grand |
Eloquent ssrt of way, but to the
strong arm. The Convention shares /
Vallandigham's timidity, having an
eve to consequences, and so chOkes
of the belligerent Cory, who believ-
IS il action as well as in words
Remembering the threatenings
out by Mr.. VallSndigham
n the fall and winter of 1S60-l, his
predictions of what would happen if
he Government undertook to coerce
,he States, and all the pompeus pa
.aae he made of himself in the days
If national peril that followed, his
just now are not of such
that people need loose
. nights wholesome sleep on ac
count of them. He makes very
lefty militia General in time Of peace
md can solemize the minds OF
,orn-stalk squad by his display of
,redigious spurs and towering
olumes, but when the war comes,
ind the sharp steel of the field points
he logic of the forum, he crawls into
lis shad belly drab, and, from under
he caves of his broad -brlm, thees
md thous with the unctien and fer
7encY of an educated Hicksite.
Why is it that the Democracy
lodge the Kentucky resolution
The whole tendency Of principles
in Mr.. Vallandigham's
is in that direction, and
he time was when q Democrat who
would have refused to put his sign
manual to that resolution would have
been read out Of the party as here
lie. 1t is because the leaders are
afraid to let the people see to what
end they would lead them? Why
act come directly to il, as Dir. Cory
iesires, and not try en- approach by !