The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1867-01-17

The Union, they stand on an equal iOoiing
with their slspr States, States with unequal
rights being thing unknown 10 the Con-
stitutiCn that, by the express terms of tlle
Constitution, each State is entitled to have
two Senators and due proportion Of Rep
resentalives in the Congress, and to vote in
all elections of President and Vice. Presi.
9ent-that, though these rights are subject
to interruption 0y state Of civil war they
can not, in time Of peace, be suspended,
much less DESTROYED, without pain viola
ton Of the COnstituiion--klat Congress has
no power 10 deprive State of its reserved
rights, and reduce il to a territorial coud-
ton. that therefore he exclusion by the So
called Gang ress, Of all representation ON
ten States, the proposed exeluSiol'o' those
States from all voice in The lrXl Presden
tiai election. The threatened overthrow Of
their Stale Governments and the reduction
of their States TO the condition of terrific.
ries, are each and everyone of them uncon-
slitulionOl, revolutionary aud despOtic meas.
ures, destructive not merely of the rights Of
those States, but also Of the rights Of every
other State in The Union.
That those measures are pa'is Of p an
10 nullily the Constitution, 10 Ninual, ov-
eTtnrow the State Governments. TO erect u
consolidated deSpotism on their ruins, AMI
to establish and .perpe,uate trapnical
rd'e Of minority over a mjonly ol the
AmeTica people. =. ....
That The people cah not, without loss
Of their libe ties, prosperity dnd h9dor, sub
init TO such a result, and t'Fe'e'ore in the
hope that the warning will be needed, and
the Danger Ia our Institutions b. peaceably
ayertCd, do s0lCmnly warn the advocates OF
The plan that it will not be submitted to.
8. Resolved, That Congress is not an
OnInipb tent INw-making power, that the
Constitution provides that no bill shall be-
come a lazy without the approval Of the
President, unless it be passed by two. thirds
OF each house Of Congress, that one Of the
objects of the present so.caled Congress, in
excluding ten States from representation, s
to pass bills by two thirds vote, which
were all The States represented, could not
SO pass. aud thus TO virtually abolish the
Constitutional provision aforesaid. that il
this precedent be acquiesced in. there will
be nothing 10 prevent bare majority OF
Congress, at any time in the future, from
nullitying the Constitutional veto Of The
President, and usurpng uncontrolled leeia'
ative power by an exclusion Of The mnori.
| Is from their seats, that the exclusion OF
even single State might give this control,
and a pretext for such an exclusion wOuN
never be wanting to an unscrupulCus aud
revolutionary party. -..l..
4. Resolved, That The people, and espec-
tally those Of the agriculture! States, have
suffered too long the exaCtions Of high pro.
tecive tariffs and as the representatives oil
an agricultural and labor ing population, we
demand that their substance shall ne Longer
be eXtorted from them in order to fill the
/ pockets OF Eastern monopolists.
5. Resolv ed, That unequal toxltion j;
contrary to the first principles Of justice aud
sound policy, and we call upon our Gov
ernmenis, Federal and State, 10 use all nee;
es;aIy Constitutional mans 10 remedy this
evil ...... =.
6. Resolved, That The Radical majority
in the s1.called Congress have proved them
selves to be in favor of Negro Suffrage by
ioiLlnS ~ upOH tuS pSuplS VI tHS DlSblOtO v
Columbia against their almost unanimous
wish. socmnly expressed at the polls, BY
forcing 1t upon the people OF all the Teri
tories, and by their various devices to co
erce the people Of the South 10 adopt ii
that we are opposed TO Negro Suffrage, be
Ieving il would be productive Of evil tc
both whites and blacks, and tend TO pro-
duce disastrous conflict Of races.
7. Resolved, That for all their efforts t
uphold th. Constitution we tender to thC
President and TO the majority of The Judg
es Of the Supreme Court of the Unitel
States cur hearty thanks.
8. Resolved, That we are in favor of !
Democratic Convention Of delegates from
all the STATES, TO be held at such time an'
place as may be agreed upon, and that tht
State Central Committee be authorized Il
concur with other proper commiteesin fix
ing time anil place and that we prefer Lou
isville, Ky, as the place, 1s'.
8. Resolved, That the Democratic news
papers OF Ohio deserve our earnest and liber'
al support, aud that an early and lhorougI
orgalizltion Of the rarty is indispensable.