Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-11
Proce.esdaings .sai q. lhee : Democracy Of

PrOceedfmgs of the Democracy of
. HliiIcreeIk township, Union cOuD-
f4s1y, Ohio. s
,; p 4 The Democracy of Millcreek township,
Union county, Ohio, in conformity with
the instructions of the Democratic State
central Committee, met at the school house
: in Watkins, for the purpose OF organizing
u Democratic Club. The meeting was call
ed to order by III. B. Felkner, Esq, and,
: upon motion of r. w. Thompson. Jude Bell
fwasappointed Chairman, and e. w. ThOmp-
son Secretary of the meeting. Whereupon,
the meeting proceeded to appoint perma-
neBts officers for the society. On motion
of I'll. B. Felkner, Esq. Colonel Thompson
was appointed President OF the society
!, On motion of r. w. Thompson, ID. b. Felix
: ner was elected yice-P President OF the So
: 'ciety. On motion of r. w. Thompson, I.
Z N. !. Bodley, Esq, was elected Treasurer; w.
H.Andrews, Secretary, and Colonel Thomp-
son, I'll. B. Felkner and William III. An
5 dfews as committee to report to the meet
:, ing resolutions for adoption; and Samuel
Bowersmith,s Bolivar Hays. Absalom Rn-
dolptl, Philemon Tossey, r. L. Stimmel,
John M. Roney and Luther Liggett as an
Executive committee, one member from
; each school district. The committee on Res
? Olutions reported the following preamble
7 and resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted: sss.9 IS.
ship, Union county, Ohio, have organized
ourselves into Democratic Club to battle
against the arch enemy of our glorious
: republican system of Government. The
! present sectional party which holds the
q reins of Government by a system oftyral-
= ny and usurpation unknown to the Con-
stitution, unknown to law and un-
/, known to this, Government when it
was virtuously, decently and consti-
tutionally administered, are probing the
heart of our country, and we are standing
idly by seeing the vital spark trickling
from the wound, apparently making little
effort to arrest the wicked designs of the
present parricidal party. Fellow Demo-
Gratis, let us impleEe you to rise up in every
township throughOut the State, hoping sis
ter States will follow the same precedent,
In the full strength of your might, and en-
ergetically aud vigorously work from this
time until the evening of our next State
election, when the sun sets calmly and
placidly beneath the western horizon, and
thereby defeat and negative the evil and
deep Vaccinations of the Grand, Army of
the Republic, and save the glorious hertz
age unperverted which was purchased by
our fathers and sealed by their blood, and
bequeathed to us as legacy, which we
should hold as sacred as life. Let us pre-
serve it on the Constitution, and the lustre
and sunshine of the past good old Demo-
cratic days will return.
Believing as we do, that the perpetuity of
Republican institutions depends upon the
maintenance of Democratic principles in
the administration of the Government,
State and Federal, and that upon the Dem
0cfatic party mainly must we rely to check
Radicalism now threatening to overthrow
the Constitutional Governmental of our Faith
ers, bIut out sovereign States and subvert
the liberties of the people; in order to Sc
f, cure such thorough organization of the
Democratic party as will make it efficient
in promulgating its principles and to de-
p feat the evil Vaccinations and purposes OF
its enemies, whether sought to be accom-
pfished at the polls or by fraud and violence
elsewhere, hereby pledging each to the 9th
er and to the world to devote ourselves to
q the work of reclaiming our beloved coun-
try from the misruie of band OF desperate
fanatics, corruptionists and conspirators,
and in this sacred cause mutually to support
and protect each other.
- Resoloed, That ttheexigencies of the times
and the condition of the country demand of
us the most thorough Investigation of the
causes of the present difficulties, and an
earnest inquiry as to the means of redress
and the means best calculated to succeed.
ResotUed, That we believe with the i'm
ID mortal Jefferson. that ours is a Government
g of common consent, framed and established
by the only sovereign power the States,
the ConsCitutton-making power.
Resolred, That the several States COM
prising the United States, are not united
on the principle of unlimited submission
to their General Government, but that by
compact under the style and title of Con-
stitution for the United States, and of
amendment thereto, they constitute Gen
eral Government for special purposes, and
delegated to that Government certain def
mite powers, reserving each State to itself
the .residuary mass of right to their own
seIf-goyernment, and whenever the Gener-
al Government assumes undelegated pow
efs. its acts are unauthoritatiVe, void and
ofno force; that to this compact each State
acceded as State and is an integral party,
its CO States forming as to itself the other
partv.: that the Government created by
this compact was not made the exclusive
or final fudge of the extent of the powers
delegated to itself, since that would have
made its discretion, and not the Constitu-
tion. the measure of its powers, but that as
in all other cases of compact among parties
having no common judge, each party has
an equal right to judge for itself as well OF
attractions as the mode and measure OF
redress.
ResoIrea, That the Constitution was
made by the States and not by the
neoDIe united it should therefore
read we, the people of the States united
II was voted for by the State in the Con-
vention. submitted to the people of each
State seyeraIly, and became the Constltu-
tion only of the States adopting it; it is "a
Federal Constitution and not National
Government that it was made on the white
basis. bv white men, for the benefit of white
mon. and their poSterity forever, and should