The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-01-16
Welfare Of the Statefand the people.

eminent. BY President Lincoln, who, in
the midst Of the war, invited them | to
elect members of Congress. BY Presis
dent johnson, in various proclamations
and iofieial acts. By Congress, which
permitted Andrew johnson To sit In the
Senate as 4 Senator from gTenbessss, by
his Inauguration as Vice President and
President OF the Senate, and by the ad-
mission Of members from Virginia, Tenn.
sessee aud Louisiana to sit in the House
Of Representatives, after those States had
passed their ordinances of secession, and
while the war was being carried on, and
which further recognized them as States
in the UBion by the Congressional Ap.
portionment Act, providing for their due
representation in Congress; by various
tax laws, and especially the Direct Tax
Act; by the resolutions submitting amend,
ments to the Constitution for their ap-
proval /; and by various other acts and res
olutions importing the same recognition,
all which were passed since the attempted
secession Of these States. BY the Judi
ciary Of the Uaited States, which holds
Federal Courts in all those States, and
especially by the Supreme Court, which
entertains Jurisdiction Of cases coming
from them, which it could not do were
they not in the Union. That being thus
in the Union, they stand on an equal foot
ing with their sister States-States with
unequal rights being . thing unknown to
the Constitution. That by, the express
terms Of the Constitution, each State is
entitled to two Senators and a due proper.
tion Of Representatives In Congress, and
TO vote at all elections of President and
Vice President. That though these rights
are subject to interruption by a state ol
civil war, they cannot by civil war Be ex
tinguishsd, or in time of peace, be SC
much even as suspended, without q plain
violation Of the Constitution. That the
assent Of three fourths Of all the States,
whether represented iD Congress or not,
is essential to the validity Of Constitution.
al amendments. That Congress has no
powor to deprive q State of its reserved
rights and reduce it to q territorial condi-
tion. That therefore, tho exclusion by
the so-called Congress of all representa-
tion from ten States, the proposed exclu.
sion Of those States from all voice in the
next Presidential election, the threatened
overthrow Of their State Governments,
and reduction Of those States to the con.
ditiou Of territories, are each and every
one OF thcm, unconstitutional, revolution.
ary and dcspotic measures, destructive
not only TO the rights of those States, but
also the rights Of every other State in the
Union. That those measures arc parts Of
q plan to nullify the Constitution, virtual.
ly overthrow tho State Governments, to
erect a consolidated despotism on their
ruins, and 70 establish and perpetuate a
tyrannical rule Of a minority over ma
jority Of the American people. That the
people cannot, without loss Of their lib.
critics. prosperity and honor. submit to
such a result aud we, therefore, in the
hope that the warning will be needed, and
the danger Of our institutions be peacea-
bly, averteS, do solemnly warn the advo-
Gates Of the plan, that it will not be sub.
mitted TO-, tt rr
3. Resolucd, That Congress is not an
omnipotent law-making power. That the
Constitution provides that no bill shall be
come law without the approval Of thu
President, unless it be passed by two,
thirds Of each House Of Congress. ThaJ
one Of the objects of the present SOCIAL
ed Congress 10 excluding ten States from
representation, is to pass bills by two
thirds vote which, were all the States rep
resented, could not 90 pass and thus to
virtually abolish the Constitutional provi.
sion aforesaid. That IL this precedent b
acquiesced in, there will be nothing tt
prevent q bare majority of Congress, al
any time in the future, from nullifyine
the Constitutional veto Of the President
aud usurping uncontrolled legislative pow.
er, by an exclusion of the minority from
their seats. That exclusion Of even sin,
gle State might give the control, and .
pretext for such an exclusion would b.
never wanting 10 an INSCRIPTIONS and
revolutionary party. 70 $50 'al
a. Resolved, That the people, and es
pecially those Of the Agricultural States
have suffered too long the exactious o.
high protective tariffs, and, as the repre-
scntatives Of an agricultural and laborinl
population, We demand that their sub
stance shalt no longer be extored from
them in crdor To gil the pockets of East
ern monopolists. ~ E.ts 4,
5. Resolped, That unequal taxation i,
contrary to tho first principles of Justice
and sound policy aud we call upon oul
Governmen,s, Federal aud State, to uss
all necessary constitutional means to rem
edy this remedy.
Q. Resolped, That the Radical major.
ity in the so-callcd Congress have proved
themselves to be in favor Of Negro SuE-
frage,l by forcing ii upon the people in
the District Of Columbia against their al
most unanimous wish solemnly expressed
at tho polls by forcing It upon the peo-
plo OF all the territories 10 violation Of the
Constitution, aud by their various devi.
ces TO coerce tho people Of the South to