Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-19
COLUMBUS. O., MONDAY MORNING,

ESQ, Mr.. Samuel Adams, Richard Dana,
Esq, Benz. Kept, Esq, and DR.. Joseph Var
rem. be committee to wait upon his Excel
lency, if in town, humbly requesting that
he would be pleased to communicate to the
town. the grounds and assurances he may
have thereof. ...-..--. 1
.sThe committee appointed otake the
state of our public affairs into considera-
tion, reported the following declaration
and resolves: .s,.. .s-t.... f,,.f 80, 4
WHEREAS, 1t is the first principle OF
civil society, founded in nature and reason,
that 10 law of the society can be binding
on any individual WITHOUT HIS CONSENT, |
GIVEN BY HIMSELF IN PERSON, OR BY HIS
REPRESENTATIVES,, OF HIS OWN FREE ELEc-
TIoN. if'4eai -'. i''''
"Voted, AS the opinion of this town, that
the levying money in this province for the
use and service of the Crown, in other man
ner than the same is granted by the great
and general court of this province, is in
violation of the undoubted natural rights
of subjects, declared in the aforesaid act of
Parliament, freely to give and grant their
own money for the service of the Crown,
with their own consent, in person, or by rep
re,entdtiUes of their oton free election. ,l
'1And whereas in the aforesaid act of par
lament it is declared, that the raising or
Keeping a standing army Within the King
dom, in time of peace, Is against law it
is the opinion of this town, that the said
declarations are founded in the indefeas-
BILE right of the subjects to be consulted,
and to give their free consent, in person, or
byrepresentdtiDes of their ooa free election, to
the raising and keeping standing army
among them; and the inhabitants of this
| town, being free Subjects, have the same
right, derived from nature, and confirmed
by the British Constitution; and therefore
the raising or keeping an army, sottfaout their
afTfi off
oton free election, would be an Infringe
ment of their natural, constitutional and
chartered rights; AND THE EMPLOYING
SUCH ACTS FOR THE ENFORCING OF LAwMADE
WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE, in
| person, or by their representatives, would
be a grievance .'1- 10 @'i /
| "The foregoing report being divers times
distinctly read, and considered by the town,
| the question was put, whether the same
shall be accepted and recorded and passed
unanimously in the affirmative" 9t3~3ac
Fellow citizens, the proceedings of that
little town meeting. thus spread upon the
pages of British journal, constituted the
! first corner stone of the revolution; revo-
Hutton which Samuel Adams, one of the
members of that committee, afterwards
done more to forward and bring to happy
issue than any other civilian in America
revolution which DR.. Joseph Warren,
| another member, eight years afterwards
sealed with his blood upon the glorious field
of Bunker Hill. And what was the spirit
of that old Boston town meeting? What
great principles did it declare? tell you,
my friends, it was the spirit of your Con-
stitution; it was the spirit which now ami
mates the great Democratic party of the
/ Union in their struggles to save and pre-
serve that Constitution. He is either a
i bigct or fool who does not see the exact
identity of position occupied by the Boston
| e. - a,1 +ha - ~
1867. But let us turn to another scene oi
those olden times; upon a body of men as
illustrious as any in history a body ol
men whose every name is SYNONYM for
noble self-devotion to liberty and law. Let
us turn to the First Colonial Congress in
IVA. What do they declare, on that occa-
| sion,, as tyranny is closing tighter an0
Tighter around them? In petition to the
throne, they describe the precise condition
tof the ten States of the South, under theil
4 present military subjugation, in setting
forth the wrongs OF the thirteen colonies
in IVA. Listen:
s' A standing army has been kept in thest
Colonies ever since the conclusion of tn,
late war, without the consent of our assem-
blies; and this army, with considerable
naval armament, has been employed to en-
i force the collection of taxes. The duthorit
of the commander in chief, AND UNDER HIN
THE BRIGADIERs- GENERAL, has in time o
peace been rendered supreme in all the ctUH gou
ernn1ertS of Anaertcd. The commander in chic
l of all your naqjestys forces in North AzserlcQ
has in time of peace been appointed goUeT7sur- o
a Colony."--l1 uol. Dodsleys Annual Register
2O3.
Who signed this early protocol of freedom
Turn to your Declaration of independents
and you will see the glorious catalogue
Adams, Dickinson, Mifflin, Sherman. Liv
ingston, Henry, Harrison, Lee. Rutledge
- "a o,,lf No,
BILE old Copperheads!" they did not seer
to know they were promulgating Treason
and sympathy with rebels, in the opinio
of some of their wiser and more patriot
descendants! But let us once more lift tn
veil of time, and again look in upon thi
same body of miserable revolutionar.
traitors. sitting in solemn session il
Philadelphia, two months before the peti
tion Just noticed, to-wit. on the 9TH day c
September, IVA. Instead of addressing tn
deaf ears of the throne, they now appeal t
the people of England in behalf of thei
rights and liberty. In that document the
say: A1~s.
i'Why, then, are the proprietors of tn
soil of America less lords OF their proper
erty than you are of yours, or why shoul
they submit to the disposal Of your Par
lament, or any other Parliament, or Coun
ell in the world, not of their election
Can the intervention of the sea that di
vides US cause disparity in rights, O
can any reason be given, why English sub
iects, who live three thousand miles froI
the royal palace, should enjoy hess libert
than those who are three hundred mile
distant from it? Nov
mark the ministerial plan for enslaving us
Well aware that such hardy attempts It
take our property from us-to deprive U
of that valuable right of trial by jury-t
seize our persons, and carry us for trial
Great Britain-to blockade ouri ports-t
destroy our charters, and change our forr
of government) would occasion, and ha
already occasioned great discomfort in a
the colonies, which might produce oppo
sition to these measures, AN act was passet
s'to protect. indemnify, and screen from pun
islinsent, such as might be guilty euen Of nluu
der, in endeauoring to carry their oppressir
| edicts into execution. n."-D odStey s annual Re
,ster, vol. IL, pages 20S and 2l2.
Were Lincoln and his party plagiarists
despotism? Did they search the Euglis
Parliamentary Rolls for precedents j
wrong and outrage? Who does not see,
this quotation from the British act again
the colonists, the exact prototype. of fl
infamous American Indemnity Act
March 3, 1868? The truth is, the who
proceedings of the Republican party
this country, for the last six years, durin
the war and since, are nothing but ba
rehearsal of English outrages, mere tral
script of the most tyrannic laws again
, the rights and liberties Of our Revolution
ary forefathers.
Here, then, my fellow-citizens, is IL
; great and cardinal doctrine which unde
lies the whole structure of our Cover
: ment. The principle that people shs
1 not be taxed without their consent,
without representation, and that the mil
tary must be subordinate to the civil poy
, er, is recognized wherever liberty exis
as the great fundamental idea of Constit
, tional Government. 1t is proudly a
; nounced to the world in our Declaration
| Independence. 1t is solemnly declared
, the Constitution of the United Stat,
which every member of Congress who nc
denies it to the Southern people. has swo