The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-01-17

were ever out, and that we deter
minedly insist that the Southern
States, no longer being in insurrec-
ton or at war with the Federal Gov
ernment, are entitled to the full state
ofrecognition and constitutional rep
resentation in Congress and electoral
colleges given to all the States, and
that a denial of it to them by Con-
gress, and its efforts to dictate by
military force a government for
them, are unconstitutional, revolu-
tionary and despotic.
Resolved, That we are opposed,
both in principle and in pelicy, to
negro suffrage; that the State OF
Ohio having. by the emphatic major
ity of $4,000 rejected it for herself,
is sternly opposed to its forced i'm
position upon other States, and We
stigmatize such an imposition by the
Federal Government as a most base
usurpation.
Resolved, That the practical effect
OF the So called reconstruction acts
of Congress is to deliver over ten
States to the political . I'd social con-
troll of negroes, and to place the lives,
liberties and fortunes of the whites
residing therein into the hands of a
barbarous people, and that it would
inevitably lead either to a war OF
races or 10 the Africanization of the
South.
Resolved, That Notwithstanding
the enormous and conceded frauds
in tho creation of the public debt,
the faith of the country pledged
to its payment, principal and in
terest, according to the terms OF
the several acts of Congress under
which the bonds representing the
debt were issued, but not otherwise,
and We are opposed to any plan for
extending the times of payment, thus
increasing the amount of gold in
terest to more than . principal, or
to any declaration by Congress that
the principal is payable in gold,
which would virtually add more
than thousand millions to the bur-
then of the debt, and the insane poll
cy of which these measures are q
part.
Resolved, That neither forgetting
nor denying our ancient faith that
gold and silver form the currency OF
the Constitution, we declare that the
five-twenty bonds should be paid in
the same currency received by the
Government for their issue, and that
by the withdrawal Of the monopo =
granted to the National Banks, this
result can be accomplished without
an undue or dangerous increase of
paper money, now the only circula-
ting medium, thus relieving our peo
pie from the burden OF a debt, the
tendency Of which Is always to cor.
rupt and enslave, and our Govern
ment from the reproach of paying a
favored class IN gold while discharg-
ing its liabilities TO all others, inclu-
ding pensions to widows and SOL
diers, in an inferior currency.
Resolved. That this plan violates
no law, impairs no contract, breach
es no faith, and instead of retarding
return to specie payments, is the
shortest and only safe way of reach
ing that end.
Resolved, That all the property OF
the country, including the Govern
ment bonds, which receives the equal
protection Of the Government, should
bear an equal share in its bur-
thens.
Resolved, That we Indignantly re-
ject the principle derived from the
feudal system, that the masses of the
people belong to the governments
under which they live, which in an
other form, is contended for by the
monarchies of Europe, including
Great Britain, once a subject always
a subject that We, on the contrary,
that an individual can by
emigration and residence in another
forswear his previous al
legianee, and be admitted into all the
the civil and political rights of his
new home; that American citizens,
by adoption and naturalization, are
entitled to all the rights, as between
US and foreign powers, which can
be claimed by our native born citi-
zens, and it is the duty of the Fed
eral Government to protect and
maintain them by every means in its
power.
Resolved, That the people will
sustain Andrew Johnson. President
Of the United States, in his struggle
With Congressional usurpation and
hat we pledge the Democracy OF
Ohio to support him in all constitu-
.ional measures to relieve the white
people Of the South from the negro
governments now being imposed up
IN them.
Resolved, That the fortitude and
yallantry of our soldiers in the re-
,eat civil war in defense Of theUniOn,
entitled them to the gratitude of the
country, and they should ever be re-
by it in its bounties.
Resolved, That the Democracy of
he country have neither the purpose
lor desire to rs-establish slavery,
lor b assume any portion of the
lebts Of the States lately In rebe H.