The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-01-17

and adopted III
Secretary Of State Thomas Hubbard, of
Logan. ~. N
Supreme Jujge-Willidm X, Finck, Of
Perry. ~
School Commssioncr--J. +. Kirkwood,
of Seneca.
Clerk Of tho Supreme Court--John N.
Webb, of Muhoning
Member Of the Board of Public Works
Arthur Hughes OF Cuyahoga
Delegates AT large 10 tlie National Con-.
vcntion--John e.. Thompson, Goo. W. Nc
Cook. of Jefferson, w. w Armstrong, Of
Cuyahogo, and Washington Mclean, of
llomiion.
Tho rules we're suspended, and n. ]. jew.
ett and Rufus +. Ranney were nominated
10y accamatiou for Electors at large for
u Q State.
Tho following resolutions were adopted
Resofred, That The Democracy Of Ohio
| congratulate The country upon The improved
aspect OF political affairs az evinoed hy the
State election of 1867 and that they look
forward with hope and confidence to the
result Of that momentous struggle, upon
which depends in 80 great a degree the
future peace aud prosperity of the Union.
ReSotued That, unalterably opposed { 0
tho doctrines which lead TO consolidation,
we renew. with uuflagging zeal and in
creased energy, our attachment to that TO
ltiUal creed, which has ever been so
stuuuchly adhered to 10y our organization
through days Of trouble and disaster, as
well IA good fortune and prosperity. which
was thus expressed by Thos. Jefferson
Equal and exact Justice to all men, Of
whatever state or persuasion, religious or
political peace, commerce and honest
! friendship with all nations, eutangling al
lance with none :" the support Of the State
governments in all their rights as the most
competent administration of our domestic
concerns and the surest bulwark against
auttRepublioen tendencies the proscrva-
ton Of the general government, in it's whole
constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor
OF peace at home and safety abroad a Zenl'
ous care of the rights of elections bv the
people the supremacy of the civil over tue
military authority.
ResOlUed, That we condemn the legisIu
tive usurpations of Congress, particularly
! the several acts OF Reconstruction. So called
az violations OF the Constitutional compact
| between the States and as utterly subVer
sivo of every principle OF self government
that distinguishes n free people.
ResOlred, That we are opposed 10 any
measures which recognize that the iuteg'
! rity OF the union was ever broken that
any of it's members were ever ont and
| that wo determuediy Insist that the South
ern States no longer being in insurrection
or at war with the Federal Government
are entitled to the full State recognition
and Constitutional representation in Con
gross aud the ELECTORAL colleges, given to
all the States, and that the denial of it to
them by Congress, and it's efforts to die
t,N., Mt I,,r
them, are unconstituto. al, revolutionary
aad despoto
HeSolped, That we are opposed, both in
principle and policy, to negro suffrage
that tue State of OHIO, having by the en-
phatic majority ot 10000 rejected it Tor
herself, is sternly opposed to It's forced in.
position upon other States, and that we
stigmatize such an imposition by the Fed
eral Government as u most base usur.
patton,
RcSolred, That the practical effect of the
so.called Reconstruction acts OF Congress
is to deliver over ten States to the polili
cal and social control 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 war OF the races,
or TO the Alricauizing of the South.
ReSoiceR That, notwithstanding the
enormous and conceded frauds in the ere.
alton OF the public debt, the faith of the
country is pledged to its payment, lruci-
pal and interest, according to the terms OF
the several acts of Congress, under which
the bonds representing the debt were is.
sued, but not otherwise, and we are op
posed TO any plan for extending the time OF
payment, thus increasing the amount of
| i,t 10. il,,V mr.
TO any declaration by Congress, that the
principal is payable in gold which would
virtually add more than q thousand mil
lions to the hurthen of the debt, and to the
whole insane financial policy of which these
measures form part.
RtSOirsd, That neither forgetting nor de-
nying our ancient faith, that gold and sill.
yer coin toun the currency of the Constitu-
tion, we declare that the Five-Tweuty
bonds should be paid IN the same currency
received 10y the Govergmcnt Tor their issue,
and that, by the Withdrawal of the monop'
oily granted to the National Banks this e.
suit can be accomplished without an undue
or dangerous increase ot paper money, now
the only circulating medium. thus reliev
ing our people from the bnrthen of a deb
the tendency Of which is always to corrupt
and eusavc, aud save our Government
from tho rcproach of paying favored
class in gold while discharging its debts
to all others, including pensions to widows
aud soldiers, in an inferior currency.
RGS0lped, This plan violates no law, i'm
pairs no contract breaks no faith, and
instead of retardmg return to specie pay
! ment is the shortest because tho only safe
way of reaching that en1,
ReSoleed, That the property of the couu
- try including the Governmeut bonds, whcl
receives the cQual protection of the Gov
q ernment, should bear an equal share in it'
hurtheu.
ReSolred That we Indignantly reject the
l. the principle, derived from the teudal oyS
$ tenn, that the masses OF tho people belong
e 20 the governments under which they live
i which in Uu other form, is cputcuded (o
hy the mOnarcMes at Europe. including
!. Great Britain" once subject always
v subject - that we ON the contrary, main
Q tain that an individual can, by cmigratio,
aud residence in an ether country, tor
u swear his previous allegiance aud be al
= united into all the civil and political righu
: OF his new home that, American citiz u'
T. 10y adoption aud naturalization are eEtitle,
y tl all the rights as, between us aud toreigl
. nations, can be claimed hy our native borl
. citizens, aud i, is the duty Of the Fedora
r Government to protect aud maintain then
by every means within its power,
9 ReSoired, That the people will sustain
u Andrew Johnson, President of the Unite,
:, States, in his struggle with CongressiouO