Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-11-02
Weeting of the North Enders-Tht
Resolutions


Resolutions.
The meeting of the Democracy of the
First Second, Eighth and Ninth Wards,
at Duffy's Hall. on Saturday evening, was
organized by calling G. B. Flood to the
chair anu appointing Patrick Durcan Sec
retary.
Mr.. e. Metties offered for adoption the |
following, which was agreed to without |
dissenting voice: 0z
| Resolued, That any attempt to entail ne |
gro suffrage upon us at the election on
Tuesday next will be resisted, and that
while we deplore any action that will dis
turb the quiet and peace of our city, we
will not submit to any action on the part
of the Republican party or any of its mem-
bers for that object. and if on this election
! force will be used to carry negro suffrage,
a corresponding force must be used to pre-
vent it.
MIR. Walter Clancey then offered the fol-
lowing, which were unanimously adopted
WHEREAS, The recent arrest of Mr.. John
Duffy, citizen of this ward, on a charge
of being connected with naturalization
| frauds, which never had an existence-the
| warrant for arrest issued on the purchased
evidence of a man who was compelled to
swear that he was an illegal voter and a
''drdft sneak" in 1S63-that he claimed nat
| uralization papers, which he knew were
not his own, for he swore he never appeared
before the naturalization court which issued
the papers-and that, knowing that he va
not voter, he went into a ward in which
he had no residence and there voted on the
papers thus procured, and then, for and In
consideration of credit to be furnished him
at grocery, promotion on the railroad and
q pledge that he should not be prosecuted
for his crime, he swore out a warrant charg
in.r rirnGa hnn nd
WHEREAS, When the guilty wretch who
thus undertook to swear away the liberty
of John Duffy, was lodged in Jail for his
crime, he found leading and rich Radical
' leaders, willing to bind themselves in one
! hundred dollars each for his appearance to
answer the charges and for his liberation
from Jail, thus showing Radical desire to
+ shield the "informer" Smith in his crimes
against the election laws and against the
liberty of our townsman; therefore,
Resolued, That the crimes OF Smith, the
"informer," against John Duffy, the shield
ing OF the self-confessed draft sneak and
, pipe-layer, by Radical Republicans, max
! ing up purse and giving security for his
appearance before the examining magis-
trate, coupled as it is with his own sworn
, admission that he was offered and accepted
a bribe, for turning ''informer," looks very
much like the Radical leaders had full
knowledge OF his intended crime, and until
, they purge themselves of the charge, the
public will hold them as parties to the
, crimes which their ''infOrmer," Smith,
committed.
WHEREAS, Probate Judge John M. Pugh,
known TO the entire community Us
, of the best citizens of Columbus-one
not only pure, but beyond reproach rs an
honest, law-abiding, honorable man-wss
: arrested on the oath OF Cincinnati in
former tor crime which, If ever committed,
the informer could, in the very nature OF
the case, know nothing, and was carried to
a distant examining court, fearing to try
him in the community in which he lived,
on a charge that the lowest, meanest and
most debased of the entire Grant party
white or black would not face this COM
, munity by swearing that, in their opinion,
, he could commit; and
WHEREAS, The Radical examining court
in the case of Duffy, in rendering the de-
cision which cleared him of all suspicion OF
: crime, declared the naturalization papers
which Judge Pugh was arrested for issu-
ing, were legal naturalization papers, thus
giving the lie direct to the Cincinnati de-
tective, although it was sworn to at the in
stigation of leading Radicals of this city,
who dare not perjure their own souls by
taking SO false an oath; therefore,
/, ResolUed, That the arrest of John M.
Pugh, a judicial officer OF Franklin county,
at the time when his Court was by law in
, session, the dragging of him to Cincinnati
t from his home and his family, to be exam-
ined before commissioner not lawyer or
Judge of law, when before Commissioner
Chittenden, an ADLER man, a good lawyer
t and bitter Radical, the charge could
have been examined in this city, is an out
rage that can neither be excused or be pal
lated.
: Resolued, That while during the war
| these Radical leaders had bullies at the
. beck and nod to outrage tht persons OF DEM
ocrats, it might be "healthy operation
for them now to remember times are not
/, now as in the days when braggart boys in
8 shoulder straps commanded men, and made
| them do their bidding, aud that, in the city
of Columbus, at least. Democrats have
, some rights which even Radicals are bound
t to respect.
: Resolued, That in the opinion of this
meeting the object of these arrests and
. these charges are. to frighten Democrats
! into allowing the will of fifty thousand
D majority of the people OF Onio to be set
a aside, so that the negro population of Co
S lumbus and ofthe State, be allowed to ex-
r ercise the elective franchise on Tuesday
' next against the letter and the spirit OF the
v Constitution of the State.
Y Resolued, That the Radical leaders oi
l Franklin county may as well understand
first as last, that the Democracy don't
t scare worth d-n," that the law and the
= Constitution which allows none but free
q t0lite male citizens to vote will be carried
{ out in letter and in spirit by the Democra-
8 cy of Columbus, and the Radical Leaders
v having now due notice may govern them
selves accordingly.
g., The meeting was then addressed by Hon
' r. E. Chambers and Mr.. Campbell, both o.
t Belmont county, in speeches of decided
). ability, and by Col. John c. Groom in few
stirring remarks, when the meeting ad
!. journed to meet again on Monday evening
h next, to perfect their organization for the
!. Presidential election on Tuesday next
G. B. FLOOD, Chm.
: P. DURCAN, Sec'y.