The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-01-25
OHIO AND INDIANA DEMOCRAT
&c RESOLUTIONS.

State conventions as heretofore mentioned
in our columns, were held at Columbus, Ohio,
and at Indianapolis, Ind, on the 18th Of JAN
uary, by the democracy of those states respect
lively. We subjoin, as of more than ordinary
Importance and significance at this turn, the
resolutions adopted at those conventions
OHIO. 1a 20
The following resolutions, the reading of which,
by Cot. Geo. w. McCook, the chairman of the
committee on resolutions, caused continuous out.
bursts Of applause, We're adopted, with fervor
and emphasis never surpassed. r ..e
IttSotoed, That the democracy of Ohio congrat-
ulate the country upon the improved aspect of
political affairs evidenced by the state election
of 1867, and they look forward with hope and
confidence to the result of that momentous strug-
gle upon which depends in SO great degree, the
future peace and prosperity of the union.
Resolred That unalterably opposed to the doc
trines which lead TO consolidation, we renew with
unAagging zeal and increased energy, our attach
ment to that political creed which has ever hsen
30 staunchly adhered to by our organization
through days of trouble and disaster as well as
good fortune and prosperity, which was thus ex-
pressed by Thomas jefferson: Equal and exact
justice to oil men, of whatever faith or persua-
sion, religious or political peace commerce, and
honest friendship with all nations, entanglng al
hances with none; the support Of the state gov
ernments in all their rights as the most compe-
tent administration Of our domestic concerns,
and the surest bulwark against anti-republican
tendencies the preservation Of the general gov
eminent in its whole constitutional yiger as the
sheet anchor Of peace at home and safety abroad;
Jealous care of the rights Of electors by the peo-
pie; the supremacy of the civil over the military
authority" ...t
Resolced That we deem the Legislative usur.
patton of congress, and particularly the several
acts of reconstruction $50 called as violatiye of
the constitutional compact between the states
and as utterly subversive of every principle of
self-government that distinguishes tho people.
fesolred That we are opposed to any measures
which recognize that the integrity of the union
was ever broken that any of its members were
ever out; and that we determinedly insist that
the southern states, no longer being in insurrec.
ton or at war with the federal government, are
entitled to the full state recognition and consti-
tutional representation in congress- and the cleo.
toral college, given to all the states and that the
denial of it to them by congress- and its efforts to
dictate by military force, a government for them,
are unconstitutional, revolutionary. and des-
potic. C i1at 49,
Resolred, That we are opposed both in princi.
pie and policy, to negro suffrage that the state
of Ohio having by tho emphatic majority Of So.
600, rejected it for herself is strongly opposed to
it's forced condition upon other states and we
stigmatize such an imposition by the federal gov.
eminent as a most base usurpation. 80
ResoIeed That the practical effect of the so.cal-
ed reconstruction acts of congress is to deliver
over 10 states to the political and social control
OF negroes and to place the lives, liberties, and
fortunes OF the whites residing there in the hands
OF barbarous people and that it would lead to =
war OF races, or to the Africanizatioa of the
south.
Hssolced, That, notwithstanding conceded
frauds in the creation of the public debt, the
faith OF the country is pledged to its payment.
principal and interest, 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
extending the time OF payment, thus increasing
the amount of gold interest TO more than ths
principal, or any declaration by congress that
the principal is payablein gold, which would yir.
tualiy add more than thousand millions To the
burthen Of the public debt. N -''TT
ReSotoed, That neither forgetting nor DENYING
our ancient faith that gold and silver coin form
the currency of the constitution, we declare that
the $50 bonds should be paid in the same cur.
rency received by the government for their issue,
and that by the withdrawal Of the monopoly
granted to the national banks this result can be
accomplished without an undue on dangerous
increase of paper money, nov the only circulate
ing medium, thus relieving the people from the
burthen of debt, the tendency of which ia al.
ways to corrupt and enslave, and to kecp our gov.
eminent from the reproach of paving favored
class in gold, while discharging its debts to ali
Others, including pensions TO widows and soldiers
in an inferior currency. '"'i '
Resolred, That this plan violates no law, i'm.