The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-01-23


tional representation in Congress, and
the electoral colleges given to all the
States, and that denial of it to them by
Congress, and its efforts to dictate by
military force a government for them
are unconstitutional, revolutionary and
despotic.
Resolved, That we are opposed, both
in principle and policy, to negro suf-
fragei that the State of Ohio-having
by the emphatic majority of $4,000 re-
jected it for herself-is sternly opposed
to its forced imposition upon other
States, and that we stigmatize such an
imposition by the Federal Government
as most base usurpation.
Resolced, That the practical effect Of
the So o-called Reconstruction acts of
Congress is to deliver over ten States
to the political and social control Of
Negroes and to place the lives, liberties
and fortunes of the Whites residing
therein, in the hands of barbarous
people, and that it would inevitably
lead either to war of races or to the
Africanization of the South.
ResolUed, That Notwithstanding the
enormous and 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 of ex-
tending the times of payment, thus in
creasing the amount of gold interest to
more than the principal, or to any de-
claration by Congress that the principal
is payable in gold, which would virtu-
ally add more.than thousand millions
to the burthen of the debt, and to the
whole insane financial policy Of which
these measures are part
Resolved, That, neither forgetting nor
denying our ancient faith that gold and
silver coin form the currency of the
Constitution, we declare that the five
twenty bonds should be paid in the
same currency received by the Govern
ment for their issue, and that by the
withdrawal of the monopoly granted
to the National Banks this result can
be accomplished without an undue or
dangerous increase of paper money,
pow the only circulating medium, thus
relieving our people from the burthen OF
adebt, the tendency of which is always
to corrupt and enslave, aud our Gov
ernment from the reproach of paying a
favored class in gold, while discharging
its debts to all others, including pen
sions TO widows and soldiers, in an in
teriOr currency.
Resolved, That this plan violates no
law impairs no contract, breaks no
faith, and instead of retarding return
to specie payments, is the shortest, be-
cause the only safe way of reaching that
end
ReSOlred, That all the property of the
country, including the Government
bonds, which receives the equal pro-
lection of the Government, should bear
an equal share in its burthens.
Resolved, That we Indignantly reject
the principle derived from the feudal
system-that the masses of the people
belong to the Governmentsu under which
they live, which in another form is con-
tended for by the monarchles of Europe,
including Great Britain, once a subject
always subject-that we on the con-
trary maintain that an individual can,
by emigration and residence in another
country, forswear his previous allegi-
ance, and be admitted into all 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 pow
ers which can be claimed by our native
born citizens, and it is the duty of the
Federal Government to protect and
maintain them by every means within
its power.
ResOhsd, That the people will sus-
tain Andrew johnson, President of the
United States, in his struggle with
Congressional usurpaton, and that we
pledge the Democracy of Ohio to sup
port him in all Constitutional measures
to relieve the white people of the South
from the negro governments now being
imposed upon them
\ ReSolred, That the fortitude and gal
lAntry of our soldiers in the recent civil
war, in defense Of the Union, entitle
them to the gratitude of the country,
and they should ever be remembered BY
it in its bounties
Resolved, That the Democracy of the
country have neither the purpose nor
desire to reestabish slavery, nor to as.
sume any portion of the debts OF the
States lately IN rebellion. 1-.r -t-
The resolutions were adopted in com.
mittee, without opposition, and were
unanimously adopted by the Conyen-
ton.
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