The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-02-25
[FIom the Columbus JOurnalI
Thurman's Greeting" Resolution.

| celeOfateQ democratic -OUpOOp sem
greeting" resolution of 1861. The mos
expeditions and satisfactory way to an
swer these letters will be to republish tn
main points, obtained from the report o
proceedings in the Ohio State Journal o
January a, 1861.
Two Democratic State Convention
were held in this city in lS6l-in Janu
ary and July The nominations for STATE
officers were made in July The Conven
ton held on the 23d of January, wa.
called, according to DR.. Mount, of Ham
! ilton county. who called the Convention
| to order. to advise together as to the
best course for them the Democrats tc
pursue in the emergency" emergen
cy being the threatened rebellion.
Judge Thomas j. S. Smith, of Mont
gomery county, was temporary President
of the Convention, and committee on
| Resolutions was appointed. Governor Ne
Diary being the committeeman from this
district.
Ii. J. Jewett of Muskingum county.
was made permanent President OF the
Convention, and delivered a speech. in
which he said the object of the meeting
was to aid in averting, if possible, the
pending calamity He said that peace
must be secured by the forbearance Of
one section toward another. and spoke
of the compromise submitted to Congress
by the border slave States as just and
reasonable one, doing justice to the South
without surrendering Northern rights.
He then spoke Of modes of amending the
Constitution, and said that if amendment
was refused bloody conflict or disunion
must ensue.
Judge Thurman followed with q speech
occupying an hour and half in the de-
livery. He delared that the Democracy
were overfowing with the Union senti,
ment; that men in the South had be-
lieved for years that it was to the inter-
est of that section to form a Southern
COnfederacy. and that the North had put
weapons into their hands by anti-slavery
agtation that man was deficient in
understanding who thought that the
cause of disunion was that the South ap-
pretended any overt act of oppression in
Lincoln's administration; that it was the
spirit of the late Presidential contest
that alarmed the South; that no State
had a Constitutional right to secede, but
had the right Of revolution; that the first
blow of civil war would mark the going
out of fifteen States; that they could not
be saved by standing on the Constitution,
but had a right to their opinions, howev-
er wrong they might be; that in the time
of Kossuth's brave opposition to Austrian
despotism the Hungarians had less cause
of complaint against Austria than the
South had against the North, and so on.
for quantity
Judge Thurman was followed by some
person the reporter calls Buffalo Tay
lor." This speaker was interrupted by
the report OF the committee on Resolu-
tions, which was read by judge r. p
htA1. nI hA
The first resolution declared the fealty
of the Democracy to the Union, the Con
stitution and the laws. The second res
olution indorsed the Crittenden resolu-
tions and the Border States" resolu-
tions; favored Cancellation, compromise
and mutual concessions; and expressed
the opinion that the time had arrived
when the people of the whole country
should avail themselves OF that provision
of the Constitution which requires Con
gresS, upon the application of twot thirds
of th4 l. gislatures of the several States,
to call Il Convention Of all the States for
proposing amendments thereto" The
third and fourth resolutions requested
the General Assembly to make applica-
ton to Congress for such a Convention.
The filth resolution reads AS follows:
THURMAN's ORIGINAL RESOLUTION.
ResoLved, That the two hundred thou
sand Democrats OF Ohio send to the peo
Pile of the United States, both North and
South, greeting; and when the people OF
the North shall have fulfilled their du-
ties to the Constitution and the South
then, and not until then, will it be prop
er for them to take into consideration
the doctrine of the right of the coercion
of State; and then, and not until then,
should they attempt to put down the
alleged right of coercion.
There was loud call for the adoption
OF the resolutions in bulk; but there were
also loud objections, and the resolutions
were taken up seriatim. The first, sec
ond, third and fourth resolutions were
adopted.
when the fifth was read, says the
reporter, "there was a murmur of dissat-
istaction." Judge Thomas NJ Key, of
member Of the committee
on Resolutions, entered his protest, de-
claring that the filth resolution would be
to recognize secession. He Of
Tered the following as an amendment:
KEY PROPOSED AMENDMENT.
ReSotUed, That the doctrine of the right
Of secession is not sustained by the Con-.
that the authority for enforc-
Oy the Constitution to the General Gov |
arnment; that the exercise of the au-
5horty as against the people of a seced |
ng State, Is a question of public policy |
10 be determined in view of all existing |
that such power should |
not be exercised by actual force against |
,he people of State, until every peacea-
Die means has been exhausted, and until |
the non-seceding States are prepared to |
perform all their Constitutional oblIga- |
lions, and even then only in cases where |
the general public welfare will certainly |
De promoted thereby.
Judge Ranney explained that the orig /
nal filth resolution meant that the Dem |
1crats would not engage in fratricidal |
strife as long as the North continued to |
refuse to do what was just.
Speeches were made by Connell, of |
Fairfield, and Carter, of Hamilton, after !
which the following amendment, offered |
BY Judge Warden, was accepted:
AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDMENT |
ReSoiUed, That whatever may be the |
true doctrine as to the right of secession, |
we have no occasion here and now to
give expression to views that may embar
rass legislation, cripple the discretion OF
the National Administration. and pre-
vent co operation with the friends OF the
Union, North and South.
THURMAN's SUBSTITUTE.
paragraph is devoted to a speech by
Col Medary, and then the reporter says
Judge Thurman again arose and adroit-
ly disposed of Judge Wardrn's amend
ment by patching up the fifth resolution
as follows, in which shape it passed"
THURMAN's s RESOLUTION AS PASSED.
ResoiUed, That the two hundred thou
Il