Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-01-30
88 SHEPHERDSOWN JEFFERSON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. SATUR


Dr. TaAncr's Resolutions.
In the House of Delegates, West Va,
Legislature, .br. Tanner, of this coun.
ty, offered the following resolutions on
! the Louisiana affair -
WHEREAS, We the people have had
the modification and the alarm to be-
hold the President of the United States
attempt to subordinate the civil to the
military authority within the limits and
the jurisdiction of a sister State, and
WHEREAS, We are guaranteed, and
secured, by the Constitution and the
Bill of Rights, security and freedom in
>electiohs, theefeye be it
l. Resoiued, That We, the delegates
of the State, of West Virginia, in the
Legislature assembled, do view, with
the greatest emotions of dismay and
horror, mingled with a just sense of
indignation, the unwar-antable inter-
ference of the President of the United
Statss, with federal troops and federal
bayonets, in the Legislative Halls Of our
siseesS SStMe ef Louisiana. 49,
2. Resoiued, That the people of the
United States, in the Convention of
1887, in granting to the Federal Gov
crnment its delegated powers, reserve
to the States and to the people thereof.
the exclusive right to be the judges Of
their own elections.
And that the invasion of the sanctity
of the Legislative Halls of the sover-
eign State of Louisiana, by the Federal
troops to prevent that object is an un-
warrantablc assumption of arbitrary
power upon the part of the United
States, and the petty tyrant at bis com
mand in the Military Department of the
Gulf, that merits the prompt aud the
unqualified rebuke and condemnation
of every honest man, irrespective of
party, in the United States, who has
the welfare of his country at heart.
8. Resouied, That we view the pres
ence Of United State soldiers with
muskets and bayonets ir their hands,
on the floors of the Legislative Halls of
the States, as the death knell to our
political freedom, and as a bold and
tyranical attempt at an Inauguration of
the scenes of the days of Cesar and
Cromwell. that should be promptly met,
not only by the rebuke, but the con-
dign punishment of an insulted and an
indignant people.
4. RssOiusd, That the suggestion OF
the Military Commander of the Depart
ment of the Gulf to his Master at Wash
ington that the people of this Depart
ment, should be declared by act of Con-
gress and the proclamation of the
President, as banditti, 80 that the pun
ishment OF crime, should be left to a
military court martial and TO the mercy
of this would be tyrant is the grossest
insult that has ever been offered to
free and independent people, and only
worthy of the incendiary OF the defence
less homes of the Shenandoah Valley,
and the relentless slaughterer of a little
band Of cheated and betrayed Indians;
and should be treated with that scorn
and contempt that is due from brave
and enlightened people to an ambitious
military usnrper. ........-..
5. ResotUed, That the Bill of Rights
which was made by the States, a con-
dition precedent to the adoption of the
Constitution of the United States, secure
to the people the right of a trial
by jury of their peers; the free
dom of elections; and the right and
privileges, of being the judges of their
own elections, and any further infrac-
tions of those rights and privileges, or
encroachments upon the liberties of the
people may drive them to that point at
which forbearance ceases to be virtue;
and they may be compelled in self de-
fence to convene in their highest SOW
ereign capacity to take such action in
this matter as the safety and the liber-
ties of the people may demand; and
6. RssOiUed, That we, the delegates
of West Virginia, do most solemnly
and earnestly appeal to the good sense,
the judgment, and the wisdom of the
Of all the States of this
Union TO take into consideration the
of recommending to the peo-
pie Of their respective States, the neces-
sity of calling a National Convention of
the people, in case of any further at
abuse Of the Federal authority
which they have SO long aud SO patient
ly borne.
7. Resoiusd, That We send to the
and to the oppressed people
of the State of Louisiana, our most
heartfelt sympathy, and that we most
recommend to them, if posi-
BILE, further forbearance, as any move
upon their part at the present, no mat
ter how successful, could only result in
a pretext for their ,oppressors to estab-
lish military tribunal at which the
blood OF nations would flow, and at
which the votes of all the States might
have to be counted, and from which all
commissions would issue, far the tyranny
that unseated the venerable and grey
s,ired Vaughn and his four peers, may
have he audscity to attempt the sub
version of Republic, and the establish
ment of an Empire upon its ruins.
RoMAxrIc SUIcIDE.-Horace B..
Gibbs, an employee of the Indianapolis
Cincinnati and Lafayette Railroad, in
C;no;nn,,; committed suicide TODAY