Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-07-31
Ohio OkOlOuaIsm.
okolona states.

okolona States.
The Hardin County COhio) Democracy
made the following bold, blunt decIara-
ton of principles at their Convention in
Kenton, August 20, 1864:
HeS0tred, That the States have the
| right to withdraw their consent to the
Union, and assume their independence by
repeating their ordinance of accession and
passing ordinances of secession.
Z" Resoleed, That a State having with
drawn from the Federation with the con-
sent and by a formal act of the people
| can not be invaded with the purpose to
compel its return.
''ResOlUed, That in the application of
these ideas, which in our Judgment are
constl6utionally reasonable, evident and
Just to the conflict between the Union and
Confederate States, we but perform a
natural and social duty in declaring toalI
Whom 1t may concern, that no citizen of
ONO, resident of Hardin County, shall be
compelled to join the Federal army to
consummate the avowed designs of the
| enemies of State Rights, even should il
| prove necessary to give effect to the de-
| clsIon by force of arms
we could fill column after column, page
| aIter page, paper after paper, volume
/ aiter volume, with these resolutions of
similar tone and temper that were sent
ringing through township, county and
state Democratic conventions in j6I-65
with huZzahs throwing up of hats. flut-
/ tering of handkerehiefs, and all and ey-
cry demonstration of approval peculiar to
| political meetings.
| The Democracy of Hardin County were
not alone; the Democracy of Ohio were
not alone in upholding the right of Sc
| cession, in repudiating the principle of
coercion and in recommending resistance
to Lincoln conscriptions.
On the contrary, the Democracy of the
whole wide North scowled their disap-
1Off
beat in harmony with our own.
The platform we have quoted was the
platform of the whole peace people in
1868 and, while standing squarely upon
it, Vallandingham polled vote of 276,-
600 in Ohio alOne-a heavier vote than
any Democratic candidate had ever drawn
from the ballot-boXes of that common
wealth before.
It is the Platform on which the OkolOna
States, in company with the unpurehased
and unpurchaSable millions of the party,
North and South, is summing itself this
18th day of July, 1879.
1t is platform instinct with the vital
and immortal spark that lends life to our
party, to our Sovereign States and to Lib
erty herself,
Yet, 10 and witness! there be few
sneaks, cravens and traitors who have
crawled off this Platform-this Demo-
cratic PIatform-this Okolona States Plat
form, and have deserted it and those who
stand upon it.
When we called upon them in kindly
spirit to come back, they pointed over
their sbOulders at us and sWofe by the
beard of the Prophet that we were in the
pay of the Republican partyl
When we reminded them of the time
when theysstOod knee and shoulder at our
side, they lifted the whites of their eyes
and swore by Allah himself that the
Democratic party had fought, bled and
kerhummixed in behalfiof the NeightOn,
the Phlag and the ilfustrious children of
Africai
When we produced proof of their SYM
pathy with Secession and their opposition
to the war and its results, they forthwith
forged letter and began to manufacture
bigy raw lies in order to weaken the force
and influence of our utterances!
But this isn't all.
While they were swearing by all the
profane gods in the calendar that State
sovereignty was dead, damned and de-
livered, they were simultaneously striv-
ing to fix and swing to plan for starving
the little old ''nation" to death if it didn't
surrender to the States in the matter of
the Army Bill
Yes; and while they were swearing by
the shade of old John Brown that negro
suffrage was the sum total of human wis
| dom and progress they were trying to
| knock the amendments hi west, and
| favOring the repeal of the very statutes
that lent force and effect to those illigiti-
mate lawsI
Honor bright gentlemen of America,
| what do you think of the bastard Democ-
| racy of Y YankeedOm in view of this slice
| from their history?
| Don't you think the Okolona States has
| the dead wood on them for fact?