Resolutions Of The Ohio State Democratic Convention

Jndge Bartley, from the commitrco on rcsolutiuus, piescntcd the following report, wliicli was adopted by the couimütee by a vote of eighteeii to 01:0 : Tlio democratie party bas over been, and is yet, a law abiding party. It asks nothing büt lts riglits' uuder the constitution and the laws. It resorts to no violation of eitber. It fias a right to all the guáranteos of public and private liberty and of property contained n our fuudamental luw, and' i-t will surrondcr not oue of tbem. It has the rieht to diseuss public measures, and it w'ül disouss theiD. It has the right to propose and advocate that policy whiuli it deerns best for the nation, and it will exereiso that right. It has a right to have its poliey passcd upou by the peoplo at poaeeablo and untrammeled elections, and it will maintain that right ! If found in a nonty, it yields obedier.ee to all lawful yule of the majority. If it be the majority tself, it claims tljat its lawful rule will be rcspccted. Wbether iu a majority or mhiority, it obcys all laws thataie in farce. Thosc that it dialikea it scoks to overthrow, uot by violcnce but by a legitímate repeal. ïliose Lhat it proposcs it seeka to can-y, nut by force, but 'by legal euaotment. Aad what it does iu all these respecta, it demands, and has a right to dfimaud that all others shall do. Thoy oive the same obodience to the constitución aud the laws that demócrata owe. They havo the samo interest to maintaiu : free covcrnmrml-, in liberty to be secure in their houses, persons and property, that demócrata have. It is ueither their interest nor ours that despotism or anarchy should prevail ; and if they wish to avert botb, lot them soe to it in time, that tliev gire no occasion for eithor. We wilt do our duty; let them reaiémber to do theirs. Iu 'view of the circumstaiïces that have brought us together, it is hereby Resolved, That the will of the people is the foundation of all free government ■ that to give effect to thia will, free' thought, free speech, and a free pross are absolutely indispensable. Without free discussion thore is no certainty of sound judgmont. Without sound judgment tb ere can be no wise government. That it is an importanc oonstitutional right of the people to disouss all measures of their governmont, and (o approve or disapprove, as to their iudgnient seoms nght. That they havo a like right to prepare and advocate tbat policy which, in their judgment is best, and to argüe and vote against wbatcver policy seems to them to viólate the constitutioo, to impair their liberties, or to be detri' mental to their welfare. That thoso and all othor rigbts guaranteed to them by tho constitution are their rigbts i-j time of war as well as in time of peaco ; and of far more valué and neeessity in war than in peace ; for, in peaee, hberty, secunty, and property are seldom eudangered ; in war tbey are ever in peril. That we now say to all whom it may concern, not by way of tbreat, but calml.y and firmly that we will not surrender theso rights, nor submit to their foroible violation. We will Oboy laws ourselves, aud all othcrs must oboy them. Thafc tbere is a manifest diflference between tho administration of the government and the government itself. The government consista of the civil and political institutions created by the constitution, and to it the people owe allegiance. The administration are but the agents of the people, subject to their approval or condemnation, according to the merit or demerits of their aets. Thafc, in the exereise of the right to disagree with the Federal Exeeutive, we enter our solemn protest against the proclamaron of the President of the u onecí fttiites, dated the lst of Jan. 1863, by whioh he assumes to emaneipateslaves ia oertain States, holding the saine to be nuil and void. That we doohire our determined oppositjon to a system of emancipation by the State upon compensaron to be made out of the treasury of the United States, as burdensome upon the peoplo, unjust in its vcry nature, and wholly without warrant of the constitution. That we declare that the power whieh has recently been as?umed by the President, whereby under guise of military neoessity he hns proclaimed and extended, or asserts the right to proclaim orextend, martial law over States whero war doea not exist, and' has suspended the writ of haheas corpus; it is unwarranted by the constitution, and its tendenov is to subordínate the civil to the military authority and to subvert our free governrnont. That we doem it proper fnrtlicr to declare that we, together with the loyal people of the State, would hail with pleasure ftnd dclight any manifestations of a desire on tho part of the seeeded States to return to their allegi anoe to the govornment of the Union; and, in suoh event, we would cordially and earnestly co-operate with tiie.n in the resloration of poaco and tho procureinent of sueh proper guarantees as would give securitv to all their interests and righta. That tho soldiers eomposiog our arniies merit the warmcst thanks of the nation. ilicir country callcd, and nobly did they rpapond Living, thcy sliall know a nation's gratitudo; wounded, a nation's care ; and, dying, thcy sliall live in our niomory, and monumento sbail be raised to touch posterity to honor tlio patriots and héroes who offered tlicir livcs at thoir country'a altar. Thoir widows and orphans sliall bo adoptcd by the nation, to be watched over and cared for as objects fully worthy of the nation's guurdianship, Thai ühio will adhere to tbo constitution and tho Union as the best, it may be tho last, hope of popular froedom, aud for all wroDgs which may have been committed, or cvils which maj cxist, will seek redress uuder the constitution and within the Union, by the peaoefal but powerful agency uf tho suilragcs of a í'ree pcople. Thai wo hail with ploasure and hopo natiifestations of conservative sontiinont among the people of tho Northern States in their olections, and regard tho same as tho oarncst of a good purpose upon their part to co-operate with alllojal oitiüons in giving socurity to the righta of every section, and niaintaining the Union and the constitution as thcy were ordained by the fouuders of tho liepublio. That. whenovei' t beeonies practicable to obtain a eocventiort of all er of threefcurtha of tho StMes, guoh body ahculd be conteood (br tlio purpose of proposing such ameudmenta to tbo Federal coristftution as exporienoo bas provcd to bo necessary to maintüin tbat instrument in the spirit and meaning into'ided by its founclers, and to provide against future convulaions aud wars. That we will eariicstly support cvery coiiafitufiotial mensure tending to preservu the Union of the Statos. No iiiod have a gieater interest in its preservaron I taan we aave. Nono dcsiro it more. Tliore aro none who will make greater sacrificas or endure inore than we will to aeeomplish (hut end. We aro, as we ever Lave boen, the devoted friends of the constitution and tlio Union, and we havo 110 sympatlry with the cuemics of cither. That the arrest, imprisonment. tended trial, and actual banishnient of C. L, Vallandigham, a citizen of ühio, not bclongjng to the land or navl foroes of the. United States, nor to the military in actual service, bj alleged military authority, for no other pretended orime than that of uttoring words of legitímate criticism upan the conduct of the administration in power, and of áppealing to the ballot box for a change of policy, said arrest and military trial, taking place whore cour 1 8 of law are open and unob struetcd, and for no act done within tho sphere of active military operations in carrying on the war, we regard it as a palpable violation of the following provisiona of the eonstituiion of the United States : " Congress shall make no law abridging tho freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of t]io people peaeeably to assemble and to petition governmentfor a redrees of grievances. Tlie right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and eeizures shall not bo violated, and no warranta shall be issued upon any probable oauee, supportcd by oath or aflirmation, and particularly dcsoribing the place to be searcbed and tlio persons or thirigs to be seized. No persou sliall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infsmous crime, unless on a prcsentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, exeept in cases arisin? in the land or naval forces or in the mifitta wheu in actual service in time of war or public danger. In all criminal proseeutions the accused shall cnjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by ui impartial jury oftbe State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertnined bv law." And we furthermore denounce said arrest, trial aud punishment as a direct insult ofl'ored to the soveroiguty of the people of ühio, by whose orgauic law it is decidcd that " No person shall be transported out of the State for any offense committed within the same." _ That ö. L. Vallandigham was, at the time of his arrest, a prominent eandidate for nomination by the democratie party of Ohio for the office of Governor of the State ; that the democratie party was fully competent to decide whether he was a fit man for that nemination; and that the attempt to deprive them of that right by his arrest and banishment was an unmerited imputation upon thcir intelligence and loyalty, as well as a violation of the constitution. That we respectfully, but earnestly, cali upon the l'residont of the United States to restore C. L. Vallandigham to his home in Ohio ; and that a committee of one from each Congressional district of the State, to be selected by the Biding olhcer ot this convention, is hereby appointed to present their application to tlio President. That the thanks of this convention are hereby tendered to Jloratio Seymour, Governor of New York, for his noble letter in relation to the arrest of Mr. Vallandigham, and the President of this convention is hereby directed to cornmunicate a copy of this resolution to Governor Seymour. ïhat the establishment of "h military government over loyal States where war does not exist, to superscde the civil authorities and suppress the freedom of speech and of the press, and to interfere with the elective franchise, ís not only subversive of the constitution and the sovcreignty of the States, but the actual inauguration of revolution. That it is the sworn duty of the Governor of the State to protoct her citizens in the enjoyment and exercise of all their constitutional rights ; and we have beheld with deep huiniliation and regret not only the failure of Duvid Tod, Governor of Ohio, to perform that duty, but, wiiat is still worse his activo participations in the violation of tlieso rights. That we denounce as traitors tlm olition Jacobina who are seoking to bring about civil war in tlio loyal States, with the view of turning, if possible, the bayonots of the army against tho breasts of the fathers, subjooting these States to a military surveillance and dominion. That we denounce as libellera of the democratie party, and enemics of their country, the men wlio are engaged in ropi-esenting the democratie party as wanting n sympathy with our soldiera in the field. It is a baso slander upon human nature to assert that democrats. wlio havo hundrods of thousands of brothers and sous in the army, do not syrnpatliizo with them ; and it ia an outrage upon the democratie party, to assort that it is not the fiieud of its gallant dcfenders. Tliat the oonduot of Brigadier Gene ral Masón, the military commandant at Colurnbus, and of the officors commanding the provost-guard, in preventing all appearance of military restraint upon the proceedings of tbis convention, shows that thejr havo a just appreciatiou of the OODBtitution of theis country and the vights of the people, and that they are wise and patriotio offieers; and that their conduct on this ocoasiou is ia striking contrast wifli the contrary ocoductof the military auttorities upoti the occasion of the late democratie mectiug at Indiunapolis, and we talco pleasuro in exprossing our confidence in Gen. Blasón and the oflicürs and soldiers under his command. tW GrBsligbtiog on a gigantic scale is about to ho tried in Paris. It is proposed to light the wholoof Avenue de l'Imperatricft! by plaoing huge burnars on the top of the Are do Triompho.