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THEjOIIIOJTAR.
'Published at Ravenna Portage Co., Ohio.
WMAN W. IIAl.l, Proprietor.
. -; . Term. I,50 per annum.
.. .' Rales of .Uverl'uing. .
One Square (or less) one week, - 90 50
One Square, vio weeks, 75
One Square, three weeks, -------- - .1 00 ;
Each subsequent insertion, -------Cio
A Liberal discount made to those who advertise by
the year. ....:- '
ID -No paper jfiseontinaed until arrearages are paid,
cieept at the option of the Publisher. -
BUSINESS -DIRECTORY.
FL'BLIC 0FFICEES1S PORTAGE C0USTY.
Luther Day, Common Picas Judge, 9th Dist. 2nd
Sub-Division, eomposed of Trumbul Portage
.-and Mahoning counties.
Ebenezer Spalding, Clerk: -'"-'-
Horace M. Clark. Deputy Clerk.
Luther L. Rruwo, Probate Judge.
James VVoodard, Sheriff. y
iohn G. McBiide. Auditor.' ,
H. C. Hawkins, Deputy Auditor.
Charles Green, Treasurer.
jRodoIphus Bard, Recorder. , ' ' .,'"
Saml. Sirawder, Prosecuting Attorney.
.4obo M. Tilden, Coroner.' ' '
Samuel D.. Harris, Surveyor. ' ! .-
. Abel Fowler, 'Auctioneer.
- Andrew Jackson, Corner of Insolvents.
Hiram Spencer,
Joel-H. Curtiss,
Moses A Birchard
' Commissioners t
Nelson Eggleston '.
Andrew Jackson, j
Dr. J. G. Willis, J
School Examiners.
John B. King, -,
; Lyman Hine. -";
William Crane,
DirecCs Co. Infirmary.
Of leers of th Panzers' Insurance Company of
:. ' U , .Portage Cooaty. ;. -:;
Richard J. Thompson, President. ''.".'y y'y
David M'lntash, Vice President.,
Henrv A. Swifi, Secretary. ';
Eros P. Brainerd. Treaturer.
Directors David M'lntosh. Eli Booth, Alvah
TJdall, Moses' Bunily, Jr., Samuel S. Spicer,
Jiewis k,. Booth.
. . Ofricers Portag Co. jgritnltnral Society. :
David Mclnloah,' President, s
... ,Ktios, P. Brainerd. Treasurer.
. "AfsonA. Harris, Secretary,
Board of Government. .' . .
David Mclnlnsh, R'nnsom A. GiIIpII, Ezra P
Taylor.. Enos P. Brainerd, Richard J. Thomr-
ann, WnlHce Williamson romeroy - Reed,
Marcus F.. Spelmnn. Bpr.j. F. Pardee. '"'
Officers Portage Go. P.r. State Bank of Ohio.
.. it. U. Campbell. President. -
J. H. Egbert, Cashier ' ' .
Mii! Arrive at and Depart from Ravenna
f-. : . as joitu'tbii ' - . . ..
Cleveland Mail arrives at"10 a. m. Daily :
, - '- do do departs at 3j p. Ur do . '
Pittsburgh do arrives at 5 a.m. do .
do do departs at 1 1 . M. lio
Wnrren ' ' do nrrives nt 3 P.M. ' do.
' do " do departs at 1 1 a.m. do '. " '
-. Canlon ' do. arrives Ttiesday-s&Snturdays I p.m.
do do departs !loiiitays&;l' ridays 1 !j a.m.
Chnrilon do arrives Wednesdays Friday 4 p. si.
.. . do do departs Tuesdnys&Thursdayi-a a.m.
,. Gnrrettsville departs, Mondays, Wednesdays and
Saturdays at J p. n. Arrives same days at? p. v.
'' Dr. J.-G. Willis. -
. Physician antt Surgeon SireetsborovOI io.
' " IK IVstU, 1. 15.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Office in F. W. SeymouVs building on the pul.Iir
nqtiare, ncnrly opposite the Court House.
Jno.'Hoane Welliiinn, Itl. I.
IMIYSIUIAN AND SURGEON.
, OJict on Main street, No. 109. , .
, II. II. Wnit, IT J. II
" PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
- Rate!. Portagk County, Ohio.
S3" Office at the old atnml of S treat or & f fait.
Ravenna, March 6, 1850..
Dr. IS. T. Spellman, '
enfist Raveuna Ohio.' Olfire in Seymour's Block
, . ovor the Poet Othce.
. JH. Uirchard & J. W. Tyler,
ATTV8 ft COUNSELLORS AT LA W,
Bare agreed to become jointly interested, in tlieir
professional business in Portage county. ."They may
' ' be consulted at Uavenna during the terms of court
. or at tlieir offices in vacation. . .
.Address in vacation Birchard & KutfnT, Warren,
O, or Birchard & Tyler, Franklin Mills, XJ.-
' Itierce Sc. Jcilries.
Attorneys at Law. Office over Swift's Drug Store, ortpo
, . site the Court House. - - . -
F. W. TAl'PAN,
Attorney St Colnsrllor at Law, Si. So-
. licitor, itj Chanceky. - : :
Ofice nearly opposite the Prentiss House, Ravenna. O.
KSAW.I STBAWM
P. P. Brow b
' Slravrdcr &f Brown.-.
' Attorneys at Law Ravenna, ' Ohio Office at tbe
- , ' Court House.. " . ..
II. 11. Willard.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
AND SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY.
- - ; Palmyra; Portage County, Olxo.
August 21, 1819. - . . 3
- Andrew Jarkoii.
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW
"' . And Solicitor in Chancery,
' RAVENNA, OHIO.
Collections and all other business entrusted to his
care will receive faithful ana prompt attention.
ANDREW JACKSON, NOTARY PUBLIC.
Office in 8eymour' Block. "
J. I. RAKNEY.
' Kanncy fc Taylor ;
ATTORNEYS & Counsellors at Law and Solicitors
r . - - in Chancery, Ravenna, Ohio.
" t i OfSceover SeymotiL'sjIore.
, ' JDarius X.yiu.111.
- ATr orneY at la w,'
RivEKWA, tORAGs Co., Ohio. ' -''
HT Office tn.HoodVB lidding, over S. &.&. It. A.
Kavenna, June 1,1819.
. tf-2fi
IS. 1. Spalding'.
Attorney at Law Cleveland, Chio Office In I'ar
. sons' Block Superior Street. "
: U. M. SOMEKV1I.L13,'; y
- r- . T A X Za o n. .. -"' -
HAS removed his shop a few doors west of the post
;m :r ' office? Ravenna, Ohio. -
; A & U A diillett
Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware,
Iron, Nails, Glass, tie., north side pub
' lie square, Kavenna, Ohio.
V VV Seymour
Dealer in Dry Goods, Beady Made Clothing
Groceries, Hardware, Iron, Nails, Crockery,
, . Boots, Shoes &c, north side pudlic square,
Uavenna, Ohio.
ltowell & to
Dealers hi Dry Goode, Groceries, Hardware,
Crockerv. &r... Vlnn'o ninntr itr.in
' 'N. Havenna. Ohio.'
II 1. Xr. it n.iv
Dealer, m Fancy Dry Goods, "Bonnets, Hate
Caps, Boots and Shoes, Ready Made Clothinr,
Carpeting; &c, at their New Store, Main si
east of the l'ubbc Square, . .
VOLUME XXIII..-Nnml)er 42
. ' licnt. Ctrenncll & Co
Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Iron. Nails
Hardware. Glass ie- Franklin. Ohio.
C fc J C Prentiss
Dealer in Dry Goods. Groceries, Stores. Hard
, ware, Iron, Nails, GL-iss, Ac, Brick Block,
west sid? public square. R avenna. Ohio.
' . IS. T. Kiclsardsoii,
Denier in Knglish and American Hardware, Sad
dle. Harness and toiariage Tr mminsj, Iron,
Kails, Steel. Ac. &c:nt the old stand
' of Macon Sf Brainerd, Ravenna Ohio. '
THE qualified electors of Portage County, Ohio, are
hereby notified io meet at the usual place of holding
. Elections in their several towiihiiis, on 'i'UKSUAY, ttie
" 12th of Octoljer next, helwcen the hour of li o'cIockA. M.,
anil II o'clock e. M., of that day, lor the purpoiie of electing
7 one Judqeof t!ie Supreme Coilt, one Mcinber of the Board
of Publie VVorti5, one County Comtuissiouer, one Co:inj
- Auditor, one County RccordiT; one Slierin", one JfOer,
w one Uiictlar of the (ieSnft t"BriMrT- 'i o"e Reprcseu.
tativelo (k)ngre3 from th! litii Coagressional llistricL
And the quuliAed Electors of each ol the several Assess
ment llitricts No. one. two, three, aad four. corrcoiKl
iug wilil the ranges of townships in said County, No. 6. 7,
e. and 9. ere also required to meet at tlie time and places.
- above lue: ttoned, and elect ior eachof said Ulstricis, one
Llislrict Aticss-or, (each Diptrict electing itsotin Asses
sor.) agreeable to the requirements of the Jld Section of
the "Act for the Assessment and taxation of all propeity
in this Stile, and lor levyiti? tales thereupon, according
to its true value in money." parsed April 13th, ItAi.
Grand and Petit Jnrors.
Notice is also hereby iriven lo tlie Trustees of toe several
township, that the following is the annual apportionment
and number of Jurors, w hk h lliey are required to return
with (he Toll Books for the term A. D.
PP.81 LriHTlB.M -
Towuships. 1 wiiite I Mo. of No. to be
T 1 i Males- I furors. returncil. ''
. Atuater. . . ... . . - 2W 1.4
Anrora ' 1W 3 - 2
Briinfiehl... . 250 . 5 2
' Charlestown 104 4 I
lleerrteld S2 S , 4
Edinburgh !SSt 5 4
Franklin., ... . - 3S0 '1 S .4
Freedom....:... 253 5 a
: iltrain 24 5 . , 4 ; ;
Mantua.. 2ti9 - S 4
Nelson......... 317 6 .6; - s .
Palmyra 2112 5 1
, Paris L. . 4 .- . ; 1 : - i
Randolph " 4118 8 4
Ravenna-. .... . 11 5
Koo ston n- - 290 6 .. 5 . .
Slialcrsvillc 280 : 5 : 1. '
Streetsborongh. . . 230 4 3
"Z Suffit'ld.. . . ., ... 297 , S '
Windham -j 4 . 3 .
50114 ( 1(18 67 -,
Names now iu tlie Box
, Atwatcr JaiiMs VVeblier, Jr. , - . - :
Aurora Samuel f. ilu-kox.
IrMjiticltI--lclsau Dmber, Bcnjaoiia Catly, George
Gwsivfi.
. Olmrlesiown Levi B. Soulhworlh, Amaniah U at field,
H.-irvey W- CuriUt. .
Dcertiolii David D. Gilbert. - .
Edinburgh James Ramsey.
Franklin Soionion Cole. ' - - - 1 '
. Freedom J:icou Thnycr. J. S. Delano. .
' IlirnuiT-WHIiiun C. Baker.
Mantua Dauiel S. Lfidd.
NcIsO.l " . r-.' - ' -
1 ' a' in y rn Tn y jj. -X. TLoiuUi f fodericfc WrCstovcrr Lo-
n. James Davw. ' -
i arii umau H WtrriU, WiUiam CHudson, B. Selby,
Jr. . .... . , - :
Randoldpli-Jiistin Beldiiiff, Bcder Goss, Henry Brum
moIi. Jmfia ft ut ti?. - - ' "
Ravenna Lnarin Hewey, Solomon Slaughter, Whitinj
Carter, Zeiins Judr, Charle Judd, Samuel D. Stebtiua
lEootsiown Ashe D. Gurley.
Shilerdvillc Henrj Veils, Wm. L. Coleman, Jaihcs
Sr.-rlinir. ..
1 Strpem!crnnah TTmry-J. Pcapp. ' ' '. ' '
S:tifiVl I Avi-ry Cr-s. Attoii Ailauis, lit ram Spencer.
Wiiifihiim Manticw 1 IJiiley.
For d tit ret ol"t'rui'e3 in this case, fee Uie "Act to rctru-
l.i tr the c.tcticiicf State; and County otEceri,' passed
.Jlav Vol. r.. General Iiwe, le-W. ; " .
:ivii mulcr my hand, at KavcH)H Uiis 1st day cf Sep
tem'HT, A. D. 1-3 i.
J A MRS WOORARP, SherilT.
THE : GOLDEN CHAIN, or Links .f
Frici.dsHp. for 'dd l'Vllons the world over. Jiditcd .
by MissC. B.. Porter. -f--, ;T :
"Three links amid the Gohlen fetters,
That heart lo heart entwine. "
HEARTS and HOMES, by Mr.'E.1is'; Fam
ily ,ilonitor, by Mrs.: Eil s; The Ileirof Wast-Way-land,
a Tale by Mary lion ill. ...... .-:
.THE SCARLET. LETTER; a Roroanco by
Natlraniel latl:ome. '. ;
JAY'S MORNING and Evening Exercises;
Berrian's Family Prayers. . .
PULTE'S DOMESTIC -PHYSICIAN
(Homoeopiitliic.) . ..
BIBLES, laigei nnd small, a good assortment.
METHODIST HYMN BOOKS, luige aud
small. ; -..'..-.
FREMONT'S EXPLORING Expedition.
SIR, JOHS FRANKLIN add the Arctic Re
gions. . ... , ,
MORAL, RELIGIOUS. Scientific, Poetical,
Biographical, Historical und Miscellaneous Works,
a great variety ; ' --, '
FOWLER'S WORKS, bound, and in cheap
pamphlet editions.
IO; a Tale of the Oldan Fane, by K. Barton.
GOLD PENS A good article.
C LOVER NOOK, by Alice Carey. -
.WOMAN'S FRIENDSHIP; a Story of Do
mestic Life, by Grace- Aguilar; .The Vale of Cedars,
or TheMartyr, by Grace Aguilar.
WASHINGTON IRVING'S WORKS; J.
Fenimore Cooper's .Works; Walter Colton's Whrks.
. ECLECTIC DISPENSATORY of the Unit
ed Stutes.' For sale nt. - .- " : -' J
: HALL'S BOOK STORE.
Ang. 17, 1852. . . ,.
Af f 1 i c l e d K e a d . "
'risiladelpliia Ifl4lical House,
. - KSTABLlSAKH 15- TEARS AGO, BY
1 16. KI IV Ifc K t i IV,
North-West Corner of Third and Union streets, be
tween Spruce and Jinc streets,
PHILADELPHIA. , ...
FIFTEEN years of extensive and uninterrupted prac
tice stent in this ciiy, have rendered Dr. K. the
most expert and successiul practt lone. lar and near,
the treatment all diseases of a private naturo. Persons
uOueted wiih ulcers up on the botiy, Ihroat. or lefts,
pain in "the head or bo Lea, mercurial rheumatism.
strictures, crave!, disease anting from Youtmut execs
ses or impuriliesof the blood, -whereby the constitution
has become eitleebl jit. arc nil treated wan success.
lie who places himself under t.lie caro of Dr. K. may
religiously confide in his honor us a gentleman, and
conudeiiily reiy upon nic skhi as a physician;-.
TrfK A'AltTICULAR JYOTICE.
Young men who bare injured themselves by a cer
tain practice indulzed in a habit frequently learned
from evil conipaniont, or al school the eilects of which
are nightly feh.evcn when asleep, and destroy both
mmd and body should apply immediately Wenhness
onu constiTuiionai ao ouny, loss 01 muscular energy,
physical lansitude and general prostration, irriuibiliiy,
and all -nervous aU'ections iudiqestion, slnguishncsa
ol tlie liver, and every disease m any way connected v. lib
the disorder o: the pro-crcuiive fitnciioiia, cured and
iuij vigor reatureu.
- read;:
Youth and Manhood;
A VIGOROUS LIFE: OR A I'UEMA-l VRE
- , DEATH. , ... ,
Kinkclin on Soli-Prr-servation ! I
This Book just piililished. is filled Willi useful inform
ation, on the inhrmiiies anu diseases pt me uencrauve
Drcans. It axidrest:c.-u.self -aiiko lo outh, Mantiood
and Old Ace, and should be read by all.
; The value, ad vice nnd impressive warning-it gives
will prevent years ot. misery anu.aulierinir, unu sav
nnnualiv thousands of lives. -
Parents by Teadinc it; will learn now to prevent mc
desiruelion ot their cliimren.; r . i !
A ruhulfaiiee of 25 ccnls. enclosed in a letter ad
dressed to lr. Kinkclin. north-west corner of I Inn
und Union streets,! between Spruce aud I'ine, I'lnla-
delphia, will ensure a book, under envelope, per return
OI mini.
Persons nt a distnnco may nddrestf Dri K. 'by letterj
iposi-pnin; anu tic cured nt Home. .-, . . ,. . '
l'neknges of mtdieines.dircttinns, Ac. forwarded, by
Benuing a reiuiiiance, auu put up secure from damag
or curio8itv. . , .. 1
Uook-sellers, News-Aeents. IrpHlnra l'inn..r. nnl
all others supplied with the above work, at very low
May 84. 1B52. 1IB9-1
A R I) V
OF VIJjLAGE LOTS.
MAS been opened this week in the vacant tract d
making the most desirable sites for residences, an ihi
best part of the pleasanteet town in Ohio.
These lots are for sale atgreat bargains, and those who
wuu to secure inem, must make application soon, io
Ill-.IMCY A
BVVIKT. or
KAMUKL J,
May 25th, 1853.
IIOI'KJNS.
1169
S
ta
A Family Sc-rspaper, EcvoteJ
. - For the OJJo Star.
Son it of tbe Agitators.
Cease to agitate ! " We will,
When the slave whip's sound is still;
WlTen no more on gTiddess limb,
. Fetters print; their circlet grim;
"When no hound athirst for blood.
Scours the thorny Georgian wood;
"When no mother's pleading prayer,
" On the sultry Southern air.
Qui re ret h out in accents wild
" Master, give me back my child ; "
In the day w!ien men shall be
' Brethren, equal born, r.n 1 free;
Day for which we work an 1 wait,
We will Cease, to agitate !
When our Statute boohs proclaim
To the world no more our shame,
And a freeman rights shall hold ' '
- Dearer than the Judas gold; "- . 1 .
When the Polar Star shall give - , -, ? .
Light to the Jast fugitive,
. When our border Lakes shall rise
On the last lone bondman's cye .
And tlieir waves for him no more
Haste to clasp the Northern shore; -
In the day when men shall b .
t- Brethren, equal borp, and free,
Day for which we work and wait;
We will " Coase to aritate.M
We find the following1 touching poetry in ranly to
the well known song, Ben Bolt," in the Louisville Jour
ual, which has a host of contributors of beautiful poetry.
.BBS BOLT'S REPLY:
'' " ' on,
Ah! Yes, I Bcmeinbtr. -
Ah! yes I remember that name v.it'j delijjht, , .
Sweet Alice, so cherished and dear;
I seek her grave in the pale hour of ni!jht, "
-And moisten the turf with a tear, '
" And there, when the heart is orburdeed with woes,
I wander and muse ali'alone, .t - ,
t And lpn for the time when my head shall repose,
. "Where " sweet Alice lies under the stone."
I roam through the wood where sojcyoiw we strayed,
And recline on the green-sunny hill: i
' All things arc 83 bright in tliat beautiful glade,
But my heart is all lonely and chill; . -.
'.The hand that so fondly I pressed than in mine,
". And the lips that were melting in love '
Are cold in the grave, and I'm left to repine,'
'Till I meet with sweet Alice above.
. '
, Ah! well I remember the school-house and brook,
" And the master so kind and so true,"
The" wild blooming flowers in the eoul shady nnok,
So fragrant with incen$e and dew,
' But I wept not fcr these though so dear to my heart,
- ' Ifor the friends that Imve'left us alone ....
;" The bosom will heave and the tear-drotis will start,
For 'Rawest Alice Ees voder the stone." ' ' '
SinxF.T Dyku.
THE OHIO STAR.
'-' . Gen.; JL. V. BJcrcc."
. G.sn Bierce has issupd, in handbill form, the fol
lowing lit fence. . It will be seen that he is in ear
nest, bold and brave.' A vetean Democrat, he
will not quietly submit to party ostracism for his
firm and consistent adherence taDBioci?iti3',prin-
c p 63. l lie party must Have sadly rJegiem!ed,
w;ien a memoer oi it is denounce 1 ami pioscrit'eil
tor l.ts faithful ndherenco to. tl.oS ,,, inci,. es of !
rquahty, justice and humanity lint) down by J,.ffr- j
son himself, in the great chart of Ameriean. Da- j
nioeracy. the immortal Declaration.
, Ge. Bierce has been coaxed, entreated, threat- i
cned, itmd blandly approached with seductive oflrs
of i ffice, pruvidtd Fierce is elected, but that stern
nd determined Democrat, unswayed by flattery,.
unmoved by party anxiety, unnwed by threats, and
nseduced by the prolTeied bribe of office, stands
forth in the attitude of incorruptible patriotism.and
from party edicts appeals to the justice of the peo-
Tha honest minded people, the oncrrupted and
incorruptible Jeffersonian Democracy, will, it can
not bn doubted, candidly: consider and weigh the
defence of their old associate and compatriot in
many a Democratic struggle. We have no inter
est in the matter, save ihnt which pertains to the
public generally, but we are willing to give tho g d-
lant General a chance to speak to his old friends,
hioush our columns. ....
Eicrcc's Defence.
'"' Akros, Sept.. 19, 1852.
John Hahmon, Esq .
Sir: Your favor came to hand hist Sifu-d-iy,
but a press of busioe.is has prevented au earlier
auswer. As your Iptter is but one of many I huvo
received, of the same tenor, you will p irdon me
for nnswei mg it thus publicly, as this must stand
for an answer to all ethers.
Yousay you have been shown a letter of mine,
n which 1 declare my intention to be an independ
ent candidate for Congress and that, you regret
tho course both ou my account and the p irty that
you feel it a duty to oflTar me "a teaming" against
turning traitor to my old friends, and my party
nnd you hope I "will acquiesce in ihe will of the
party as expressed by the delegation." ' '
From the friendly spirit in which your letter is
written, I will answer it at length-a course 1 had
not intended to pursue toward those vyho havo as
sailed, my principles, and impugned my motives. -
I z.;n a candidate and do not feel that, in taking
the course I have, I have furnished evidence to
prove me "it traitor to my old frien If, or tho party."
I became a member of the democratic party in'
1829, and have been so ever since. I have worked
in the traces, on the neap, with single line, nut!
double lino. In short, ho man can poiut to tho
liirtfi or place, when I ever bulked. D.tring the hist
twenty-three years I have votod nothin hut "the
straight out democratic ticket," when I have voted,
but circumstances have, at times, prei-entod my
voting. I, sir, proclaimed myself fir J ackson when
there were but 700. democrats in Portuga County,
then embracing nearly all of Summit. I sustained
him through the columns of your paper, " i he
Western Courier," in his opposition. to tha United
States Bank-, when many, who now proc'aim me
no democrat, were in open opposition to Jiini, or,
dastard like, dare not show their colors. ...
In 1830, when tha democrats of Rivenna, as
well aa the whigs, signed a Petition for a Bank
there, I aloke opposed it, and sent a remonstrance
to the" Legislature, with' but one name on it, which
Col. Mednry nfterwards got from the Legislative
files, and puMisnod' without comment, before ho
daro fake anti-bank ground. I was fighting against
chartering Banks, and granting, special privileges,
when Gen. Lahm, who has lately been : stumping
your county, and denouncing ma as no democrat,
was in the Senate of Ohio voting for a ro-c barter
of the Wooster Bank, that rotten old concern that
stood just long enough to swindle the people out
of over $70,000, and died again. ' '
Gen. Lahm now claims to be, par excellence, a
dcnycral, while the old Jaclt3on men are douounc-
to Central Intelligence, S&eiilUnjipns Reading,
RAVENNA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2.9,
ed as Whigs, Free3ailers,nnd. Abolitionists. I ro j
far to my course, far you. as Editor of the paper
in which I published ray views, know all about it.
If what I sttte is untrae'youn contradict it, for
you, as Editor, have known nr)f course from the
time I wrote my first political essay. s
Where has been your Congressional candidate
duii-ig these twenty-three years, that I have. been
struggling in a hopeless democratic minority?
What has he done to build up the party? What
great prinv'tpk'S has he advocated? When, and
whsrewasii? .-
You, sir, and the Democratic party first knew
him, z" iio'ilio il man, about two yearsago, when
tho democratic piw'j cf this courriy nominated that
sterling democrat G.io. Lilly.5for the Constitution
al C. invention, and Judge Bliss drove him off" the
track ; by com'ng ont a eandid.ite;giainst him, and
daspairiae f demoerJfifid" votes, . running on the
tmngro! ticket, wiih George Kirkum, a Whig, and
thus elf fcated the democrats-, aad elected W. S. C.
Olis. ' : -
Is that what fits him to be tlie democratic candi
date fir Congress, and makes it treason to the par
ty to oppose him ? '
The next fall he got out a ticket it opposition
to the Democratic Ticket, and by .dividing the par
ty defeated the democrats, and elected Mr. Finch
the whig candidate to the Legislature, who, io
turn, voted fr Mr. Bliss Judge !!
Will this give him merit in your eyes, so thnt
you deem it a "duly lo team" me ngaisnt fulling
it traitor to the party in opposing him ?
Last fall he offered to defray the expenses of a
peisoo to slump the County ng.iinst the democratic
nomineos but, failing in this, he left the county,
on tbe morning of the election, and would not vote
at all. .
Are these the merits that m ike him so dear to
the party, that it is treason to oppose him 1 I,
sir, do not so understand my party allegiance.
, But, sir, anxi m to produce harmony in the par
ly, at the opening of the present ennvass, I pro
posed to withdraw my name, if Jndge Bliss .would
It's, aud let thi people act free from any bias for
e'ter or that the friends of Judge Bliss, and my
self, might get together and designate wlrch should
ba the candidate, nodi p'e led myself to nbide
the result. This proposition I fust made to R. A.
G.llett, of your town..- I -next authorized Lucian
Sni 't, of this town, to submit those propositions to
Jude Bliss and I next sent them to Judge Biiss
through R. O Himnvmd, but they were rejected,
and through R bait Jackson, Und James Chiistv,
of this town, I receiveJ tha reply that, if I was
nominated. Judge Bliss said he would oppose me.
.. T.i d.-fUat the democrats in two successive elec
tions, and threaten Jo oppose me if I was nominat
ed, wero viitus that entitled him. in your eslima
lion .to a nomination for me, under such circum
stinces, to oppose him is treason to the party !.'!
Oh consistency !" thou ai t a jewel. " " !,
Down to the time of the Uoioutown convention,
took no part in politics. I did not vtdt a single
townshiprnor mako a sppeeh on poliiical suV juctJ.
Judge Bliss visited every itfj.rftlup iBtjUisiruunty,
ny o y,mr,( d sorno in St.rk, stumping tor
i,:....i,- .....i i . i,:.aiip , .. .:;
ha e.rlvCiSe j wh PBon5. ' No.-'mfieid.
wil thedem .cnits'areiiiostlyTotuched, .with
,ove' (lf Uberty, ktt pUdged himscf and yifto
vote ,he Freesoi, countrticket. To Solomon 'cl-
ony, of this town, he was pledged as u thorough
Abolitionist. To,0. P. Brown, of R ivenna, he
declared the Fugitive SI ive Law and Platfjrm,
ivere right. To R. Jackson, and others, of this
town, ho opposed the uhove Freosoil ticket as Ab
olitionioU. ... ; . , r '.- . - , . . ;
: In Stow hn got up a meeting, nnd appointed a
(kd gate to Umontowni it week before Iho "time
appointed, and with iut ihe knowledge of the dem
ocrats of the township. In Green township he
did the same thus appointing three delegates to
ihe Uniontown convention "th it the democrats of
ihe townahip knew nothing of.
-..'Io this, town he went round, on the morning of
ihe day the delegates were to be chosen, nnd re
quested those he supposed to be "favorable to his
projects to bo on hand at precisely four, as they
should then appoint the delegates. - Mr. Scott, of
this town, expressing some-doubt ns to the propri
ety of the course, Judge Bliss remarked that per-'
haps '-he was- not tha right kind.:' Judge B'iss
g'it "the right kind" together at fijur o'clock, or
ganized, hnnieJ rounl tickets, ready prepared, in
one hat, received ihem in another, counted them,
and adjourned before tha democrats of the town
ship got io to the convention. Thus two- more
delegates were appointed to the convention with
out the knowledge, or voice of "tho party."
At the Uniontown convention Tvvinsburgh had
no delegate, but Mr. Pitkin, who lives between
Hudson and Twinsburgh, was present to repre
sent that township. The five delegates .from the
north part of this county were in favor of his being
the delegate of Tvvinsburgh, but when on enquiry
it was found he would vote against Judge Biiss
one of Mr. Bliss' delentes from this town declared
that no 'man should be the delegate utduss ho w uld
vote for Judge Bliss. Mr. Pitki.i was accordingly
reject ed, and Dr. Murtcjer, of this town appi inted,
a delegate f roni Twinsburah, thus making another
delegate, without tho consent, or will of tho party.
All the fraudulent votes previously obtained were
not sufficient to nominate him, but this vote, man
ufacturned for Twin?bu.gh, effected it, and he re
ceived the nomination by a majority of one and
I am told that I am a traitor to democracy if I do
not support the nominee!! if I "do not acquiesce
in the will of ihe paity, as expressed by the dele
gation !!!". ;
This, sir, is the difference.. I claim it is not the
will of the parly, nor of any parly if it was I
should bow in silence.
I might have still done so if fairness in that con
vention had been done me. 1 was not there to re
pel charges, nor explain misrepresentations which
a (forded -the wire workers a fine opportunity to
display their genius.
To the delegntes from Slmlersville, It was pri
vately snid I was a Whig, and out for Scott to the
delegate from Stow that 1 was out for Hale. The
report that I hud said I would oppose Judge. Bliss,
if nominated, wns given without the reasons that 1
ajjjihe same titno gave that he rejected all proposi
tions for compromise, nnd suid ha would oppose
me if I was nominated.
; Many of the delegates were strangers to mo, and
supposed tho stories true my friends were con
founded by tho charges, and the poeitivoness with
t which they were made and the only wonder,
r . . . . . ,
with me, ie, that amid such a torrent oflftisouoca,
and misrepresentation, as many ottood1 firm for me
as did.
To sit down, pad" submit to uch falsehood nd
inanngemotiU
piiTu i ii y ; 1 1' rrfifcun
and flic Eights of. Ian
1852.
every principle! honor or self-respect. Shouldldo
so, jt would afford the strongest evidence cf my un
worlhiness. Self-respect foi bid 9 it. You consider
it treason to Democracy to oppose a nomination
ihus made. I consider it pntriotWm. and a duty to
Democracy as well as myself.. If you are willing
tu be thus transferred, like a sheep in the maiket,
you have the right. 1 am not made of such sale-
inble stuff. . If tho Democracy aro, I am mistaken
in the men. -
With sentiments of the highest esteem f t you,
personally, I am your friend ' L. V. BIE RC E.
Judge Bliss having denied that ho.pver said he
would oppose Gen. Bierce, if nominated, I have, in
duty to Gen. Bierce, felt bound to make the fol-
Llowins statement to the truth cf which I am wil
ling to be qunCfied: ) "
On the evening t.f July 5lh last, as-Judge Bliss
and myself were returning f.om tho Rail Toad
depot to the village, our conversation turned on
the subject of Congress. I said to him, we shall
have to send you or Gen. Bierce to Congress. His
reply, in substance, was, "Bierce! God, he can't
be nominated." I said, "Why?" He says, "he
is with the Freesoilers too much he is a mongrel
Democrat; he can't get fifty votes in the county."
I said, " will you support him if he is nominated?"
His reply was, " No, I won't support him if he is
nominated." ROBERT JACKSON.
." ; y For the Ohio Star.
Fbiend Haxl : My good neighbor, the editor
of our village Sentinel, declines inserting the en
c'osed communication, and I am now disposed lo
try. your liberality. It was written, as you will
perceive, in reference to his reiharks upon the
Pittsburgh Convention ; the purport of which was
that the "Free Democrats" wen about as low
down in the matter of Compromising as were their
brethren of th& Old Line at. Baltimore.' My ftiond
is afraid to admit my remarks, lest they should
lead on to a prolonged and unprofitable discussion.
Concerning temperance, 1 wish to add my ar
dent hope that at all Conventions and Elections, Uie
Free Democracy will be free from the smell of ul
chohol ; and that- no inebriate or moderate drinker
will receive their ballots for any office high or low
MAHONING.
Canfield, Sept. 17, 1852:
''y For the Drmocratic Uninti Selllinel. .
Platforms Coinjxtucd.
Mr. Epjtor : The candor of yonr editorial re
marks concerning the late Convention at Pi:tsburgh
induces rue' to ask the insertion in your paper of u
few observation relating to the CoDventuns, Plat
forms and Candidates of the three. parties. You
say, in substance, that some important subjects
were presented in the Convention at Pittsburgh,
which were, very dear to a portion of the membeis
bu". they were rejected by the body and excluded
from their platform. - Ycu maintaain tlmr, that
Convention, as well as the others, could effect
union nnd nominate candidates only by concessions
and couvrjr. mises ; and as thej are not uecessari'y
corrupt for that reason, so they cannot charge cor
ruption upon the Democratic patty forhaving done
the snmo thing. At the least you claim, that the
concessions made to the South in tbe Democratic
Convention at Baltimore,, do not prove that that
paftjais entirely crtrrtipt, , i
-J3',N5'.V to rriy appresion, the soundness or corrup
tion cf a party in Buch a case depends on the char
acter and importance of the prrneiples and meas
ures, 'which aro either adopted in their platform or
excluded from it. And with due deference I sub
mit, that there is an immense difference in the two
cases under review. You mention two subjects
which some dclegatesiotroduced at Pittsburgh, but
ilie Convention did not put them into the plat
form viz. ' Woman's Rights and Temperance.
For the sake of harmony and guining votes, they
were silent on both subjects. . 1
As to Woman's Rights, however important the
subject may be, a tittle reflection will convince you
that it is quite out of place inaPresidential ur Con
gressional canvass, inasmuch us it pertains to the
States to settle all such mutters. . No party will
claim thaCOimgress or iho President should have
ony direct control over the subject in aduan-e if
the States. The same must be said of mat ters per
taining to Temperance and Intemperance. The
national government has never legislated concern
ing spiritous liquors, except to impose duties or ex
ciseupon their manufacture and impoitati n. Leg
islation respecting the 'manufacture and sale of
them, whether to license nud regulate, or to pro
hibit, has been and will be done by the Statos alone.
The advecatesof Temperance nnd Woman's rights
have conceded nothing by leaving them out of a
national platform, and reseiving ihem for discussion
aud action where they appropriately belong.
But what are the questions embraced in the
Baltimore platform, which are grievous to multi
tudes of Democratic voters, and on which o'.heis
base the change of corruption? Are the subjects
of a national character? Aro they ot paramount
importancel Does the platform say of them that
which is right, or that which is wrong ?
I answer, and I shall not- be contradicted, that
the great essential points of both tho Baltimore plat
forms relate to political morality; not to political
economy, or mere matters of interest, eithor sec
tional or national. They relate to slavery nnd the
violation of human righ'i ; to tho aotion of the -lion,
through the federal government, in support of
injustice. a-d oppression. The two "platforms, the
parties' and their candidnies, scarcely meulioti
"other great interests," such as have claimed su
preme attention at elections for many' years
These are now laid aside by: both parties, or de
clared to bo comparatively of no importance; while
thoy pledge all their influence nnd all their adhe
rents to sustain the compromise of 1850, " the fu
gitive slave law ineluded.n- . -
Let me briefly specify. The adjustment meas
ures ol looo inciuueu iuo unuuiiui euuaom it
extension of Blavery into immense territories then
fice; the national assent. to the future admission
of an indefinite number of slaveholiiing states into
Iho Union ; the continuance of ihe domestic slave
trade between the Slates, nnd of slaveholding in
District of Columbia ; nnd the enactment of an
unconstitutional unjust and inhuman, law, ouHd
fhevfugitive slave luw. These concessions wore
then made nt the impeyous demands of thehwef1"
holdina nower. without ihe shadow of a rutlittul
claim on tlieir part, or o
ffhtiuu on ours.
Now
it is demaiKleuV-0'!1-1"" "-ii"i p...i......
demand, ilrff this adjustment; stiail oe noai, mesa
Lnefi'sures perpetual, those enactments enlorcee to
the fullest extent, withalacrity and the utmost rigor
Nor "is this nil. ' The Whigs have pledged them
selves to "discountenance " all future discussion of
that question which oil parties declare to bo the
question of the country and 'of the) age, that swal
lows up all oit ... And ttia--Democratic" pnrtJT
Whole' KcmWr 1187
has give a solemn pledge, that it will resist all at
tempts at renewing, in Congress or out tf it the
agitation ot the Slavery question under whatever
shape or color the attempt may be mad-."
Will your readers carefully and thoughtfully
compare the Democratic Platform wiih the Free
Democratic. .Search and see. what the latter in
cludes, and what of essential importance it omits.
It takta decisive grouud against the adjustment
measures, and ngait s t all iiaftoiiarsnnctionof slave-
holding, slave-catching, and slave-trading. On
other impurtant subjects, I think- you will admit
that its pledges we, its constitutional, as just, ns
liberal, as demarralic, ni are those of the Baliimore
Democratic platform. The question ueteweer- the
two, therefore is a single one, oltho' exceedingly
bread and sweeping in its range; vix. is it right
for the people and govern meut of fhe.Upited, States
to give that support to the sluvoholding power,
which the Democratic Baltimore Convention and
Platform andCandidnte3 have pledged themselves
and their paitizan adherents to give ? I am nol
desirous of charging corruption upon ony body of
men. Suffice it to say. that, if I should suppirt
the adjustment mensures, or should vote, fur any
man who is. not explicitly plodged to net against
them, 1 should sin against God uaj my own soul,
against just ice nnd humanity. 'v ' ; r
The accept nice ol" a oanc'il t4 for office with
me depends tint so much on Li prs3nal char
acter in privi.ta life, as on tlie political pi ind
oles which would cot.trol hit ofhViil act'.' If
we may crec'it fie friends of, tYe three' candi
dntsp, and also t'ae concessions oC their opponent--,
not one of them is ti be rejected for his person
al c'mratW. I must judge of each, therefore, hy
l-i-i past acti ins and avowed principles on the
question, and by the plut'orm the convet.tion of
his paity have tail before 1 irp, and on wlich he
deliberately plar.ts IU fett before the notion.
As n 'ot2r, I cannot choose the man and reject
le platform. Evety man that votes for Pierce
or S-iutt, commis-'ions l fm ti notionali-te slave-
holding, and t fulfil eveiy i tiof t ie ndjo.-tment
measure?, "the fugitive slave law included."
Such will be th meaning and force of his act;
and (slave holciers will laugh at l.U ".net.tai res-
ervirions."
Again; the di ing? of a poviti3al convention
are not to be adopted of cours because it was
composed of good men; nor to be rpjectsd, be;
cause some of the members were n. t so moral
as they might b5.. Bt.it I confess it i-t a grotiy
irig circurmtincr, when we find an assemb'y of
intel'igei.t men contending earnest'y for tl.e
tight, and find them also in the aggregate men
of acknowledged moral worth. " W,e have not ing
in -which t i glory on this behaK, in -relation
to the Pittaiurgh Convention But we may
say and . claim the fint o& in plr'tuing har
mony with t itir principles and aims tbiit thteio
po jfifialopj)pneri- s unifirriij cmcefJe .t Jhe
body uncommon solid. ty of character, at d a de
cided moral bearing ia all their depoitrnent,
-ingly and collectively. You, Mr. Ec!it ir, say a
large propo'tti n of tlie dolegat s are doubtless
tempernto men. Other?, who were among them
the whole time, sny tbr'y were ihere free from
tho uso of s-timulaiit--, almo:t, if not entirely, witi-ot-t
exceptinn.
' I regret that I cannot sny as much of the tem
perance of one of the convent'ons at Bait more.
I sny not whiJi, as that miVt appear i:ii:'i)us;
and t know not whether a similar" charge lies
-Mgaint members of the other, or not. ' t men-;
tion the fact as a lamentable indication,- that we
have nerd to look ut homo whi'n we are de-
nouneing the corrupiions ai:d bribery of English
elections. The ititemen", from a source 1 am.
compelled to credi', is to this effect: thtit im
mense sums were expended in eflorts "to ob-'
lain the nomination of one of the unsuccessful
candi Iritis; that the- f.ionds of some of the
candi l.-.tes, if not ah, kepf'jpen housp," that i-,
a liquor saloon or groggeiy, ti supply stimulus
for voling. The wriier add--, "Here were hun
dreds of acute mind.", plnm in j,- iniriguing, ex
pending, threatening, beseec! inf, caucu'ssing for
their respective candidates, and after a week's
t i ing and sweating, io w hih there was a wear
and tear of t ody, and n ind, and morale, thai
years will scarcely repair," most of them u terly
failed or securing their favorit:?. All were ob
liged to yield to what btliprs would suffer them
to have, iti the mutter of candi h.t j?, that the
common platform might be carried into effect.
Yet I cannot forget that that platform was dic
tated by slaveholders', and nccei tsrj I y nut a few
as a dire nt cessity, while it conflicts with their
sober condi tions of i isl t.
1 trust that the voters of the land 'w iil make
up thtir minds de'iherately at horn5, before the
elec'i n, that not a Mogle ballot my be for sale
when the day come?. "- MA HON ING.'
Siititli ami Jrines- -
"Sirtin, Mr. Jones; sarti i ns the world, we
shall have a storm wiihiu t ie week I'm sarlin
of it."-
"Don't say 'sartin,' for I am eerting it's not
nroner."
"You are CF.RTtNf! of 't, eh? Wellj novy,
Jone?, I've had it on my. mind a great many
limes to tell von, there is no such word 08 "oer-
t t.?." . . . - :
I "Ypf, there i ." - .. v
"No." :
"I'm eerting of it." .
"I lice there tis ogam, bxith I'm sarin
you're" w rone."
"Jones, don't fnoke a font ofyourself. Don't
you suppose 1 know?r"' ! :
"Smit dri you call me b fool, yntrfuppy.
Don't .you tiimki a man of -' ge oughi to
know." - -" ' '-
"Come, come; do- get angry. . didn't mean,
Bt.y harm;" citnTiKptlf. you. are migy"
"Wol', Jonrs, we wotr t quarVQf: i (letsis-t
I'm rigl.t, and if 4 pm saitinly you. ore
wrong." , ...
' "But vou are not right." ' .' . !
' -ves' : " - ' " :;r'' --: y"r'.: '
"I'll leave it to Webster," said Jones1:" v ' V
"Or VVorcestert" nsked Stnith.v yV " I -
Ye." :' v '. ' ' ' ;1 :
Both look ana spell tngether ': ' -
"LT-K-R-T-A-hN." . , r '.,-'. '.!' ' ,
.uTherel"8BidJonei..,- .f;;. - .
Vi
"there!" said Smith, t.,
"You are rong,".sald Jon
S5,-inrn vou."nid Sruith,
' " And here, Sai tin Smith and' Certjng Jones
parted, hot h n Uttl. Wer than Tliry wero uvo
minutrs boforr, th'et Uv-ceaTAiS!
, . ,- 1 '.'. f FroMlht Christian Pristi
r Speech of Hon, O. W. Julian., .
Of Tudiana at Ike lah. AtUi-Slavery ConventiM
;in Cincinnati. - : s ' '
(.Concludei.) '' 1 " "f
have shown you, by a reference to.a'ctuat
facts, that it is the supreme power in this nationy
overruling all ether agencies in. its favor. And
it has maintained its supremacy For years past .
by, and throug the agency of these hearties .:
factions which it subjects to its unbridled sWay. , -Submission
to its behe&ta in all things, -is th
appointed means of obtaining power, and the sole
and openly avowed condition upon whih iheir ..
exibtsnce can be cot-tinued. Who dare' 4epjr
thM Who is there so bliod as not to see ttja'tS v
exi-ting paity associations can only be maintain
ed by an unqualified and bare facedsurwDuerof
the intereBts of freedom! ' - V
Sjpose Noithern Whigs and Democrats, Je)
the National Conventions soon to be held, should
ini-t upon put ing into the ir platform, a resolu
tion, that Congress bhould abolwh slavery in the . '
Di,t kt ftf Columbiaj ot the slave trade eoptr :,
ie, or prevent the extsntion of slavery into
our Teritot ies', or that in general ienw t)' ' -.
federal government should relieve itself from ali k
responfi' i ity for iU suppoit, so far as it consti-,
t j'ionuily may, leaving it a Stale inttitution,
dependent upon State law: Does not every body
know-thut i'i-t would be to" sound the death Jinei
of these organizations? But; suppose in those con-"
ven'ions Siuthern Whigs and Democrats shdvild
insist'upou a platform affirming dirertly the
opposite doctrines; that slavery ia the Dietrict
and the trade coast-wise shall be perpetual, that
slavery may be carried into our Teiitoriee qut
rif which more Slave St .tes may be formed, and
that 'the federal government shall not relieve
itself from iU rejpotisibi ity for theevi', but shall
spread over it its flag on land and sea, and bjr
every effectual means, aid the Southern r States ,
in sutt tioing and trengthening the peculiar
institii ion: Does any sane man doubt that
Noithern WTiigs and Democrats would succumb,
ir thought necessary to save their organizations
and hold on to the sp its? Mo5t assuredly they
would do it, as whoever lives till these cohvh
tians assemble, will see, if it shall be imperaiiy-
ly demanded by their overseers. lhey.haveV
already done it by the adoption of the ComproD
i-se measures, nnd are preparing to do so again;
inallpnitsof the Noith, by declaring those
measures a "finality." Noithern Whigs end
Democrat, ttlwnys pay the drafts of the slave
holders at sigh', whatever the amount might.
Qf coursp, 1 would n;.t speak disparagingly
here, of the great body of our people ,- refer
to regular polticianf, and that strange aevu-wor-ship,
of party, by wbish well meaning men, 1 ar
induced to throw their whole weight on tlliJ
wrong side of f is great question. The mass
or the people in the North, of all parties, dis-(
like slavery. Their consciences condemn it-. .
They cannot believe it tight, ta murber. the io
lellect and affections of three millions of our
race, deny them the family, sunder their dear
est lias, rob them of the fruits of their toi'j and
fi-ik their humanity into brutes. They ere -
ashamed not to admi, that" they think it aa 8-.
omnly in our govern men', nnd that they would ,
rejoice to see it abolished, -and be grieved to see
its power augmented. ; These are the sen'H .
ments of "alf'fYir minded men. --But) anchored
in the meshes of their lenders, they complacent
ly say,1' " VVe be'iive the government will bo
better ndmiti'itsred by our party, than by btir
opponents; we have confidence in our publid
men; and if we di iie 5n the slavery question;
it will only ensure the tiiiimpti of our foes, who) -are,
at least as pro-s'uvery as ourselves. Wej
therefore, think it wisest to keep up our party;
and postpone iadefinit.-ly, all action on the ques .
tion." r . " " .'
: Here Mr. Preside'i't, is our foe. - Here is thd
unclean sri i', thnt must be cast out from the
heat ts of Ihe people before they can be savedt
We must'enter the inner sanctuary of their
consciences,and dispel the long-gathering clouds'
of pas.-ion and prejudice which hold them in the
slumber of unconscious goi't e. Wo must sound
it incessantly in thfir ears, and in trumpet totiea .
that by remaining in tlie service of these factions,
they' are gui ty,"' in the sight of heaven, of the
untold wrongs of slavery. "" 1 -- -
1 say to .Northern Whigs aud Democrat;
that whtteveryour ptivate feelings and opinions'
may ' be, you nro helping to perpetuate slave!
holding and slave breeding, in the District of
Columbia; you are helping to pfosiit ite the flag
oftheUt-im tithe piratical traffic in human
flesh on the sea; you are helping to curve with
slavery the soil of our Territ jries, and to fornt
nut of it-more Slave holdimg States; you are help-
ng to consign men ti the horrors of slavery on
the affidavit of- their hunter,' without court or
jury, at the expense of the Federal Government,
and to make the practice of Chtisiiatity a crime
you are helping to destroy the freedom Qf speech.
by . placing it under the -censorship of slavery;
you-are helping ti widen and deepen the gener
al Ameicnn hatred of the colored race, which
is the life blood of slavery, and, instead of stri
ving like palrit.t to rescue tha government from
slave holding- domination, nnd from the pit of
destruction which yawns to receive, it, you are
doing all in your power to drift it further and
further from its oiiginal land marks. . ,-
Tell me if these .flings are not true! ;Tll
me how you can strengthen the hands of these
giant factions, li ting ; their proud crest asithel" -:
strong haldi of slavery, "nnd arrayed in deadly.-, '
hos'i ity to the rights of man, without sharing iri.
the gui t, and the rt tribu ion,- of the oppressor
of their race! - It i very difficult, I- know, to .
btlTig moral questions into ".he forum of politics, '
or political ques-tiops into the fortim of morals
ut 1 hold j,l'poli'i't action U the highest
and riio;t responsible form of moral action,' be
cause it "ii that whiirb, abov-il others, bears r- :
directly on the pres.sMtind permanenlwelfara
of the grppt-massp.s" of humaiiity." : Men ihuulJ .
.luintt' Trom the in of personal slave holding
as an outruge upon man," and a crime Against
God; but infinitsly exceeding this is-the sio of
so acting 'politically, as ta "juildupV great
er system of oppression in? the'nation', which b
comes its all-governing power, cursing' million
and millions by its sway. ; 'f' : "
"iPoli ical action is inorni Action compounded; .,
for when we fts ci izens become recreant le out
country; and join hands with i'tsfoe, our respoti.
sibility is multiplied by the- object which our
action concerns. ' I insist thai Northern i .ug.
and Democrats afe Potikeily,.an4 for that vtry
reason mo,' ftuiUy of enslaving th.,r race,
..j.u.1.; huildinvoA nnd ,aggrar.d uwg the
nnu unit ; a ' ; -- . ...
v. n. a creiu national concern tuey ,
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