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To the People of Ohio.
Futxow Citizens : The consummation
of the first great act of the stupenduous
scheme for the extension of slavery, and the
establishment of the Slave Dominion over
the North American continent by the repeal
of the Missouri Prohibition, " and other
threatened future acts, part and parcel of
the same scheme, such as the proposed ex
penditure of millions in the purchase of ter
ritory from Mexico, utterly worthless except
m a basis for the operations of the slave in
terest, and the proposed waste of millions
upon millions more in the re-establishment
of Slavery in Cuba, in case of the enfran
chisement of the bondmen of that island by
its present Government, call loudly upon
all true patriots to forego past political dif
ferences, and unite as a band of brother!
fraemci. in defence of our own rights, and
the rights of human nature.
God forbid that our country should alone,
air.ong thp nations of the earth, take upon!
herseif the hateful reproach of Slavery pro
pagandist! !
But if this odium is to be averted, the
people must themselves take the matter in
hand. Let it ever be remembered, that
while the contest between Freedom and
Slavery between the advocates of a great
public wrong and the maintainers of public
faith was going on in Washington, not a
word cf remonstrace against the meditated
iniquity was uttered by either branch of the
Legislature recently assembled at Columbus.
The partisans of the existing National Ad
ministration, availing themselves of their
majority in the Legislature, not only thwart
ed .every effort to express the honest indig
nation of the people of the State against
the wrong, but elected to the Senate of the
United States, a known supporter of the re-j
peal of the Missouri Prohibition, thus plac-'
ing the moral weight of Ohio in the scale of
Slavery extension.
"We, by no means charge the members of
the old Democratic party with approval of
this conduct; but we earnestly invite them
to consider whether there is any mode of
manifesting their just indignation, in view
if these great wrongs, except by repudiating)
the present National Administration, andi
itical leaders through whose influence
these shameful results have been accom
plished. At all events, it cannot be doubt
ed that these things demand the promptest
intervention of the wholk People; and
not these things only, but many other mat
ters, both of Nation "and State concern.
The time has passed for half-way measures
in respect to Slavery. The repeal of the
Missouri Prohibition has demonstrated th3
utter futility of all legislative compromises.
It is necessary now to recur to the Con
stitution. In that instrument, it will be
vain to seek for any recognition of Slavery,
even as a fact, outside of Slave States, or fox
any power given to Congress to legislate in
its behalf. Outside of Slave States, then,
there must be no Slavery. There must be no
slave-selling, slave-catching or slave-holding,
under National legislation. The slave pow
er must be overthrown, and the influence of
the National Government must be placed on
the side of Freedom.
The patronage of the President that fatal
Tigine of corruption and despotism must
be curtailed. The people mu&t demand and
obtain a more direct influence upon the
practical workings of the Government. For
the propagandism of slavery in our inter
course with foreign nations, there must be
substituted a great American influence in
favor of Universal Liberty. Freedom, Re
form and Progress, must be the watchwords
cf the people,
In our own State, many things require at
tention. The disposition and management
of the public works the districting of the
-fctate the laws regulating the imposition
and collection of taxes, and other matters,
demand the consideration and judgment of
th: People.
In view of these things, we invite our fel
low citizens, -who, without regard to former
party distinctions, are willing to unite in the
organization of a Democracy of the People,
agiinst the supporters of Slavery and unjust
and unequal laws, by whatever name they
rny call themselves, to assemble in Conven
tion, at Columbus, on the 13tU-d3y of July,
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THE PERRYSBURG JOURNAL.
1854, the anniversary of the Ordmauce of
1787, for the purpose of consultation upon
the momentous aspects of public affairs, and
of taking such action as circumstances re
quire. With this view, we recommend that the
people of each county forthwith assemble,
appoint one delegate for every live thousand
inhabitants, no county, however, appointing
less than two, to represent them at Colum
bus, in a delegate Convention ; and we re
commend, also, that there be held, at the
same time and place, a Mass Convention of
the People to sustain the Delegate Conven
tion bv their presence, to am mem uj meu
counsel, and to express, in the most emphat-
ic manner, the cherished sentiments and
fixed resolves of the People Olno in Ian- j
guage becoming the demand of me ci.si..
The Nebraska Bill.
Speaking of the passage of this bill, the
0. S. Journal remarks :
Of this 113, constituting the majority,
.i . ,i f,.. 1,. l
mere were pret-eui aim umi& wi u L"" ;
nvi.Mi-u persons leprcsciiwiig iiiu
SLALR, A.ND N01H1NU hUbb ! ,
liventy-one members ot the House ot l-iop-;
resentatives, without a single tree man
woman for a constituent! How came they !
there ? By the " compromises of the Con-;
stitution." What has been given as an ;
equivalent lor the right ot mus nawng a;
certain uescnpuuu ui -prvpciiy ej u.-(
Congress? The right to tax that,
property for the support of government. i
'iasare
When, within the last forty-five vears
that property been so taxed? In the years
IblJ, and lbl4, while our country was at ;
war with Great Britain and when, it has j
been alleged, enough was not collected to
defray the expenses of the collection. Such)
are the outlines of " the compromises of thej
Constitution" which it has been the con-1
stant and studied policy of the South to ex-1
tend, in every conceivable form, and at every i
hazard. j
It was under circumstances like these,!
that the act repealing the Missouri Compro-'
mise was forced intobeing at midnight, and
the last assurance of a truce to the aggres-vei
sion of slavery was wontonly withdrawn.
Tt. was in pvtvpmplv ha.-l instp that Kiirb
" -
; hour, end such occasion, should have
an
been selected by the friends of this iniqui-
tous measure to exult in a triumph thus se-1
cured. The firing of one hiuidred guns on
Hill, on the announcement of the'
of the bill repealing the Missouri
Compromise, was a gross iudignitv to the
hundred Representatives who" had
every means in their power, and in obedience
to the known will of their free constituents,:01"
that measure. And it was an out-i
rage upon that free constituency, which
challenges, and will receive their stern re
buke.
speaks as follows
ceive what answer the democratic advocates
of that measure can make to the charge of
having deserted the Baltimore platform in
the most treacherous manner.
3ST- In announcing the final passage of
the Nebraska bill, the Napoleon North-West
Ue are unable to con-iT
We would do injustice to the honest!
convictions of our own iudgment, and to ouri
sense of right, were we to rejoice over this!
result; and in saying this, we believe we!
speak the honest sentiments of nine-tenths
of the Democracy of Ohio, who have always
regarded the .Missouri Compromise as a sacred
compact, binding on both the North and
the South, and who have faithfully acaui-Uvace
eseed in the Baltimore platform, which!
the Democratic party of the nation!
against any attempt to renew the slavery agi
tation enner in or out 01 Uongress. Hereaf
ter, Compromises will be regarded as a mere
tissue of words, to be broken at the will of ei
ther party, and Platforms will be looked upon
as nothing more than a collectioa of set
phrases " full of sound and fury, signifying
nothing." The action of the- South on
this question, assisted by Northern dough
faces, breaks down all confidence ia slavery
compromises, and gives the cause of aboli
tionism an impetus which years of labor on
the p3rt of abolitionists could not have done.
The requirements of the Fugitive Slave Law-
of 180 Will not hereafter be regarded in the
North ; for the people will'thinl that if one
compromise is worthless, another is likewise.
The measure was uncalled for-unnecessary
-neither the people of the North nor of the
South have asked for it the question Was'
not at issue in the election of a single Sena
tor or Representative who voted on it.
We are happy to say that our Representa
tive, Mr. Edgerton, opposed the measure
earnestly and boldly, thereby correctly repre
senting, so far as our knowledge extends the
unanimous voice of his constituency
How they did it.
M J;!01 J" J f majority of the
fsf 0 il xXiM i i !r n let thosup"
le NVedn" ayS iSvS
u, (hu3 obtain o sXmyZ
maintained to the last. It is not their fault j
the bill has been driven through, or ra-
iiKi ul-i, air. nouse. .liut on Alondav of last
... 1, rv.l T1- 1.. 1 , . - U-1
week, Col. Richardson moved and carried bv
a vote of 137 to G'?, a proposition to suspend
tne rules (tor which purpose a concurrence '
ct two-thirds of the members votin-r
quired.) and thus enable him to postpone the
special order for W.-dnehiv rh, ti, ,i,.t...... I
orion the Nebraska bill, and thus secure its ns-!
sage. The members from free state previ-itiie
ously voting against the repeal of the Mis- j
5i5mi restriction, and who were understood
to desire to maintain that attitude before
lUeir constituents, but who nevertheless vo
sentedin ted with the repudiators on this occasion,
and thus rendered further resistance fruitless
those named and located as follows:
Maine Thomas G. D. Fuller,
Massachusetts Nathaniel P. Banks, jr.
New Hampshire George W. Kittridgc.
Connecticut J. T. Pratt, O. S. Seymour.
New York Dean, Hughes, Oliver.
Pennsylvania Gamble, Trout.
Ohio Edgerton, Ellison, Johnson, LLnds-
lev,
Indiana Mace, Harlan. Chamberlain.
Michigan David A. Noble.
Wisconsin Tnhn B Tnn-
Tntf.1 all nrnfee,! ".lomnmc - iv..
j merely state the fact that these vo'Js crip-;t'onH
xlQ opposition to the bill, and rendered!)
jS passa"o inevitable. Wliy thev were thus'
...... i r.
uieu ma a ;i):ar liiuri: inainiv iiere;iiiir
y. Tribune.
hen the ftouth claims that the right to
j Jake t!ieu property into all the lemtorit
13 ,a Constitutional right, they know -that:
I " hcn ,ln? 13 conceded it will be easy to en-
I forcc their demands to carry their property
byimto a" Waits. The Constitution of
the United States overrides the Constitutions!
tle Statt's and the laws of the States, eo
that State laws against Slavery will be " in-1
operative ami voiu. in tms way Mavery is
to spread itself over the whole Union. The
North may be assured that the South will
never be content until this is accomplbshed.
i After the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
nuse and the Annexation of Cuba and Mexi-;
.r.,11.. , ,..! .
tv, will require all the strength and all the
patriotism of the North.-lfuiralo Dern.
1
The Chicago Tribune, in an article headed
" Shall we submit to the Nebraska Outrage
Shall we have a North," says :
- . . .
We are willing to lav down the name of
Whig if need be, and enroll ourselves under
the banner of a new orgaization, no matter
what may be its name.Nvhich will have foi
its object a cordial and complete union ol
all Northern men who are, in their souls, op-
nosed to slavery and willing and anxious to
war acraiiist its nernetuitv and ex tun-
sion. Such an union of Northern men is
necessary, for it is idle to say that there is
any other great and vital principle left for
to contend for except this. TV old issues'
upon which the Democratic and Whig parties
were formed, the tariff, the bank, the dis-!
tributionof the proceeds of the public lands,
et id omne genus, have become obsolete, or
have died entindy away. Everything has
resolved itself into one question. " Shall
slavery of freedom become the dominant
power in this Republic?"
Julius W. Rockwell, of Pittsfield, Mass.,
is announced as the successor of Edward
Everett in the U. S. senate.
The Washington Press.
Junius, the spicy Washington correspon
dent of the Pittsburg Gazette, in an inter
esting letter to that paper, thus truthfully
shows up the last dodge to sustain the hire
ling press at the National Capital. The In
telligencer and Era are the only independent
ones, so far rs public begging is concerned.
" The arrogant pauper press of this city
has received another lift. Some Senator has
discovered that the Sentinel is starving.
The Sentinel is the Hardshell organ of the
Senate. Its editor is an F. F. V., of tlv;
first water, a scion of that noble race which
has risen, prospered a,nd decayed in the ele
vating pursuit of breeding and selling men
and women for the southern market. Ir.
seems that the Union, the administration
pet, was running off with all the nan undei
tlw lau' M'nic'1 the printing of the doe
that l,m"ntsfor both houses to the printer for that
ulu; "lll- mm miers mem printed, it was
!!.. ,...1 .1... .1 .... .. , , . ,
71 - 1 I - . w i .....
is the organ oi that beggarly
wmcn ,Ilf; aouth ooasls oi mono
wen s "t the Senate, would sen
imtil the end of Congress, whon
hocus pocus or other, u nift of
;c!i
good society
pohzmg. as
itch along
bv some
'.D 01.1 in
th- concern would b; foi.-ted into some of
appropriation bills. Rut the case is fo
desperate for that, and so Bright of Indiana,
'"ot "P a nice little scheme for paying th-
i. nUmn f"r re-publication of the debate
Iroin the Glob", th-j official r'porti-r, at the
rate ol live dollars a column. J Ins motion
was amended so as to include the Union
and National Intelligencer. The type will
!; borrowed by one office from the other
The debates will average tencolumns a day.
If the House concur, its debates will make
j as much as ninu, making say about twenty
columns a day, equal to ?1U0 a day to each
paper, and 300 for all. By the same, resolu
tion 5,000 additional copies are to be pur
chased of the Congressional Globe. Now
all this is pure waste of public money. Th -Intelligencer
is a respectable conservative
journal, the others, except the Glob-, ar
exactly the r-'verse. They are miserable re
Pr-slavery organs, owned and edited
?oulho,ri . for Southern iurposes.
Melr m.'olent denunciation of all Northern
reiiresontntives in f !nnrHii n; alu-il i t inn i it s
: . -"(-,- --'
I incendiaries anl agitators, who oppose the.
I Nebraska trencherv. mmht lo future thin.
the stern proscription of every Northern
vote. The party sectionalism of the v. h.v
Capitol thing is further" shown in th! fact that th
passage able and dignified National Era, which full v
supports itself, though the law is impudent
one ; ly violated to deprive it of public patronage
which an exiting law would gie it this
'paper is left off the list of those to b: be un
resisted fitted by the Senate's benevolence."
j
The Richmond Examiner, in commenting
?,n lhe lnurd" 0 sor Butler, by an.
"Ua b'T ,U,B c,d(f 01 c'izeij:
nl
.the savage tribes:--
1 . So 0(,UH1,S ;,rc some . of ' fM '""'
; frm lo the people of the South ; so
i lull of abolitionism and concealed inwndia-
'"sm are many of this class ; so full of guile,
fraud and deceit, that th j deliberate shooting
! of one of them down, in the act of poison-
.1 1 I'll
nig me mums o: our siaves or our cuiuiren,
we think, if regarded as homicide at all.
should always l deemed perfectly justijiu-
lit ; and nc imagine that the propriety of
unooimp an uooiuion wnoouiiusier, vnen
caught tampering with, our diives, has never
brtn questioned by any intelligent aovihem
man. This we take to bt the unwritten col
f the south, and we deem it advi
pledged sable 10 promulgate the law, that it may be
1 cop.ee. into an me aoomion papers tnun
us dered at by the three thousand New England
i preachers, and read with peculiar emphasis,
and terrible upturning of eye? by Garrison,
: at the next meeting ot the anti-slavfry party
,at Faneuil Hall. We repeat, that the shoot-
mg oj an inner am uoouiwn bwuuivwsict,
frequently a creditable and laudable act, en
titling a respectable southern man, at least
to a seat in the Legislature, or a place rn the
Common Council. The neighbors of the
fortunate marksman might give him a bar
becue, or run him for Congress, but beyond
i that no'.hing would be done."