Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1842-04-08
Address Of the Liberty Com
VCnGiOn,
TO THE PEOPLE OF OHIO.

tlonaI Liberty, for the purpose OF nomi.
mating a candidate for your suffrages
at the next election for Governor, it
seems 10 US that full, explicit and can.
did declaration of the grounds Of our
proceeding, and of the political prnci-
pies and objects, is due alike 10 the oc-
casion and to you.
With reference to the gentleman
whom we have selected as our candidate
for Governor little need be said. The
name Of Leicester King is not unknown
to the people OF Ohio As Senator in
the Legislature Of the State, and as a
private citizen, he has been distinguish,
ed for his general intelligence, high
moral worth, practicable ability, inhexi.
BILE honesty aud ardent love OF liberty
If he should be elected, we may expect
faithful administration Of the ar.
fairs OF State, with single eye to her
interest and her honor. We commend
him TO the suifrages Of our fellow chi.
zens in the fullest confidence that no
man who may vote for him will ever re-.
grot it,
We have not committed ourselves to
a course ofPolIticai action, which separ.
aics US from the parties with which we
have heretofore acted, without reIuct-
ance and struggle, Many Of US have
until quite lately, indulged the idea that
this separation was not absolutely ne
cessary. Against hope we have perse-
vored IN hope that deIiveranco of the
people OF this country from the mani
fold evils which they suffer in conse
quence OF the ascendency of slave hold.
log influence in all the departments of
our national Government, would arise
from the action Of one or the other Of
the political parties which now claim to
divide the country.
All such expectation, however, after
having been repeatedly disappointed
and repeatedly resumed, is now finally
relinQui,hed. Within the last few
months, eight out OF ton representatives
OF our Government abroad have been
appointed from sIavehoIdng States; one
Of the appointments made from a free
State was strenuous!y resisted on the
ground that the individual mentioned
held opinions adverse to slavery Sen.
atorS Of both parlles--united IN moth
Dng but devotion to slave holding inter
esls-voled IN solid column against this
appointment. or the Ministers thus ap
| pointed a. least, one was sent abroad
for The express purpose of securing BY
the nomlna,ion larger and more pro-
iilabIe market for tobacco, the product
chiefly, of slave States. But no one
has been commissioned to negotiate f1I
the admission Of the grain, the provis-
ions and manufactures Of the free States
into the countries from which they arc
now excluded. These acts sufficiently
show with what contemptuous disregarC
the interests Of free labor are trealeG
by the Executive Department. MOI
has the legislative department NANTES
ted less OF the same spirit. The pro.
ceeds eli the public lands have been dis
trlbuled among the several States il
such ratio that single slave holder
with a hundred slaves, is entitled I,
receive as much as Sixty.one non savt
holding Ireemen. Nor was the savt
interest satisfied with this large con
cessIon. Ii insisted that the dislribu
ton itself should cease whenever III,
duties upon foreign goods should be in
creased above twenty per cent, thu
object ol which was to exclude free la
Dor from all regard in legislation a
home, as elfecuaIly and completely a.
1t has been already excluded from al
regard IN negotiation abroad. And thi
arrogant demand was submitted TO, be
cause submission was necessary to pre
serve the unity Of party. STILL NOR
recently, we learn that the right Of pc
lIlIon-a right dear to freemen and for
mldaoIc to tyrants only has been az ali
cIoven down in defiance Of the Consllu
ton, but in obedience to the dclatiol
Of slavery, by an American Congress
These Iacs, and numerous Others O
a similar character and constant occur
renee, have at length fully convince u
that no manly and resoute resistanc,
to slave holding pretensions; no firm
and successful vindication Of the ius
claims of free labor 10 adequate pro.
tecIlon by legislation and negotiation
no bold and energetic assertion of tn,
@:"ai principles Of constitutional Iibert,
can be reasonably expected from eithe
of the two existing political PARTIES
On the contrary, both of these parle
seem TO vie with each other in efforts t,
exclude from political trust, the nobl
and fearless spirits in each, who hayt
dared 10 resist those pretensions, TO vim
dicate those claims, and assert thos,
principles.