The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-02
POLITICAL.
From the Cleveland (o) Plsindealer.
MOvEMENTsLTHE GID
DINGS DlSTRlCT.-TExASS STATE CON-
VENTI0Nt

ANTETEAA MOVEMENTS!-THE GiU-
DINGS DISTRlCT.-TExASS STATE CON-
vENTI0Ni
From all we can gather, there is to be general
ant-Texas movement in all the free States-a drum
ming up Of the aboliionists proper, and the dis
heartened, discouraged and disafected wings which
at present number legions. The troubled waters
will be moved, first by little caucuses, township
meetings, and gradually swell TO county and State
conventions. The avowed object will be to arrest
the extension of slavery by defeating the contem-
plated annexation of Texas
As matter of course the "Giddings district" the
ho-bed of federal aboltionsm in Ohio, is the first
to move in the matter.
A great ant-Texas mass meeting has just been
held at Jefferson, Ashtabula county, at which
Messrs. Giddings, Hitchcock, and Perkins, leaders
of the federal party in this district, were present
Speeches, harangues and the most incorporate APP
peals were made to arouse the assembled multitude
to sense of their wrongs! Sympathy for the poor
slaves, the only element for popular excitement
in abolition speech, was abandoned for that still
more effectua touch Of the human heartstrng, the
pocketnerpe,
Without stopping to discuss the question wheth-
err annexation would have tendency to extend or
diminish slavery they jump at the conclusion that
the former would be the result and then expatiate
in lamentations long and loud at the "volation Of
the constitution" and the disgrace and ruin it will
| bring upon the country. They forget the solemn
declaration Of Henry Clay that "the tendency Of
this measure to diminish slavery, and that by
the inevitable laws of population il would become
extinct" that although added slare territory to the
Union, il added nothing to Slavery
As this ball has been set in motion in the ceriti-
enh Congressional district of Ohio, bound, as
the only democratic paper in this district, to give
the world notice how and by whom it is done.
"Many can raise storm who cannot rule it," says
Lacon; and we would warn those dark spirits of
this embryo tempest against such error lest their
indscreton should jeopardize the happiness of mil
lions.
| The following we copy from the Ashtabula Senti-
mel, the organ Of Mr.. Giddings. It contains the
two closing resolutions adopted at the meeting be-
fore mentioned, and the substance Of the several
speakers remarks, as given by the editor:
"Resolred, That among all the civil and political
questions now before the people ofthe United States,
the question the annexation of Texas is the par
amount question; and we pledge ourselves, to each
other that in all elections for members of the legs-
ature and Congress, or for any other Office in the
national or State government, we will not support
or vote for any candidate WHO'S not openly opposed
to the annexation Of Texas to this Union.
"Resolped, That we approve the proposition Of
State convention at early day, and that it is adj
vsabe for this meeting to appoint delegates thereto
"On motion, the resolutions were laid upon the
table, and the convention addressed by the Hon
]. r. Giddings.
"Mr. Giddings briefly reviewed the proceedings of
our late administration and of Congress at the late
session, in relation to their attempts to annex Texas
to the Unon-their utter disregard of the constitu-
ton, the honor, and integrity Of the countryside
probable refusal fthe people of Texas to accept the
propositions proffered them by the joint resolutions
of both Houses of Congress, as indicated by the
Texian official journals-believed the present to be
time most fortunately chosen for all the opponents
of annexation unite their influence and exertion
against the measure, and expressed hope that the
people of Ashtabula county would not he found re-
miss in duty in this most important matter.
"The resolutions were then taken up.
'sThe Hon. X. Hitchcock and w. L. Perkins,
who were present, were called upon to address the
convention. They spoke in most clear and forci-
BILE of the unconsiutonality of the measure;
Of its degrading and ruinous effects il contaminated,
upon the interests of the whole nation, but more
particularly upon those of the Northmost eloquent
y and forciby sustained the resolutions reported by
the committee, and urged as the duty of the whole
peope of the North now to arise as one man and
frown down the spirit of Slavery and dough facesm
that threatens our destruction
"The resolutions then separately passed and
unanimously adopted
This looks like thwarting a measure of the gov
rnment already passed upon by the people, by rero-
luton!
When public men in conventions of the people,
talk about ''rsing one man and fro,cning doion"
such measures, it is revolutionary spirit, and its
tendency is to dissolution of the Union.
With no disposition to create unnecessary alarms
in reference TO these movements, or to impute bad
motives the principal actors in them, shall new
ertheless kcepthe public well informed about them,
and strive to discourage and discountenance them.
1t is not wholly from what has transpred in this
district that our fears inspired but also, from
general concerted movements elsewhere, which look
to the same object