Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-06-28

shall have expHed} forty eight years, and
by northern men only twelve years, and
hence it was but single justice to the North,
that a Northern man with northern and
national principles, rather than southern
and sectional principles, should have been
selected as the nominee.
ii. Because, though we woold afford TO
Gen. Taylor our respect and confidence as
9, brave soldier and q skillful General, yet
rs nominee Tor the Presidency he-is mel,
fairly entitled to the confidence OF the par
ty whose Convention placed him in nomi-
nation, for the reasons, Guging from the
statements and admissions of his own let
teys,, that his pursuits have not led him to
cultivate the qualities Of statesman or
civilian, that he has never acquainted him.
self with the details of governmental poll
cy, that his past life furnishes to US no ev-
idence of his political opinions, they having
never been expressed or avowed in any po-
ltical or legislative assembly, that he has de-
clared himself willing to receive a nomina-
ton from any party, asserted his utter inde-
pendence of party fealty, and his detefmina-
ton to be bound by the creed Of none. If
elected, therefore, his administration can
not be relied upon as n whig administration,
and it may, or may not sustain the Princi-
! Piles and measures for which the party have
so long contended.
Ill. Because the nominee is large
Shareholder, interested personally in ex-
tending and Perpetuuting the institution Of
slavery, and for this reason cannot be re-
lied upon to sustain a paramount and an
unyielding principle, the principle Of the
Wilmot Proyiso, and preserve territory al
ready free, from the curse, blight and mis-
cry of human bondage.
". AS freemen, therefore, holding
s'these truths to be selEeyident, that all
men are created free and equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
inalienable rights, and that among these
are life, liberty and the pursuit OF happi.
ness" we cannot aid by our suifrages, in
elevating one who holds his fellow men IN
bondage, TO be the ruler Of free people.
Resolred, That the Presidential nomi-
nee Of the Baltimore Convention, for his
ready servility to tho South, and for his
ilow abasement at the feet Of the slave pow
er, is worthy only Of the contempt Of free
men.
l Resolred, That Congress has the power
and II is its bounden duty to exercise it, I,
free the District of Columbia from til,
shame and disgrace of OF slavery, and ais
TO prohibit the introduction or existence o
slavery in Territories now free--that W.
regard this as vital principle, one which
admits of no compromise, and which WI
will never abandon, and as neither Of the
Conventions referred to would entertain OF
sanction this principle, their nomination.
are not entitled to the confidence or sup
port of those who are opposed to the ex
tension and establishment of slavery in ter
ritories now free.
Resolued, AS the sense of this Conven.
tion, that in the present posture Of politica
afiairs, the nomination OF another Presiden
tial ticket is imperatively called for, tick
ct which shall command the confidence
and the suffrages of the opponents of slave
extension and the friends of human freedom
I-of those who scorn the dictation Of slave
breeders, and their servile workers, the
doughfaces Of the North.
Resolued, That we approve Of the pur.
pose OF holding Peoples State Conyen
ton at Columbus, on Tuesday and Wed
nesday Of next week, and that we will sent
delegates to that Convention to consult up
on plans, and to devise ways to secure ant
maintain the integrity of freedom and free
men, and to show to "a candid world tha
in vain for US may chains be forged, for as
we would resist unto extremitiss any at
tempt at physical bondage, so will we de-
nounce and defy any attempt at politica
or moral enthralment.
u Resolued, That our delegates to tn
State Convention at Columbus, be instruct
ed to recommend to that Convention the ap
pointment of time and place for holding
National Convention, for the purpose o
putting in nomination candidate for tn
Presidency, that thus may be secured tn
concentration of Northern sentiment AM
action against slavery extension, and II
behalf OF Northern rights and Northern In
terests.
Resolred, That we hail.with feelings o
. unmingled satisfaction the news of Peace
and congratulate the country upon the flna
Termination Of an iniquitous slaveholdins
: war, commenced unconstitutionally by I
slaveholding President, for the purpose OF up
holding, ,perpetuating g&extending slavehold
| ing interests, and we pledge ourselves to us'
, as efficiently as we can, every proper
honorable and constitutional means in ou
power, to opreserve the large acquisition o
Territory secured by the Treaty of Peace
, from the disgrace and curse of slavery.
Messrs. Singletary, Tappan, rrentiss
, Jackson, Austin, Grove and Button particl
pated in the discussion.
On motion, ten delegates we're appoint
| ed to represent this county in the Stat'
Convention at Columbus, with power to III
. vacancies, viz: Chauncey B. Curtlss, La
! vid Mcintosh, Horace o. Crane, Samue
] II. Pardee, Friend Cooke, Q. c. Dickinson
F. w. Tappan, Leonard Gridley, I homa
. Earl, Enoch johnson, NJ. B. Spellman.
. On motion, Central COMMITTEES OF on
: from each township was appointed, consist
ing 81, Aurora, John E. Jackson; Atwater
!. Friend Cooke; Brim6eld, Erasmus Need
J. ham; Charlestown, Albert Austin; Deer
r field, Ralph Day; Edinburgh, Greenbur
$ Keen; Freedom, Atwood; Franklin
: Thomas Earl; Hiram, Leonard Gridley