The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-09-01
The Rarnbmrners, Platform.

iudt OuI TedueISndy see on WHdl pIdt-
form" the Buffalo Barnburners stand, we
copy the following preamble and resolu.
tlons, which they adopted at the recent
Convention.
Whereas, we have assembled 10 CON
vention as union o: freemen, for the
sake oflreedom, forgetting all past poIili-
cal differences in common resolve TO
MAINTAIN :be rights Of free labor, against
the aggressions of the slave power, and
to secure Free Soil for free people:
And Whereas, the political conventions
recently assembled at Baltimore and
Philadeph The one sitting the voice of
a great constituency, entitled to be heard
in lis deliberation, and the other aban-
doning its distinctive principles for mere
availability, have dissolved the national
party organizations heretofore existing.
by the nominating for the chief magislra-
cy of the u. States. under slaye-holding
dictation, candidates. neither of whom
can be supported by the opponents of
slavery extension, without sacrifice Of
consistency. duty and selfrespect:
And, ohereas, these nominations so
made, furnish the occasion, and demon
strate the necessity of the union Of The
people, under the banner Of Tree democ-
racy in solemn aud final declaration of
their independence Of the slave power.
and of their fixed determination to rescue
the federal government from its controle:
ReS0lged, therefore, that we, the peo.
pie, here assembled, RENE mbering the cx-
ample of our fathers in the days ofthe first
declaration of independence, putting our
trust in God for the triumph of our cause.
and invoking his guidance in our endeav-
ors. to advance it, do now plant ourselves
upon the national platform of Freedom
in opposition to the sectional platform of
slavery.
ReSOlred, That slavery in the several
states of this Union which recognize its
existence, depends upon state laws alone,
which cannot be repealed or modified by
the federal government, and for which
laws, that government is not responsible.
We, therefore, propose no interference
by Congress with slavery, within the lin
its of any state. .'
ResOleed, That the proviso Of Jefferson,
to prohibit the existence of slavery after
1900 in all the territories of the United
States, southern and northern; the votes
of six states and sixteen delegates, in the
Congress of 1884, for the proviso, to three
states and seven delegates against it; the
actual exclusion of slavery, from the
northwestern territory, by the ordinance
of 1887, unanimously adopted by The
states in Congress; and the entire history
of that period, clearly show, that it was
the settled policy ofthe nation, not to ex-
tend ,nationaze or encourage but to linn
it, localize and discourage slavery; and to
this policy, VIII ch should never have been
departed from, the government ought to
return.
Rcsolced, That our fathers ord lined
the Constitution of the United States, in
order, among othergreat nationalobj
to establish justice, promote the general
welfare, and secure the blessings of lib
erty; but expressly denied to the federal
government which they created all consti-
tutional power to deprive any person OF
liberty or property without due legal pro-
cess.
Rcsolred, That in the judgment of this
Convention, Congress has no more power
to make slave than to make king:-
no more power to institute or establish a
monarchy:-no such power can be found
among those specially conferred by the
constitution, or derived by any just i'm
plication from them.
| RcSolocd, That it is the duty ofthe fed
eral government to relieve itself from all
responsibility for the existence or contin-
uance of slavery, wherever government
possesses constitutional authority to leg
isate on that subject, and is thus respon-
sible for its existence. .......
Resolred, That the true, and in the
Judgment of this convention, the only safe
means of preventing the extension OF
slavery into territory now free, Is to pro-
hibil its existence in all such territory by
an act of Congress. ..
Resolred, That we accept the issue
which the slave power has forced upon
us, and to the demand for more slave
states, and slave territories, our calm but
final answers no more slave states, and
no more slave territory. Let the soil oi
our extensive domain be ever kept fol
she hardy pioneers of our own land, and
the oppressed and banished of otherlands
seeking homes and comfort, and fields oi
enterprise in the new world.
ReS0iued, That the bill lately reported
by the Committee of eight in the Senate
of the United States, was no compromise
but an absolute surrender of the rights oI
the non. shareholders of the states; and
while we rejoice to know that measure
which, while opening the door for the In
PRODUCTION of slavery into territories now
free, would also have opened the door tc
litigation and strife among the future in
habtants thereof TO the ruin of lheil
peace and prosperity. was defeated ii
the House of Representatives, its pas
sage in hot haste, by majority of the
Senate, embracing several Senators who
! voted in open violation ofthe known viii
oftheir constituents, should warn the peo
, pie to see to it, that their representative
be not suffered to betray them. Their,
must be no more compromises with slu
very; if made. they must be repealed.
Resoloed, That we demand freedom