Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-09-02
FREE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATING
80 u CONVENTION, s'

s. A. Glllett, II. Il. carer, Il. }. nolnp'
son. w. Strickland.
The following Ticket was put in nomi-
nation:
Representative,
WILLIAM MLLLlKlN, Windham.
Commissioner,
THOMAS WRIGHT, Deerfeld.
Auditor,
JOHN N. SKINNER, Ravenna.
Sheriff,
JOHN WHlTrLEsEY, Ravenna.
z-.s Coroner,
FERRIS COUCH, Nelson
County Surveyor,
ELISHA WETMORE, Charlestown.
Director of County lnfirmary,
IRA GARDNER, Ravenna.
Resolved, That we unanimously pledge
ourselves to use oil honorable means to se-
cure the election Of the Ticket this day
formed.
The Committee on Resolutions. by their
chairman. H. A. Swift. reported the FOL
lowing. which were unanimously adopted:
Resolved. That we owe the necessity Of
our existence as political organization TO
the servile departure Of the two other par
ties Of the country from the great funda-
mental principles of liberty and equal
rights planted in every human breast, ana
consented by the blood Of our Fathers,
who ordained the Constitution they gave
US for the purpose Of securing their bless
ings TO all their posterity. In l776 they
pledged their fortunes and lives in support
Of the then ''self.evident truth" now the
"abstraction" and "rhetorical flourish
that call men are endowed by their Crea-
tor with certain inalienable rights, among
which are life, liberty, and the pursuit Of
happiness" In l945 the National Con-
ventions Of the Whig and Democratic par
ties rejected this truth as an article of their
fuilh. one by refusing TO declare themselves
opposed TO carrying human bondnge into
the free soil acquired from Mexico. the
other by nominating for the Presidency
man who was recent convert to the mon-
s.rous heresy that our government has no
power to protect the personal liberty of its
subjects from lawless violence upon lis own
domains. We then, in obedience to the
dictates OF Patriotism and the impulses Of
professions at the bidding of leaders so ru.
led by Southern masters and treacherous to
Freedom, recurring to the pure principles
of the founders Of our government, and
inspired by the spirit in which they framed
the Constitution. intending that slavery
should be forever restricted, and finally die
out within The limits Of the Old Thirteen
States, declared ourselves free and inde-
pendent party. inscribed upon our banner
No MORE SLAVE STATES, NO SLAVE TER.
RITony. NO SLAVE DISTRICT. and resolved
not to dsband while danger threatened,
and cease!ess vigilance is The price of lib
erty. ..-E -.
Resolved. That in the "model Republic
Of the world'' it is we'll there should be
one National Party that may be called
Democratic without misnomer, that is bn.
sed upon the first principle Of true democ
raey, Human Brotherhood and Equality o
Rights, and. i'll the maintainence Of this
principle, has the courage to use The free
dom of speech and the freedom of the bal.
lot-box in spite OF the threats and insolenl
demands Of that most revolving system oi
people. American Slavery. We do no,
admit the distinction between Democracy
and Republicanism which distinguished
Southern jurist declared 10 be "the dognae
So portentous to US (the South Of the nat
nral equality and inazienab7e ragM to Hber
ty Of every human being" nor can we
ever in any national political contest ST
Join hands with "republicans" of tha
school, that it can be said of US as he sait
Of the Northern wing OF a party styles
Democratic, "Our allies no dou5t are aoil
ling at present 10 modify this doctrine i,
our fapor.' We believe that slavery i
the great antagonisic principle to true de
mocracy in our country, because it rob
man of Unborn rights and obltera,es hi
debases the intellect and corrupts the NOR
ais in the persons Of the master and of
spring; it opposes education and legislate
for ignorance, degrades labor and the fre
laborer every where, imposes properI
qualification for suffrage, makes laws 70
the honest laborer through representative
of property untaxed, is an avowed ''sut
slitute for an order of nobility" and, b
concentrating The wealth and the soil i
the hands Of small Aristocratic class
builds up and sustains The most compiler
and oppressive money and land munopol,
that the lust of power ever ineented.- :
While this monstrous evil threatens TO b
extended over one fost of ground unde
the control of our National Represents
tives, and while in the old political partie
lis certain friends and professed enemie
are banded together for the spoils Of Office
and the purchase Of peace by compromis
of principle. we can never abandon ou
organization upon ''the National platform
Of Freedom in opposition 10 the sectiona
platform of Slavery"
Resolved, That while we hail with sin
cere pleasure birth of Proyidence'' il
the free Constitution Of California, we ar
neither stupid nor wicked enough 10 sa,
''not unto Thee, but unto us be all III
glory" We will greet her with opel
arms ms sister State under the glorieu
nratect;op of the Jefferson Proviso No