The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-01-23
FREE SOIL CONVENTION IN IOWA.
ABRIDGED


. The State Free Soil Convention met at Yellow
Springs ON the 30th OF October, pursuant - x,
journment, and temporarily organized by ap-
pointing Rev. f. Thompson President, and Eli
EUR Porter Secretary.
On motion, DR. c. Shedd S. L. Howe, and +
Porter, were appointed a committee to prepare
business for the Convention, and reports during
its next sitting
Convention adjourned till o'clock.
At O'Clock, Convention met and organized
permanently by appointing George Shedd Presi
dent; II. A. Ritner Clark Alexander, and Will
liam Mcclure, Vice Presidents and w III. An.
derson, Secretary.
On motion, s Rankin, L. Anderson, f J essop
and ID. G. Cartwright, were added to the bust
ness committee.
The committee reported the resolutions found
below, which, after free, full AMI fair discussion
were unanimously adopted.
On motion, the Convention adjourned to meet
in Salem on the Sd Thursday in November
GeoRGE SHKDD, President.
w. II. ANDERSON, Secretary.
q Resoloed, That the late Fugitive bill as il
has passed Congress- demonstrates, what Free
Sellers have so long and 80 often declared, that
Slavery and Freedom cannot long exist together
| 3. Resolved, That this bill, in Offering bride
to mercenary commissioner of s. for every vic.
tim consigned to slavery, is desecration Of the
very name Of Jurisprudence
G. ResOlued, That, in the opinion Of this Con.
vention, no upright minded man and Christian
no lover Of liberty and justice in these free and
enlightened States of our Union, will ever accep,
or retain the office of commissioner under this
law, to do its bidding.
7. ReSOlred, That that branch of the bill relat
ing TO the recapture Of the fugitive-which allowi
patn o1atp, TO-
person whom he may choose, and wherever h
can, with or without process (which compel
an officer under the law to serve such process
when tenderedt to him, under penalty OF S 600
and which, in case of an escape from custody
whether with or against the will Of said officer
compes him to pay the full value ofthe fugitive S
escaping-whch allows pro tempore marshals t
be appointed in any and every community, for tn
convenience and at the bidding Of men-hunters-
and, finally, which allows all officers to call GU
the farmer from his farm, the mechanic from hi
shop, and the physician, lawyer, and minste
Of the Gospel, from their studies, requiring tn
same, as good citizens, to be obedient and activ
in the hunt and chase-surpasses in effronter
and insult to Christian freemen, in our opinion
any act of legislation that has stained the annal
| Of our country.
o. ResOired, That we adhere to the principle
laid down in the Buffalo Platform rs being tn
great principles of the Free Soil party and tina
we insist as strenuousy as ever on the applica
ton of the Jefferson Proviso to the Territories
the abolition of slavery in the District of Coum
bia, and the entire separation Of the Genera
Government from the responsibility of extending
sustaining, or perpetuating the institution of sla
very.
II. ReeOlved That our Senator'S, Dodge an,
Jones, and our Representative, Letter, in votini
for this infamous Texas Boundary bill, and tn
more infamous Fugitive Slave law, have shown
themselves unworthy to be the representatives o
freemen and Christians and ought hereafter T.
be permitted by the people of Iowa to remain il
private obscurity, for which they have proved
themselves much better fitted than to be the rep
resentatives Of free people