Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-08-30
Ohio Free Soil Convention.

The State Convention for the Nomination
of officers was held at Columbus last week.
Samuel Lewis was nominated for Governor.
The following selection from their resolu-
tions is all we have room for this week from
their proceedings.
Whereas, We have assembled in Con-
vention as Freeman, TO adopt measures for
The protection aud preservation Of Freedom,
II rs due TO ourselves, TO tue occasion, and 20
the people OF the State, that we declare our
views on certain questions of National aud
State policy.
Resolved, Therefore, that the proviso ofJEF-
PERSON, TO prohibit the extension OF Slavery,
her lSO0, in all the Territories of the Unit
ed States, Southern aud Northern, the votes
OF six States and sixteen delegates in the
Congress of 1881, for the Proviso, to three
States and seven delegates against it, the ac-
tunl exclusion Of slavery from the North
Western Territory, 10y the ordinance of 1856,
unanimously adopted by the States in Con-
gress and the entire history Of that period,
clearly shows that il was the settled policy
OF the Nation, under the guidance Of Wash-
ingtOn and franklin, and Jefferson, not TO
extend, nutionalIze, or encourage; but TO
lint, localize aud discourage Slavery. Aud
TO this policy, which should never have been
departed from, the General Government
ought speedy to return.
Resolved, That our Fathers ordained the
Constitution Of the United States, in order
TO establish justice, promote the general
welfare, aud secure the blessings of liberty !"
hut expressly denied to the Federal Govern
ment which they created, all Constitutional
power To deprive any person of life, liberty
or property, without due legal process.
Resolved, That in the judgement Of this
Convention, Congress has no more power to
mike Slave, than to make King no
more power to institute or establish Slavery,
than 10 institute or establish monarchy no
more power to legislate for the protection
or preservation OF Slavery, than for the pro-
lection or preservation of the Holy lnquisi-
ton" No such power can he found among
those powers specially conferred by the Con-
siiIuion, or derived by just implication from
them.
Resolved, That the "Fugitive Slave Law
enacted 10y the last Congress, is in deroga-
ton of the genius OF our free institutions,
an unwarranluble encroachments upon the
sovereignty OF the States, violation of the
principles of natural and revealed religion,
an assumption of legislative power withoui
Constitutional authority, aud monstrous ex-
hibition of tyranny, injustice, cruelty, and
oppression. We will not regard it MS of any
binding force or efficacy whatsoeyer.--
In the language of Patrick Henry, we
say " if this be treason make the most oi
it,"
Resolved. That the practical working OF
the Fugitive Slave Law" is strikingly de-
veloped in the bnrbarous treatment of the
colorod man Deniel, at Buffalo, New York,
on the 10th inst His arrest was effected by
striking him oil the back of the head with u
billet of wood, which cut a hideous cash.
aud knocked him senseless back upon the
stove, where he was grievously burned.
Thus he was hnnd-cuffed and taken before
the Commissioner at the Court House, the
bleeding proflsely at the back of the head,
and nt the nose, and moreover, so Supplied
by the assault, that he fell asleep several times
during the brief and very summary proceed
ings, which terminated in his consignment
TO hopeless bondage.
This deed could not have been consum-
mated with impunity in the doninions of
the Grand Turk. In Buffalo, the home OF
Mllard Fillmore, its preparation was
backed hy all the power of the Federal Gov
crnment.
Resolved, That Congress ought, in the
opinion Of this Convention, to prohibit llu-
man Slavery in the District of Columbia,
aud in all other places under the exclusive ma
tional jurisdiction, aud to put an end to the
cOast-wIse salve trade.
Resolved, That we accept the issues fore
ed upon us 10y the slave power, and TO their