The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-10-04
DOCUMENTS FOR THE TIMES.
THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY
HON. HORACE MANN,
or usssAcHussETrs.

OF MASSACHUSETTS,
y, the House Of Representatives. august II, 1852
Mn. CHA1nmAN On former occasions, have expressed
nyself 30 much length the relations which the free
States are maas 70 pear 70 vie upon that Subject
But the which the late baltimore Conventions nave
as beIieye it will be found temporary slencng
Of my friend Mr. Sumner at the other end Of TINS capitol
down Of the gentleman from connecticut IMr. Cleveland
Acor induced me 10 reconsider and 70 ehahge
always grateful when for good cause convinced but
attempt is made to take from me all option IN re
gard t. my Of clear right find sufcient mo'e
Tor exercising right in the mere act OF dsooedehce
THE RETROSPECT. --
must by taking brief retrospect The war against
ritory for the of widening the domain and conirmn
osayery On the subject Of the oooeSy @ ,ne
country divided into Wings and Democrats on ne
wicked uses which the territory robbed was 10 be put
divided into North and south Fourteen ~ o. bsI sne
nousy or nearly favor ofexcludng slavery BY posi-
u did not then ask for any legislative permission to
tend slavery But in pursuance OF the docrne OF he
great ordinance I7s7 North demanded legislative ex
cusion Every body foresaw that this question
would be involved the Presidential election was
,Snt o man Of the South came in favor of the
Northern docrne the principles OF universal liberty are
SO congenial human heart that II is dcut TO con-
csfvs five or six peop in any country
oftIs world without single man among them ready to as
aume the championship of freedom is still more remar-
kabe that any Northern should have ventured to
pouse the ofsayer One however vas louna
New England lineage twas thrice strange that man ed
ucatsd enriched ny VINO od
all blessings of freedom by the oil
he and his people escaped and shut out from all
blessings he and they had enjoyed But such man was
Noh thai he supposed he carry them against slavery
restriction So their union with the proslayery
South would make triumphant majority and hence the
,yeuow Nicholson But that letter recoled
him, of 1s4s, overthrew him. The origi-
creased force The stood firm They were compact
body aboonss though the thing they desired to abolish
was human freedom They spoke out plainly, and offered
their support and their the Northern man. wing OF
democrat who would thorougy bend or break himself
purposes Under the lead of General Cass many o.
the party sedueed and deserted But until
1850 Northern Whg yielded to- their hen en-
United States osrsdto abandon the ,s ordinance
of1then known as the ne ,ebo ss
under the resolutions OF anexa
sH 6 then the
officers and the seventeen post
be invested with power liberty and give eact
often, not local. but unlimited jurisdiction
the United staes and he offered to give ior
the Southern dreadful element OF the free coore
population Two hundred millions of dolars-a proiusio
and prodgaity magniHcenty websterian. am here on
referring facts which, everybody knows, have beeom
history -. -. ..,
Northern Democrats ana ngs pla1iea h npH
ted adhesion the aone was not to be ex
pected the competitors would be few Mr. Buchanan forth
with caused it 10 be understood his part he will
ing to run line of SO deg. 30 mihe MISSOURI compro
mise line so caed-throug the Pacific oceon and
Vice President under Mr. Ptlk in his letter to Mr. by
and the ITSELF int
the Constitution put their repeal beyond the poe
sugared his pill He told South had cotton lands
lands tobacco lands enough but alas said he
understood they would make him President the
of Cuba should be their reward This is the sam
lately said, in secret session ofthe Sc
nate Sandwich Islands should be annexed to th
country and question should arise about
time affairs rpenug for the Baltimore nominations
Mr. Fillmore offered to the South, the Army and Navy
ed. Mr. Webster trumped up false treasons by score
Nor and south making speeches redoen ofpro-slavery
Secretary travelled still nts speech
parties did not get nomination Baitmor
was because Of what the law calls aehes, or want
reasonable diligence" on their part
THE BALTIMORE CONVENTIONS RESOLVING AGAINST FIRE
DISCUSSION. . -
come now to the Baltimore Conventions themselvc
which held in June last Every one knows that q
great question human slavery, had controlling 1n1uen
In these bodies and determined their results What va
majority ofther or an
venon pro-savery sentiment was nearly unanimous.
It's ap he AMBITION oce Yet even they
in the apprehended voice people oenha
@ ses Tn the Wing Convention, the who ready
sacrca honor duty, religion, to the demands OF SLAYER
was large majority and might have nominated their me
mira nro-savery the first ballot They
have effected this easily they effected their
organization and appointed committee on credentials
excluded sntsavery men, and committee on resoluto
who accepted Southern platform prepared for them beo
hand by Southern hands, But these Beshazzars too,
him of old the hand writing the WALL and tn
that with sucha candidate they were doomed to ut
and remorseess defeat before the people, In ooth
tons however the spirit of slavery was so strong and
badly brave carry the resolutions am about to read
The Democratic Convention resolved To
...bde bv and adhere to faithful execution of the
known the compromise measures, settled by the last
dedS
And further they
.ne.o15 THAT the series of acts of the Thirty
grass commonly known the compromise or adjustme
he act recovery Of ugtiyes from labor ncude
as final settlement, in principle and substance of the
iects to which they relate" AND
afurther agitation ofhe questions thus settled
Saprerous to our peace will dscountenance all effort
continue or such agitation, whenever, wherever
however made"
Now what an outrage is this Does not our constitu
provide agsns tga eedom use IN tbe a
tyranny of social abolish itz OF what value Is
vs;on " in the CONSTITUTION which the free
@ Of reliaon if social intolerance and bgory acting in
unlegalized way can destroy m Yet here are two cons
State or National invested with powers, legislative
ca executive, coming together ior day. ana then
pigmy voices against mighties impulses ofthe hur
Ieart against history and Providence against the nat
the spirit himself resolving that mankind shall
dumb regard greatest of human wrongs and re
also. that law passed by Republican Governm
vat barbarous and yraica as ever made by any
poism shall be consecraed in its wickedness, and rem
eternal.
Two Baltimore Conventions, assuming to quench the
nal surt fliberty-that spirit which was part of the
spiraton prophets of DID, when they commanded
of the undo the heavy burdens and let
oppressed free that spirit which gave all It's heFolsm
spepdor to the classic Greece and made its
ries immortal that spirit which gaVeto Rome ITS col
roportions of and Intellectual grendeur; that
which, in the darkest night of the worlds history, cir
Anime heights and sheltered itself in the fastnesses of
mountains inaccessible to yrants which, at another
onnd protection within the dykes of Holland, barring
the rave of the ocean, the remorseless of
Doc men; that spirit which has given to England, an
English history all their undispUted claims to renown,
10 the gratitude ofmanknd and which, when persecutet
driven from England crossed the Atlantic spread itself
this omen continent, and having been nursed by more
two hundred ofstrugge and discipline, now bids
invulnerable and udestrucable two ephemeral Balti
Conventions undertake to bani 4erxes chaln1ng the
spont was wisdom personifed compared with them
would be too dignied and honorable illustration to
pare them to two old male Mrs. Partingtons, moppnG
the Atlantici
is at least conciyable Why did they not propo
to back the order of sca events, rather th
violate the infrangble and irresistible laws OF
progressl Why did they not order the oak back int
acorn, or the bird back into its SHE'LL the earth itself
into its first geological epoch rather than order the
chised spirit OF the nineteenth back into the
and bondage of the dark ages the world7 Why did
not lift the wand oftheir argance audacity
Arcturus and the Pleiades, and attempt roun
consultations OF the heavens you would roun
hands on the dial-plate of clock! Such halucina
would least within the limits of
youId therefore be free from atheism
inc 10 stifie voice of freedom discuccing freedom
Sir to resolve that the slavery question