Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-01-17
Democratic State Convention.

This Convention which met in Columbus on
the Sth--passcd resolutions among other things,
in favor of intervention to secure non-intcrven-
ton. Their sth Resolution is as follows:
Sth. Resolved, That in the conspiracy Of all
the monarchists of Europe against self govern
ment, the United States do sympnthizo pro-
foundly with the people that as citizens we
oiier them our emphatic encouragement to
break their chains; and VIC hold it to be our du-
ty, as nation, so to shape our policy rs to as
sist them by any means in our power; and ra.h-
or than to witness the utter extinction of re-
publicanism as fact, and principle in Europe,
we arc ready to encounter the shock OF arms on
the field of battle.
We rccollect to have read in a book Of high
authority, a serious condemnation against ccr-
tain persons who loudly profcsscd to love Cod
whom they had not socn,-whilc they hated
their brother whom they had seen and known,
and could relieve. They were stigmatzcd with
something like Hypocracy for their prctensions
Our Columbus Democrats seem to have some
thing quito similar in their profound sympa-
thy" with the people Of Europe, struggling
against the conspiracy of government, while
they themselves are numbered among the mem-
bcrs Of a Governmental conspiracy at home,
against 100000 of enslavcd people. Thou
hypocrite. first cast the beam out of their own
cyc--thcn shalt thou see clearly to pull tho
mote out Of the eyes" of thy less guilty broth
ren the monarchists of Europe.
The Convention also went through the annual
performance of telling all the world, and those
of the democracy who are a.littlc infected with
Free Soilism in particular, that they arc as much
as ever opposed toslavery.
The following are their resolutions ON the
subject. The two resolutions are mutuallyscx-
planisory Of each other and together very clear
ly declares the intention of the party The
first it will be seen informs us that the ',people
Of Ohio look upon slavery as an evil" and will
seek to eradicate it. While the second informs
us that tho Democracy of Ohio at the same time
fully recognise its right to undsturbed existence
in the States where it exists. This must be
something like disintercstcd bcnevolence. So
forward arc they to proclaim the rights of slave.
holders-rights that have never been question
cd except by ianatics-while so utterly obl-
vious of the outragcs upon their own rights
outragcs which none but these same fanatics
have ever dared to expose or resist:
"Rcsolvcd That tho people of Ohio now, as
they always have done, look upon Slavery as
an evil and unfavorablc to the full developc-
ment Of the spirit. aud practical benefits of free
institutions; and that entertaining these scnti-
mcnts they will at all times feel it to be their
duty to use all power clearly given by the terms
of the national compact, to prevent its increase,
to mitigate, and finally, to eradicate the evil, but
be it further
"Resolved, That the Democracy Of Ohio do
at the same time fully recognise the doctrine
held by the carly fathers OF the republic, and
still maintained by the democratic party in all
the States, that to each State, belongs the right
to adopt and modify its own municipal laws, to
regulate its own internal affairs to hold and
maintain an equal and Independent sovereignty,
with each, and every State, and that upon these
rights the national Legislature can neither leg
islate, nor cncroach.