The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-09-01
Resolutions

Re8OlUtA0LHS
Passed at the Free Democratic Mass Meet
ing held at Ravenna, August 18th. and omit
ted from the official proceedings as published
in the Star last week.
"The Committee on resolutions, Messrs.
Henry A. Swift, S. A. GiiIett. Thomas
Earl. L. w. Hail and Ferris Couch, through
their chairman Henry A. Swift. reported
the following preamble and resolutions which
were unanimously adopted:
Preamble.
The history of the Federal Government
of the United States presents to us series
Of repeated and continued invasions of q
small, but reckless and determined, sectional
power upon the rights of the freemen of the
whole country. and is. to use the words of a
Father of American Democracy "a history Of
justice in conflict with avarice and oppres-
sion." Our glorious Constitution, the Magma
Charta of American Liberty" ordained .'to
establish justice, and to secure the blessings
of liberty to ourselves and TO posterity has
been often, and deliberately wrested from its
purpose and the intention Of its trainers to SUBJ
serve the infamous ends of horde of .petty
tyrants," who impudently demand that we
shall become partakers in the guilt of robbing
our fellow men of the fruits of their
hard toll. for their benefit, because they
are too lazy and too proud to work.
Under threats of dissolving the I'm
ion," our representatives in Congress have
been bullied into the betrayal of the interests
of freedom, by giving their assent TO the pas
sage of bills, under the specious and deceitful
names Of compromise" and '.peace meas
ures," tat have extended the accursed insti-
tuition of fhuman slavery over vast territories
under our control, made every foot of land in
the free states and territories the legitimate
hunting ground of the rnan-thief. every son Of
the pilgrims blood hound to go whore he
shall say "seek," stop whatever human be-
ing he shall say "seize," and carry him or
her, to any miserable den of piracy and lust
that he may call his own, in any part of the
land of Washington under the banner of the
stripes and stars, no matter how distant; and
holds as security our property, our lands, our
" inalienabIe homesteads and even our sa-
cred personal liberty that he will not let the
natural instincts of humanity lead us to re-
fuse to do with alacrity the hateful work.
Such are the Compromise Measures and
Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850. Upon the news
of their passage one universal outburst of in-
d;or ot;o,, x.,os haard thro,,oi, oil Tho ,,o-,I
Throughout the County of Portage but one
expression came from the lips Of her out
ragged citizens, without distinction of party,
speaking the stern resolution of their hearts,
:. Resistance and Repeal!"
Paris declared in her meeting of freemen,
that the fugitive act is ga national disgrace.
a libel on the legislation of the nation, a black
spot in our national history. and that obedi-
ence to its commands would be disobedience
to God.''
Randolph affirmed that .sthe American
Congress in the passage of the fugitive bill,
had shown themselves the ayowed enemies
of liberty, false to God and man. and had
brought upon the nation the contempt Of the
world"
Palmyra asserted that lit imposes upon
freemen. obligations that no freeman can per-
form. and such as no patriot mit perform,
and demands resistance at all and every haz-
ard.''
Garretfsp,He said, 1--WE deuounce it, and
turn away from it with loathing. as violating
the constitution, the laws of God, and the
laws of our nature we call upon Congress to
repeal it without delay, and we consider it
our moral duty to resist itwhile 10 existence 8
L. Y Bierce. Esq.. wrote letter to that
meeting. st will nei her support the law nor
support man for office who will. not only
go for the repeal of it, but for open and man.
ly resistance to it while unrepealed."
B,imteld said, /" we We lcome the fugitives
from Southern American tyranny to our
homes, and our votes shall neuer be given to
any man for office who voted for this bill or
who neglected to vote againstit.
Franklin proclaimed that law "unjust,
uncalled for, and inhuman," and resolved to
protect the fugitive.
Edinburgh declared it 9. in conflict with
the whole spirit of the people, and directly
in conflict with the spirit and letter of the Di-
vine Laws; and that when human laws so
come in conflict with Divine Laws it is our
datyto obey God rather than man."
Ravennn called upon !" all good citizens Of
the county who will Indignantly condemn and
frown upon the fugitive slave law, and all
who united in its enactment, or approval, to
assemble in mass meeting at the Court House
on the Goth of October, 1850. The people
responded to the call, and that meeting pre-
sided over by an able and prominent Demo-
erat, with the three editors of the three party
!. ssns in the county for secretaries, unani-
- iesolved that the law is "a fagrant
NY '1 al lSipded tyranny. and plainly un-
inciuoe and eed that this blot upon our
of Pre- throughouse must and shall be speedi-
itors Tor 'l1 For a further pabey God rather than
ber on the premises. romptings of hu-
Of the Mantuo. Aug. 80, 1859 a..
NEW Bp slave dri.
y at the Life in the South-A coreceiva
j by all Toms CABIN: o. g and
it is; by Mrs. Mary H. Eastmae-
Il Store. Kossuth in New England
Campaign of Gen. Scott in the
Mexico.
Rartlett's Life of Gen. Pierce, b