The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1854-01-04

U The following liberal and sound views We
AVE read with interest, and commend them TO
,ur readers. The elements are surely at work
or new powerful and combined movement
Let every man be ready TO meet The crisis with |
IN arged views and a tolerant spirit:
From the AshtG5uLa Sentinel.
Parties ana Party Names.
Our neighbor of the Warren Transcript copies
our article entitled Our Future partly with
appreciation and partly with disapproval.-
He remarks upon it somewhat at length, and
makes il the occasion to say what ought to form
lhe basis Of new party organization that would
embrace all anti slavery men in one party. But
one main point with him appears TO be to satisfy
the anti-sayery wings of bis county that he has
great confidence in ,Lez.,zas that Free Soilers
have not sufficiently valued them. This, with
view to harmonizing locally, is all very well, and
we have no objections TO make. He says that the
project of convention of An,i-savery men of all
parties, to meet at Columbus. would be well sup
ported by his whig friends. We have no doubs 1t
would; aud we glad that the Free Soil Com
mit,ee has reported against holding Convention
Immediately. 1t will give time to concentrate the
anil slavery sen imens, and allow all 10 see where
they stand, and how they can act from the
points they respectively occupy. We hope, when
that convention is called to large delegation
from the liberal wings of Truinbull. and all parts
of the State, not as wings, but as men, who have
thought. resolved, and are ready to act-boldly
and earnestly for the right.
The hour demands it, and no true progressive
will say aughs against any one fo- what he has
thought it best heretofore to do. The times are
ripe for revolutions in the political world and par
ties must be formed anew; and with new parties
new names come as matter of course. Great
principles are at stake; and the greatest known to
pocs-ihe freedom of man-is now the issue.
Before this, all minor considerations sink into uoIh
ingness The duty pound of iron or yard
of cloth is nothing when a human being, man, a
brother rises up and tells us he is robbed Of him
self. We must redress his wrongs we must
knock off his chains, and then we shall have time
to look after the smaller matters Of National econ
omy.
A Convention should therefore be called at Co.
Iumbus. without regard to former party positions.
where each man should come be represented,
as though no party existed and all that is there
uUuo VI ic6OFcu b0 All OPppouioh ~ 1idfciJ
as it exists in the South over the blacks and in the
| North over the Whites. The call for snch con-
| vention should coutain the platform and all per-
requested sign it; and it should be called by
none of the present iary nam, s; and should moi
derive its hnrity or consequence from any exis
| ting party merely. If all the Free soiers. al
the liberal whigs should support the movement il
would be WELL 1t would be better stiIl. .ifa Dem.
ocrats would take hold also. and help fol ward the
good work. Every man should be invited to thai
convention who believes that man is of more val
ue than dollar or bale of merchandise.
| We hope however. that our friend of the Tran
sc.ipf. Or any others, will not suppose that
wanting III confience in the Free Sol party, its
members org .nz.tion. They all right anc
good: and 60 were tho Old Liberty party arrange
mems; yet tllat party found it best to merge the
interests 10 the Free Soil patty. So might d.
now if more general Convention Of Anti-saverJ
Progressves eau be got together by other mesn
! than what may as ut present organ nized.-
But let it be remembered by all, that shall en-
ter no convention that is net called with a view II
the entire eradication of slavery from every spot
controlled by the general government, and cpposi
ton to it in all forms constiiutionaiy within ou