Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-07-19
Rusion conveution.

The Statesman brings NJ the full ProeeedingI
Of this Convention held a Columbus on the
18th. In POlnt Of numbers Il b ssId 10 have
been . very respectable gathering, shout 1000
delegates being In sttsndshee. B.R. LrrEn Esq.
Of Stark. ofRciated - President, assisted BY a
Vice President from each Congressional district,
and J. n. Baker, Of Ross; }. q. Herziek, of POr.
tage; Montgomery Stark, Of Green; and ]. Mo-
eller, of cuyahOga, acted as Secretaries.
TIE following are the nominees Of the Con-
ventiOn. ., ~v
For Judge of the Supreme Court, JosrrH R.
SwAx. Of Franklin.
For member of the Board Of Public Works,
JAeOB BLIeKExsDERFKR, Jr., of Tuscarswns.
The proceedings 10 full are too long for our
columns, and possess very little interest to our
readers, aDd we therefore conteat ourselves with
giving the platform adopted. -...rr
Whereas the positive prohibition Of slavery
in the Territory TO the north and west Of Missou-
ri' imposed by Congress in the year 1920, at
the instance of Southern statesmen, and a. an
equivalent for the admission Of said State Of Mis-.
souri, without such restriction, has been removed
by the passage Of the bill to establish Terrtori-
al Governments in Nebraska and Kansas.
And whereas It becomes important 10 ascer.
tain if the popular mind in regard to slavery has
retrograded Ia Ohio during the last thirty -four
years, notwithstanding the benign principles of
the Ordinance of 1887, which made our State
perpetualiy free, and which has been the prin:i-
pal meaRs of our unexampled prosperity and hap
piness; therefore, =.
!. Resolved, That we hail with gladness and
gratitude the anniversary of that glorious day
when the Congress OF the Confederation i'm
pressed upon the Northwestern Territory that
"Ordinance Of Freedom which has given char
acter and consequence to FIVE great States, now
containing fYe millions Of freemen, but not one
siare.
2. Resolved, That in humble imitation Of the
virtue and patriotism which inspired our fathers
in the enactment Of the Ordinance, we solemnly
renew this day our covenant vows to resist the
spread of slavery, "under whatever shape or col.
or It may be attempted"
s. Resolved, That, TO this end We will labor
assiduousy to render "inoperQtive and void'' that
portion Of the Kallsos and Nebraska bill which
abolishes freedom ih the territory withdrawn from
the influence of slavery by the Missouri Compro-
mise of 1920, and that We will oppose by every
lawful ard constitutional means any further in
crease of slave territory or slave States in this
Republican Confederacy.
4 Resolved, That, in order that public senti.
ment on this great subject may be, concentrated
and developed in the State OF Ohio, at the car
est possible period, we will proceed to place in
nomination suitable candidates for the Supreme
Bench and Board Of Public Works, and invoke
in their support at the approaching election the
votes of all good citizens without reference to
political parties. ....,...
s. Resolued. That we concur in tho recon.
mendation of the Convention Of the people OF
Michigan. that there be called general Conven.
ton of the free States, and such Of the savehold-
ing States or portions thereof rs may desire TO be
there represented, with the view to the adoption
Of other and more effective measures in resist.
ance Of the cncroachments OF slavery; and that
a committee Of five persons be appointed to cor.
respond and cooperate with our friends in 9TH
er States on the subject. ......
6. Resolved, That a committee of - be ap-
pointed by this Convention as pro tempore State
Central Committee, with power to call another
Convention Of the friends of liberty, and te take
other measures that may become necessary 10
perfect the declared designs of this Convention.
Rts0lued, That the soil of the Territories must
be kept for free homes Tor free men.