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ANTT.NEBRAsKA MEETTNG.


der By Hon. D. K. CAErER, Judge J. r. svlEOf Frank
lin called to the Chair, aud Capt FORD Of Mansfield
was appointed Secretary. T D
On motion, committee Of Eve was appointed 10 re-
port upon permanent organization, and upon rulss
The following persons we're selected Said COMMITTEES.
MesEs. Lawrence, Carter, Sherman, Bruek and Kimba
we're appointed. . rF le.uL| boz
On motion, cOmmitle Of 81 vas appointed to DRAFT
resolutions 70 be reported TO he Convention. The FOL
loving geutlemen we're named Is said committee:
buH John W. Andrews, Franklin; '5 .f-'...H
aaidv RIP. spslding, Ouyahoga;
as7 N s. Townsend, LOraini '... ''. ...i.
'r"' 4. r. Eekley, Carroll DID. '.''
Wm. Lawrence, Logan;
7. D. KimbSI, Medina;
J.P. Burck Morgan
Charles Cist, Hamilton;
John Krautb, "
Samuel Lahm, Stark;
L. S. Sherman, Ashtabula;
WIN. Ashley Lucas ........-. ..
John Howard, Montgomery; ..-
R. A. Harrison, Madison; 81
J.J. Gurley, Morrow; s .., ....t- b..
E, Welty, Tuscarawss; r. "a. .a
... samne Finley, Belmont; .H..
.... VIM. P. Morris, COlumbiAnA; r.sl .
-.-..... w. H. UpsOn, Summit; ... -
~ Dr.. Charles Jaqua, Darke; -a' r
rr .a B. F. Letter, Stark; . ..-i.. ..
Mr. Letter declined to act with the Convention a. one
of its officers. f
Hon. D. K. GARrIR addressed the Convention His
speech was able. When he closed bis remarks, Hon.
VIM. Lawrence from the Committee on Rules and per.
mAnent organization reported the following
President ;-HOn. ]. R. Swan; Vice Presidents =
Hon. Chas., Reemlin, John D. Caldwell, Alex. Cooper,
E. A. Parrott Geo. D. Burgess, James NJ Ashley, j. R.
s. Bond H. W. Smith, John W. Jones, J. c. Doty, ThOs
Lloyd, VIM. Reeves, Ralph Leet, Col. VIM. Hadley,
A. p Stone, John Coulter, Joseph Cable, II. Buckmas-
ter, Gen. G. A. Jones, Dr. W. @. CatD, D. Allen Arnold
Lynch, Dr. J. H. Pute, JOnn n. Church. Lorenzo Tyler
Amber Zach Congressional District represented by
a ViCe-Presdent)
Secretaries Otto DrSIssl Franklin; E. P. Green,
Summit; VIM. Ripley, jr, MahOningi Hon. J, B. Krath,
II. B. Darlington and A. B. Buttles, Franklin; B. r.
Cowan Belmont; A. B. Waldorf, Allen. t..a ~
The Committee also reported rules for the govern
ment of the Convention. f.l,..., r.E .a
The report of the Committee was unanimously adopt
ed. ...4 81 .vab sug. lJ o..
The President announced that the Speakers for the
afternoon would be Hon. s. P. CHASE, Hon. JAcoB
BRIEKERHoFF and Hon. BELLAMY SrORER. ....
The Convention then adjourned to meet again at 2
o'clock P. II. t 1ll f# Es.#
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At Two o'clock, p. NJ, JoHN W. ANDREWS, as chair.
man Of the committee resolutions, made report by
reading them to the Convention. The report was as
follows: .Nt
Whereas, the s.h section of the act Of March 6th
1920, commonly called the Missouri Compromise EN-.
braces in It's limits about four hundred and eghty.6ve
thousand square miles of free territory which is not in
cuded in any State or Territorial organization, being
Of than twelve times the extent Of the State
of Ohio great that Of all free States Of this Unon
excepting California and capable as we believe, of
tanning population Of more than ffty Millions and
which section of said act is as follows:
SEC. g. Be it further snGsted That in all that terri.
tory ceded BY France to tho United States, under the
name Of Louisiana which les north of thirty-sx de.
grees and thirty minutes north latitude not included
within the limits Of the State contemplated by this act
Missour and involuntary serVitude otherwise than as
the punishment of crimes shall be and is hereby FOR.
EVER PROHIBITED. qarg arH ,rirp'.t aHt
And whereas, by the bill before Congress for Or
ganizng the Territories Of Kansas and Nebraska it is
proposed to repeal the said eighth section Of said act OF
March 9Th, 1920, therefore. 50
i. RssOlVed That the said eighth section Of the said
act Of March 9th, 1920, s part Of a solemn compact
between the free and the slave States Of this Union and
that we protest against any American statesman aid
ing directly or indirectly in its violation:
ResOtped that there con bo doabt that slavery
will if permitted to do So enter the territory lying north
of SO degrees and so minutes north latitude To say
nothing of Delaware aud Maryland the States of Virgi
MIA kentucky, and nearly the whole Of Missouri lie
north Of this parallel Of latitude, and in all of them
slavery not only exists, but is increasing. The slave
population of the State Of Missouri mure than doubles
it's numbers every twenty years. Until the laws Of
nature abolish slavery in Missouri they will not prohibit
its existence in Kansas and Nebraska
g. Resolved That the bill now before Congress, for
organising the territories of Kansas and Nebraska was
deliberately and carefully framed with view to permit
the extension of slavery into these territories To &C.
conpsh this purpose its friends seek TO repeal the
Missouri Compromise In order to make that repeal ef
fecua they refuse to submit the question to the exis.
tence of slavery in these territories to popular vote,
untrameled by the votes of slavshOlding Governors
refuse to permit the peopeto elect their own Governors
and Judges-nay, as browning act Of defiance. not
only to the principle Of popular sovereignty, but to the
uniform practice Of the Government refuse to permit
foreigners who have declared their intention become
citizens to vote within these territories at ALL This
may bo slavehOldiAg popular sovereignty but is not
the popular sovereignty Of the Democracy of the North
A. ResoUsd, That in the language Of the joint reso.
luton Of the Legislature Of the State Of Missouri passed
February 18th, ls47, "the peace, permanancy and
welfare Of National Union, depend upon strict ad
herence to the letter and spirit Of the eighth section" Of
the said act Of March eth, 1920; and say deliberate
y, on behalf of immense majority Of the people Of