The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1854-03-01
Movement in TrIsnsbulE COanfy-Uil- C
ion of DsfDerS.

vi MOvemnenf hN TgumsbntA ACOaNtY-Ofl.
ion of papers.
The friends of freedom uniting in Trumbult
County. giving past differences TO the wind, and in
spirit of patriotism TO strike united blow for
liberty against despotism.
The following articles from the Warren papers
fully unfold the progress of events in Trumbull
County. and will be regarded with lively interest,
we doubt not by all our readers.
From the Western Reserre Transcript and Wing.
To our Readers.
The present issue of the Transcript closes its
publication separate and distinct Journal
Next week it will appear in conjunction with the
Western Reserve Chronicle, and the two papers
will hereafter be published under the editorial
control. jointly. of Mr.. Howard and ourself
In taking go important step this, ac-
knowledge. that in accordance with time honored
custom, ga decent respect for the opinions of man
kind'' demands that we should give at some length
the reasons which have induced as to this course,
and which seem to US of sufficient moment to mako
it clearly appear that it is the course of true wis
dom and duty.
So far as the members of the Whig party Of
Trumbul County are concerned, we presume that
reasons are scarcely necessary; for the step We
take is in accordance with what we believe to be
their DESIRE clearly and unequivocally expressed
to US. From every part of the country we have
been advised to this couraeby men who have been
| known as true Wigs. end who have only waited
| to be assured that the feeling thus expressed was
the general sentiment offthe party. on every side
we have heard it said, 1.-The opposition to the Ad
|
the formality of double organization renders our
strength useless and keeps in power pitiful mi
nority.' 1t is therefore in obedience to this de-
maud that we act, and this. to our brethren of the
press will be the most conclusive of all reasons for
such step. Our paper has been hitherto, so far
as we have been capable of making it. 3 faithful
Transcript and exponent Of the feelings of the
| Wings of the Western Reserve and in this act as
in all others, we feel assured that we but express
their disposition and desire. There seems to be
a cordial and earnest desire the part of the
members of both Wing and Free Soil parties. that
minor differences shall be forgotten, and that the
friends of freedom unite upon one common basis
to resist the encroachments of the slave power
Similar unions of Wing and Free Soil papers have
already taken place in several counties of the Re-
serve, produced from the conviction that longer
separation was only prejudicial to the great end
for which beth were struggling-,he success OF
true ant-slavery principles.
In this view of the matter, we will endeavor to
set forth our position in reference TO the politics oi
the county. and the course of action demanded by
the times. At the close of the last Presidential
campaign. in view of the causes of our disastrous
defeat we declared that there could be no hope of
successful issue in any political combat in which
the Wing party should stand upon pro-slavery
ground; and since that time the actions of the
present Administration have proven beyond ques-
ton that it is their intention to stand or fall upon
the platform of slavery propagandism. They have
forced this issue upon the country and there is nc
choice in accepting it. The last crowniug iniquty
of the Nebraska Bill has virtually united the whole
South in their support and its results are already
apparent in the denunciatious of SO long tried ant
reliable Wing as B. F. Wade, by MIR. Jones
the Wing Senator from Tennessee. The decree has
gone forth from the Cabinet that the division line
of parties shall henceforth Mason & Dxon's line
TO hope that other issues than the question of Sla
very in the Territories, and tile admission of new
Slave States, can for long time to come, be the
basis of political action in this county, is entirel,
futile. In this issue the Free States have inter
ests which are greater than they admit, or perhap,
are even aware Of If it were other than tina
involved in the question whether in new states
man with five hundred slaves shall have more polt
ical influence than three hundred free eemen at thu
North, no matter how great their intelligence o.
their wealth, this of itself should be enough tt
unite the North as man, for their weight ant
influence in the national councils is the stake.
But it is not our present intention TO discuss th
subject further than to sh W that, whether we viii
not, forced to this single issue, and there
h fore it becomes the duty Tin the language of th
resolutions Of the Nebraska meeting on the 11th,)"o
good men of all parties and sects, now, if ever, t.
unite" upon it. -
Such then is our position, and every mail bring
news which demonstrates that it must be the posi-
> ton of the WHOLE NORTH. While we are wri
p ting, the speech of Senator Badger reaches us
4 announcing that the southern Wings of the Sen
ate, in caucus, unanimously gave in their adher
4 ence to the Administration upon this question, ,an
o that committee had'waited upon the editors
a the Ndi,onal Inteifgeneer, the veteran Wing or
! gan at Washington to express their dissatsfactio
with its recent bold opposition to Douglass bill
O and to demand its silence the subject! ~
Y compromises, no Luces'3 can now avail! The tim
# has come when it mast be determined, whethe
h the South shall be our MASTER and we all be slave.
From The Western Reserre Chronicle.
To the Patrons of tho Chronicle,
There are eras in the history of mankind whe
= : those who have previously stood divided oppol
u.
! the working of parFmoun, iniuences-by th
D. growing presence Of some giant evil, upon th
e same common platform of action, and when tn
E. petty feuds which once served 10 separate ther
= are dwarfed into insignfcance or forgetfulness