Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-03-30


, LuxBUs.-A State Convention of those
opposed to Douglas Nebraska Bill, from
different parts of the State, of allparties,
assembled at Columbus on Wednesday,
the 22d inst. Hon. j. R. SWAN, of
Columbus, was called to the chair
There were from 12 to 1900 persons
present, mostly strangers. The pro-
ceedings were orderly, the speaking far
above the average, and the audience
took deep interest in all that was said
! and done.
]. w. ANDREWS, Chairman of the
Committee on Resolutions, reported the
following, which were unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, the 9th section of the act
of March 9th, 1890, commonly called
the Missouri Compromise, embraces in
} its limits about four hundred and eighty
five thousand square mics of free terri
tory, which is not included in any State
or Territorial organization, being an area
Of more than twelve times the extent of
the State of Ohio, as great as that of all
the free States of this Union, excepting
California, and capable, as we believe,
of sustaining population of more than
fifty millions, and which section of said
act is as follows:
SEC. 8. Be IL further enacted, That
in all that territory ceded by France to
the United States, under the name of
Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six
degrees and thirty minutes north lati-
tude, not included within the limits of
the State contemplated by this act,
Missouri slavery and involuntary SER
vitude, otherwise than as the punish
ment of crimes, shall be and is hereby
FOREVER PROHIBITED.
/ And whereas, by the bill now before
Congress for organizing the Territories
of Kansas and Nebraska, it is proposed
to repeal the said eighth section of said
act of March 9th, 1890, therefore.
/. RESOLVED, That the said eighth sec
ton of the said act of March 9Th, 1890,
is part of solemn compact between
the free and the slave States, and that
we protest against any American states
man aiding directly or indirectly in its
violation.
! 9. Resolved, That there can be no
doubt that slavery will, if permitted to
do so, enter the territory lying north of
Sc deg. 80 min. north latitude. To
say nothing of Deleware and Maryland,
the States of Virginia, 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
inceasing. The slave population of the
State of Missouri more than doubles its
numbers every twenty years. Until
the laws of nature abolish slavery in
Missouri, they will not prohibit its ex-
istence in Kansas and Nebraska.
8. RESOLVED, That the bill now before
: Congress for organizing the territories
of Kansas aud Nebraska, was deliber-
ately and carefully framed with view
to permit the extension of slavery into
these Territories. To accomplish this
purpose, its friends seek to repeal the
Missouri Compromise. In order to
make that repeal effectual, they refuse
to submit the question of the existence
of slavery in these territories to popu-
lar vote, untrammeled by the vetoes of
slaveholding Governors, refuse to per-
NIT the people to elect their own Gov
! ernors and Judges; nay, as crowning
act of defiance, not only to the princi-
Piles of popular sovereignty, but to the
uniform practice of the Government, re-
fuse to permit foreigners, who have de-
clared their intention to become citizens,
to vote within these territories at ALL
, This may be slaveholding popular SOW
ereignty, but it is not the popular sover-
eighty of the Democracy of the North.
4. RESOLVED, That, in the language of
the joint resolutions of the Legislature
of the State of Missouri, passed Feb
ruary 18th, 1847, the peace, perman-
, ency and welfare of our National Union,
depend upon strict adherence to the
letter and spirit of the eighth section of
the said bill of March 9Th, 1890, and
we say deliberately, in behalf of an i'm
mense majority of the people of the
State of Ohio, and as we believe of the
whole North, that they will. under no
circumstances whatever, suffer slavery
to obtain foothold in the proposed ter
ritories of Kansas and Nebraska
The heart of this continent is the choic-
est heritage of the free laborers of the
Uuited States. These Shareholders are
not equal in numbers to the voters of
the State of Ohio. We say to these
misguided men, be not deceived; you
are sowing the wind, and you will reap
the whirlwind.
5. ResolUed, That we approve fully
of the conduct of our Senators in Con-
gress, in opposing the passage of the
bill referred to through the Senate OF
the United states, and we look for un-
animous vote against it on the part of
our Representatives
6. Resolved, That the Government
of the United States is free Govern
ment-that the Constitution of the Unit
ed States was passed for the purpose of
securing the blessings of liberty, not to