Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-03-01

resolutions, L. w. Hall, Edmund Bostwick, Pom
erOy Reed, VIM. Wadsworth, and A. P. Single
tary. t.st = t. SIS IL
The Hon. R. P. Spalding, of Cleveland, was
then introduced TO the audience and eloquently
entertained them till the hour for dinner arrived,
when The meeting adjourned to re-assemble at
~ si+ -- u AFTERNOON MEETING. a "a.
The following report from the Committe was
accepted and adopted: ...,...... -..,.
Permanent Officers.
Pfesident-Nathan Sanford, Rootstown.
Vice Presidents Chauncy B. Curtis, Charles
town; Chauncy Harmon, Randolph
Secretaries-O. w. Strong, franklin; J. 5.
Herrick, Ravenna.
Judge Spaldng resumed the stand, and with his
usual power and ability denounced the Nebraska
Bill and its supporters, and earnestly appealed to
Its opponents, amidst enthusiastic applause.
The President then introduced to the audience
Hon. Hiram Griswould, Of Cleveland, who Por-
trayed, at length, the consequence of that inquit
Gus scheme. were it adopted, to the manifest ap-
PREDICTION Of the meeting.
The Committee on Resolutions submitted the
following report, which after an animated discus
sion by Judge Spalding, Rev. w. ID. Sanders, Hi
ram Griswould, and Ex-senator Gillet, was adop-
ted. .....-.
Brought from our homes and firesides, filed with
anxiety and concern, at the fragrant attempt, now
being made to inflict stupendous wrong upon the
people of the United States, by means of the so
called Nebraska bill, introduced into the Senate
of the United States. .-
Be it Resolved, That we have always cherished
warm attachment to the Union OF these States,
and have always adhered faithfully to the COM
monty understood s'compromises of the Constitu-
tion," and in good faith have endeavored to yield
aho1; &r,k kba;r nd IN aiI in
fulfilling all constitutional stipuatons, in the spr
it of loyal citizens. ..-.....
cd. Resolved, That having, in singleness and
honesty of purp' obeyed all the behests of the
Federal compact, we demand, and have right to
demand and will be satisfied with nothing short of
like good faith on the part Of others.
Sd. Resotved, That the Constitution of the Uni
ted States was ordained to "form more perfect
Union, establish justice" and to secure among
other things "the blessings Of liberty" and hence
we deem 1t the solemn duty of Congress SO to
legislate in all things, and especially in reference
to our vast territorial possessions, as to secure
those "blessings.' r.t.
4th. Resolved, That "the principles OF the legis-
lation' of the Nebraska bill are in direct antago-
nisn with those of the founders of our government
and trainers of our constitution, utterly subyersiye
of the best interests of the nation and dangerous
to the cause of freedom and equal rights now in
progress in this country and in the world
9th Resolved, That the North yielded an impor-
tant principle sacred right, in its acquiescence
in the Missouri Compromise by which that State
was admitted without. Slavery prohibition, and the
Arkansas Territory exposed to the inroads OF
Slavery,-but as an equivalent for such acquies-
cence, it received the plighted faith of the South,
that all of the remainder Of the territory known as
the Louisiana territory lying North of 36 deg. 80
min, should be consecrated forever TO freedom
and having kept the faith Of that Compromise, and
the South have derived the full benefit of the same,
we demand that that soemnly plighted faith on
the part of the South be observed, and that this
immense territory, embracing 100000 square
miles, so sacredly consecrated to freedom, be kept
unpolluted from slavery, and for the uses OF tree-
men and free institutions. ...-.....
9th Resolved, That it i'll becomes the fourteen
millions of Northern freemen, to yield to the ag
gressions of two hundred thousand shareholders,
and their corrupt and servle abettors.
7th. R.solued, That the bill introduced into the
Senate of the United States by Senator Douglas,
of Illinois, abrogating as it does the Missouri
Compromise, is but another fruit of that slavehol-
ding aggression, which has been going steadily
forward, aiming at new acquisitions as one demand
after another has been secured. We, therefore,
free cirizens of Ohio, the State eldest born of the
Jefersonian ordinance of 1887, hereby enter our
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this bill, this giant aggression, this wicked scheme
of slaveholdng cupidity; we protest against it be-
cause it violates principles of honor, justice, right
and common humanity; because it tramples down
plighted faith; because it is an iniquitous fraud
upon the people of the free States; because it
strikes down the hopes of landless freemen in the
North, for whose benefit territorial possessions
should be held as sacred trust because it will
discourage migration from the despotisms of the
old world, whose subjects are seeking new homes
and free institutions in the Great West; because
it must engender geographical strife fraught
with dangerous consequences, consequences which
all may imagine, but which we will not here un
dertake to portray because it retards civilization,
and advances barbarism and despotsm; because
the People no where demand it; because corrupt
men seek to use it as a stalking horse, by means
ofwhich to secure objects of unholy, personal
ambition, by pandering to the base and ungodly
spirit Of slaveholding despotism; because it will
lead, in our Judgment, to an ultimate and final
rupture of the ties of Union.
9th. Resolved, That with the passage of this bill
and the fall of the Missouri Compromise, should
fall all compromises and that the freemen of the
North should be prepared to stand hand to hand
in the conflict between freedom and despotism,
neither asking nor granting quarter.
9Th. RESOLVED That if the South, aided by their
miserable abettors, the doughfaces of the North,
succeed in this daring conspiracy against freedom
and thus produce sectional strife, upon their own
heads be the consequences-and when slavery can
no longer flee for refuge under the shadow of any
compromise, when force is provoked for the pro-
lection of dearest rights, when the fourteen mill
ions of freemen in the Free States are driven to
point from which there is no recession, when
necessity is created, before which that stupendu-
ous iniauitv the slave system itself will fallup-