The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-08-12
The Great State Convention in Michigan.

party, who are opposed to the stupendous
fraud practiced upon the North by the re-
peal OF the Missouri Compromise, met III
Jackson in that State, on Thursday the 9th
inst, for the purpose Of consulting together
as to the proper course to be pursued by the
free men of the free States III the present
emergency. 1t was one Of the largest, and
most enthusiastic conventions that ever as
Isembled in Michigan. ID. S. Walbridge, OF
Kalamazoo, was chosen President, and he
was assisted by twelve Vice Presidents and
seven Secretaries. Committees to draft and
present resolutions, also, to report upon
nominations, &c, were appointed. The
Convention was addressed with much elo-
quence and ability by Messrs. Bingham,
Chandler, Howell, and others
| The committee on resolutions reported q
series that occupy over a column in the De-
troit Tribune. They were adopted by the
| Convention with entire unanimity. We
copy a portion Of them, and call the atten-
ton of the freemen of Ohio to the senl-
ments they embody:
Resolved, That the repeal Of the " Mis-
souri, Compromise contained in the recent
act Of Congress, for the creation Of the ter
ritories Of Kansas and Nebraska, thus admit
ting slavery into region until then sealed
] by law, equal in extent to the thirteen old
States, is an act unprecedented in the histo-
/ ry Of the country, and one which must en-
gage the earnest and serious attention OF
every Northern man. And as Northern
/ freemen, independent Of all party ties, we
here hold this measure up to the public exc
Grafton for the following reasons:
That it is plain departure from the poll
of ho Toth aS ha Do in ri
| to slavery, and wantOn and dangerous frus-
tration Of their purposes and their hopes.
| That it actually admits and 1ra8 attended
TO admit slavery into said territories and
! thus Ito use the words applied by Judge
Tucker, of Virginia, to the fathers of that
! Commonwealth thus sows the seeds of
an evil which, like leprosy, hath descended
| upon their posterity with accumulated ran
cor, visiting the sins of the fathers upon
succeeding generations"
That 1t was sprung upon the country
stealthily and by surprise, without necessity,
without petition, and without previous dis
cussion, thus violating the cardinal princi-
/ pie Of republican government, which requires
| all legislation TO accord with the opinions
and sentiments OF the people
! That on the part of the South it is an
/ open and undisguised breach OF faith, as
contracted between the North and the South
| in the settlement of the Missouri question in
/ 1920, by which the tranquility of the two
sections was restored "a compromise bind
/ ing upon all honorable men.
That it is an open violation Of the COM
promise Of 1880, by which, for the sake of
peace, and to calm the dstempered impulses
of certain enemies of the Union at the South,
the North accepted and acqulesccd in the
odious '' Fugitive Slave Law" of that year.
! That it is also an undisguised and unman-
ly contempt Of the pledge given to the coun-
try by the present dominant party at their
National Convention in 1852 not to "ugi-
tate the subject Of SLartry either IN or out ot
Congress being the same convention
which nominated Franklin Pierce to the
Presidency.
That is greatly injurious TO the free States
and to the territories themselves, tending &c
retard their settlement, and to prevent the
improvement of the country by means OF
free labor and to discourage foreign emf
grants from resorting thither for homes.
. That one Of its principal aims is TO give
to the slave States such decided and prac
tical preponderance in all the measures OF
government, as shall reduce the North, with
all her industry, wealth, and enterprise, &c
be the mere province of few slaveholdns
oligarchs Of the South-to position toe