The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-03-31

The People in Committee OF the whole
COLUMBUS, OHIO, March 92, 1854.
Judge J. r. Swan was called to the Chair,
and capt. Ford Of Mansfield appointed
secretary.
A committee of five was appointed to re-
port upon permanent Organization, and up
on rules. -'a.o
Hon. WIN. Lawrence from the Commit.
tee on Rules and permanent organization re-
ported the following:
President:-Hon. ]. R. Swan; Vice Pre-.
sidents: Hon. Chas Reemeln, John d,
Caldwell, Alex. Cooper, Z. A. Parrot, Geo.
d. Burgess, James NJ Ashley, ]. r. S. Bond.
II. w. Smith, John w. Jones, J. C. Doty,
Thos.. Lloyd VIM. Reeves, Ralph Leet, Col.
VIM. Hadley, A. p. Stone, John Coulter,
Joseph Cable, H. Buckmaster, Gen. G. A.
Jones, DR.. w. c. Catlin, ID. Allen, Arnold
Lynch, DR.. ]. H. Pulte, John R. Church,
Lorenzo Tyler, - Amber. Zach Con-
gressional District was represented by Vice
President.)
Secretaries:-Otto Dressel,, franklin; E.
p. Green, Summit; VIM. Ripley, jr., Mahon-
ing; Hon. ]. B. Krauth, H. B. Darlington
and "A. b. Buttles, Franklin; d. r. Cowen,
Belmont; A. d. Waldorf, Allen.
The Committee also reported rules for the
government of the Convention.
The report Of the Committee was unani.
mously adopted.
A committee Of 81, one from each Con-
gressonal district was appointed to draft re-
solutions. Mr. Samuel Findley, Belmont was
tae appontee from this District.
]. w. ANDREWS, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Resolutions, reported the following
which were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, The 9Th section of the act of
March 9th, 1890, commonly called the Mis-
sour, Compromise, embraces in its limits
about four hundred and eighty-five thousand
square miles Of free territory, which is not
included in any State or Territorial organiza-
ton, 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, ex-
cepting California, and capable, as we believe
of sustaining population Of more than fifty
millions, and which section of said act is as
follows: s.s .lD
SEC. 8. BE il further enacted. That in all
that territory ceded by France to the United
States, under the name of Louisiana, which
8 lies north OF thirty-six degrees and thirty
minutes north latitude, not included within
f the limits of the State contemplated by this
act, (MissourD slavery and involuntary SER
vitude, otherwise than as the punishment of
crimes, shall be and is hereby FOREVER PRO-
: HIBITED.
And whereas, by the bill now before Con-
gress for organizing the Territories of Kansas
and Nebraska, it is proposed to repeal the
said eighth section of said act of March sth,
1920, therefore.
. /. Resolved, That the said eighth section
of the said act of March 9th, 1920, is part
of solemn compact between the free and
the slave States, and that we protest against
any American statesman aiding directly or
f indirectly in its violation.
2. Resolved, That there can be no doubt
that slavery will, If permitted to do so, enter
the territory lying north of &c deg 80 min.
north latitude. TO say nothing of Delaware
and Maryland, the States of Virginia, Ken
lucky, and nearly the whole of Missouri, lie
north of this parallel of latitude, and in all
OF them slavery not only exists, but is in
creasing. 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 existence In Kansas and Nebraska.
3. Resolued, That the bill now before Con-
gress for organizing the territories of Kansas
and Nebraska, was deliberately and carefully
framed with view to permit the extension
OF slavery into these Territories. To ac-
complish this purpose, its friends seek to re-
peal the Missouri Compromise. In order to
make that repeal effectual, they refuse to
submit the question of the existence of slay-
cry in these territories to popular vote, un-
trammeed by the vetoes Of slaveholding
Governors, refuse to permit the people to
elect their own Governors and Judges; nay,
as crowning act of defiance, not only to
the principles of popular sovereignty, but to
the uniform practice of the Government, re-
fuse to permit foreigners, who have declared
their intention to become citizens, to vote
within these territories at all. This NAV be
slaveholding popular sovereignty. but it is
not the popular sovereignty of the Demo-
cracy Of the North.
T. Resolved, That, in the language of the
joint resolution Of the Legislature of the
State of Missouri, passed February 18th,
ls47, "the peace, permanency and welfare of
our National Union, depend upon strict ad-
herence to the letter and spirit of the eighth
section" Of the said bill of March 9th, 1920,
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 what
ever, suffer slavery to obtain a foothold in the
proposed territories Of Kansas and N Nebraska.
The heart OF this continent is the choicest
heritage of the free laborers of the United
States. These shareholders are not equal in
numbers to the vSters OF the State OF Ohio. |
We say to these misguided men, be not de-
celved; you are sowing the wind, and you
will reap the whirwind.
B., Resolved That WA snnrova f,lIv oc tha