Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-17
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BOOK OF CHRONICLES.
oHAPTER /.

1. And It came to pass in the second
wear of the reign Of Franklin the nrs,'
= that it was incumbent, under the. ooos
of Constitutions, written and aooPeeo
in the days of George, whose SIRE name
was Washington, that the people IN the
different Provinces should choose a
: Grand Sanhedrim to meet at the Great
eity of Washington, the capital of the
United Provinces of North America;
and deliberate together for the well
being and prosperity of the people.
4 2. And it was so, that the people Of
one of the Provinces, even the beauti-
full and free Province of Ohio. had or
dained that the meeting should take
place and be held on the second Tuesday
of the month of October.
8. And as the time Of the meeting
drew near, the people bethought them
what manner of man should be chosen
to represent them in the Great Counsel:
4. For in times past, this people, even
the people of the Southern portion of
the beautiful and free Province of Ohio,
had been represented By one John L.
whose sire name was Taylor, man of
Ross, and descended from one of the
first families, which resided towards the
East.
5. And they carefully scanned the
acts of John while he held seat ir the
Grand Council, and 10! it was found
written in the book of the Journals of
the Sanhedrim, that John had given
council and leagued himself with the
men of the Soulh, and established law,
to compel the free men of the free and
beautiful Province of Ohio, to appre-
hend and return to slavery all that
might be claimed as the servants of
these modern Pharaohs.
6. And the people read further in the
book of the Journals, and they found
there recorded that one Douglas, who
had many men servants and maid SER
wants toiling in the fields, in one of the
Southern Provinces, had proposed to
set at naught the law limiting the bound
airy of slavery and involuntary servi-
tude, called, in times past, the "Mis-
souri, Compromise" and Douglas took
council with the men of the South and
with the men of the North called
"doughfaces," and they broke down
this compromise.
Z. And it was so, when the Sanhe-
drim had decided to break down the
compromise, that if the assent Of
Franklin, the chief captain of the United
Provinces, which assent was easily OBJ
tanned; albeit Franklin was a man from
one of the Northern Provinces, even
the Granite Province.
8. Now Franklin was timid man,
and man of much feeling; in so much
that the smell of gunpowder had caused
him to faint; nevertheless, he well knew
that the law of the last Sanhedrim COM
pelling every free man to aid and assist,
under great penalty, in returning to
slavery whomsoever the men of the
South might claim as their servants
had given the men of the South such
great power over the free Provinces Of
the North, that he might give his assent
to the breaking down of the missouri
Compromise" without any injury to
his reelection.
9. For said he to Caleb, his conscience
keeper, the "fugitive slave law" is now
fastened upon the free Provinces Of the
North and West; nay, many of the
counselors from these Provinces, for
want of foresight, or from natural de-
sire to favor slavery, gave their assent
to the law, as will fully appear in the
book of the Journals of the Sanhedrim,
even John L. the man of Ross;
10. Nor can these men vote to abol-
ish this law, having voted for it, without
rendering themselves detestable in the
sight of all men; so may approve the
law, and be adjudged blameless by all
the men of the Provinces of the South,
and many of the "doughfaces" of the
North, and the vast Provinces of Ne
braska and Kansas will be organized
with the blessings of slavery, and for
this great act, it will be said of me, in
after time, "Franklin the Great filed
the measure of his country's glory"
II. So Franklin approved and signed
the law, that he might live to the doc
trines of the great Southern apostle.
Calhoun, who taught that there was but
two conditions proper for men: 1.-The
master and the slave"
12. So the people were not satisfied
with the public acts of John. the man of
Ross, and they rejected him and sethim
aside.
IS. So the people cast about for a
man that could serve them and yet save
their beautiful and free Province from
the curse of human slavery and more
from the arrogance, tyrany and oppres-
sion of the master.
IA. For, said the people, we must
selecta man tried and approved, lest we
fall into the hands of the uncircumcised
Philistian locofocos or what might be
still worse, the hands of the Freesoilers.
Is. At length the people of one Of
the precincts, even the precinct of Jack
son, nominated one Simeon, whose sire
name is Nash, and who has judged the
people, for years past, with righteous
Judgment. This same Simeon has sat
in council at Columbus, in times past,
where he was esteemed honorable among