The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1854-03-01
Afternoon Meeting.

Afternoon Meeting.
The following report from the Committee was
accepted and adopted: 80
PERMAN OFFICERS.
President-Nathan Sanford, Rootstown.
Vice Presidents- Chauncy B. Curtis, Charles
town, Chauncy Harmon, Randolph.
Secretaries-O. w. Strong, Franklin, ]. S.
Herrick, Ravenna.
Judge Spaldiug 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 iniqut
GUS scheme, were it adopted. to the manifest ap-
probation of the meeting.
The Committee on Resolutions submitted the
! following report. which after animated discus
sion by Judge Splading, Rev. w. D. Sanders.
Hiram Griswould and Ex-senator Giliett, was
adopted.
Brought from our homes and firesides, filled
with anxiety and concern, at the flagrant attempt
now being made to inf1ict 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 n ResoEved That we have always cherished
warm attachment to the Union of these States.
AMI have always adhered faithfully to the common
ly understood compromises of the Constitution,
and in good faith have endeavored to yield due
obedience to their requirements and to aid in full
filling all constitutional stipulaons in the spirit of
loyal citizens.
Cd ResOlved, That, having, in singleness and
honesty of purpose, 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. Resolred, That the Constitution of the U
nited States was ordained to form a perfect
Union, establish JUSTICE and to secure among
other things the blessings of liberty and hence
we deem it the solemn duty of Congress so to leg
islate in all things, and especially in reference to
our territorial possessions, to secure those
blessings
4th. Resolred, The the principles CT The legis-
laton' of the Nebraska bill, in direct autagon-
ism with those of the founders of our government,
and FRI of our constitution, utterly subversive
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.
5th. ResolUsd, That The North yielded an impor-
tant principle, sacred right in its acquiescence n
the Missouri Compromise, by which that State
was admitted without Slavery prohibition, and the
Arkansas Territory exposed to the inroads o
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
the Louisiana territory, lying North IF SO deg. sc
min., should be consecrated foreper 10 freedom
E and having kept the faith of that Conn rrOnse ant
the South having derived the full benefit of the
same, we demand, that that solemnly plightet
faith on The Part of the South be observed, ant
that this immense territory, embracing 4s5,00t
: square miles, sacredly consecrated to freedom
be kept, unpolluted from slavery, and for the use
> of freemen and free institutions.
9th. Resolred, 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 servie abettors.
7rh. Resofued, That the bill introduced into ths
Senate of the United States by Senator Douglass
of Illinois, abrogating it does the Missouri Com
= promise, is but another fruit of that saveholdin,
aggression, which has been going steadily forward
! another has been secured: We, therefore, fre
citizens of Ohio, the State eldest born of the JEFF
fersonlan ordinance ofl787 hereby enter solemn
and earnest protest. against the passage of this bill
this giant aggression, this wicked scheme of slave
n holding cupidiy we protest against it, because
:, violates principles of honor JUSTICE right and com
mon humanity because it tramples down plighte
faith because it is an iniqutous fraud upon th
people of the free States because it strikes dow
the hopes of landless freemen in the North, 70
D. whose benefit our territorial possessions should
Is held as a sacred trust because it will discourag
immigration frvm the despotisms of the old world
> whose subjects seeking new homes and fire.
r. institutions in the Great West because it mus
f. engender geographical strife fraught with danger
ID GUS consequences. consequences which all ma.
t. imagine, but which we will not here undertake
l. portray because it retards civilization, and ad
- vances barbarism and desPotism because tn
People no where demand it: because corrupt me
seek to it stalking horse, by means
which to secure objects of unholy, personal an,
" bition, by panderiug to the base and ungody spr
+ of slaveholdng despotism: because it will lead
n our Judgement to an ultimate and final rupture
j. the ties of Union.
9Th. Resolred, That with the passage of this bill
r and the fall of the Missouri Compromise, shoul
,e fall all compromises, and that the freemen Of tn
North should be prepared to stand hand to hand
,e the conflict between freedom and despotism, ne
le ther asking nor granting quarter.
9th. Resoived, That if the South. aided by the
~ miserable abettors, the doughfaces Of the Nortl
y succeed in this daring conspiracy against freedom
and thus produce sectional strife upon their ow
70 heads be the consequences-and when slavery ca
.' longer flee for refuge under the shadow ofan
Z" compromise, when force is provoked for tn
10 protection of dearest rights, when the four
+ teen millions of freemen in the Free states
+ are driven to point from which there is no reces
1e sion, when necessity is created. before whlc'
p that stpnendous nouity the slave system tsei