Daily national era., 1854-07-07
WASHINGTON, d. c..
FRIDAY, JULY z, 1854.
OHIO CONVENTION.

JosEpH SWAN, j. H. COULTER, and ]. w.
ANDREWS, the Committee, in Columbus, Ohio,
authorized to receive the signatures to call
for State Convention, have issued a card, in
which they say
g II il hoped that delegates will be appointed
in each county from all political parties; tor
whatever live issues there may be between the
two great parties which divide the State there
is One Question made by Southern slayeholders
at this momentous crisis IN common to all as the
free air of heaven: II is, whether this Republic
and its free institutions shall be ruled by, and
and it's great Mission Of Freedom be runk into,
an Oligarchy Of Shareholders and the extern
sion of Slavery and Slave Power"
Some timid papers in Ohio hope the Con-
vention will restrict i,self simply to an express
sion Of opinion against the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise and in favor of its restora-
tion. II the Convention would emasculate tho
movement Of which ii is the representative,
let it follow this advice A band OF prop
agandists, organized already in Kansas, and
armed, to prevent free immigration into the
Territory; all the Territorial appointments
made with an evident intent TO promote the
introduction Of Slavery there; the Slave Inter-
eat to be strengthened by the purchase Of Cuba
for two hundred and fifty millions of dollars,
or by it's forciblc seizure the settlement of
the great subjects Of controversy with Great
Britain along our Northern frontier to be pre-
vented, although all.important to the general
interests Of the country, and especially to the
Northern and Western sections, simply be-
cause it cannot be made to contribute to the
selfish schemes Of Shareholders; all the ener-
ges of all departments of the Government to
be prostituted to the extension Of tho area and
the augmentation Of the political power Of
Slavery; and yet this Mass Convention of Ohio
frcemcn, of which we have heard and hoped
SO much, solemnly declaring that it was very
wrong to repeal the Missouri Compromise, and
it will DO very right to restore it The old
story Of the Mountain in Labor!
We do not believe that this Mass Convention
has any idea of making itself a laughing stock.
It will meet the crisis in the right spirit, and
announce policy Commensurate with the re-
sponsibilities now resting upon non-slavehold-
ing voters. The question is shall the Republic
be ruled by the many, or by tho few, by the
opponents or by tho propagandists Of Slavery,
by twenty millions of free citizens, or an Oil
garcby of three or four hundred thousand
Shareholders, with their dependents? Whether
the Law Of Personal Freedom, and it's priceless
safeguards, shall be established wherever the
Federal Government has exclusive jurisdiction,
or whether Personal Slavery, sectional, excep-
tional, and odious, a perpetual source Of weak
ness, discord, disgrace, and danger, shall be
the paramount law within that jurisdiction
determine the entire domestic and foreign pol
10y Of the nation, and convert it into huge
Slave Empire, plundcring its own subjects, and
in it's mad lust for dominion, outraging the
rights Of mankind.
Let the Ohio Convention and the other six
State Conventions that are to assemble on the
18th of July, meet the question fairly and
squarely, and boldly pronounce judgment upon
every Issue rendered by the Slave Interest.