Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-07-04
Fusion in Ohio.

An official call has been issued in Ohio, by
Committee composed of members of each of
the existing parties, calling State Conven-
ton of "all who are opposed to the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise restriction-who are
opposed to the extension of Slavery and the
Slave Power into Kansas and Nebraska and
other Territories-all who do not desire by
their silence to encourge the further aggressious
OF The Slave Power, to meet by delegates in
the city of Columbus, on the 9Th inst. The call
says that there is ONE GREAT QUESTION now
to be determined, which has been made by
Southern Shareholders, in which men of all
parties have common right and common
interest. alt is whether this Republic and
its free institutions shall be ruled by, and its
great mission of Freedom be sunk into an
oIgarchy of Shareholders. and the extension
of Slavery and the Slave Power
This is a noble movement, and we have no
doubt it will be nobly responded to in the
good Buckeye State. There is a spirit of man
illness and freedom pervading the population
of that State, which, it is refreshing to turn
and look upon, after witnessing the mercen-
airy trucking and cringing servility, that pre-
vail in certain other quarters, which, though
but partially manifesting themselves, at the
present time, viii soon be developed in their
full deformity. We trust the movement will
go on and become general in the great West
that it may concentrate and give force and
afI- a5e 20 &tot 81,
which generally prevails, among the masses
of the population, of all parties in the Free
States, but which is SO much controlled and
OTeuuled by scheming and selfish politicians.
What grand spectacle it would be, and
how gratifying to every true Christian and true
Republican heart, 10 see the unmeaning party
names and distinctions which have hitherto
divided the people, swept away. and the
grand issue-tbe only issue now before the
country, which has any vitality IN it-tairly
made up and presented. whether Freedom or
Slavery shall rule; whether the intentions,
hopes, and Enticipations of our fathers, that
TINS country should be the asylum and cher
ished home of Freedom, for all t1ne to come,
shall be realized or frustrated. Then we
should have something worthy the efforts Of
freenen TO contend for, and with the issue, SO
made up and presented, we should have 10
fears of the result
But, whether the issue shall be 50 made up
and presented, or not, il is upon US and eau
not be escaped. If we permit other questions
20 separate and divide US, and to divert our
attention from this greatest one Of all, then
win Slavery achieve final triumph, in this
last great conflict as she has too often done
in those that have preceded it. He, then,
who, at this time, would thrust in any minor
issue, or interpose tie name or organization
Of any party, past or present, between those
who think and feel alike on this vital issue,
to divide and separate them, is the worst pos
sible enemy to his Country, to Freedom, and
Humanity. He is more to be Stunned and
loathed than the STAKEHOLDER himsel or the
open and avowed enemies of Liberty either
Northern or Southern, who uphold aud de-
fend him. Let the people see this, UNDER
stand it, and set their faces like steel against
every such traitor to Liberty, and all be we'll