Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-06-29
Georgia DemOCracy-The Plat
form OGtlle SOufl-Dnre the Ohio
Democracy ncquieSce9


very must now be settled. The South
made bod and arrogant by the ease with
which they have heretofore carried theil
measures, have resolved TO browbeat and
bully the free States into submission tc
their schemes of slavery extension and sg
grandizement. All compromises and com
psc.s are spurned and repudiated. The
entire subsection Of the free States to The
imperious dictstion of these slave drivers
is demanded, or, in default, We have. fol
the ninety ninth time, tremendous threat
Of dissolution of the Union.
That the people of Ohio Of all parties
may see the exact position ofaifsirs, we ask
their careful attention to the following: On
Tuesday, the 5lh inst, the Democratic par.
ty of Georgia met in State Convention at
Milledgeville, the State Capital. for the pur-
pose Of nominating candidate for Govern
or. After the Convention had rs-nomina-
ted Herschel V. Johnson for that post,
Hon. Howell Cobb, from the business COM
miIlee, reported series of sesoluiions.-
They we're read and unanimously adopted.
Eloquent speeches we're then made by Mr..
Cobb, Hon. w. H. Stiles, Hon. John E.
Ward, Hon. L. Q. G. Lamar, Gov. johnson,
and others. We copy few Of these reso-
lutions, and trust they will be read by eVe-
~ free man of the free States:
RESOLVED, In the language of the Geor-
gia Convention of 1850, that we hold the
American Union secondary in importance
only to the rights and principles it was de-
signed to perpetuate; that past associations,
present fruitiOn. and future prospects, will
bind US to it SO long as it continues to be
the safeguard of those rights and principles.
ResolVed, That We hereby declare our
full and unqualified adhesion to the follow
ing resolution of the Georgia Convention
of 1850, and our unalterable determination
to maintain it in its letter and spirit:
"4th resolutiOn-Georgia platform. That
the State Of Georgia. in the judgment Of
this convention, will and ought to resist,
even las last resort) TO a disruption of
every tie which binds ner to the Union,
any action of Congress upon the subject Of
slavery in the District of Columbia, or in
places subject to the Jurisdiction of Con-
gress, incompatible with the safety, the do
mestic tranquility, the rights and the honor
Of the slaveholding States; or any act sup
pressing the slave trade between the slave
holding States; or any refusal to admit as
State any Territory hereafter applying.
because Of the existence of slavery therein !;
or any act prohibiting the introduction of
slaves into the Territories Of Utah and New
Mexico; or any act repeating or materially
modifying the laws now in force for the re-
covery of fugitive slaves"
RssOlved, That We approve and indorse
the action OF our last Congress in the pas
sage Of the Nebraska Kansas act, and the
principles therein established; and in con-
formiiy with these principles, the people Of
Kansas have the right, when the number
of their population justi6es il, to form q Re.
publican State Constitution, with or with
out slavery, as they may determine, and be
admitted into the Union upon an equal
footing with the other States, and that her
rejection BY Congress, on account of slav-
cry, would be just cause for the disrup-
ton of all the ties that bind the State of
Georgia to the Unien.
RESOLVED That We adopt as our own the
following resolution, passed unanimously by
the last Legislature of Georgia:
"ResolUed, by the General assembly of
the State of Georgia. That opposition to the
principles of the Nebraska bill, in relation
to the subject ofslavery, is regarded BY the
people of Georgia as hostility to the people
Of the South, and that all persons who par
take in such opposition ara unfit to be rec
ognized as component parts of any party
OF organization not hostile to the South"
RescESed, That in accoI dance with the
above resolution, whilst we are willing 10
act in party association with all sound and
reliable men in every section of the Union,
we are not willing to affiliate with any par
ty that shall not recognize, approve Snd car
~ out the principles and provisions Of the
Nebrsska-Kansas act; and that the Demo
cratic party of Georgia will cut off all par.
ty connection with every man and party al
the North, or elsewhere, that does not
come up fully and fairly to this line Of ao-
ton.
RESOLVED, That we sympathiss with the
friends of the slavery cause in Kansas, in
their manly efforts to maintain their rights
and the rights and interests of the South
ern people, and that we rejoice at their re-
cent victories over the paid adventurers
and Jesuitical hOrdes of Northern abolition
ism; that the deep interest felt and taken
by the people Of Missouri in the settlement
Of Kansas, and the decision of the slavery
question in it, is both natural and proper,
and that it is their right and duty to ex-
tend to their Southern brethren in that
Territory every legitimate and honorable
sympathy and support.
In the name of freedom and an outraged
North we ask if the Locofoco party in Ohio
is prepared to stand by that platform of
political fsith? In view of all the develop
ments of the past year, is that party still
ready 10 indorse the Infamous bill of Atch-
ison, Douglas & Co, by which slavery has
been enabled to invade the free soil of Kan
sas and Nebraska? With perfect knewl-
edge that the settlers in Kansas have been
invaded and literally conquered by horde
of pro-slavery Missouriaus, who have i'm
posed upon them their representatives,
both in Congress and in the territorial leg
islature, are the masses of that party in the
free State of Ohio prepared to say that
Kansas shall come into the Union as slave
State? Dare the leaders of that party