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and voting for resolution instructing their del
egate to the State Council to lay aside and sub
ordinate the Slavery question. And are you
better friend of Freedom, have you uttered
louder pledges, than he? Does your attendance
upon the Lodges increase your love for your
race, your zeal to redress the wrongs of Cypress
ed Humanity? Do you feel your hostility to
the real and constant aggressions of the Slave
Power made more active, by making old women
tremble at the terrible dangers that threaten
from the aggressions of the weak old dotard Of
Rome, or from the ingress from our fathers
homes of free hands and warm hearts-wild
though their heads may often be-anxious only
to serve us, while they serve themselves Your
friends think you are becoming Indifferent to
the great question of the day, and that you will
shortly slide under the yoke of the Slave Pow
er. We pray God they may be disappointed.
From the Cleveland ohio) Leader, May S, 1855.
wIRE-wORKING.
conclave of leaders was secretly summon
ed to Cincinnati one day last week, and the
following ticket is said to have been manufac-
tured, viz:
For Governor-Jacob Brinkerhoff, of Mans.
field
For Lieut.. OVERWHELMINGLY N. Odds, of
Circlevie.
TOT Secreldry Oh otaIe-h In l. DaScOm, Oh
Columbus.
For Treasurer of state-A. P. Stone, of Co.
lumbus
For Auditor of State. C. Wilson.
For Attorney General--R. NJ. Corwine, Gin
cinnati.
For Board of Public Works-H. H. Dodd of
Toledo.
For Supreme Judges-R. G. Hurd, of Mount
Vernon; and r. E. Peck, of Portsmouth.
This ticket has been sent in circular form to
the Presidents of the third degree Councils.
1t is not intended that the June Know Moth
ing State Council shall nominate the above
ticket or make any nominations at all, but it
is expected that the hint will be taken, and
that the brethren will comport themselves &C.
cordingly, and so arrange matters that ma
jority Of the delegates to the Republican State
Convention will be third degree Union-savers.
But we still believe screws will get loose, and
there will be grand smash-up at Columbus, if
these Know Nothing engineers don't keep off
the track, and let the Republican train alone.
How far the candidates above named are igno-
rant of the trick being played in their behalf,
We know not but moments rational rehec-
ton must teach them, that the less they have
to do with the gentlemen that are running Sam
into the ground, the better for their own popu-
larity.
At first sight, the array of names looks toll
erably passable, but on a nearer view a major
ity of them will be found to be remarkably free
Of Anti Slavery sympathies, and stoutly oppos-
ed to agitating the Slavery question loud enough
to disturb the composure of the shareholders
They are so deeply attached to the Union, that
to prevent the friends of Messrs. Seward. Hale,
or Chase, from destroying it, by electing either
of them President in 1856, they would rush
into the breach and save it, by supporting Mil
lard Fillmore, Garrett Davis, or George Law.
All this miserable gouging and scheme must
be abandoned. The Silver Grays must be
taught that the day of doughfaceism in Ohio is
over; that the people will tolerate no more rec
reancy to Freedom-that Know Nothingism is
equally as powerless as Locofocoism, when
welded on the side of desgotism.
From the Kennebec MEL Journal
REPUBLICAN PARTY IN MINNESOTA.
From this young, hourshing Territory, we
have the most gratifying intelligence of the sue
cess of the new party, which is gaining such a
stronghold throughout all the free States of the
Union. The Republican party of the Territory,
based on precisely the same principles on which
it stands in Maine, lately held Convention at
st. Anthony. The President and very MANY of
the prominent actors have heretofore been lead.
ing Democrats.
After a session of two days, and very full
and thorough discussion Of the present condi-
ton of the old parties, and the necessity of a
| new and more energetic organization the Con.
| vention adopted a preamble and resolutions.
| fourteen in number. We have not room for the
resolutions, but the preamble will sufficiently
| indicate the spirit Of the whole. 1t was in these
words:
"We the citizens Of Minnesota. assembled
in Territorial Convention believing the question
OF human freedom to be paramount to all other
| questions now agitating our country, and be-
| hevlng that, In consequence of the corruptions
OF the old political parties, there is necessity
for a new party in politics. in which the friends
| of public virtue may give efficiency to their ac-
ton, do hereby form ourselves into a Terrific
rial REPUBLICAN PARTY, and declare the
principles which have brought US together, and
Cor which we will contend until they shall be
adopted, as a controlling element in the admin
istration of our National and Territorial Gov
ernments."
The resolutions adopted assert that the
Federal Constitution was intended to protect
and encourage Liberty and not Slavery " that
the people of Minnesota believe the Fugitive
Slave Act of 1850 is unconstitutional, unjust
and cruel in its operations, dangerous to the
domestic tranquility, and that it ought to be re-
pealed;" that "the Ordinance of 1887 recog-
nlses the right of Congress to exclude Slavery
from our Territories, and that an acquiescence
| of more than half century, by the South as
| well as the North, confirms this view;" that
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was
dishonorable breach of faith, uncalIed for, and
under any circumstances unjustifable; that
"a prohibitory liquor law should be passed by
the Legislature of the Territory" These are
the main points touched upon in the resolutions,
| which are of the right tone throughout, and are
drawn up with great ability.
| A special committee was appointed to draft
and publish an address to the people of Mime
sofa, to accompany the resolutions; also, a
committee to call Territorial Convention, for
the nomination of Republican candidates.
| The recent elections in the city of st. Paul,
| for Mayor, exhibited the strength of the Repub-
| licans--their candidate, Ex-Governor Ramsey,
receiving $50 votes, while his opponent, Star
KEY, the standard bearer of the Pierce and Doug
| las party, came off with some ESQ; and this,
notwithstanding the most desperate efforts of
| Governor German, aided by all his lackeys and
| deputies.
| Hotels on the European system are increas-
ing among us, and they will continue to in
crease from this time forward, for the very good
! reason that they are cheaper to the guest, and