Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-07-12
Proceedings of the Carroll County Repuh-
lioan Convention.

lioan Convention,
Pursuant to the call of the County Central
Committee, large number Of the friends of
freedom assembled in the Court House, at
CsuolltOn, on the 4th day of July, 1855, for
the purpose OF appointing delegates to the
State Convention, to be held at Columbus on
the 18th of July, inst. The meeting was or
ganized by calling Mitchell Mclaughlin, of Fox
township, to the Chair. and appointing Simeon
Westfall, of Augusta, and VIM. B Sharp, of
East township, Vice Presidents; and Wm. B.
Moore, of Perry township, and William Mccoy
Of Carollt5n, Secretaries.
The object of the meeting being stated the
Convention proceeded to the selection of dele.
gates. The following are the delegates ap.
pointed, including their alternates
Thomas Moore. of Perry township: Robert
G. Ramsey, Of Fox township, alternate; DR.
]. G. Hostetter of Minerva, WIN. B. Sharp,
Of East township, alternate: and G. K Mecas.
key, of PalermO,-Dr. ]. B. Moody, Of Lee,
township alternate.
On motion of Gen. E. r. Eckley, il was re.
solved that, so many ofthe resolutions adopted
at the County Republican Convention. last
year, as are now appropriate, be adopted. The
following are the resolutions adopted;
Resolved, That we are opposed to the pro.
visions of the act, lately passed by the Con,
.~.,ns e H. IT.,toI Ct,to, r.. tho or.,o,;.o
ton of the territories of Nebraska and Kanzas,
which repeas so much Of the Missouri Com
promise as prohibited slavery in said Territory.
/. Because it ia violation Of the COnstitu-
ton of the United States.
2. Because it is bold attempt, unparal
lelled in the history of national legislation, to
consign to slavery. what was and ought to re.
main forever free.
g. Because said act violated q solemn
pledge Of national faith, made at great sacri.
fees on the part Of the free States, and acqui.
eSced in for more than thirty years, which
pledgs of faith was and ought to have been in
soemnity, but little below the compact, that
holds this confederacy together
4. Because said act is in violation Of the
principles of humanity, in conflict with the de-
mands Of justice, the dictates Of reason and
The high and unalterable commands OF divin
itv itself. For these and other reasons that
satisfy us, that the present national Admins.
tration. are determined to extend slavery not
only over Nebraska and Kanzas, but over
New Mexico and Utah and further westward
until it is limited by the waters of the Pacific,
and southward as far as their acquisitions can
reach, or conquest can carry.
Therefore. as freemen, entitled to the enjoy.
ment and FREQ expression Of our opinions, we
this day publicly declare and solemnly pledge,
that we will not cease our opposition to the
acts OF the slave propagandists, until we res.
tore all that has been lost to freedom and re.
cover all that has been joined to slavery. And
that with untiring zeal. we will contend, until
slavery shall be entirely eradicated from every
inch OF territory in which Congress has the
power to abolish It.
And that If any new territory Is to be &C,
quired by any means, devised by the Nationa!
Government, there, and in that case will We
demand that such acquisitions ought and shall
be free. And in particular manner do We
declare, that the act known as the Fugitive
lave Law passed by Congress at the instance
of the people of the South, was wicked in its
conception. and at war with the feelings, senti.
ments and convictions of all right thinking
men. That the passage of said act, was op
posed by the Hon. Thomas Ewing in the SEN
ate Of the United States, and by every one Of
our political friends from Ohio In the House Of
Representatives, with one exception, whose votes
and acts we approved of then, aud whose wis
dom and justice we still admire. And that in
our opposition to said act. We will not cease
until its obnoxious features ate wiped from The
Statute Book.
Resolved, That the extravaganza OF the pres.
ent Administration increasing its expenses to
over seventy millions of dollars per year, is to
US unaccountable and alarming, and calls loud
ly for redress.
Resolved, That The system Of taxation pro.
vided by the Democratic party in power is op.
Pressive aud unjust and we demand its modi6.
cation or repeal.
Mr. john Palmer, Of Loudon township, of.
fered the following resolutions which were u
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That, whereas, the slave power
is making rapid strides towards obsolule con.
troll OF this Government, therefore ii becomes
the friends of freedom, by whatever name they
may be called, or BY whatever party they may
have been designated, to unite in one political
organization ior the purpose of maintaining for
ourselves and transmitting to pOsterity the
blessings Of civil ard religious liberty, descend
inor .tnoo us frnr,n he fatkare IL. d