Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-08-16

Mr.. Norton of Cincinnati moved that
committee on Resolutions be appointed
Agreed tc, and the chair appointed as said
committee E. P. Norton, WIN. A. Adams
and others.
When the motion for q committee was
made, Hon. WIN. Stanbery of Licking soid
he hoped the motion would not prevail. He
trusted this Con, ention did not come here to
adopt platform, but merely to nominate
candidate for Governor.
Af.er the committee retired Hon. VIM.
Stanbery was cIlled upon for speech. He |
too& the stand and spoke n. some length |
We were not in position to take full rotes,
and we will not pretend to give his words
We therefore adopt the report, as we find it
in the Cincinnati Commercial OF this morn
ing.
Hon. William Stanbery, Of Licking, was
called Oh for a speech. He was opposed to
making Platforms. The Constitution of the
United States was Platform enough for him.
He proceeded to make stiff pro.slavery
speech. Slavery, il it was an evil at all, was
sorely an evil to the South, being an unmit-
igated benefit to the North. The South
owned three millions of slaves which were re-
ally at work FOR the North, and furnished a
market for her manufactures. 1t seemed to
be patriotism in the North now .a-days to hate
the South, but that kind of patriotism did not
suit him. We were under obligations to the
South, and the South had great reason TO
complain of US, because we kept up per-
petual agitation, making our Southern breth-
rem dread the horrors Of the West India G.
Emancipation.
| He was not in the habit Of attending meet
| ings, and was opposed to stump speaking, and
hoped that the nominees Of the convention
would not be caught in The d,sgracelM position
Of Appearing before The people on The stump.
He had come up on that occasion 20 do what
he could to save the State from the impend-
ing dsgruce-tbe election of an Abolitonist
to the Gubernatoriol chair of Ohio. Chase
did not care to be Governor for the honor of
that position. He wanted to be President
that was the point If the Aboltionists
could rule the National Government, they
would take measures that would compel the
South to secede from the Union, and then
the Abolitionst President acould arm The sla uSs
wiM U. s. musfets ! The whites and
blacks could not live together on an equality.
If the negroes were free they would cut the
throats of the whites, if their owr throais
were not cut. (Cries of good) He was op.
posed to the Missouri Compromise, but
thought that the admission of Kansas as a
slave State would not be sufficient cause for
the dissolution Of the Union. He did no,
wish any party to be responsible tor his o.
pnions.
When Mr.. Stanbery took his seat L. P
Nort,n Of Cincinnati, from the committee on
Resolutions submitted the following
WHEREAS: We believe that the period has
arrived when all who desire the permanence &
integrity of the Union of our common coun-
try and have a regard for the interests o. the
State of Ohio, so long and deeply injured,
should distinctly aud soemnly announce their
wishes and opinions, therefore
Resolved, That with reverentiai accord, we
accept the adm onition o. the Father of the
Country to beware Of sectional parties, and
utterly repu1iate, as unworthy the confidence
Of the people of Ohio, the party inaugurated
in our State under the auspices Of the Con-
vention of the 18th of July last, the great oh
jrct OF which was to array one section OF our
Union against the other.
Resolved, That we cannot consent to the
abandonment of the principles of the Ameri-
can party, and shall continue to maintain them
SO long as there remains n vcstige of that
malign foreign Influence which threatens our
institutions.
Resolved, That the interests of the people
of Ohio require radical change in tho pol
icy and organized law of the State regarding
our currency and taxation system and that
we will endeavor to obtain the cooperation OF
our citizens of all parties TO secure such u re-
form.
Resolved. While we denounce the outrages
that have resulted from the passage of the Ne
braska and Kansas bill, and demand from all
departments of National Government the pun.
ishment Of all who trample upon then, we
will never coaiesce with an ultra sectional
purity which for the accomplishment Of its
end, proclaims its determination to resist the
laws of the land ana make them void and in.
operative.
Resolved, That since the organization oi
cur government, candidates for Governor have
been selected as the representative men OF
the ir party and their friends that while Hon.
Salmon p. Chase, may represent the Abol-
itions,s Of Ohio, and Hon. WIN. Medill the
Nebraska Democrats of the State. both OF
them are the farthest from impersonating ouT
political IDEAS, that the Hon. Allen Trimble
+ favorite Governor Of sur state in lines
when a thought of disunion was abhorred as
crime, man of lofty character and truly o
manly intellect, is our choice for Governor
oi Ohio, and We therefore nominate him as q
, candidate Tor the office.
That portion Of the "mass meeting oI
Ohio" which surrounded the stand, cheered
very Justify when Gov. TIimble's ma ne was
announced. Some enthusiastic individual call
ediupon the band to play the "Stur Spangled
Banner" They gathered up their instru'
ments, and obeyed the call in excellent style
. Mr.. Trimble took the stand and thanked
the convention for the honor they had con.
/. ferrcd upon "his brother" and said that al
n though the venerable ex Gov. knew nothing
of this movement, he would pledge his &C
+ ceptance Of the nomination.
!, Mr.. VIM, Stanbery said he had knowr