Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-06-21

|, in its letter and spirit:
cath resolution Georgia platform. That
the State Of Georgia; in The judgment Of this
conven ton, will and ought to resist, even Gas
Ia last resort) to q disruption Of every tie
which binds her to the Union, any action Of
Congress upon the subject of slavery iii the
District Of Columbia, OF in places subject to
the jursSiction of Congress, incompatible
with the safety, the domestic tranquility,ths
rights and the honor Of the slaveholding
States; or any act suppressipg the slave trade
between the slaveholding States; or any re-
fusal to admit as State any Territory herei
after 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 nforce
for the recovery Of fugitive slaves"
| RESOLVED, That we approve and ihdorse the
action of our last Congress in The passageIof
the Nebraska-Kanzas act, and the principles
therein established: and in conformity with
these principles, the people of Kanzas have
the right, when the number of their popular
ton justifies it, to forma Republican State
Constitution, with or without slavery, as they
may determine, and be admitted into the
Union upon IN equal footing with the other
States, and that her rejection by Congtess,
on account of slavery, would be a just cause
Tor the disruption Of all the ties that bind the
, State of Georgia to the Union.
Resolued, That we adopt as our own the
following resolutions passed unanimously by
the last Legislature of Georgia:
, "Resolved, by the General Assembly Of the
Stale of Georgia, That opposition to the
principles of the Nebraska bill, in relation
to the subject Of slavery, is regarded BY the
people of Georgia as hostility to the people
{. Of the South, and that all persons who par
take in opposition are unfit to be recognized
as component part o. any party or organiza-
ton not hostile to the South"
I Resolved, That in accordance with the a.
: bove resolution, whilst we ere willing to act
!. lin party association with all sound and re-
liable men in every section Of the Union, we
are not willing to affiliate with any party that
shall not otrecognze, approve and carry out
the principles aad provisions of the Nebraska
n Kanzas act; and that the Democratic party
d of Georgia will cut of all party connection
with every man and party at the North, or
elsewhere, that does not come up fully and
L fairly TO this line of action.
Resolued, That we sympathize with the
&c friends of the slavery cause in Kanzas, in
Q their manly efforts to maintain their rights
;. and the rights and Interests of the Southern
people, and that we rejoice at their recent
victories over the paid adventurers g. Jesuitic-
n al hordes of Northern abolitionism; that the
i. deep interest felt and taken by the people of
" Missouri in the settlement of Kanzas, and
the decision of the slavery question in it, is
I. both natural and proper, and that it is their
right and duty to extend to their Southern
- brethern in that Territory every legitimate
d and honorable sympathy and support.
yr In the name of freedom and an outraged
b North we ask if the Locofoco party in Ohio
-, is prepared to stand by that platform of poll.
y tcal faith! In view Of all the developments
of the past year, is that party still ready to
indorse The Infamous bill of Atchison. Doug
d. las & Co., by which slavery has been enabled
r to invade the free soil of Kanzas and Ne
oraska! With perfect knowledge that the
settlers in Kanzas have been invaded and
literally conquered by ahorde of pro-slavery
Missourians, who have imposed upon them
i'd their representatives,, both in Congress and
ls in the territorial legislature, are the masses
of that party in the free State of Ohio pre-
pared to say that Kanzas shall come into the
e Union as slave State? Dare the leaders
w Of that party proclaim their acquiescence in
no this Georgia resolution? Dare they say to
IL. the people of the State that it will be suf-
|. ficient cause for dissolution of the Union,
~ if we Of the free States do not tamely submit
ry to that monster frauo! We proclaim it as
ty the firm and unaterable determination OF the
b. people Of Ohio that they never ,oiH sanction
ts that giant Outrage by any such acqHiescence
and no party can FOR moment live among
'e' us that will take the opposite ground.
CO "O?position to the Nebraska bill 10 regard
ks ed by the people of Georgia as hostility to
mt the South" And all persons who oppose
that bill CARE UNFIT t, be recognized as COM
., ponent parts of any organization not hostile
9 to the South" "The Democratic party of
mt Georgia piH CUT OFF all party connection
ch Nth EVERY MAN AND PARTY at the
ur North that does not come up fully and fairly to
- this line of action" Such is the language
i" of the Democratic party of Georgia. 1t ir
the language of the entire South. The men
is of that party in Ohio see their doom, The
be. fiat has gone forth They must either cring-
for ingly submit, like cowed slaves to their mast
er's lash, or they must stand up like proud
freemen, and refuse the base humiliation
he Will they do it! They nnot,escape by any
&c. subterfuge. If they act like Northern free
men and presume to think for themselves
he they will, at once, be rCUT OFF" from the
lst countenance and favor of the intense pro-
nd slavery men of the South. II they dare to
we submit; if they proclaim their adhesion to
W. the Nebraska fraud; their sanction of the
on admission of Kanzas as a slave State; their
nd appreciation Of the course Of Missouri; their
m opposition to all laws prohibiting the introduc-
n ton of slavery into free territory, they will
M find themselves deserted, despised, and scout
le- ed by their former adherents, the free people
le. o. Ohio.
is. The present is big with coming events
Rapidly is the time approaching when parties
ay at the North must take their stand, and abide
eir the issue. 1t is no longer possible to avoid
rs that which, with mad infaluation. the Slave