Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-06-01
The Coming Election in Ohio.
CorfeEpondencc OF The n. I. Iflbune.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, MAY ~, 1855.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, May u, 1855.
Ohio is beginning to move for the coming
Fall election and all the indications presage
great victory over the shadowy remnant
left of the present Administration.
A call has Just been issued by the Repub-
lcan State Central Committee to the Friends
of Freedom for State Convention on the
18Th of July.
The Know Noihings, it is understood,
have had the question Of nominating sepa-
rate ticket under discussion, but IT Is beli.v-
ed the proposition has been abandoned.
In the mean time the Know Something's
are making sad ravages among the folds Of
Sam, carrying off whole hocks at once and
leaving his borders desolatc. 1t is well un-
derstood that no order or party, secret or
open, can rally majority of the freemen OF
Ohio to its support except on the clear and
unequivocal platform of hostility to the ag-
gressions Of the slave power.
If the Know Nothings, at their State
Council, which meets here in June, engraft
Jonathan's principle upon their Order It will
live and flourish if they refuse and ignore
the great question OF Slavery, the day ofEts
dissolution draws nigh. The late outrages
in Kansas have only deepened and strength
ened the tide of Anti-Slavery sentiment, and
in view of them and the necessity for prompt
action by the next Congress we rejoice that
in that body there will not be single craven
eouphface from the great State of Ohio.
As a specimen of the feeling upon these
questions, append the resolutions adopted
ut a meeting of our citizens on the l2th.-
They were reported by Judge Z. s. Spauld-
ing, formerly Of the Supreme Court.
Resolved, /; That we deeply sympathize
with the Inflated pioneers of Kansas who
were deprived Of that panoply OF Freedom,
the Missouri Compromise" by the pacihc
Intervention Of the pretended principle Of
popular sovereignty" and are now turned
over to " Chauel Slavery" by the armed in
PREVENTION of lawless politicians from MIS-
souri,, who scott at Free suffrage except il
contribute to Free Despotism in the widely
extended Territory.
Resolred, .: Tha, we deem it the impera-
tive duty of the executive Of the nation to
:" hold up the hand" Of Governor keeder
while he attempts to withstand the Pro-
Slavery inroads Of adjoining States upon the
elective franchise of the Territory over
which he presides.
Resolved, 3: That we feel constrained to
admit that crisis is rapidly approaching IN
the affairs of our country when conduct VIII
be more eucdclOus lldu spcctu, wien UNI
ing deeds will take the place OF Wanting
words" But we venture to enunciate as the
sense Of this meeting, and as we believe the
sense of large majority OF the voters OF
the State of Ohio, the following plain propo.
stions |. Slavery must be interdicted in
Kansas and Nebraska. 2. No more slave
Territory shall be acquired. 3. No slave
State shall henceforth be admitted into the
National Confederacy. 4. The Fugitive
Slave law must be totally repealed 3. Slave
nv must be abolished wherever it now ex-
sts by force or sanction of Congressional
law. 6. The " Free Soil" of our State must
be made to possess the efficacy of striking
! the manacIes from off the limbs of every
human being who is SO fortunate as TO plant
his foot thereon.
Resolred, 4: That to the maintenance OF
these propositions the members OF this meet
ing pledge their political faith, and now here
declare that they will support no man for any
office of State or for Congress unless he
Weld his assent to the same.
Resoired, 5: That we deprecate dlsso.
luton of the Union if it can be preserved
without doing despite to the Declaration Of
independence But if we can ?erpe'uate
the American Coniederaey Of States only
by perpetuating and perpetuslly extending
the curse of negro Slavery and by violating
. national compacts and the true principles Of
popular sovereignty, then the Union VIII moi
be worth preserving.