The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-14
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A United North.

Inefe are encouraging signs OF Union
among Northern men. Vermont is NOV
ing. Lawrence Brainerd and John Por-
ter, chairmen of the State Committees
which co-operated last year in the Peo-
pies movement, have this year called a
Convention in the following terms:
"The freemen of the State of Vermont,
who desire to cooperate in the State cleo
ton ofSep:ember next, and the approach
ing Presidential election, in opposition to
the pro-slavery policy of the present Ma
tional Administration, and to the propa-
gandists of slavery of every name in the
Union-for the defense of freedom, and
to protect the rights of the free States
are requested to meet in State Conven-
ton at Burlington, on Wednesday the
9th day of June, inst, at 10 O'Clock, A.
NJ, to nominate State officers for the year
ensuing, and for the transaction of such
other business as shall be proper to the
occasion"
In Ohio the signs are cheering. The
Know Nothing State Council voted not
to make their nominations until after the
Republican Convention of the 18th of
July. Thus the order is made subordi-
nate in its national action to the great
anti-slavery movement. The following
quotation from the cali for the July con-
vention, will show what the basis of ac-
ton is:
''If the outrage upon the rights of the
free States by repeal of the Missouri re-
stric;ion, made tia duty last year to bury
all minor differences in united effort to
arrest the progress of the slave power,
how much stronger has that duty become
by the more recent exhibition of fraud
and violence at the Kansas elections, and
the denial of the rights of citizenship and
the possession of property to free citizens
of Missouri and Kansas. The day of
compromises has gone by. We there
fore appea! TO our fellow citizens to be
active and yigilant. Send on delega-
ton to the 18th of July convention like
that which assembled last year, impressed
with the magnitude of their mission, rep
resenting the dignity of the State and
the will Of their constituents, and assur--
edly success will again crown our united
efforts"
AT a county meeting for old Ashtabula
county, heidon the 7th of June, delegates
were chosen to this convention. Mr..
Giddings is one of them. Resolutions
were passed relative to the slavery issues
of the day, and declaring that "the cir
cumstances which led US in July last to
abandon all other political differences and
organizations, and to unite in Repubii-
can party, for resisting the progress of
the slave power, still rest with aceumula-
ted force upon every citizen of our
State"
At this meeting Hon. B. F. Wade,
U. s. Senator, made speech, of which
the Ashtabula Sentinel says:
sit was an able and eloquent effort,
breathing spirit of determined devotion
to the cause of freedom. He declared
his attachment to the Union, on just
principles; but said that the Union was
no protection to the man of the North.
He was for peace and union with free
dom, but for neither without it. He had
gone with the wings, as long as he could.
He now knew no party or organization
but the Republican, and with that he
would labor till victory was achieved"
In Maine there is no indication of fal-
tering. Hon. Israel Washburn, Jr.,
member elect to the next Congress, and
who in the last House took so active a
part in resisting the passage of the Ne
braska Bill, has written letter to the
Bangor Journal, which contains the fol-
lowing noble sentiments:
81 have never acted, and consistently
with my principles. l never can act with
the party which supports the Admins
tration of Franklin Pierce-which OPP
poses the repeal of so much of the Ne
braska Act as opens the vast country of
Kansas and Nebraska to slayery-which
acauiesces In whatever the slayeholding
oligarcby has demanded hitherto, and
viii acquiesce in whatever it may demand
hereafter. Nor can act with any par
ty, or any body of men, who sympathize
in opinion and feeling with this Demo
cratic Administration party, or will co.
operate with it or lend it aid and comfort,
thereby certainly, though it may be in
directly and unintentienally, strengthen
ing the slave power in the RePablic- /
cannot co-operate with any party or body
Of men, whose action IN all essential par
ticulars must be controlled by the Wing
Know Nothings Of the South, and the