The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-06-27

things, adopted at Cleveland, June
l4th, 1855.
AS servllity to the slave power charac-
terlzes the national organization of the ex-
listing political parties, and as this servili-
ty is perilous both to the manhood of the
north and the liberty of the republic,
We declure:--
l. That the issue before the American
people is 'csether. freedom shall be limited
to hetree States, or whether slavery shall
be limited to the slave States.
9. That this issue has been forced up
on the country by the slave power through
repeated aggressions, and by acts which
have violated national faith, solemn COM
pacts and sacred covenants.
3. That these aggressions especially
the Nebraska outrage, with the brutal as
saults upon the elective franchise in Kan
sas, have aroused freemen of the republic
to a just sense of their duty and their dan
ger; and though they will invade no rights
OF any State, they will maintain eoery right
of freedom and resist the admission of an
other foot of slave soil.
4. That we shall meet this issue, thus
forced upon us, in the spirit our fathers
met the issue of their day; and believing
as they believed, that rightfully man, car
hold no property in man, we will maintain
the nationality of freedom.
S. That freedom being one in aim anc
end, the world over, the friends of freedom
in this republic should make principles ant
character, not birth place, the test of ad
mission to citizenship and it's constitution
al rights.
-4nd soe further dsclare:-
6. That the right to worship God &C
cording to the dictates of Individual con
science being inviolable, we will labor t,
strengthen this great immunity through
wise State laws; but we will repel ever
poiitico-ecclesiastical interference, in DO
iitical affairs, by potentate, pontif or priest
or their abettors, as destructive alike Q
this right and our common liberty.
i I. That intemperance being an evil, W
recommend to the several States such &C
ton for the promotion of temperance a
will extend and establish that virtue.
j 8. That free schools, free labor, the i'm
fproyement of rivers and harbors, and hon
estrepuhlican official representation abroa
all measures that tend to elevate men, es
tablish the material prosperity of the coul
try and give stability to the Union, sha
, receive our hearty support.
) 8. That to insure practical success "
will strive to fill all the Offices with me
ofundoubted integrity and sobriety, ofabi
Iity and of nerve TO resist aggression upo
right, come when, where or in what shal
; it may.
! 10. That for these objects, vital alil
Fl to humanity and to the republic we a
! ready to unite with all men, under wha
q ever name or organization, who will aid I
!. in carrying into successful operation the
r great principals.
r In their convention thay resolved
i dispense with oaths, substituting pied!
p of honor; they remain anti-slavery al
! anti-papal An attempt to bind the Q
Q ganization to support Seward, by the |
a sertion of an article in the Constitute
v was opposed by several delegates and pos
: poned. The Constitution was adopt
r. last evening. Hiram Griswold, of OH
II was elected President, and VIM. Richar
II son, of Albany, Secretary. The Convc
,e ton will probably adjourn to-day
.ei S. Journal, 18th.