Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-08-28
The Nigrifcation of the Democratic
Party of Ohio.

Party of Ohio.
.Usder the above head the Cincinnati Ga
ze.te gives some beautiful documents for the
consideration OF the Sham Democracy OF
1855. The article is too long for our columns
out we give the extracts it contains, be-
cause they offer such beautiful ,,daguerreo-
type of the Democratic parry of few years
back, and afford such perfect contrast to
that party of 1856.
In lS4s, when the Wi.mot Proviso was
one of the great political questions of the
day, the Democratic Convention which as.
,embled ct Columbus on the Eighth of Jan.
u.iy passed the following resolution:
Resolved, Thai the people OF Ohio now As THEY
HAVE ALWAYS done, look upon tie Institution o.
slavery As AN EVIL, AND CNFAVoRABl.E TO TIE FCII
pEvFIoPAENT CT 9EE SPIRIT AND PRACTICAL BEN
LIFTS OF FREE INSTITUTIONS and that entertaining
these sentiments, they will feel il TO be their duty
TO use sll power consistent with he national
pact TO PREvTST IT'S IEcRElse, 10 MITIGATE AND FIN
ALLY TO ERADICATE THE EVIL
This resolution was reported by Judge
THURMAN whois now making stump speeches
for BUCHANAN and slavery extension. This
same resolution was passed by several sue.
cseding State Conventions, and appeared
prominent among Democratic principles
In 1S4s the Democracy of Montgomery
County passed the following resolutions:
Resolved, That while we recognize no power in
Congress to intertere with slavery in the several
States where il is established, We are syet urcoai-
promisingly opposed 10 us extension wherever the
Federal Government has jurisdiction over thai
subject, and TO the admission of any new Slave
State into the Federal Union.
Resolved, Thatsas slavery docs not now exist.
either in law or in fact. in our recently acquire
Territories of New Mexico and California. it be-
comes the Imperative duty OF Congreas 10 shield
them from its mnlign influence uy preventing its
introduction within its limits.
Resolved. That is with modification not un-
mingled with lndignstlon, tnai We have been con-
PEELED Tor years, to witness the shameful c0rvrT-
sson OF the Capital Ct our glorious Confederation
into great slave msrkei--;iiat the evil is one OF
such magnitude as 10 demand .yom Congress prompt
and vigorous measures tor i!s speedy termination.
Montgomery County has never been charg-
ed with being particularly Freesoilish, tkat
We know of.
In 1860 the Cincinnati Enquirer, paper
which now goes the whole figure fer slsr-
cry. used the following language:
"What does the South want. Herrigh;s
in the Territories! She has them Her
citizens are as free to 90 with their wives
and children, their wagons and horses, as
the citizens of the North. Will that not
satisfy the South! Has she some peculsr
right which the North does not possess, and
does not wish' Has she the right to take
into free Territories species of property
which the free labor of the North regards
a. pestilence, and which it knows TO be
its natural enemy! Most certainly not
There is right stronger than that claimed
by the Soush--the naiGra! right of men. 1t
ns right which overides all others. Il is
omnipotent, irresistible It acknowledges
an equal right. but no superior. 1t goes
hsnd in hand with its equal, but not With
the slave. 1t breathes and lives in the
pure air of freedom, and sufIocates in the
atmosphere of slavery. 1t osly asserts the
great principle of lite-that of self-preserva-
tion-when it says, the fertile plains and
smiling valleys of our new lands shall Jc
free. If the South is content with slavery
where 1t now exists, we sre. All we ask is |
that it shall remain where it is."
In 1859 Gov. WooD, in his Inaugural aG- |
dress made use of the following strong Ian
guige in reference 10 the subject of slavery:
"While public opinion nay be divided,
perhaps on the subject of agita,iug The re-
peal of the Fugitive Stare Law, there is,
nevertheless, another matter in close con-
nection with it, on which il is believed the
sentiment of the people nre entirely united.
TIE area Of Siasery must nerer be eriended
in dis government sohilc Tie roice--tle united
poiee Of Ohio, in any constitutional form can
stay H. Here, ~ith prOpriety, zoe may make
oar stand. Thus far, proud pdve, shall thou
advance, but no }erther shalt thou cone.