Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-04-09

Chitwood.
The Republican National Executive
Committe-Address to the People o
the United States.
We extract the following from the
Washington Correspondence oilhe Cieve'
land Leader.
WASHINGTON, March 90.
During the session of this body, which
has just adjourned sine die, many sugges-
tons were made by members of Congress:
and others, relative TO a Congressional.
call for a National Convention, and fol
changing the time for the Philadelphia
Convention. Some also advised incor-
poration of the American and other issues,
which the Executive Committe deemed
extraneous.
After deliberation, it has been agreed
by the Committee to invite the people Of
the United States, (withont regard 10
past differences or divisions. who are op-
posed to the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise and the policy of the present Ad-
ministration, who favor the exclusion OF
slavery from the Territories and the ad-
mission of Kansas as a Free State, and
who desire to have the action of the Fed
eral Government restored to the princi
pl S of Washington and Jefferson, to send
each State) three delegates from their
respective Congressional Districts, and
six delegates al large, to meet in Conven-
ton at Philadelphia, on the 18th of June,
for the purpose of recommending 7eandi-
d lies to be supported for the Offices OF
President and Vice Pr sident of the
United States.
The address adopted by the Com
m;ttee is ascribed TO Francis p. Blair
1t is written with the characteristic abil-
ity, and is destined to produce a strong
impression upon the popular mind
After referring to the nomination of Fill
more, which not being likely to obtain
the electoral vote of a single state, is
considered as an attempt to divide the
strength of The Anti. Administration men.
the address advocates the surrender of
party'prejudiceS, to yindicdte tie princi
pie of restraining the extension of the
siaveholding monopoly, and of maintain
ing the rights of those, in all sections,
who labor with their hands, from its op-
pressions, without interfering with the
rights of States 10 dispose of the subject
in their own limits as they choose.
The influence of slavery upon the in
terests of laboring classes is discussed
The interests have been betrayed by rep
resentatives from the North and South
in the interests Of Shareholders who have
voted to surrender the public lands TO
slavery.
Hence there are two principles to be
asserted-the vindication of free labor in
the Territories, and the chastisement OF
misguided representatives WHO Rave dis
obeyed the popular will.
The report enlargeS upon the conse-
quences of the triumph of Atchinson's
usurpation in Kansas, with laws and a
Constitution introducing slavery and dis.
franchising free llborers by test oaths
and other disabilities, upon the principles
of the Presidents proclamation. Then
follows the exposi len of the effects Of
slavery upon the free white people of the
South. as shown by the testimony Olsen.
ator Clay of Alabama, and Gov. Ham
mond, of South Carolina. In the latter
State il is shown that one-third of the
free population control the STATE Govern
ment.
The degraded condition of the poor
whites in slsvoholding communities is
cited further, to explain the Richmond
Enquirer's arguments in favor of the
~inalienable right to enslave white as well
as black men.
The subserviency Of the ext ting D m
ocratic parties to the designs of Slavery
| extentionists is dwelt upon. That party
consists OF. ofic holders, with the Pres
idtnt as a leader, and the few slavehold-
ers of the South who hope to succeed by
a possible plurality in some Northern
State, occasioned by the divisions of the
opponents of slavery x ension.
The design of the black oligarchy is
10 establish q Gordon of black Repub-
lies from Missouri to the Pacific. The
degrading consequences of such policy
is exempli6ed in Mexico, where slavery
exists under the name of peonage.
A striking illustration of the working
Of the so-called popular sovereignty, as
laid down by the Administration, may be
seen in Utah, where multitudes of white
women are held in servitude as wives,
with no restriction by Congress. Doug.
las principle allows the people of a Ter
ritory to establish the full blown Turk.
ish system.
What is there in the unlimited per-
mission to form and regulate their own
institutions, subject only to the United
States Constitution, as Douglas proclaims
it, which would prevent Brigham Young
from holding sixty men as well as sixty
women in servitude? The address con-
cludes as follows:
We hold that Congress is bound by
the Constitution TO make all needful
rules and regulations for the Government
of Territories Of the United States, du-
ring the Fupilage and preparation to be-
coming members of this co~nfederacy, to
prevent the growth wi hin them of sys-
TENS incongruous with the pure and free,
the just and safe principles inaugurated
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