Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1856-05-01
Philadelphia National Convention.
CIR C U AR.
OF TIE
OF THE
NATIONAL COMMITTEE.

has preceded this paper. II is not only to
recommend to the people the immediate Sc
lection Of delegates from the several. states,
equal in number to .hree times the representa-.
lion in Congress TO which each state is entitled
20 meet on the 17lh June al Philadelphia, Ia
present such individuals as they may think
best suited 70 uphold the cause to which they
are devoted as candidates for the Presidency
and Vice Presidency. but also to invite the
members or all parties who feel it to be the
dominant issue which should control the elec.
ton. to meet at the same and place. to confer
with the convention as to the best course to
crown their common wishes with success
One Of the parties which will be represented at
Philadelphia has taken the name Of Republi.
can, because il was given to that founded by
Mr.. Jefferson, to embrace al who love the re-
public There is no Democrat who does moi
love the Republic. There is no Whig who does
not love the Republic There is no American
who does not love the Republic. And we
fOndly hope there isno naturalized citizen who
does not love the Republic.
But 1t is not so important that the great
movement which we desire to see successfully
inaugurated shall be designated by any par
ticular name, as thatit shall be strong, united
and effective. Why may not all those classes
who are hostile TO the introduction of slavery
into free territory, unite at this crisis Of i'm
pending danger, to vste for common ticke
which will be nominated to assert the grand
principle Of repressiug the extension Of slave
holding monopoly, and to vindicate the rights Of
the people In ell sections Of the Union who la
Dor with their own hands a ticket which vii
not agitats with view to detract from the rights
Of the states to dispose of the subject within
their limits, according to their sovereign will:
yet its influence to destroy the freedom Of white
lAbOrers is a ct subject of investigation, with q
view to repress the aggressive power in every
constitutional way.
The rights OF the laboripg class involved in
this question have been betrayed BY the rep
resentatives from the North and S)uih, in the
interest of the Shareholders, who have voted to
surrender the lands to slave labor which were
set apart to make freeholders and enrich the
working men Of both sections who own no
slaves, whe should emigrate to them. cultivate
and improve them with their own toll, Here
are two great principles blended in this cause
the one impelling the vindicatiOn Of the rights
Of free labor-the other the chastisement of
those misguned representatives who have vio-
lated the faith pledged between the two Sec
tons of the Union to each other in their cem.
pact, and their own faith as representa-
t'ves in misrepresentIng the will of their
constituents in the repeating acts, and DISC
beying their instructions in reference to them.
e Can there be any difficulty in uniting the
men Of all parties, who concur in the great
design of delivering the masses from the op-
pressions of the slave holders, in the new ter
ntories, and the fair, free, healthy regions Of
the far West from the blot of slavery and the
steFility that attends its footsteps wherever it
ID tFeads' There are SAT 1000 slave owners in
the United States, they hold nearly four mill
lions of slaves--there are six millions of free
white population in the Southern States who
own no slaves and there are twenty millions Of
free white population in the North, (allowing
for the increase since the last census.l Are
the interests Of these twenty-six millions Of the
people in the vast regions Of the West to be
blasted, to administer to the pride, 10 the ann
bition, to the false views of interest in which the
1000 slave owners would indulge them.
selves: 10 their arrogance they stigmatize as
Black Republicans those who would make
constellation Of free bright republics, cOnstitut-
ed Of the white race alone; untarnished, by q
slave Ofany color; their history and their laws
unblemishsd BY that word. Are they called
black because they would redeem their white
brethren ofthe South, by reserving to them
refuge from the thraldom imposed on them by
negro slavery there. and which makes the mas
ter the OppressOr Of all beneath him, of what.
ever cOmplexiOnG Are they called black be-
cause they would resist the slave owner with
his sword, in his attempts to expel from their
homes the sons Of the free states who have al
ready cast :heir lots in the new lands to which
their fathers taught them to look forward to as
their inheritance, under compromise Of more
than thirty years standing?
This derOgalOry 'pithetis inapprOpriately ap-
piled to thoss who labor to build up free states
composed Of white men, to transfer the odium
Of the black institution from those who cling to
Il as apart of their republican system. It is
not proposed 10 tc:-:ch the subject Of slavery in
the states where it exists, butte shut the door
upon it, and exclude it from territories to which
;ts annroaeh has haen forbidden