Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-04-16
Ohio is Moving.

We cut from the Legislative proceeding
the following able and high toned preamble
and resolutions. reported by the Senator
from Cuyahoga county upon Kansas affairs:
Mr.. Griswold, as select committee of one
to whcm was referred the petition of sundry
citizens of Cuyahoga county, asking the
Legislature to appropriate and place money
in the hands Of the Executive of the State,
to be used for the relief of the Free State
emigrants to Kansas, in the contingency of
future hostile invasion of that Territory,
reported The following preamble and resolu-
ton:
Whereas, A large number of citizens of
the State OF Ohio, are now in the Territory
of Kansas. having removed to that Territory
for the purpose OF becoming citizens there
of, and, with other emigrants from other
Northern 8 ates, have been. and still are,
subjected to great sufferings, hardshiPs, and
deprivations, in consequence of the savage
cruelties and outrages of those boiling Of
fee in that Territory, and their supporters
and allies from Miss uri, and other slave
holding States;
And Whereas, While those in office in
Kansas, acting in concert with m1rauders
and ruffians. from other slaveholding States.
who have been gully of murder, arson and
other crimes, upon the emigrants from
Northern States, have been sustained by
the General Government, and continued in
power, those who have endeavored 20 main
Oh IF Las nd h
Justice, have been thwarted and opposed by
the General Government, removed fir m Of
fee. or compelled, for want Of assistance to
resign:
And Whereas, The obie t Of those en-
trusted with the Government Of Karsas, in
inaugurating ano maintaining reign of
Terror in that Territory, in which the cleo
tive franchise has been ira implied upon and
violated. property stolen and destroyed,
houses sacked, towns burned and the blood
of men, women aid children shed upon
their own hearth-stones. and the object OF
the late National Adm nistration in con-
timing them in Office, and sustaining them
by the army of the United States, and by
the influence and patronage of tie admins
tration, was the establishing of slavery in
the Territory;
And Whereas, Governor Geary, unsustain
ed by the National Government, became
powerless 10 prevent anarch, lawleseness
and insubordinatioD. of which Northern
emigrants have been the victims 10 main an
the administration OF justice, or to protect
himself from violence, has been compelled
to resign his office; and the policy of the
Territory, has been indicated by the appoint
ment of a successor whose past devotion to
the slave power and conservation to its in
terests are a sufficient guarantee that 10 Sc
cure the ascendency and permanency of
of slavery there, will be the controlling
policy Of his administration;
And ,ohereas, There are strong indica-
tions that in view of the steps now being
taken to form State Government which
will beside whether..Kansas shall enjoy sfree-
dom with the blessings and prosperity
which it secures aad perpetuates, or
whether it shall be cursed with a system
built upon the sufferings and woes of op-
pressed humanity, the rufilin hords OF sla-
very will again make hostile eruption
upon the peaceful inhabitants of that Terri
tory. TO renew those scenes which are a
stain upon the nation and The age, and in
which our friends, neighbours and kindred,
may be sufferers and victims; therefore,
Resolved, That the Committee on Finance
and hereby is instructed to report a bill at
an early day, approp-iating 100000, to be
placed in the hands OF the Governor of The
State, to be used by him for the relei of
the people of the Territory of Kansas, who
are there Sc king to establish and preserve
the blessing of that freedom we enjoy, in
the msnner best calculated to accomplish
that object, whenever from some future in
vasion, and in his Judgment, the exigency
shall arise, making such relief necessary