The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-10-01


Republicans may invade Kentucky, Massa'
ehusetts, Alabama, or Kansas, and dictate
to the inhabitants Just what insitutions shall
or shall not be established.
Now, contrast with this, another resolu'
tim, passed by the same Convention, and
forming part Of the same platform:
9th. That in the possible conflict of ju.
risdiction between the State and National
Governments, in the so-called Green Rescue
cases, the Judges, Sherifs and other officers
OF the State, should in the proper discharge
of their official duties under the laws of this
Stnte, be.prolected from Federal arrest and
oppression; and the Independent sovereignty
Of Ohio maintained at all hazards by calling
] into requsltion, if needful, the entire force
and power OF the State.
There it is! An open declaration Of war
on the Federal Government. 1t denies the
authority of Congress, the authority of the
Supreme Court Of the United States, and
throws defiance in the teeth of the whole
Executive department. Suppose this reso.
luton shlu!d be carried out-an army raised
equipped with Weapons, and an opon and
bloody resistance to government, be made;
would it not be treason, and would not the
leaders and participants be arrested, tried,
convicted and hung for treason! What is II
but "levying war" against the General Gov
ernmcnt.
Take the Two resolutions together, and
what it the meaning! The first one declares
that tho people of Ohio mny invade every
other State in the Union-may trample up
on the Constitution aud laws-.may go out
crusnding against the rights and liberties of
their neighbor. The second one declares
that nobody shli. enter our domain and that
not even the federal authorities may come
within our boundaries to execute q legal
writ. We will make war upon every body;
but no body shall make war upon US. We
will dictate laws and institutions to our
neighbors; but our neighbors shall never
dictate to US. We arc sovereign; others arc
subjects. We are all independent nation
with tie right to invade surrounding territor-
les; but the federal Union and the States
occupy the condition of subjected and con-
qncred provinces. TLis is the plain, pulpa-
bic meaning Of the Republican platform.
Suppose each anl every State in the I'm
ion were to pass similar resolutions and at.
tempt TO carry them out. What would be
the consequence! The knelI of the Un-
ion would be sounded in less than O month
Ohio would invade Kentucky. Virginia
would invade Ohio. Alabama would invade
Massachusetts, and Massachusetts Invade
Alabama. Erch State would war against
its ncighbor, and al the States would war
against the federal government. Brothers
residing in different commonweaths, would
meet i'll deadly conflict over the grave of
their own parents. Fathers would murder
their own sons unl burn down dwellings, of
which shelter their own daughters. All the
horrors of civil war, would gather like
cloud Of desolaticn over the land. This is
10 oVcrdrawn piotne. CalamitieB bey ond
the power of pen to describe or the imani-
nation to paint would thicken and multiply
npon Us.
We therefore pronounce the Resolutions
of the Republican Convcnto I, to be treas.
enable, dangerous and wicked. No man
who loTes his coul'ry and who values the
yes and property of the people can sus-
tain them.