The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-03-18
The Convention at Colsmbus.

The Convention at C0lsmbus.
The Mass Convention at Columbus. on
the 10th ult., was well attended. George
w. MannypenDy. n. B. Pdyus, Durbin
Wdfd md others addressed the meeting,
with speeches Of argument and power
We give below the resolutions which we're
unanimously adopted:
l. Resolved, That we. the Democracy OF
Ohio opposed to the admission Of Kansas
under the Leeompton Constitution, In Mass
Convention assembled, do hereby declare
our firm adherence to the doctrine Of Pops.
lar Sovereignty, % declared In the Kansas
Nebraska Aci, and the Cincinnati Platform.
And especially do we recognise the right Of
the people of Kansas, through the LoGny
and fcirlU erpressed 1iR Of tie majority of Ge.
tuoi rssi1snis. and whenever the number oil
Inhabitants justiii0s il, to form Constitu.
ton, with or without domestic slavery, and
be admitted into the Union upon terms OF
perfoet equality with the other States.
2. Resolved, That the LeeemptOn Con-
stitution 10 the offspring Of usurpation and
fraud, is not the act and deed Of the people
Of Kuusss, but, on the contrary, it hos been
repudisied and denounced by an oVerwhelm.
ing msjority of the lawful voters of said
Territory; and to impose it on an unwilling
and protesting people, would be an act oi
gross injustice and tyranny, In contraven-
ton OF The platform and plighted faith OF
the Democratic party, subversive Of the
principle Of s0lf.goverument, and promotive
Of distrust and alienation between the dif-
felent sections OF the Union.
8. Resolved, That the enforcement oI
| this rejected instrument on the people o
Kansss, against their known and expressed
will, merits our unqualified tisapprobation
end will, unless arrested and defeated, lead
to the most unfortunate and disastrous re-
suits to the Democratic party and ths
Union.
I. Resolved, That We cordially approve
of the instructions passed BY the Democrat
ic members Of the Legislature against the
admission Of Kansas under the Lecomptor
Constitution. And we respectfully, bu
earnestly, request the Democratic member,
Of Congress from this State to use their in
fuence, and to vote, against such compulso
~ admission.
5. Resolved, Tha, the only tests of party
feulty which We acknowledge, are thost
prescribed by the regularly constituted Ma
tional Conventions OF the Democratic par
ty, aud we Indignantly repudiats the at
tempt to make the admission Of Kansas un
der the Lecompton Constitution, test o
Democratic orthodoxy.
! 6. Resolved, That We hereby tender ou
grateful acknowledgements, for their inde
pendent zeal in maintaining the iategrity o
Democratic principles, to tho following
named journals. The Ohio Statesman
Washington States, Louisville Democrat
Chicago Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer
Detroit Free Press, Forney's Philadelphi
Press, Cincinnati Volk streUnd, the Westbot,
and the many others which have, relyin
alone on the peoples patronage, sustaine
, the peoples cause.
Z. Resolved, That we sppl-ud the cours
and wisdom Of Stephen A. Douglas and hi
. Democratic associates in Congress, and {
!, Henry A.. Wise, Robert ]. Walker, Free
y erck P. Starton, ERd George Bancroft,
Il their vndication of the doctrine Of Popul
Sovereignty.
j. 8. Resolved, That committee of CO
" rcsPondence of - persons, shall be a
:, pointed by the Chair, to correspond W;
o Committee in other States in relation to
measures affecting the interests OF the p,
ty, with power to appoint sub. com ni,lees
% each county of this State, and adopt gu
s- other measures as they may deem necessa
D, TO carry into effect the objects Of this Co
!, vention.