Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-06-10
REPUBLICAN,
STATE CONVENTION

The delegates TO the Republican State Conven-
tiJu ior the nomination OF State Ticket nd the
transaction oi such oIher business may be pre-
ssntei viii ASSEMBLE in tie City OF Columbus.
Ohio. On TUESDAY, Tie l3h day Of July neat. at U
O'Clock, A Nominations will then be nlsde
Tor Ihe following othceIs: pne Supreme Court
Judge, AtIorae v General. Member of the Board OF
Public Works. and Controller The basis o. rep-
resentalion i n said Convention will be the vote
riyen for Gov. Chase at the last annual election.
Each county viii be entiIlec to one delegate Tor
every five hundred votes given, and each irac
sion above hall that number viii also be entitled
10 delegate.
IThe Taiio of representation gives Beln ont
eounty three delegates ED. CHRoS
d is recommend that the several County Con-
yentions for The selection OF Delegates be held at
the county seats .of each county on Saturiay. the
Sd of July, IL O'Clock, P. Il. IL IS hoped that
each county commune will Immediately issue the
call for the comfy convention, and 1t the above
suggest on is not adopied. that they will make
sucn changes OF time and place as they see proper
In the midst OF the great contest which is nvw
90 tierceIy waged by tie Slave Power of the Ma
tion aided BY The President and his parry. agains
free Labor and Free Institutions il is per haps
needless TO remind The people of Ohio OF the vast
importance and vital character OF the issue. and OF
the overwhelming necessity oi concerted and wig
orous action on tlt pa OF all who prefer Free
dom to Slavery, and Free 10 Slave Labor. The
desperate and persistent attempt OF the Admins
Constitution; the frauds, toTgcrIes. murders, and
uneounted ylanes which have BEEN perpetra q ed
and upheld and sustained in that Territory by the
present dominant party: The alarming eDcrOach-
ments that have been made upon the rights OF The
Free States by the bred 81 oit decision; tine mon
ser error that Slavery is national, and exteuds to
oil the Territories oil The UuIun. while Freedom is
sectionaL, and can neper exist In our lie Titurles
even If every freeman therein shall demand il,
and every Legislature enact ii, and can only be
chad hkr i've inxu ffn.zr- -t.all
emerge from The puyilage OF Federal Government
and CONTROL and the jealous support given 10 these
heresies by the President and his party, all con-
ppire To rouse the FTeemen OF the free North to a
sense OF the danger ami degradation which must
follow tame submission 10 these eBcToachnents
The base and coward iy deseriion of our equal
rights which is involved in the passage OF the En-
elish swindle. by which Congress declares tina I
ioFty Thousand inhahit ,nis may come into the
Union as an equal with Ohio, il they will adopt
Slave Constitution; while it they persist in pre- Ter
ring to be Free State, they sh Ill wait outside,
and be governed by the appoIntees of the Slave
Power, ull they have than double that 20 u-
lation, admits OF no excuse or al oogy, and mus
merit the stern condemna ii n oil every pa iot and
friend OF even JUSTICE and equa rights I he In
Ish Bill. gives TO the appUniees OF The President
the entire control :he oa llOt-boxes and all the
machinery o. the proposed vute in Kansas, on The
question of The admission tn the Union under the
infamous Lec0mptou Cons tiiuuOn. / he bitter ex-
perience Of the past has taught the world that no
fraud Is too mOnsirouS; no villa my too wicked;
corruption too daring Tor the plant instruments of
despo;Isu. Fos presunling To be air and honest,
We have seen keeder, and Geary, and Walker,
aud Stanton, in rapid succession beheaded 1t the
fnpenous command o The Slave Power That
same power Ill controls The desiines of the Re-
public, " lih purposes and plans unchanged. Yet
the F.eemen OF Ohio called upon 10 acCuiesce
In measure of his character, and TO tamely sub
init TO this new and bitter insult and disgrace
ddsad
oil the past winter in ULiu: the principles action
announced, and the acts performed, are OF such a
character demand, as they will receive, the
condemna ion ci the Voters and Taxpayers OF The
Etals.
In view of all these causes we ask the Free
Men OF Ohio, without regard 10 the ii former poIi-
cal associations. 10 unIte with us In administering
such q stern rebuke 10 the arrogant Slave Power
as the Empire State Il the free and Great West
so justly demands. Let them select their wisest,
sb est. purest men, delegates; and lei the GRAND
COUNCIL OF THE REPREsI NATIVES OF FREE La
BoR, on tie anniversary OF the passage OF the glO-
rious Ordinance OF 1851, wEirh dedicated the soil
OF Ono. The North West, to Freedom and Free
Institutions forever, be such a demonstration as
the cause and the times demand.
Central Erecutiue Com K. w. CLARKE,
WM- DENNioON, Jr.,H. W. SMi Iii,
LUCIAN BUTTLES, GEO ii. FRY,
" NJ. I. BAoCOM, JAS. 5, ROBINSON,
r. n. BARR, SE;DEN ). COOK,
N. II. SWAYNE, Il. K SrA.>LEY,
J. H. COULTER. w. w. BiERCE.
GEO. NJ. PARSONS JOHN f. DEWEY,
For the State at Large. J. ~. SMITH.
]. K GIDDlNGS, w. K. SAPP.
CALEB b SMITH. DAN'L APPLEGATE
For each Cong District WM. NJ. FAERER,
ALBERT LEWIS, L.. v BIERCE,
GEO. HOADLEY, WIN. SLAUE. Jr,
MOSES B. WALKER.CHAS. r. HUNT,
BARTON 5. KYLE, f. X ECkLEY.
e. w. O'NEIL, State Central Com.
ColrMBUs O. Nav II 1858