Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-06-03
10 THE PEOPLE OF OHIO.
REPUBLICAN,
STATE CONVENTION

The delegates TO the Republican Stale Conven-
lion for the nomination OF State Ticket nd the
transaction oi such other business as may be pre-
senfed will assemble in the City OF Columbus,
: Ohio on TUESDAY, TIE l3A day Of July neat, IL 10
= O'Clock A Nominations will then be made
q Jor The following officers: One Supreme Court
Judge, aey-Geheral, Member OF the Board Of
Public Works. and Controller The basis OF rep
resentation in SAID Convention VIII be the vote
piyen for Gov. Chase at the last annual election.
Each county will bs entitled to one delegate for
every FIVE hundred votes 50 given, and each trac.
,ion above hail that number Will also be entitled
TO delegate.
TThe raIio of representation gives Belm ont
: COUNTY three delegates En- CRRoN
ite 1t is recommended that the several County Con-
yeutions for selection OF delegates be held at
the county scais Of each county, on Saturday, the
Sd of July, al O'clock, P. NJ. II Is hoped that
each county committee will iGmecinIely issue the
cal tor the county convention, and il the above
suggest on is not adopted, that they will make
such changes OF time and place as they see proper.
IL In the midst o the great contest which is now
40 tercely waged by The Slave Power CT the Ma
tir aided by The President and his parry, against
i free Labor and Free Institutions, il is perhaps
needless Temlnd the people OF thIo OF the vast
importance and vital character OF the issue, and of
: The overwhelming necessity OF concerted and Wig
orons action on the pa OF ali who prefer Free
dom TO Slavery, and Free 10 Slave Labor. The
desperate and persistent attemp; OF the Admins
sisfr1tion 10 force upon the people oi Kansas Slave
uncounted viainies which have been perpet led.
and upheld and sustained in that Territory by the
present dominant party: the alarming eHcroach-
ments thai have been made upon The nights OF the
Free States by the bred SCOTT decision; the mon
ster error that Slavery is national and exteuds TO
all the Territories OF The UuioR. while Freedom is
sectional, and can aeUsr exist IN our Territories
- even if every freeman therein shall demand it,
and every Legislature enlct il, and can only be
q Established by positive law, when they shall
emerge iIcm the pupllage oi Federal Government
and control and the jealous support given TO these
heresies by the President and his party, all con-
tpi7e To rouse the Freemen OF tie Free North TO q
ssnse OF the danger and degradation which must
follow tame submission 10 these encroaChments
80 The base and cowardly deseTuon oil our equal
rights which is involved in The passage of the En-
glish swiHdle. by which Congress declares that
torty -thousand lnhabitIbts may come into the
, Union as an equal with Ohio, il they will adopt
Slave CONSTITUTIONS whiie II they persist in pre- fcr
ring TO be Free State, they shall wait outside,
sfand be governed by the appolntees of the Slave
rower, nil they have more than double that popu-
1ation, admits of no excuse or apology, and muS'
merit the stern ccndemna ten OF every pa lriot and
friend OF even justice and equal rights. The En-
gIsh Bill, gives 10 the appointees OF the President
the entire control OF ;he Ddllot-boxes and all the
machinery of the proposed vote in Kansas on the
question OF the admission 10 The Union under the
infamous LecompIOn Constitution. 1 he bitter ex-
perience of the past has taught the world that no
fraud is too monstrous no villa inv too wicked: no
despotlSfn. For p.csunIlng 10 be fair and honest,
we have seen Reeder, and Geary, and Walker,
land Stanton, in rapid succession beheaded at the
= iIlperious command OF The Slave Power. That
same power Ill controls the desIinies of the Re-
public. with purposes and plans unchanged. Yet
Ihe freeInen Gt Ohio are called upon TO acquesce
in measure OF 'his character, and 10 tamciy sub
init TO this new and bitter insult and Disgrace
Added TO all these national evils, the Legislation
si lke past winter in Clio; the principles action
announced, and the acis performed, are OF such a
character 10 demand, they Will receive, the
condemnation Oi the Voters ana taxpayers of the
State.
( In view of all these causes, we ask the Free
sften OF Ohio, without regard to the ir fJfmer poit
caassoeiauons. 10 unite With us In administering
such a stern rebuke to arrogant Slave Power
Us the Empire State cf the Free and Great West
sojusty demands. Let them select their wisest,
ablest, purest men. as delegates and let the GRAND
COUNCIL OF THE REPRESENTATIVES, OF FREE La
BoR, the anniversary of the passage OF the glo-
rious Ordinance OF 1857, which dedicated the soil
OF Ohio. the North West, to Freedom and Free
Institutions forever, be such a demonstration as
The cause and the times demand.
Ceatral ErecutiUe ComR. W. CLARKE,
WM. DEANISON, Jr., II. W. SMITH,
'IUCIAN BUTrLES, GEO Ii. FRY,
7WM.gT. BASCOM, JAS. S. ROBINSON,
K. N. BARR, SEnDEN 5. COOK,
N. H. SWAYNE, i. * stanley,
GEO. NJ. PARSONS JOHN F. DEWEY,
For The State at Large. J. ". SMITH.
]. r GIDDlNGS, w. K. SAPP.
CALEB B. Smith. DAN'L APPLEGATE
-7fer each Cong. District NJ. N FARRER,
ALBERT LEWIS, h;y BIERCE,,
MOSES B. WALKER-CHAS: r. HUNT,
BARTON S. KYLE, L. X ECKLEY.
ColuHBus, O, May II, 1855. " o'