True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1858-05-26
To the People of 0bio-Rspublican
State Convention.

% one delegate for every 500 votes so
given, and each fraction above half that
number will also be entitled 10 delegate,
BIZ this rule the following will be the ap-
poriionment for this, the 2lst Congress
sional District:
Carroll. rroll.............................3.
Columblana........... .........,....o. b.
HARRISON. 0n................. ....,.....,.........'..S
The State Central Committee recon.
mend that the several County Conven.
tions for the selection of delegates be held
al the county seats Of each county, on
Saturday, the Sd Of July, at two o'clock,
P. M.-and follows it up with an address
to the people Of Ohio irrespective of
party, as follows:
In the midst Of the great contest which
is now so fercely waged by the slave
power of the Nation, aided by the Presi.
dent and his party, against free labor and
free institutions, it is perhaps needless 10
remind the people Of Ohio of the vast
importance and vital character Of the issue,
and of the overwhelming necessity of con-
certed and vigorous action on the part Of
all who prefer freedom 10 slavery, and
free to slave labor. The desperate and
persistent attempt Of the Administration
10 force upon the people of Kansas slave
constitution; the frauds, ,forgeries, murders.
and uncoun,ed vilaiEies which have been
perpetraled, and upheld, and sustained in
that Territory by the present dominant
parry; the alarming encroachments that
have been made upon the rights of the
free states by the Dred Scott decision; the
monster error that Slavery, is nDtional,
and extends to all the territories Of the
Union, while freedom is sectional, and
can neUer exist in our territories, even if
every freeman therein shall demand it, and
every legislature enact it, and can only
be established by positive law, when they
shall emerge from the pupilage of Fed.
eral Government and control, and the
support given to these hereses by the
President and his party, all conspire to
rouse the freemen of the free north to a
sense Of The danger and degradation which
mus! follow tame submission to these
encroachments.
The base and cowardly desertion Of
our equal rights which is involved in The
passage of the English Swindle, by which
Congress declares that 10000 inhabitants
may come into the Union as an equal
With Ohio, if they will adopt Slave
Constitution; while if they persist in
preferrng to be free State, they shall
wait outside, and be governed by the
sppointees or the Slave Power, ill they
have more than double that population,
admits ofno excuse or apology, and must
merit the stern condemnation of every
patriot, and friend of even justice and
equal rights. The English Bill gives to
the appointeeS of the President The entire
control Of the ballot boxes and all the
machinery of the proposed vote in Kan
sas, on the question Of the admission 10
the Union under the Infamous Lecompton
Constitution. The bitter experience Of
the past has taught the world that no
fraud is too monstrous no villainy too
wicked; no corruption too daring for the
plant instrument of despotism. For pre-
suming to be fair and honest we have
seen Reeder, and Geary, and Walker, and
Stanton, in rapid succession beheaded at
the imperious command of the Slave
Power. That same power still controls
the desliuies of the Republic, with pur-
poses and plans unchanged. Yet The
freemen Of Ohio are called upon to ac.
quiesce in measure Of this character, and
to tsmely submit 10 this new and bitter
insult and disgrace. Added 10 all these
national evils. the legislation of the past
. winter in Ohio; the principles of action
announced, and the acts performed. are
! Of such character as 10 demand, as they
will receive the condemnation of the voter
and tax payers of the State.
In view of all these causes, we ask thu
! freemen Of Ohio without regard to lhei
former political associations, to unite will
US in administering such stern rebuk'
to The arrogant Slave Power as the empir
State Of the far and great West so just,
demands. Let them select their wisesi
: ablest, pureat men as delegates; and lie
t the GRAND Council OF THE REPREsEN
e TATIvEs OF FREE LABOR, on the aniver
e sary Of the passage of the glorious ordi
nance of 1887, which dedicated the sol
of Ohio, and the North West to Freedom
D aud free Institutions forever, be such
demonstration as the cause and the time
demand.
WM. DRNIsoN JR. and 81 others.