Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1859-03-18

ship and advocacy Of this resolution, by Mr..
Butler of South Carolina, who denounced
the doctrine Of mental reservation appar-
emily sanctioned by it, Mr.. Chase replied
"I have only to say | never proposed the
resolution; | never would propose or vote
for such a resolution. | hold no doctrine
Of mental reservation. Every nan, in my
judgement, should speak just Ms he thinks,
keeping nothing back, lere or elsewhere"
In lS43 it became Mr.. Chase's duty to pre-
pare an address on behalf of the friends of !
liberty, Ireland, and repeal in Cincinnati, to
the loyal national repeal association in Ire
land, in reply to n letter from Daniel O'Con-
nell. In this address Mr. Chase reviewed
the relations of the federal government to
slavery at The period of It's organization, set
forth its original anti-slavery policy, and
the subsequent growth Of the political power
of slavery, vindicated the action Of the lib
erty party, and repelled the aspirations cast
by a repeal association in Cincinnati upon
ant-slavery men. In l945 Mr. Chase pro-
jected a southern and western liberty con-
venlion, designed to embrace "all who, be-
lieving that whatever is worth preserving in
republicanism can be maintained only hvl
uncompromising war against the usurpations
of the slave power and are therefore resolv-
4 ed TO use all constitutional and honorable
means to effect the extinction of slavery
in their respective states, and its reduction
to its constitutional limits in tho United
States" The convention was l&ld at Cin-
cnnat in June, 1s45, and was attended
by 1000 persons; delegates were present to
the number of 2,0oo Mr.. Chase, as chair
man of the committee, prepared the address,
giving history of slavery in the United
States, showing the position of the whig
: aud democratic parties, and arguing the ne
cessity of political organization unequiyo-
callv committed to the denationalization of
slavery and the overthrow of the slave pow
or, and exhibiting what he regarded as the
necessary hostility to tho slayeholGing in
terest to democracy and all liberal measures
This address was widely circulated. In
, 1S47, Mr.. Chase was member Of the sec
ond national liberty convention, and oppos-
ed the making of any nomination at that
time, urging that more general movement
against slavery extension and domination
was likely to grow out of the agitation Of
, the Wilmot proyiso, and the action of con-
gress and political parties in reference to
slavery. In l84S, anticipating that the
. conventions of the whig and democratic par
4 ties would probably refuse to take ground
against the extension of slavery, he prepar
A ed call for free territory state convention
at Columbus, which was signed by NOR,
a than 5000 voters Of all political parties.-
$ The convention thus called was largely at
" tended, and invited national convention
a to meet at Buffalo in August The inhu
= ence of Mr. Chase was conspicuous in thC
+ state convention, and no less so in the ua
= tional convention which assembled upon it.
n invitation, and nominated Mr.. Van Burer
O for president. An immense mass meeting
+. was also assembled at Buffalo at tho same
: timc. Mr. Chase was president Of the ma
t tional convention, and also a member of its
e committee on resolutions. The platform
o was substantially his work. On February
g %, lS49, Mr. Chase was chosen senator
8 of the United States from Ohio, receiving
> the entire vote of the democratic member:
n of the legislature, and of those freesoil Nom
bers who favored democratic views. Tht
/, democratic party Of Ohio by the resolution
/. of its state convention, had already declar
v cd slavery an evil and practically, through
n its press and tho declarations Of its leadin!
q men, had committed itself to the donation
o alization of slavery. Mr.. Chase, therefore
e coinciding with the democrats in their stat
4 policy, supported their state nominees, dis
I. tinctly announcing his intention, in tn
ID event Of the party's desertion of its anti
Y slavery position, in state or national CONVEX
Of tions, to rend at once his connection wit
D. it. When the nomination of Mr.. Pierre
At by the Baltimore convention of 1856:
r. with platform approving the further di
O. cussion of the slavery question, was san,
Of toned by the democratic party in Ohio, NJ
g Chase, true TO his word, withdrew from i
h and addressed to the Hon. B. F. Butler {
n. New York. his associate in the Buffalo cor
: vention, letter in yindication of an indC
a. pendent democratic party. He prepared
a. platform, which was substantially adopted b
: the convention Of the democracy at Pitt.
r. burg in 1852. Having thus gone into
n minority rather than compromise his prime
is pies, Mr.. Chase gave cordial and emerge
,e ic support to the nominees and measures
n. the independent democracy, until tho N,
in braska bill gave rise to new and powerfl
h party, based substantially upon the ideas b
IN had so long maintained. As senator
to the United States, Mr.. Chase delivered O
vs. March % and 27, 1850, a speech again,
n. Mr.. Clays compromise bill, reviewing tho
u oughly all the questions presented in it,
of He moved an amendment providing again'
m the introduction of slavery in tho territoric
b. to which the bill applied, but it failed by
m vote Of 25 to 80. Heproposed also, thoug
v without success, an amendment to the fug
is tive slave bill, securing trial by jury TO a
a legged slaves, and another conforming il
ID provisions to the terms of the constitution
O. by excluding from its operation persons e
is Gaping from state to territories, and vi
of versa. In 1854, when the bill for the r
n. peal of the Missouri compromise, commonl
20 called the Nebraska Kansas bill, was intr
s. duced, he drafted an appeal to the peop
ID against the measure, which was signed /
e. the senators and representatives in cougre
O. concurring in his political opinions and
st a speech en- Feb. 8 attempted the first ella
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