The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-06-02

Resolved, That the Convention select can
didutes for the several State Offices in tn,
following order -
First-Governor.
Second-Lieutenun Governor.
Third-Judge Of Supreme Court.
Fourth-Auditor of State.
Fifth-Treasurer Of State.
Sixth-Secretary OF State.
Seventh-Member OF the Board of Public
Works.
Eighth-Commis'r Of Common Schools.
Resolved, That the vote shall be taken By
Counties in Alphabetical order, and viud
voce, and q majority of votes shall be neces.
sary for choice.
Resolued, That TIM ordinary Rsrliumenta.
ry rules shall be rules for the government O.
this Convention.
RESOLUTIONS.
G.. VoLNEY DORSEY, from the Committee
on Resolutions, submitted the following re
port, which was adopted with great enthu.
siasm:
The Democracy Of Ohio, by their Dele.
gates in Convention assembled, hereby af.
firm the platform OF principles adopted by
the General Convention OF the Democratic
party, at Cincinnati, on the 4h of June,
1856.
l. Resolved, That the Organized Terrific.
res Of the United States, although not en-
dowed with all the attributes OF sovereignty.
are only held in the territorial condition un
ill they attoin sufficient number of inhab
tants to authorize their admission into the
Union os States; and, therefore, are Justly
entitled TO the right of self government, and
the undis,urbed regulation of their domestic
or local affairs, subject to the Constitution
Of the United States; and that any attempt
by Congress, or any of the States, TO estab.
lish or maintain, prohibit or abolish, the re-.
lation of master or slave in O Territory,
would be departure from the original doc
trine of our American institutions; and that
we adhere, immovabIy, to the principle of
" Non Intervention, ty Congress, wiih Slave
ry in The States and Ierritoriee," as declared
in the Kansas. N Nebraska bill, and openly dis.
claim fellowship with those, whether at the
South, or the North, or the West, who coun-
sci the Abandonment, limitation, or avoid.
Rnce Of that principle.
2. Resolved, That the suppression o; tho
African Ond foreign slave trade, by the Fed.
eral Government, after the year eighteen
hundred and seven, is one OF the comprmises
on the faith of which the Constitution was
adopted, and our Union of slaveholding and
n.slaveholding States firmly established:
that revival Of that trade would not onlv
renew those cruelties which once provoked
the Indignation OF the civilized world, but
would expose the slaveholdng States to
constant terror of servile insurrectioD. and
the non.slaveholding States of the border,
like Ohio, to all the mischiefs and annov.
ance of free black population; for these
reasons, with others, the Democracy of Ohio
are opposed to any such revival, and to apv
measure tending in that direction.
8. Resolved, That the rendition of fpui.
tive slaves, upon demand Of the persons en-.
titled to their service or labor, is duty i'm.
posed on every State of the Union by the
terms Of the Federal compact; that the laws
passed by Congress to secure such rendition
in 1898 and 1850, ought to be promptly and
faithfully executed; and that the leaders of
the self'styled Republican party, in Ohio,
by persistent disregard of the Constitution
of the United States in this particular, have
shown themselves unworthy of the conf.
dence Of well.disposed, patriotic, and peace
able citizens.
4. RssOlved, Thst the opposition of the
Republcanparty in Congress to the admis.
sion OF Oregon, exposes fully the utter
hypocrisy OF their pretentions to be the pe.
culiar friends of free States. :,
5. Resolued, That we affirm the absolute
sovereignty Of the States of this Union In
regard to their domestic institutions. and the
perfect compatibility of the confederation Of
free and slave States to exist harmonionslv
together under the provisions Of our Federal
Constitution.
6. Resolved, That the acquisition of the
Island Of Cuba is, in our opinion, eminenllv
desirable for the safety aud prosperity of our
Republic, and we should hail with pleasure
any measure consistent with Justice, tho,
would accomplish this object. We can new.
er consent to its appropriation BY any Of the
powerful States Of Europe, and would incur
al the dangers Of war rather than cquiesce
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