Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29
From the Mahoning Index, of Nov. I,

We give the article entire:
From the Mahoning Index, of Nov. 1, 1850.
Death to Oppression.
The Indignation Meeting for Mahoning
county came off here on Wednesday the
3Oth, in the Court House, and grand, sub
lime and inviting Convention it was of the
freemen of Mahoning. We are happy to
be able to say that NO DouGHFAcE attend
ed the Convention, for the blessed reason
that Mahoning County contains none, OIL
at least but few who stand ready to justi-
fy the infamous Fugitive Law, or TO sing
peans to the slave power of the South,
which fattens upon the. sweat, the blood
and death of his fellow. man! No ONE,
we say, spoke to the assemblage of one
thousand freemen, auho did not denounce,
as UNCONSTITUTIONAL and INFAMOUS, the
Fugitive bill of so, and pledge himself and
all his God-given powers to seek its RE-
PEAL and to DEFEAT the oppressive and dis
gusting features of this doughface and hell
ish emanation of infamous, impious and
distenpered minds.
His Honor, Judge Wade, the President
of this Judicial Circuit, spoke first, for
about one hour, upon the dement's of the
bill, in his emphatic manner denouncing
not only the bill, in his emphatic manner
denouncing not only the bill, but all who
voted for it, or skulked it on its passage !;
and the way he held up His Accidency, Mr..
Fillmore, for whom, in '4S he voted, was a
caution to all political sinners. 1t appear
ed to do the souls of the vast audience
good to hear the true-hearted Wade pour
out bis spirit in whitening anathenas upon
the infamous panderers from the North Ito
Slaveocracy of the South) upon the pas
sage of this most infamous and diabolical
law.
Next upon the forum was called, by the
united voice of the meeting, Rufus P. Ran
ney, of Trumbull, distinguished delegate
to make our Constitution-one of the
brightest minds in Ohio, and an old Demo
crat and nothing else in politicsl He en-
posed not only tie INFAMOUS MANNER an
phich the bill apas rushed through the
House mder the gag rule Of the southern
and infamous oppressors, but an soATHING
AND BL1sTERING CURSES, denounced the
achole bill as UNCONSTITUTIONAL(D
and the MIscREANrs Uho assisted IN ats in
ception and passage By their votes, or flee
ing achen God and their duty required
their aid IN behalf Of liberty and the rights
Of blood and life, as unworthy Of our re
gard-as UNWORTHY OF OUR SUFFRAGE
--now or hereafter.
1t is worthy of remark to say, that it
did the souls of the Democracy good to
hear tie noble and fearless RANNFY de-
nounce in his chaste and sarcastic style,
this outrageous and pestterous bill! Yes,
all were ready to, and did endorse, every
word uttered by him on that occasion, feel
ing of truth that although the apostates
from freedom for the sake of office had
sought to sell US and our children to the
Infamous slave power of this nation, yet
that we had in oua midst men of strong
vigorous minds--men who could not be
made, for the sake of office, or public plum
der, to help to approve of the Infamous
bill-men who would stand by the free
men of the North, and aid US all to battle
for the right, and for the overthrow, not on
ly of this pestilential law, but for the po-
litical death of every son of Belial who
aided in the procreation of this bill of un-
miligated infamy!
Hon. Matthew Birehard, one of our ex-
Chief Judges, next spoke against this con,
Eliminating bill, and the way he delineated
and exposed the infamy of this ungodly
law, in his cool, sedate and sarcastic man
ner, is not in the power of our pen to de-
scribe; but it was made to tell upon the
hearts, the sympathies, and .be judgments
of this people; and like an old Jefferson
Democrat he denounced all who had any
hand or took any part in this bill of VIII
lainy-this bond of blood and death!
Senator Sutliff, from Trumbull, land John
Hutchins. Esq, also spoke, as well as
Judge Newton, in denunciation of the bill
and the aiders and causes which produced its
production. And although Judge Wade is
a Whig of the old line, and Messrs. Ran
ney and Birchard are Democrats of the
highest order of political attainments, yet
no spectator could discover anything
throughout the exciting meeting which |
would cause any one to suppose that po-
litical feeling or party predictions enter
ed into the minds Of the speakers or the
hearts of the audience--so general and
was the desire and determination
of not only the speakers, but the freemep
in attendandce, TO exert all their God Civ
en- powers to abolish not only this infa-
nous law, but to nail and stamp witA
sternal political inyamy each and every
villain WHO aided in its passage. God
grant that the fire of liberty which this
labolical law has kindled in the hearts of
he people at the North. and West, may
not be extinguished until every miscreant
who aided in its passage and approval, is
hurled from power and from the political
embraces of the sons of freemen, of honor
md worth,
The resolutions are good, but the last
me, offered by Judge Brownlee, Of our