Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-08-15

The late Republican Congressional Conven.
ton, unanimously adopted the following reso-
luiion:
I'd Resolved, That ire endorse the action
Of the Republican State ConreRtion, recently
held at Columbus, BOTH As TO PLATFORM AND
NOMINATION
BY the above resolution the Republicans
of this District have voluntary assumed po-
sition as ultra as the most ultra Republican
in the State could desire, 1t plainly informs
Mr. GIDDISGs and his followers in the Reserve
that they are sustained by the Republicans of
the Third Congressional District The Com
vention endorsed the Republican State Plat
form In that platform, and placed there in
compliance with the demand of the Abolition
lists of Northern Ohio, will be found resolu-
ton which reads as follows:
"ReSolred, That, proclaiming our determ-
nation rigidly to respect the constitutional
obligations imposed upon the States by the
Federal Compact we maintain the Union, the
rights of the States, and the liberties of the
people and in order to obtain these impor-
tant ends WE DEMAND THE REPEAL
OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT of 1850
as subrersire Of both the rights Of The States
and the liberties Of the people, and as con-
trdry to The pldinest duties to humanity and
justice, and as dbhorrent 10 the moral sense
Of The civiiiEed ,oorld
The Germantown Convention also endorsed
the men nominated at the State Convention
Among these men will he found, at the very
head Of the ticket, the name of JACOB BRIS.
RrRuoFP oa tho 90 ndidata for gnnra,na Iud,a
man who has for years been noted for his
intense Abolitionism--a man who does not
consider the Fugitive Slave Law as "of any
binding force and believes in treating it las
null and void "A man who stands committed
in favor of negroes voting-a man who, in
1851, occupying position similar to the one
now occupied by him, received but ninety.fo
votes out Of the seven thousand and over cast
in Montgomery County viii the moderate
men of the Opposition in this District sustain
this endorsement? Can they, without sac
ri6ce of their former professions, sustain it ?
We leave il with them to answer
What privdte views the Republican candid.
ate for Congress may entertain relative to
those questions we know not; but we do know,
that by accepting the nomination of the Ger
mantown Convention, upon the platform
adopted, he has virtually acknowledged that
he demands the repeal of the Fugitive Slave
act of 1856" that he regards it "as contrary
to the plainest duties to humanity and justice,
and as abhorent 10 the moral sense of the civ
ili2ed world and that he endorses the pos
itions assumed by Judge BRINKERHoFF in his
dissenting opinion in the 0berlin Slave Rescue
case, as well as his decision giving certain ne
groes the right to vote. 1t will not do now TO
say that Mr.. CRAIGHEAD does not agree with
the platform on which he was nominated
His private views, whatever they may have
BEEN are no longer Of any account He ae-
cepted the nomination on the platform adopt.
ed, voluntarily, and without dissenting from
any of the resolutions; and having done so, he
has adopted the doctrines of that platform as
his own. As the nominee of that Convention,
he must defend the platform on which he now
stands Whether he dare do this, remains to
be seen