Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-02-09
NUMBER Z.

| Why 10 1t th,t John B'osn spread such csn-
sternstion through I'll Virg.ni.l A,e We ID
believ. that the VWginisus are all cpward.i
No! There is in virginis just ss sspsut
blood as flows in th. world; IT wa. simply
because Slavery was week Institution
from the beginning to this time; that IL was
James Madison told b nth faroliH, end
Georgia; ii is because Slavery /. what Nr.
Randolph told Mr. Everett. We tail yon
that it Is a source Of weakness 10 the Stste,
and therefore a, pstri1is and lovers OF our
country we say, TO the seversl States en-
/ joy your institution 90 long ss you choose,
but 81 far as we are responsible we 20
against j, all the time. There 10 the whole
front Of our offending IL Is not righll
THE ADMISSION OF SLAVE srArss.
Another charge inside is, that we purpose
ITO prevent the admission, In any latitude.
Of another slsveholdibg Stste." I deny that
that is the platform Of the Republican party
as made up in 1855, o. as it is to be msds
up in 1850, and fyou will allow me I viii
refer to the record. cannot read oil ofths
platform. bu, | give you my word thsro 10 90
such clause in ii. / will read one elauss
however:
! Resolved, That with our Repnb Iiesn
fathers we hold il to be a self.evdent truth
that all men are endowed with the insIisp;
able right to ;ife, liberty, and the pursuit o.
happiness, and that the primary object and
uterior design Of our Federal Governmeht
was TO secure these rights TO ell persona
under lis exclusive jurisdiction;" ri Msrk
me. now. ,h.; does not apply TO sis,ts.1
"ihat our Republican fathers. whom they
had sbolished slavery In ell our Nsuonsi
Territory. ordained that no person should be-
deprived oflife, liberty or. property, sishout
due proecee Of low, it teesme our duty To-
maintain this provision OF the Constitutes
agsinst oil attempts TO violate il for the pur.
pose of establishing Slavery In sny Tern.
tory Of the United Ststes, while the present
Constitution shall be maintained"
In that part ofihe platform ] bsve ssfd. !
believe We were in error. For that reason,
in the call Of the present Convention We
leave out all that which has reference to
the last sentence whi ch read. will read
that call to you:
"a National Republi can Convention will
meet al Chicago, on Wednesday the 18th
day Of June next, at u O'Clock noon for the
nomination Of candidates to be supported
for President and Vice President at the next
election.
1.-The Republican electors of the severn.
States, the members .of the Peoples party
of Pennsylvania, and of the Opposition
party of New Jersey and all others Sho are
willing to cooperate with them in support
of the candidates which shall there be nom.
, mated, and who are opposed to the policy Of
the present Adm Inisiration, to federal cor
| ruption and usurpation, to the extension of
+ Slavery into the Territories, to the new and
I da ngerous political doctrine that the Con-
sttution, Of its own force, carries Slavery
into all the Territories Of the United Sjates,
to the opening Of the African Slave Trsde.
, to uny inequality ofrigh,s among citizens;
and Who are in favor OF the immediate ed =,
mission OF Kansas into the Union. under tbs
constitution recently adopted by its people,
of restoring the federal adm inisira'ion 10
system o. rigid economy and TO the pripci-
Piles of Washington and Jefferson. D main.
tainirg inviolste the rights of the Ststss.
and defending the soil OF every State and
Territory from, lswless invasion, aud of pre-
serving the integrity of this Union and ,hs
supremacy of the Constitution and Laws
passed in. pursuance thereof. against The
conspiracy of the leaders Of a sections
party, to resist the majority principle ss es-
tablshed in this government, even at the
expense OF its existence, are Invited to send
from each State Two delegates from every
Congressional district. and four delegate
al hrse to the Convention.
To prevent the sxisn sion Of slavery Into
, tee Territories. There 10 the mattsr q,
issns
Gentlemen. neither 10 the platform Of
1855. nor in the Gall Of the Convention fof
] $50, is there any such clause - that the
Vice President sl:edges. tina. no moss slavs
!, States shall bs admitted into the Union -
there is nothing Of il. II is not true ale.
t gstion, and appeal to the record. sp
peal from the infersnces and slleqatiua Of
the V.'e President Of the United ktsles 10
. the country upon that subject. y,t
rHr SLAVE oops cnys,nssrp.
Bsfsre pass over this will gay . few
words with regard to the power that ,bs
shareholders claim for the protactlon Of slave
property under the Constitution Of the UnI-
ted States, because that 10 vital question.
Gentlemen, with oil the ineousisiency Of
the Democratic party IN 1853 snd 1855.
they never thought Of this thing, that slsv-
cry went under the Constitutions, aud by
: virtue thereof into every Territory per ~,
g Never was such an expression made use o +,
they al, admitted thstno such power existed
in or under the Constitution. Hence, OF
course, 1t was proper to enact thst the
: people OF Territory were free to lsgislsts
slavery in ar out Of the Territoy. Now,
. gentlemen, the Democratic parry is placed
in this attitude, that they then knew thst
/ under the Constitution and sccording to
, what they now claim 10 be the decision Of
n the Supreme Court, thateverv slhvrholder
has a right 10 60 into the Territory with his
d property. or deceived the people, TO. the
o deriment oi the STAKEHOLDER, Shen they lett
h the matter to he decided upon bv the now
A Shareholders. What righr hsd the Dem or I.
, tic party to say that they thonld conhsr t. tn .