The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-01-18

the annual revenues of the government bils the
W. amone mem are comparatively trifn
tpations by Congress for rs defences OF Il
coast for The improvement. sf harbors the erection
light houses and the various ether purposes in aid
the commerce and navigation of the ocean, but we
complan that while cheerfully sustaining full prt
portion OF the expenditures foe these purposes
benefit of one branch of the national wealth and ente
prise suitable portion Of the national treasure is
expended for the protection of another braneh-ou
western cennerceriralling in tonnage the whole fo
egu commerce Of the United ates character equal
and i,s protecron equally essential the
mon benefit and advantage of all the States.
Briefly hut in especial manner, do regard it as m
duty to urge you to invite the immediate attention
Congress to the importance its granting pron,p an
Ohio River. o }a 3s-5 = - 800, - : = :"
| rne necessity of some more extended and complet
work than the Louisville and Portland Canal as noy
to cheaper aud facilitate couveyance
property Fails is recognized by every perso
famiia vii the Rs vigaion and trade of the Ohio RIVER
wing to the insufceuey of the construction of fha
work. and tha Contracted size Of its orks estimated
tia more than one halt of all the tonnage of the Obi
aii Niss 'sipa rivers is prevented from plssnc trnng
the csna The prac cal effect is To destroy th unity
the oi" River as great channel of com b. div
ding IL at tn: + lls and making the portou above
tributary to the portion below them. The consea len
injustice and heavy pecunary loss to every branch in
u>ty nbove the falls too obvious to need Argument
Nor does any other interest," any other section Of III,
eopnry derive any eneft from these results The seri
duS delSy from the obstruction to the TRANSFORMATION
the Ii ms Of Property that annually pass through h
canal with the excessive tolls imposed upon H. uf1ict
most gFevo1s and unreasonable tax upon the nstr,
a1d enerpri>e evsrywhere, tha contrbute in any way
Ia maxim, up the commerce of the Ohio and Mississippi
riv FF
The SUBJECT therefore, is not of mere Local, but of tbe
highest national import. Is rfs- --f.
The canal being virtually owned by the uaed States
aenog nomially the property of private ,ras,n
of which tire General is shareholder pre-
vents any impriY ment of It without hr consent and
ren'lers State legislation powerIess for relief.
cannot bat express the hope that this I'M mportan sub
receive the early and favorable Intention of the
LEGISLATURES of the several States bordering upon the
Ohio River, and of the other States intere its
gation, aud that they will unite with the Legislature
his state in urging prompt and liberl by
Co gress for the construction of such
around the Falls will best adapted to the present
and future wants of Western Commeice.
Firmly loyal to the Onion of these States-reyer
ii as the precious legacy frem Fathers of the Repub-
ic-acknowlegins their obligations sacred maintain
the Co federacy the blessings il intended confer
to defend the tuton, which is its bond aLd to
faithfully observe all its limitations and authorities the
people OF Ohio accord to tha citizens of the States
all the political and social rights which they claim for
themselves and as they would promptly add r-snluely
resist any attempt by force unlawful combination or
to disturb the enjoyment of their social rights
or inper their social securities do they eprecate
and unreservedly condemn any movement or purpose,
10 invade the rights or leopard The peace of citizens
of any other State. s5.-. "a. Is ~ ~
But the Union is threatened and the Constitution is
ed in the very citadel of its the right of the
majority of the people of the United States 60 control
the government being deniel and efforts are not want
s TO defeat the great purpose of the government
lend and espetute the rights of freedom by degrading
the Union and the Constitution into instr for the
p ropa cation of human slavery.
On the subject of Slavery the people of this State
,uPy no equivocai position. They reject the modern
gina that slavery esasntialto republics that such
system must fail without it, and thai slavery must he
extended aud perpetuated to extend aud perpetae our
orm Of goVernment; bnt in opposition it. they nave
declared that in their Judgment slavery is
pernicous wrong aud that patriotism and humanity
mite in demanding their resistance its
my free territory now that may be owned by the
ited States They deny thu binding authority of the
iictun OF the Supreme Court of the United States as
ertlng right of property 10 another as
damental principle and making the federal constitu-
ION the instrument of rendering it universal as not linn
ted to the reach OF the local power which created the
eiaton of master and slave but the contrary Iey
iecare that the ideaat there could property in
vas expressly exclude from the constitution which
aims such wor as slave slavery any of its pro-
sons, aud whc in every clause consruedo or that can
construed referring to slavery regards it as the
of State sisaon aud dependent wholly unon
ate legislation for its existence aud continuance Tbey
euy, that the constitution guarantees to the sIaybodne
ases any other than III r local rights, in connection
Vifh insttui1n of slavery bit such it expressly
ecares First, That The foreign trade should not
. abolished before 1873 Second That any law or reg
aon which anv State might establish in favor free
ON should not impair the legal medy supposed at the
me OF Inc adoption of the constitution exist by
non law for the reception by legal process, in such
tate, OF fugitives from labor or servic escapinp
her States; and Third, that three-lhs of ali slaves
pc counted in settling the basis of
the several states Beyond these the trainers of the
onsttutioI intended to make peculiar concessions to
be slavehoding s;ates and these made because
they haa union of the States create and to their
rdent and generous minds the voluntary removal of
avery by the action of the States themselves without
edera nterference seemed only crrtaip but close
hAud Tie people of Ohio have further declared that
their opinion. the people of territory have no power
nder the constitution from any other legal
stabish s1very THAR Institutions durn their
,rritori1l exisence; that the exercise of such power
ould be manifest usurpation of the indiydna rebts
the citizen of the territory, anil utterly subyersye of
true popular sovereignty, which demands as prima-
essential condition the recognition Of personal inal.
nabe rights They insist also TINT coupled with the
ower is the duty of Congress to prohibit by express
the extension of slavery into any free terro-
OF the United States-hat the Of this power
rs been repeatedly approved ,every department of the
ate and National Govern nent and Co the universal nc
panee OF the people and that its recOgn ion fun
amenta principle, to be hereafter exercised whenever
scasion may be presented is Indispensable 10 restore
e simplicity aud purity of the government and to car
out the great purposes of the institution as declared
its preamble: sto form perfect union 10 esat-
81 Justice insure domestic tranquility, promote The
welfare ana to secure the blessings of liberty
Such are the judgments Of the people OF Ohio repeat
ny on the subject of slavery social and
Ives that the practices of the Federal Government have
ng been opposed to their convictions the subject
ney KNOW thai II has been ninisfered many wears
subserviepcy to the purposes of avery extension
is in the SIaveholdng sates The war to extend the
e s)uri Compact the war against Kansas to er
nd Slavery to the Pacific all sacrifices of the public
=, by ambitious incumbents in the federal adunisra
,n TO that continuation in the South which brings the
te OF tteen slave States in phalanx to divide and con-
Ter the Free and to continue their triuuphs in Pres
ntIat elections. This combination has long been abso
e IN ts mastery over nominations elections, admins
uons aud even legislation, touching the maintenance
ID expansion of the institution of slavery to which il
yes its political strength.
What Is the result Is tn com bination satisfied, F.-
pm it. There is growing power impaired by free in.
utons in the Anti Slavery Sfates-by their industri-
IS 9economy-by their intellectual resourees which
aduay render ahortive all the acts of intr que that
ryert the organs of the national will into instruments
sectional oligarchy. The selfish combination in vain
onrns Northern asprats to its purposes rendering n
corrupt inf uence its consolidated force can Command
sednce support in the North, to carry the chief mag
the Unon to coerce patriotism itself to submit 10 the
ner to avert the greater mischief In vain its lear
eptre has stunned aud swayed the national functiona
,s-broken the concating compActs of 1921 and Ia5o
and inerpolated slavery as part of the naons CON.
tuition. The spontaneous vigor of free labor over
ows and heals all the wounds inflicted by these blows
its enemies. Freedom giant which while nsIeen
lliputans may bend to the earth with innumerable
e-spun cords, but aroused he breaks with ease the
sshes, and holds the pgmi in the hollow of his hand
lnsas Nebraska, California and Oregon show how in-
ectna, are the intrgues Of seeking politicians to
arr the growth nf free people The prosperous and
puous feeso sends forth its children the inyit.
teritories, and the resistance of barbarism is over
The politicians of the oigarchy see this with dismay.
seem to be meditating change of their design, from
It Of seeking perpetuation Of their control the
lion by multi plying slave States within it. to that of
audoning it and making vast acquisitions territory
yond H. to I'LL by new importaons of Africans This
ist result IN the subecton of the free labong native
IS of every complexion to common condition of sla-
y by the glut fo7wng the inf of my riads of naked
groes, working -. the OK under the goadand fed only
support the yoke reducing the price of labor 20 bare
'sistence full supply of negro strength will render
masters of the domain Independent of the poor
ites holding neither lands slaves. They must be-
ne slaves themselves to escape starving. aHss'
We have heard it announced, that League has been
med to compass this pantat its ramiiications cover
the slave States-that the principal nuiIi6ers every
are in the conspiracy and that is part of the
eme to leave Virginia and Maryla land, Kentucky and
nuessee and Missouri in the Union for time to cover
seeding States from the invasion of Northern force
restore the government of the conederacy over the
er Mi ssssippi and the borders of the Gulf of Mexico
The policy Of leaving tier OF slave Sta;es In eonnec
with the free States eoniding in the perfect protec-
of the peculiar institution under the wings of the
er, while the nuiying States fly off to open theslaye
de- and subdue the enfrauchised Republics of The
lth to become the receptacle of the human spois of
lr piracy Is proof that the nuying leaders well un
stand that all the rights OF the South recoenzea In
constitution are safe In the Union 1t MAKES mani.
too their fears, In abandoning H. and entering hno
lratea career AGAINST the lbtrty of tyrn haais,ha