MI I= mg THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL t: JSU. S. A. A VERI; RiP'ors. COUP ERSPOZIT, THURSDAY SEf4: 13, lEa5. Foy Presid6at iu p 56.. 11p7::PAI . d1.10TY:T I T - lASE •Lir- OF Prezilenti — CSSI VS Y. CLA Y or KrsrucKr. _ . •11rE coNvErrION: theprosseitin,3 . s of the Republican ..soAe_C i ptiteetiou iyhich.met at . Pitts: burg nn the sth -,of thiA• tic.nth' are i~eii in` our coluinas this .week as fi4l . l . qspur spacemill - p&mit: , . tide Itskattentjon to the resolations, and will thank any one to show where- . itith:6y do not accord with the Decla ratiiiii''ofladepencl'ence 'and thb spirit of the :Centititirtinn. • We, ask anti' yaOttt..flempqat:ou comppre . these Tesolutions witi!iltose adtipsed at Har iishurg, tirlteti • -.A.tnold Tinnier was • puininatca,:anilsay which best repre i,ctiis yetfr .principles, The Pittsburg Convention was one of the not - im portant :that , has msembled in this State fot litt`ttny year. 4. It was harm : - idous, , entbuiiubtie, and determined. It met for.;tbe Pnrpo . e of organizing the yai - ious anti:Nobrasl;a elements of this State into a great party of free (Tom, it; harmony With the spirit whicl thi's Icatiuninto being. „,\Ve believe it. has nccompli:•:hed this mission. The resolutions and other preeeedin , ..4.r of the convention - eat he'read and will veal; fur thorn aelves, but the spirit of the meeting Ptittint he transferred to paper. • We . bare attended many canyon but-never saw anything equal to this one, in unity of purpose, hope rubles of spirit, and manliness of de termination to. accomplish the object jn view. Every comay west of the Paininta!ns except M'li.eau and War represented, and all the counties of this Senatorial districtex p apt APK.cal, sent true men to tep eelent them at Pittsburg. We still ),1)p - e M'Kean will show some interest issue between freedom and al very.' If the press is silent, let the people speak by public Meetings. If tier lea.dfng Men bow down to the idick power ? - let the Masses show Ilkein.that they have not read the Dec 'fixation of Independence in vain. A citizen of Pennsylvania has been "deprived of his liberty without due imicess of law," and now lies incarr gPratea in noyamensing prison for simply informing a poor woman of of her legal rights. If the people. or Pennsylvania will tamely - suloult to this 'despotic decree of a Federal ,Tnilge, then they are ready to pass nudeF, the yoke 'of any Louis Napo leon who may choose to usurp the re!u4 otGrore'rement. Northern Penn- Eyl4nia ;itleaSt, will not thus disgrace ba,rsele 13rWe attended the lectures Jo Dr.. A..T. Brundage el New York, on the subject, of physiology. delivered }ti the Court House on the evenings 'f - Thursday and Friday of last week. 'We were (*ratified at the interest •s • • manifested in the subjects under ye rtivii,-by the audierices on both even ingst• Dr. Brondage is a gentleman ;t& Aiiity and the subject: which be treats p i ne of great importance, and ve trust, he,. will be encouraged to i enptinue his labors in the field be has osert: • • • • We be'ieve that a knowledge of tlA,e h,timari body, and of the preserva tion of health, are too much neglected ~t he: education of the young; and thatifinstead of the useless lwanclies ruprse4 to hea - ,paq :of a Viod edu cation'' this li.auwledge was taught, it avould -save a great deal of trouble, loseserve health, and consequently pro smote: the .happiness of , both parents -Mu) ,Cfr Oipv . .!;s/ take 3 the lead. Nathani e l lohijioniends ns viord dirt ho has raised the , ! s ! ra !9 . 9 fo,: f r"ht 9 tdred bushels of excellent lin :acres of land, on which he IJ • FOWed . bitilies of seed. We inler ziond severed of 'kr. Johnson's neighbors in equalky.well, bii; as 'pa the" pliitic alai's,. Cannot This eheerihg ned we - hope will set every •fartper to yvork at wheat growing,. • -;;;: • ::.. rity...l4lr t , pat ho r : eontiuueq tyt, : stippls- - our e2lizens with fres!yueat,twico a week., ,This a gee eoiwerneriee, We . hope he Will pr wpll gmtaiiuttl. (lecp4=:igrtAll 'the sic -Dors f e ! fir slier, AOisqvil l: Aver, .woo has t thredtti the' life.q th i djj Jot rn af ' fur f.3r - cfr#l years I,,pas6 BA , the kinauess - of Olir - i'idighboi - `1). W. . • C. James, we are t.ttialle(l cootieup , „a le pape.r.,.w.ithout appreciate this favor, Aotne ve•ty .yeciprocate. 4r. Ford,. who bas .very tinclortalte., to get out tlie paper, beip.tra stranger to everythillg about the:Ye/co, find it difficult fot a 2 wi:ek, or two to Ito 1 jf ustice. We tlii..reforet)e . Teal; the it?cliilgenco of tier, patro9s, . . CP PUTNAM for September, with various new and interesting Wrirki, received and - for Bale at the ;Tour nal BOOK' Srore. LIE L \VRE I.Tti-fur September is. recieved, and sustains itself well, as usual. NOTICE TO TEACHERS 4 coLiderabie natni)er of the Teachers whu may preferto take their mealy at the common table, while at tendirv,f, the Institute at Conde!'sport; and to brine- their own conveniences fur sleepiag,. can be provided with lodging-roonas without charge, by ren dering some slight assistence. .occa sionally, in ths D ~n :;tic D trt- One ar two tenement.; with coot ing-stove:;, can be had. by thosti who may choose to board themselves, Apply soon, to ' J. B PR:IDT,•Co., Supt. Dis.tsrnocs.—lt is currently repor:ed that seven bane's, and other casks or packages of liquors, have taken their station at 'White's Coyners for disiribution. •I would to God, that ;he prominent men i.f.Potter county sil uyted there, would quit their nefirinus prac tices, and be men, like men; and not brutes, REPUBLICAN STATE CONVEKTION 22,53,110,T0 'Williamson Nominated for Canal Commissioner. ENTHUSIASTIC NEI:TING The Republican .State Convention met at the City Hall, Pittsburgh, on Wedue.iday, September it). When the bout of eleven had arriv ed, lion. Gtottne, IhnstE, ofAllegbeny, called the assemblage to order, and stated that the convention about to be otOnized had convened in aeCordanee with a call signed by a number Of prominent citizens of Peunslyvania, which he read, as follows: "The citizensiofPennslyvania, with out t egard to former party distinc4ons, who are willing to unite in a new organization to resist the further spread of Slavery and the increase of the Slave power, are requested to meet in )Las..- Convention at Pi!tsburgh on, Wednesday the ;:ith (Jay of September, 1855, at 11 o'clock. A. AL, to organize a Iturcame.vs party in this State, which shall give expression to the popular will on the subjects involved in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and co , operate with other organiza tions of a similar character in other States, Mr. D.utsitz then moved that for the purpose of a temporary organigation, Judge Limes IVINSLOW, ofJefrerson county, be called to the chair. Carried. Judge WissLow took his seat on the p:a:fortn, Uu motion, Cef.tfu.r.s L. READ, Esq., of Susquellmina county, was appo.thed telopor ary ziocretury. Jon; W. nowt, of Crawford county, utoved that a convinittee of twenty-one he ap pointed to se:en names of °meets. for we permanent organization of the cow:en:ion. Carried. The Chair, br reque3, appoin:ecl the coin nittee as follows: flan. John W. Ijowe, Crawford; George C. Acheson, dearlieldi John MyeN, Indio r Samuel 31v Farloud, W‘n.hileglon; lienry Tel ler, Erie; IVilLiam Henry; Bea% et; 11.ossell Errett, Alleglieu; John Williamson, Hunt. ini!tiOnl; Enoch - Lewis, Blair; William H. Stephens, Mercer; William B. TIIOIIIHS, Phil adelphia; Cizzales B-ad, Sumplehaton; W• Tioga ; Dr, Joseph Markle. Westmoreland; It eben Winslow, Eik ; Jesse Evans, Cheatt r; Joseph Minn, Potter; James 31 Sellera, Juniata; Tumnas S tillmau, Lawrence; Toomas Robinson, But ler. The Com Mitten then retired and after . Consultation reported theough its chairman; Mr. Ifuwe, the following permanent officers : - President—lion, WM. JSSUP, Sus quehanna County. Trice Presidents—Gen. J. Markle, Westmoreland County ; Hon. James Jefferso n County; Dr. R. 'Mitchell, Indiana County ; George Steele, Venango County ; Dr. J. Gib bons, Lancaster County - James M. Sellers, Juniata County; AltinrY Tel ler, Erin County ; John 'Williamson. Huntingdon County; Martin; Bell Blair County; Thomas Siiliman, renee County ; ,Jesse Evans, 'Chesterl. William B. TLornas, Phila. ; Reuben Winslow, Elk; George C. Ache Son, Clearfield.. • Sec : retario—.lLLyl e White, Craw ford' Cliunty ' William . F. Clark - ,.MeE . - C&E'ecintity ; Mitchel Wey and, Beaver Conittj C. F. Read, Su44aiaila Connty ;- Edward Le leis, Philaaelphia CiSipty,i . R. R. MoorkadA Kr; Puma. County::; ive,4 moved and c#tiied that report of ti 4 p ; committip oe i ttectplett • and adopted. Judge rtissur was then • escorte to the chair. He addressed the-Coiiven • jinn at SOrhe;lengtli: ' 1-'• • • liegge eiTA‘el:6-`l‘6ftfilriili specifel.acknOWledgementa to the eont:, vention tOr.the_ hontir•conferrO• in. call pug upon, him to .preside ; •everita :liberations. . He had a., siegle :desire to promote the harmony ~aud ,proper expression of the sentiments of ,the Convention. This was no ,ordinary occasion. It vvits, not a conventional gathering, as of the old parties, but it was for the purpose of. establishing a party to assert the. Right and : resist the Wrong! (Applause.) It had sembled for the purpose of establishing in Pennsylvania anerpilization has, in„ that one great object iii view, and Which should. carry. out that, object . in singleness of desire,-and 19, promote the interests of this great nation. It seemed Singular that in the. middle of the nieeteeniii century in this great re public of earth, a party must be organ ;zed to sustain freedom and resist the encroachments of tyranny. He need only refer, however, to the past en croachments of slavery—they 'have been written upon our history as with a sun beam. There has uever been any skulliny in the policy of the Sievo, 7 cracy. They arc b and open.— They stand forth, champion-like, iu the legislature of the country. in the executive departments of the State, and worse than all in the judiciaries of the laud, That is worse than all, because a corrupt Bench is the worst enemy Freedom can have. • When • corrupt and enslaving influences take possession of the' judiciary, where is our hope? It is our duty to stand up like men, 'and resist such aggressions. (Applause.) This is our object to day. (Applause.) ! The call of this Convention is a - comprehensive one. All who feel that now is the time and this the place to raise high a standard to resist th aggressions.of Slavery are invited to jom with us. .(Applatise.) We have, to=day, Standing Out in Pennsylvania lbut the beginnillf of an illustration Of Nvbat the slavery propagandists design on,Pennsylvarna. A prominent man has declared th•it this would he a slave State in ten years. Public send lent haS been poisoned, and the result:has been apparent. What is the designed .ultimate result? Why, that Penns,yl vania shall go . back to slavery ! It does not require a prophel to predict that if these things continue, old: inde pendence Hall will be a slave mart itr tiventy years : from-now! A learned Judge says he knows- no law which says that Pennsylvania is free soil. What is the result of that opinion ? Let the simple name of Passmore \Vi liatnson, answer: (Applause.) The Speaker remarked that instances could be multiplied, in which the con stant pressure of slave influence in Pennsylvania could be shown. Where were her brightest and best men in both the old parties? Their 'minds had been perverted and biassed.-= Their eyeshad . been shut-to the eternal principles of Right involved iu this question, Only till the last erowtKg aggression of slavery, wherein soil dedicated to freedom was blackened by slavery, have many of them waken ed from their deep sleep, and become fully aroused to the necessity of as serting and maintaining their liberties. We have come together, said the Speaker, for the purpose of perfecting a • needed organization, 1 'have no doubt the people of Pennsylvania are •an anti-slavery people. Now is ;the time-to perfect such an organization as we desire, wherein may be harmon ized,the various anti-slavery elements throughout the State. It is doubtless our best policy to present the issue naked and clear from all other ques lions: In that event a large majority of Pennsylvania's sons will respond nobly and gloriously to the call It is said that so many side issues and ut - ganizations • will prevent complete success. But there ought- to be no .such difficulty. This convention should ) allow the fullest liberty of opinion on all minor questions, and take such a. bold stand upon the sole issue of op position to the slave powor, as shall attract and harmonize every conflicting element.. For the Juarnal This is the most propitious hour for this movement Pennsylvania ever saw. Let us then discard anything that may offend, and 'unite in saying to slavery. "thus far bast thou gone—no farther canst thou go." - The Chairman took his seat amidst loud applause. The I T ice,-President and Secretaries then assumed their places on the plat form. Mr. McCCene, of Franklin county, (editor Chambersburglt mov ed-that a committee of seven. he. ap pointed to prepare resolutions expres sive of the sentiments .of .the:Conven tion. • Carried.— / • . • • -The Chairman appointed the follovi ing gentlemen as said .cornmitte - e Hon..A. K. Meauten, Chambers= burgh . ; Hon. Job a Covode, West more land; Hon. James Winslow,. of Jeffer son ; Theophilus Fenn; - olLaneaSter . ; John . Williamson; - -of 'Huntingdon' ; - E d ward Lewis, Philadelphinl, John 8. Mann, Potter, - ~-.;•::way:; , „E•.a:C->r -+ 4t!~ _?Y:fit ]ls ~ . -.::...::FSi.i l +:'.4TM:C~':::w~9ii:~_lS~.A::y..'+ :__ ~L a ~ • ':ll~: c ..l 1:f,9 :+:'~r'~'j..~C"t:y AZ RUSSRLL Air Ei s imipetl Eats Throk l'ir.A.llpirbe6 cAyniyi 146, •atidecltKthe c ."• - • 41r. 4fc'eLVIIE favored Oki rnotiow.. lits,;l,hought .A.llegheniCui,ilfty 404 i. be rept•esented. - • The motion was caryieq. • :Itit: . i3aVer 'ge:r. 1.,e.;:a . 6:0• 'added lb the Co m tint= Mr. CLARK declined in favor of W. M. Stephenson, of Mercer County.. Mr.:SrmExsoN;.was added collie Committee. . ~ • The Chairman • announced that the Committee would immediately -retire, and meet at the Monongahela House forseonsultation, • . • Mr. DAnstu moved, that gentlemen from other States.who. were present, he inNited to take sears en the plat form. • . • H9l/- GIUbINGS, .11on. J. A.. Bingham, Hon. B:.F. Leiter, and floe. L. D. Campbell,. of Ohio,. were conducted to the platthrm, and us each gentleman.tosAt Ins seat, he was suiut ed a hearty round of applause, Eattcrr, as Chairman of the Committee on Invitations, present ed a number of letters frOul,gentremen who had been invited to attend the (Jiwrention, but were unable to be present. . • At the request of the Convention, the Chairman, J udgeJEssup, proceinl ed to read.the letters. • .Wo have room for but two Letter from Hon. D. Wilmot MosTrtusz; Augusz 30, 1855 DEAR SIIZ:--.4 - 01.11* note was forwarded to me a; this place, where I have been cog.‘god im!ding court for the two wet:Rs. I wish it' were poSa:e. mo to mend the Convention of PhlSb:/rg; but it is not,' us My - term of court for Bradford county commences on Monday next. I feel a deep itcerest in the proposed Con vention, and hope from its action the intingti ration, of a new era in - the polities of our State. Thu friends of freedom to asseuth:e in your city on the 5:11 proximo, may rely with cotthilimen upon the zealous coaperation and support GI the peop:e of this Congressional dis.ric , , and, although we are not properly org toized, and prepared to SilOW ourstrength is the CO/11//1" . fait e.ec:ion, we shaii have oar armor- on, sod our ranks fir - in for the great b Lula of I tirm;y beleve we will give from eight to ten thous toil ma' ority in 11113 Congressional dislric: for the "AlEPeatacss" Prdstdential ticks'. . • Th:s county (Stisgnehanna) will he ah!y repreien'ed itt yonr Convention, and on my arrn•ai-htnuc to-morrow livening, I will en deavor to induce 'some one or more to repro sen: Bradford. But whether Bradford is rep resen.ed or mt, count her good lb; 50u0 jerky fur the cancl,d,ttes of Freedom Very respec.fully yours, • To P.. Errett, Esq. IJ. Wil.mor. Letter from Hon. H. Wilson, NANVILR, Mass„ Aug. 23, 1855. • Dt.an Stn ;-1 regret to i4form you that it avid no: be in my power to.aceepi your very kind invitation to attend your S.a.e Conven tion at Pittsburgh on the sth of September. Engagements I c num'. forego make - At hopes. sib.e for me to meet wi•li you on that tl4. I look, tvi:h the mils: is ease iiverest to your state in this cr . :ix :I emergency. Penn: l sykallia Ills it in her power to decide the combot between freedom and sdwery, ag, dust the domination of the black power and its fet;M:e tom--he preset!. adminis.radon. The opponems of the present •fti h-hreaking Inntisliniton, in New England, feet the inest so.icimdo toneerning vottr State. ri s e heleve that Pennsylvania lio'ds in her hands the issue of It.oti. If Petingy;yania conduces to sand firmly - - widi her sia.er Sia es °fake Nord', the year 1. - 2.5 ti wilt Wi.IIOSS the comp:ee over.hrow of •the hack, power of the Son.h and the servile power of the Nord', and the ignominiou:i defeat of Nor.hern men vat h Sou.herit prineip.es; or ra.her, Nor.hern men wi Is no priticip.es at • all. 'We of New Eng.and tat:more the and-Nebraska 1110/I of your great Sta.e to take counsel together, to emitivate the spirit of union, to •s.rtve by all honorab:e eifor.s to combine men of all par. ties'in Inn.ed ac:ion, by %illicit atone you eats decide the cumest for freedom. In th.s the an.l-Nebrask men of your_ State tihaaNl forget their d.ssettaun, sacrifice everything bu. honer, and combine their efforts to rescue the national government froht the s.rong grasp of the stave propagandists and their nerveless toots front the tree States, by whose ~ ad, s Gov.' Reeder has been smitten iloWit in ins edor.s to pro.ect the Mgt! rig,h:s of the imaml settlers of Kans is, and Passinore Wil- I 'liaanson consigned to Ihnutess inyrisonment , tor die tmenee• of telling a pour woman that she was free on the free son of Pennsylvania. lxy the united acaun of the anti-Nchrask t 'Yuen of all panics, ye& Smae, last year; re linked the conduc. of your ni.h.esi represen. Mayes, sent a de,ega,ion to the next Congress p.odged to the po.,cy of freedom; and Paced 111 the executive chair your excellent chief magis.rate by thirty-five thousand majority, Tilts action of your State last year inspired the anti-Nebraska men of this sec.ion of the Union with /.110 hope that Pennsylvania would, in the contlie.s of the fu•ure: be found on the idc el' freedom, as she was in the carder days of the- Republic, Duritig the adtninis i-t;ra.ions of Wash:2lloin, Adams and Jettersoti; the members of your B.a.e, true to the ideas of its peacefut founders, took the lead in re sisinn_e to the demaudj orate black power. Ally we not intimge the hope that the days of submission titre pas., and that your great 'emit. uninwealth win stand side by side with her sis.er §:a.as in unfaitermg resistance to the aggressive policy of the Stave propagandists 7 hoping Mat your ".cohvention of the sth of September wilt tend to urtite,yonr people • of all parties iu•opposition to the SiaSl . 1 tomato pith onedient servaw, To R. Erred, Esq. lIENET WILSON, AFTERNOON SESSION, The Chairman called the Convention to order at half past two - The C.ominittee Resolutions was announced as not yet. ready to report. DARS . 1E inquired it it svas .not a . part of the duty of this Convention . .to nominate a candidate for Canal Com missioner?. He thought' it was, and suggested ,that the . Con,ventien extend the power' of the Resolution Commit tee in order. that they mi g ht recorn . - . mend names . for the consideration of the Convention.. " Ur. Hewn remarked that -he.would first like to see what the +committee had done, If they were food on reso- -N • IptiontiAhey would belood Fs*. thje',--! Ifilmiliriffg iii Mik46dWater peso -1 u tio UM we don't I.l,lrtit. them to name any catt'didates ;.; Mr,J.-Rtasta saioe,ioubk vidthiliaw his . s - uggestiOn for the present. There _be,ing • numerous cries for aF Anwar ";Ffloice!" - r.. Mr. HoN4•s a ia he s coidd not make a speech. It was a physical impossi bility with • Min. .He had-the -worst cold of any. -man in • the country.--:. [Lau”hter• 13ut he knew he .was , a • • guod:4ep l ublican—a good deal soon - - der thun hi , S lungs. [Laughter.] , He would therefore beg to be excused. Voipes-,,,!4 Giddings! Giddings!" Howr.- - i r es, GIDDINGS is a good fellow- 7 hp. i 'cun speak all the time. • The Cries for Giddings being re sumed. Mr. GLOOLNOs said it Ivould give him pleasure to address the Com-eel - ion, but accordhig to the arrangemeuts the meeting, he had been expected to speak iri•the . ev ening. His subject at that time would be " The Mission *df the . Repulincan ;pally." My. friend Mr. Ilineliam, said Nlr. GIDDINGS. commenced a speech this_ morning, and I would suggest that he be now heard .in :preference .to any other speaker. • Mr. Bixonsm appeared upon the stand and was greeted with the usual pedalsalute, His address was a most able and eloquent eff,rt;- and left its impress on his audience. Mr. Bing ham came7to our state heralded by an extended reputation as an orator and a logician' and he has nobly sustained birnself. Our brief report of his, re marks is npeessarily iMperfect aria by no means as' full as we would have _desired. • Ile introduced his address by refer ring to bis Morning's speech. He un dertook to say this morning, that a new sentiment was animating the Ameri cam mind very .generally—a sentiment. altogether foreign to the genius of our institutions: The sentiment to which he referred and which . had been pro mulgated by the friends of the • Ad ministration, was that the government of the United States: was not the .gvo ernMent of freedom—that the prin ciple still hn , las Tend here as in the old world; that might gives the tight --that popular sovereignty here is what the will of the despot is in Eu rope. That Sentiment he . den - minced as anti 7 .A.minican and false. It is that sentiment which ice hove got to "fight. against.? He said 'this morning that the COn4itution was ordained and es tablished for the promotion of the geri era! welfare----not of the few to the °Nein:inn of the many—but the gene ral welfare of the people. This kind of goveslntnent is a novel thing under the sung Since Adam first saw light on this L'arth there has been nothing like it. In the former ages, the sou timentsJ of men tended to the goVern ment of kingly, despotic \\There; anterior to this d.tv, - seen a derma ration of Independence? where was there, seen a free represen tative government?—where was there seen a free church? Nowhere!— Where was there free schools? N - where! Where was there free labor? Nowhere! Anterior to this day, re ligion, thought, labor, Man, were it) chains! The sentiment that these things we:e not right, waS first piacti-, cally realized on this side of the water. True, a century or two before our declaration of this sentiment, an hum ble man, a monk of the Augustin Or der proclaimed against the spiritistl bondage strider which ha groaned.— Another man discovered that kings received not their power by divine tight- and received as a reward the forfeit of his life. But others held the same opinions that Algernon Sidney did. Yet there was no place in Eu rope when the . experiment of a free government might' be tried. These true men thereupon gathered up their household goods, and with their little families committed therwelves to the _seas, in search .ofthe unknown world in the West. They landed on Pl.}..•m outh Rock,: at Jamestown, &c.. The); Came t.s try the experiment of a Chinch without a Pope, and a 'State without a King! (Applause) They did try that experiment with diverse 'fortunes. But the despotic powers of Europe followed them, and in spite of their earnest protest this virgin land was damned with kingly tide, and all .the attendant oppressions which cling to the sceptre and the throne. What condition of affairs was brought about? The flag of St. George floated not over the legitimate and honest com merce, btivovera trade in human flesh, and -that, too, against and in spite of the protest of those old men who had come here to plant a new order of. things on this young continent. This systerii of servitude, the speak er thought was foreign to all American 'institutions. It is derived -from Eu ropean despotism—it is the child of kingly rule. - The people . did not de sire—nay they protested against it,— Before. the ,Declaration of Indepen dence, ilk ; 1773, at Fairfax Court .House, in -Virginia, there was held a primary assemblage of the 'people, Just such an One as this to-clay, over which presided . gentleman not un known to.fame who was then recorded as. "acottar. WASHINGTON, . (4ppl4usc,.) ~That primary. assemb 7 14ge, censgiqus of the, evil .'cif the in fernal system ()Nieman Slavery ‘vhich 114 btien introaucedint o their• tniclit, pktitestect, against the - trade in human flesh, as an outrage upon hurruinity!.- (4.opJanie.) - - „Another man at a similar meeting, So .- inewitat widely, known as Thomas jetrenion, resolved that an end should be put to the traffic in slaves altogeth er:- Look,- at- - the- protest-m - the District of Varien, Georgia; when an inflexible determinatiaa was anuoUnced to entirelyabolish the traffic, duly - the traffic but-the system. • .But our limit remind 4 us that me are unable to report further: The address, was upwards ,of two hours in tength, and 'tvLia - listened to with profound attentin. The dosi n g passage.r+ was, particularly thrilling and elocrent. • The committee on Resolutions then made the following report: Wheras : The founders on this Re. public, in the formation Of this gevern mem, proclaimed this great truth_ that all -men are endowed by their Creator •vith the fnalienable rights of lif e , liberty, and the pursuit of happi ness, and that our government was constituted to secure these rights to us ; and whereas : the National Execs. tire, in his inaugural address, virtually. denies these doctrines, in the_ expres sion of his oppinion that domestic slavery is based upon the . sama princi ples as other recognized rights, and that our federal government is bound to sustain the institution of slavery; arid wheri:rar: the President of the United States, and thepolitical party which sustains him, have endeavored to overthrow the, principles of civil libel ty proclaimed by our revolution ary. fullers, by extending the bounds of slavery into territories expressly consecrated to freedom by. - a solemn compromise, and by obtaining territory of:qr.:Niro for the purpose of spreading thlwitlimiug curse of human liondage, and by endeavoring to involve us-in a War with Spain fur the acquisition of Cuba, with the intention of perpe trating-undstrongtheniug the institution of slavery, and by.sustaining the slave trade on um- southern coast ; therefore. Resolved). That the great •questinn of freedonf and slavery new agitating. hoth North and .South is one which overshadows all others, in a national petut.ofyieeis ; and its importance de mand+ that the peopb of the Noah should unite in harmoni ,us action, to• defend their honor cud vindicate their rights. 'rile continual aggression of slavery upon the interest of freedom, increasing in insolence and magnitude with each concession of the North, must be met and resisted with .r unit ed voice. 'Holding that the Union was fiirme'd (in the language of the Constitution) "to - establish justice, pro. mote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty," we adopt as the tlmielation of our political faith, and for the guidance of ouv political action, the principle that, under our government, FREEDOM •IS NAT/ONII. AND SI. IVRRY IS SECTIONAL, Resolred, That while -we claim no power to interfere with slavery iu States where it-in,w exists, we believe th . tt the National' governm.mt should be relieved l'rein all eo mection with, or accountability for it. Ri - sulred, That the repeal of the Missouri compromise was a violation of the national faith, and an outrage up on the rights of the free States ; and that it was the first stop of the con spiracy against freedom, which has found its appropriate and intended sequel in time lawless attempts ofa Missouri mob, instigated by a conspic uous friend of the national administra tion, and connived at and sanctioned by the salvia, to three the. curse of slavery upon the Irco sail of Kunsan and we not only oppose the extension ofskivei y i over our national territories, but also the admission of any new slave States into the Union, believing that, as our national domaio is free from c lovery, IJ the absence of any positive law .establishing it, we are justified in making freedom a condition of their admission into the sisterhood of States, Resolved, That we.are in favor of the repeal of the present Fugitive Slave law, because it virtuallysus vends the sacred writ of habeas cot pus, and takes away the right of trial by jury, iteso/red, -That imprisontnent, with out trial of citizens of free States by the Federal Judiciary, is a bold inva sion of personal liberty, a violation of the guaranteed rights of the State!. and an assumption of federal povrer that•should be .1 esisted , determinedly by every friend of perional freedom.. Resolved, That We -cordially invite all who approve of the principles set il)rth in theici resolutions, - without re • Bard to their former Political associa tions, to unite and coUperate w ith us for the purpose of restoring the.adrnin - . istration of this government to it* original purity, and 4ireciing its enef gies to the accomplishment of its true. object, as sot forth in the Constitution , viz : 't To form a more pc:lfeet Union; tn . establish Justice:; to - insure 'Dc mestie Tranquility'; to provide for the common Defence ; to promote the General Welibre, and secure tbo bles-iings of Liberty to ourselves and posterity."
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