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January 30, 1855
Burlington Tri Weekly Hawk Eye
Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa
What is this article about?
A Washington correspondent reports that Ohio's Democratic Party, facing crisis, adopted extreme abolitionist resolutions in state convention after opposing the Nebraska bill last fall, but plans to repudiate them once recovered.
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A Washington letter writer says the Ohio democracy is like the sick man, whom nothing but a desperate operation can save. Accordingly it has resolved in State Convention, that while impelled by a stern conviction of duty to run its head against the Nebraska bill, last fall, it has now adopted the extremest platform of abolitionism. Such is the tenor of its resolutions. They have been adopted in order to set the party on its legs again, and as soon as that is done, they will of course, be duly repudiated, according to the distich:
When the devil was sick the devil a saint would be;
When the devil got well the devil a saint was he.
When the devil was sick the devil a saint would be;
When the devil got well the devil a saint was he.
What sub-type of article is it?
Politics
What keywords are associated?
Ohio Democracy
Nebraska Bill
Abolitionism
State Convention
Political Resolutions
Where did it happen?
Ohio
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Ohio
Outcome
resolutions adopted but expected to be repudiated after party recovery.
Event Details
Ohio Democratic Party, compared to a sick man needing desperate surgery, opposed the Nebraska bill last fall and now adopts extreme abolitionist platform in state convention to revive itself.