Republican Vindicator

Know Nothingism in Ohio.

The "fusion" between Abolition and Know Nothingism, which swept the North last year, elated by past success, is again forming: to grasp the spoils, and make war upon the South. At the late State Convention in Columbus, Ohio, in which were gathered all the rabble of political sects--Know Nothingism and Abolition being the most prominent, the following resolutions were adopted:

THE FUSION PLATFORM,

1. Resolved, That the people, who constitute the supreme power in the United States, should guard with jealous care the rights of the several States as independent governments. No encroachments upon their legislative or judicial prerogatives should be permitted from any quarter.

2. Resolved, That the people of the State of Ohio, mindful of the blessings conferred upon them by the Ordinance of Freedom, whose anniversary our Convention this day commemorates, have established for their political guidance the following cardinal rules:

1. We will resist the spread of slavery under whatever shape or color it may be attempted.

2. To this end we will labor assiduously to render inoperative and void that portion of the Kansas and Nebraska bill which abolishes freedom in the territory, withdrawn from the influence of slavery by the Missouri Compromise of 1820; and we will oppose, by every lawful and constitutional means, the existence of slavery in any national territory, and the further increase of slave territory, or slave States, in this republican confederacy.

These resolutions were reported, said the Chairman, with singular unanimity, there being but one dissenting voice in the committee of twenty-one.

Mr. Giddings was the solitary member of the committee opposed to the resolutions, not, he said, because he objected to the resolutions themselves, but he thought they were a little too tender. They were not strong enough for the old guard. Still! the resolutions were better than worse: if it offended his brother to eat meat, he would eat no more while time lasted. He was opposed to this milk for babes. He had disagreed with his colleagues, but had the misfortune to disagree with people before this. He was used to disagreement and hoped that every body would vote for the platform.

Mr. Campbell said of these resolutions that they so palpably expressed the sentiments of the people that there was no necessity for discussion, and therefore moved their adoption.

The Convention then proceeded to the nominations. Mr. Chase, the notorious abolitionist, received the nomination for Governor. Mr. Ford, who delivered the rabid and insolent speech in the Know Nothing Convention at Philadelphia, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor; and Mr. Breckenridge, an avowed free-soiler, was nominated for Supreme Judge. Mr. Chase, in accepting the nomination, spoke thus :

Gentlemen of the Convention.-- I know, full well, that it is not from any merits of mine that I have been nominated. While he conceded that there were many men in the State better qualified than himself to uphold the banner of freedom, he yielded to none in devotion to the cause of freedom. The judgements of the platform adopted, were his judgements.--- He summed up his creed on the subject of slavery in one single word. Denationalization--let the general government exercise its legitimate influence on the side of freedom. He had in years past expressed definite opinions, and they stood now unchanged. The sentiments to which he gave utterance in his speech against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise were those he held now.

He was willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with all men who would stand by him in the great battle now about to be fought. It would be the fault of his head and his health if he did not go as far as the farthest, and as willing as the most willing, in the advocacy of the principles adopted by that Convention. He considered that within the sacred limits of the Constitution there was scope and verge enough for the action of the sincerest Anti Slavery men. He would be toward the South just and generous. He expressed his deep and unfeigned gratitude for the honor conferred upon him, and concluded by hoping that the time might soon arrive when the sun in his course over this Continent would find with his beams no slave.

Such is the delectable hatch which the fusion of Know Nothingism and Abolition, serves up in Ohio.