Selections: Whig Anti-texas Convention In Ohio

We have seen no allusion, in the eastern Whig papers, to the doings of the Whig convention in Portage county, at Ravenna, March 29. The Liberty Herald has a sketch of the proceedings, from which we make the following extract. - A fier two or threo speeches from otlier gentlemen, the Hon. D. R. Tildk.v, M. C, took the floor. He gave a britf survey of the conslitutional argument, and , the history of the Texas villany, and tijen turned to the question, What shall be done? ''Every eye was turned to him with intense interest, when lie observed - that íbr himself, he had come to the determination, that while he abandoned none of his Whig principies, heshould henceforward makc up no issue except upon the great question of slavcry, until the slavc ■power teas pul doion. President Polk has receded very far from his former position on the tariff" - ho regarded the question substantially settled, and might now be safely left and no longer be as a party question. He intended, himself, and should use all his influence to have the Whig party take such high ground that Liberty men could have no excuse fornot uniting with them. He believed the thing to be practicable, and the Reserve the place to commence the eifort. The Whigs here could be brought up to the point, and they could control the whole party; for,as go the Whigs oí the Reserve, so must go the Whigs of the State, and as go the Whigs of Ohio, so must go the Whigs of the Union, or render defeat certain, and he was confident they would choose the former. H is mind had become so exciled on the subject during the winter, by seeing the determinaron of slaveholders to fight for slavery agninst Providence itself, that he was determined to pucsue the course .he had marked out, should noother Whig join him. Amidst deep interest and profound silence, Mr. Tilden sat dovn, when a high pressure Whig jumped up and declared that he had rather be defeated every four years and die fighting, than give up one inch of ground. This called íbrth a burst of applause, which, considering that no approbation had been given of Mr. Tilden's excellent speech, was quite a damper upon the feelings of those whose sympathies were with him; and gave pretty conclusive evidence that he had rather taken them by surprise - that for his position they were not prepared." Some resolutions were then reported by the committee. of an indefinte and cautious tenor, exhorting all men to oppose Texas, and to try to repeal the Ohio black laws, but the ouly pledge to do any thing, was,Resolved, That os Whigs we pledge ourselves to each other and to our brothren tbroughout tho country, to maiutain our organization and support those principies of eeonomy, integrity and justice in lhe administraron of the general and State governmenls, for which we have hilherto contended. That is, whatever else thcy ma}' door leave undone, or wfiatövèr others or the VVhig party may door leave undone, eiiher in regard to Texas, slavery, or lhe black laws, they are PLEDGED to stick to the Whig party, and lo iis old issues - of which slavery or arinexation is not one! Thetrue Liberty partyï The acknowledged objoct of these demonstrations and displays, is to get abolition Mr. Tilden sa ys he means to bring the Whig party to "take such high ground that Liberty men could have no 1,0 excuse for not uniting with them." - There's the whole story. The Whig leaders know, with absolute certainly, that they can never rise to power unless they get the abolition vote. It is therefore a matter of life and death with them. ïï they were to abandon ihis object, they might as well disband at once. Henee they are under an absolute compulsión to go as far as may be necessary to secure that vote. They cannot and do not think of stopping short of that. They mean to have that vote in 1848, COST WHAT ITMAY. Markthatl At the same time, they do not mean to go n hairs' breadth larther thon so as just to secure íhat vote. Abolition is no part of the policy or principie oí the VVhig party. As the champion of "things as they are," ns advocates of the right of property, as conservative,the natural sympathy of the Whig party is with the slaveholders. The exorbitance of the slaveholders, & the need of abolition votes have led the northern Whigs todo many things in favor of" the right of petition, and some other questions that have got mingled in with abolition; but they are very careful to give no pledge and do no act that shnll even by implication countenancc the charge that the Whig party has any designo in favor nf aholition. Let onc factbe shown contrary to this. How large a portion of tlie leading Whigshave favoredthe right of pelition expressly on thc ground lliat to grant it will be to kill abBut the policy which we have pointed out, becomes more and more difíicult and desperate, wiih each new dovelopment of the growth, firmness atid indomitableness oftlie organized nntislavery host called the Liberty party. "In unión is strengt!)," to us, and in our unión isdeep perplexity to the VVhigs. Under these circumstances, and io certain localities, individuals iré allowed oren couraged to go greater engths than ever before, in loud declaraions of determinedhostility toslavery. - These, it is supposed, will enable these ndividuals to secure office by the help of liiberty votes, and will keep large numjers of abolitionists in a state of betweenty and irresoluteness during the current hreeyears, so that, in 1848, the party :harm may ogain be made to opérale upn them, to vote for slaveholders and men selected by the slaveholders, for the high affices of the nation. Henee the perfect 'reedom which is given to such men as Mr. Tilden to speak against slavery, and' evento pledge himself to make slavery the only issue, while they keep him in the trommels of the party, and make him unite in the only pledge of action, which is, to stick to the party orgnnization. We do not at all imply by this, that Mr. Tilden was nsincere in his declarations. No matter how sincere and in earnest he may be, the managers of the meeting feel perfectly secure; his declarations in his speech are only the words of an individual, and may hereafier mean any thing or nolhing, whilo the public pledge to stick to the party is a recorded act, and may go to the South as a guarantyoftheir fidelity to the party in all