The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-26

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Having said thus much upon the conduct Of my paper
say also that my constitutional rights shall never
abandon feel deeply interested In this community ~
deeply Interested n The urospsy State than myself
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My Office and dwelling are undsfendsd, except by the
laws Of my country the sacred nyolabity OF which
conhde myself and property and Of these laws You sre the
You will act however trust that this day shall not be
one accused to our county and state. $1,000.
Thomas F. Marshall esq, submitted the follow
ing address and resolutions; which were unani-
mously adopted:
The people of the city of Lexington and county
of Fayette, together with many hundreds from the
adjoining countless assembled in tho city of Lexing-
ton on the 18th August, in pursuance OF general
notice made by the authority Of body of the cit
gems Of Lexington, calling general assembly of The
people, to concert measures for the suppression Of
the farther publication Of the "abolition paper" cali
ed the "True American" having heard the proceed
ings, correspondence and address of the meeting
which called this assembly, approve the same, and
now make and publish to the world this declaration
to vindicate their resolutions and their action.
To have prevented the establishment Of this press
by legal means, would have been impossible There
is regular judicial process by which it could have
been achieved. To have resorted to means like the
present, would have been premature, and perhaps in
defensible. The liberty of the press and the free
dom Of political discussion essential elements Of
our social system. An effort to establish press in
Kentucky, devoted to the discussion of the question
of domestic slavery, and the proprety and practical
bility of emancipation by law, as an individual en-
terprise, might, in this simple view Of the PROPOSE
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probability not prohibited by our laws The pre-
else purpose and principles Of the editor Of the
"True American ~ and the position he meant to as
here in relation to the subject together with the
effect he his principles, and his paper were to pro-
duce upon our peace and our property, were Of
course, at the outset, matters of speculation. After
an experiment of some months, however, there can
he no doubt remaining in this community in rea-
ton to any of these particulars.
The institution of slavery existed in portion of
the States Of this Union before the adoption Of the
federal constitution, by force of the municipal
situations of the particular States. The institution
itself is clearly recognised and guaranteed by the
ticles Of the Union and left where it found,
der the exclusive control Of State governments and
laws. In the enumeration of the people, three-ffths
of the slaves included the basis of federal rep
resentation, and direct taxation upon the several
States 10 subjected TO the apportionment. Fu-
gitive slaves must be rendered up upon claim of the
master, Notwithstanding the law of the State into
which they escape may not recognise the relation.
The United States shall guaranty every State
against domestic violence, upon application Of the
legislature or the executive; and shall provide for
calling forth the militia to suppress instructions.
These are ameng the securities taken by the slave
States in the national consttutonnot only that they
not to be disturbed, but that they were to be
protected in this property, by the national arm and
authority.
A formidable party has arisen within few years
in the United States, who seek actively and practi
cally to disturb these guarantees to change the
sttution in relation to some of them, and who deny
its palpabe import to fearful purposes its
powers in relation to others
They aim ut the abolition of slavery in America;
and halt not at the means. They are organized,
tive united in pursuit Of this object and desperately
fanatca They have found their way into the ma
tiona legislature, and already exercise threatening
influence there. They command powerful press
burning zeal, commanding talent, and large amount
Of political influence and moneyed capital They
scout the idea Of gradual emancipation or COLOMBIA
ton. They treat the institution equally opposed
to religion, morals, and law. They maintain that
the negro slave here is American born, enti-
tied to the full benefits and blessings of republican
freedom, under the Declaration of Independence,
which freed all of American birth. They maintain
for him the right of insurrecton, and exhort him to
its exercise, and, with Internal subtlety, claim
that the power conferred upon Congress to 'ssup-
press insurrections,' gives to that body, in which
the free States have now so overwhelming prepon-
derance the right to remove the cause by abolishng
slavery. That servile war becomes, by force of
this clause, national affair, Ind be settled upon
any terms under the national discretion. With this
party, believe, from the fullest evidence Of which
the nature Of the case is susceptible the editor ofhe
"True American"to be connected by sympathy of
opinion, burning and fanatical zeal, and concert Of
effort. With his speculative opinions, we presume
not TO interfere; with his practical exertons, our
midst, to disturb the settled order Of our domestic
life To ndame to discomfort and to rebellion our house
hold slaves we have the most direct and incontesta-
BILE connection. In proceeding by force and with
out Judicial process, to arrest the action Of free
ctzen TO interfere in any degree with his private
property; and if the necessity of the case and the
desperation Of the man require it, to proceed to ex-
tremities against his person, we owe il to our own
fame, and the good name of our community, to set
forth the facts, upon which arises in justifca-
ton the highest Of all lawsthe law Of sel-defence
and preservation from great and manifest danger and
injury.
Before the editor Of the "True American had
established his press in Lexington, or made his cell
ebrated visit to the North, he had corresponded
with the New York Tribune, leading abolition
paper, In certain letters his signature some of
the leading and most dangerous principles Of the
sect were avowed and defended. The abolition Of
slavery in the District Of Columbia--the exclusion
of the threefths of the slave population in the APP
portionment of representation by a change in the
constitution, thereby weakening still farther the
slave States uponth the floor of Congress-the exclu-
sion Of Texas from the Union, in pursuit of which
object he avowed himself ready to take up arms
the ensting the whole force of the
10 Kentucky against slave property, and thus for
cling change in the constitution of the State were
among the means and instruments relied upon by
him for efecting the entire abolition of slavery in
America. In one Of his letters, he anticipates from
the abolition Of slavery in Kentucky, and some other
of the western States, by the means above noticed,
and the exclusion Of Texas, that the slave popula-
ton will be crowded upon the planting States to
such an extent, that abolition, If not voluntarily
achieved by law, will be forced by war Of colors
exterminatng one or other of the races--in either
event, (and the editor seemed TO contemplate either
with equal serenity terminating in that universal
liberty so fercely sought. Holding these opinions,
and after visiting the northern Cities and being re-
ceived there in full communion by the abolition par
y caressed and aattered and Toasted, hailed in the
stages Of his triumphal progress by discharges Of
cannon, and heralded in the papers devoted to the
cause as the bOdes the n,oet intrepid the roost de-