Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-01-26
Governors Message.


stability and growth of our country and its in
s,itutions in contrast with tho revolutionary
eritations of Europe, refers briefly to the rava-
pcs of the cholera, and then passes to an exhib-
Il of the finances Of the State. The total
amount of receipts into the Treasury during the
wear lsIo was $2,5l1,ll9,a7. Disbursements
for ordinary expenses 2,l7e,esl,O4. The bal
ancc, viz: 1884, ,4Ss,33, together with the sum
of S2os, 3l2.OS in the hands of the Fund Com
missioners, has been applied toward cancoling
the State debt. The receipts from the Canals
and Public Works show falling off, compared
with those of the previous year, of $40, 2,ssO,s7.
This is attributed to the failure of the wheat
crop and to the cholera.
A thorough revision of the laws relating to
Schools is recommended The interests of Ag-
riculture arc commended as worthy of particu
lar attention and encouragement. The various
Benevolent Asylums of the State arc in pros
porous condition. The State Prison has been
well managed. The number of pardons during
the year is 5s Whole number in confinement
now, $50.
The work upon the new State House is pro-
crossing as fast as could be expected, the gh
retarded by the prevalence of the cholera in the
Pcnitcntiary.
The militia system has so totally failed that it
would be difficult to find in any portion of the
State a sufficient force to suppress disorder or
enforce civil law. The public arms arc in many
instances scattered in tavorns, or wholly des-
troycd. Those arms cost only the nice little
sum of S602 900 This is decidedly the best
part of the message. The Governor makes no
recommendation save that the Quartemaster
General be authorized to collect and repair the
arms, and deposito them in some place where
they can be safely kept. We would suggest the
bottom Of Lake Eric as the safest place that can
be found.
The duty of the Legislature to provide for
the calling of the Constitutional Convention, in
obedience to the decision of the great majority
of the voters, is mentioned in the briefest posi-
bic terms.
OF the relations Of Ohio to the Union, Slave
ry, &c. the Governor speaks as follows:
This State is one member of great Con-
federation of States, bound together by every
consideration of interest and self-preserva-
ton; regulated by constitution wherein are
defined the rights and powers of each merN-
ber, as well as the rights and power of the
whole, acting as General Government
From the acquisition of new territories, the
area over which this power is to be exer-
cised, has lately been vastly increased and
may be much further extended.
That our present greatness and prosperity
as q nation is the result OF tniS T6niun OF
States, is fact which needs no demonstra-
ton; and that our future prosperity and in
crease of power and influence and happiness
depends upon a firm adherence TO that Union
is a proposition equally clear. BY the pro.
gress of improvements, the distance between
the different sc ~tions of country is compare
lively annihilated, and our interests are more
closely interviewer and assimilated. The
whole Atlantic coast is rapidly becoming
connected with the centre, looking to a-short
period when by the same progressive i'm.
provement, the whole shall be connected
with the Pacific coast.
Thus connected and strengthened ant,
united, not only will our means of national
happiness and power be increased, but the
benefits and influence of our free instihI-
tions be more extended throughout the
world. lie, therefore, who would destroy
weaken or impair this Union, woald be not
only an enemy 10 his country, but to the best
interests of mankind.
Whatever is of the domestic or internal
policy of each separate State, unconnect-
cd with the other members of the part.
nership, belongs exclusively TO the admin
istration of the State Governments. What
ever involves the rights and Interests o.
all the members, belongs TO the General Go
vernment, and each has the right TO be heard
While all the rights of the Slaveholding
States, recognized by the Constitution, should
be rigidly and in good faith maintained, il i;
equally the right aud the desire of the free
States to be exempted from all the evils and
burdens which that institution imposes. Con
sequently, the General Government should
be clear from all responsibility for tho exist.
ence or maintenance of Slavery or any trat.
fc therein. The subject of the extension o
Slavery into the new territories is one of in
tense interest and has for some time agitated
the whole country. The interests of the Free
States, yea, the general interests of the whole
nation-that higher motive, the love of liber-
ty, and the yet holicr claims of humanity and
Justice, all demand that these territories,
whether they remain as such, or be admitted
as States into the Union, shall forever remain
uncontaminated with the blight OF Slavery
That Congress has the power to prohibit sla-
very from being introduced into the terrific
ries of the United States, where il does not
now exist, there can be no rational Doubt
would therefore recommend the passage of
resolutions, pressing upon our delegation in
Congress the propriety and necessity of pas
sing an ordinance forever excluding slavery
from every foot of territory owned by the u
nited Stntes, before any portion thereof shall
he organized and admitted as State.
would also invite your attention to the
subject of the slave-trade in the District of
Columbia. That there should be ever toler-
ated at, or near the Capital of this boosted
free Republic, a system of traffic in human
flesh and blood-a system so revolving that
il cannot be permitted within the borders of
the Slave States themselyes-is blot and a
stigma upon our national escutcheon, and
nuirhf forfhWith 10 be WiDea out 1 would