The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-03-21
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officers and other persons acting under
the authority of the Emitted States ae-
quilted himssH with evoa more than
usual talent. We subjoin an cxtrast
I say The Seuater hns raised here, n
the Senate GLambersthe standard of re-
belliou against the Constitution of his
country against tile law of the land /;
tagainss=the Observation-Disclosures
ties Of the Republic. He says he is
ready for the conflict which this bill. is
to produce a ieonfict which he tries to
bring about between the Federal aud
IS ate=anthoritics@S Etrustthat that
conflict is never to come. IF it does
I come,I shall ehdeaver to perform my
+dnty=asa =citizeaTan COR
sist in maintaining every right which a
Sovereign State possesses within the
scope of our complex system of govern
meut.ZIa am asStatex Rights maH.EI
would not aHowthisg Federal eGoyera1
to- invade CaayOne of the rights gof the
State nor, on the-other hand, would l
advise m cdnstituents toraisethehaEd
of violence against the Federal Gensti-
tuition. The line sof 4demarcatiop, be-
tween State and Federal jurisdiction is
so clear that in this case there is no
necessity and every little excuse, for
a misunderstanding upon the point =
Now, sir, | know that in some guar
tiers it is f~ashionable,i in these days to
justify resistance to law, and rcpudia-
ton of constitutional authority, AID of
conscientious obligations, under the veil
of humanity, towards the black man.
l have often had OCCASION to. say that
ALL the objections which any person
1~rcally sentertains to the fugitive Slave
law is that IT, sends the negro back to
his master, wherc-he is held TO service
under the laws of the State,
IF have never yet fo1ld an Abolition-
ist whose objection to the law did not
I~consist in the fact fiat it sent the slave
back tothis master. If that be the OBJ
lection 1 wish it to be borne in mind
that The objection is not to the law, Bat
to the Conytutioa Of sthe country for
the Constitution says he shall be dcliy-
cred Up, any thing in the Constitutions
or the laws'of, any State TO the contrary
notwithstanding:
7opFhe provision is: } Prs
"No person held to service or labor
in one State, under the laws thereof,
Escaping into another, shall, in conse-
quence Of any Law, therein, be discharg-
ed from suchservfce or labor, but shall
be adclirercd up"
PlnThen sir, if a man desire. to be faith
fuFto a compact between the States,
faithful to that great palladium of our
4ibertics-the Copstitution-which rec
oguIscs all our rights, all he has to do
is to execute the Constitution aud the
laws enacted for the purpose of Carrying
it out. '1f.a mans cohscionce viii not
allow him to be faithfulto TIE Constitu-
ton and the laws, as an hohest man he
is bound to proclaim himself at once a
disunionist; and. by ~dissolving the
Union, absofve Himself instantly from
those obligations which bad him to
surrender up the fugitive slave. The
moment my conscience, will not allow
me to be faithful to the Constitution, /
will refuse to degrade myself, or perjure
my soul by coming here and, for lthe
sake Of scat in the Senate, swearing
that I Will be faithful to the Constitp-
ton, when I intend to violate and re-
pudiate it. [AnpIause in the galleries.
Sir let US deal with this question fairly
and directly. Ether the Constitution
muss b. obeyea, or those opposed toit,as
hoHest men Should declare that they
viii not o5.y it, but desire to dis ;olve
the Union, and release themselves from
the Obligations which it imposes. L
that be the issue in the approach OF
which the Senator from Ohio rejoices
[ am prepared to meet him.
And, Sir, l find nothing IN the rebuke
to which the Senator alluded SO taunt-
ingIy in the State election to deter me.
from meeti G the issue boldly and di-
rectly, What is that Issue of which he
speaks Was the result OF the recent
elections a manifestation of the deter
minatienro of the people of the free States
that the Constitution should not be car
ricd out, 50 far as it relates to the coa=
dition of fugitive slaves (? Vas that the
issue, or was it the Nebraska. bill was
wrolg?. Or was it the Ma;ne Gq1or Law
ought to b. passed. or it that men
born in a foreign land Should be pro
scribed because Of the place of their
birth; or that, whereYe; born, tHey.
should be pres ribed if their religious
op Unions did not ~LarlAo@ize with those.
Sir. It is fashionable to talk about
anti-Nebraska triumph in the free
States but [ Should, like to know a
man in any free State Of this Union
whom the anti-Nehraska men have cleo
ted to either House of Congress- who
was not elected by the Know othings?
I askan Senator present to, point me
Ito a man oftAem who did not receive
the Know Nothing vote Will the
Senator from Massachusetts, Nj. Will
som say that 1t was anti, Nebraskaisp
that sent HIM here? Was it the anti
Nebraska feeling that beat every anti
Nebraska member in misunderstanding
was a candidate for re-clectiGn? This
is one of the anti-N ebraska victosies
which are spoken of, where a whole del
egation, are rallying themselves under
the black banner of Abolitionism, and
fighting Nebraska, were all swept away,
and another delegation, under a similar
black banner, arc to come in their
place Is that one OF these glorious
victories at which the Senator from
Ohio rejoiccs ? Isl ar
Sir CHARLES NAPIER.-It is said that
when SIR CHARLES NAPIER returned to
England and presented himself at the
Admiralty, he was ushered into the
presence, and the first Lord rose ard
offered the Admiral his hand, SIR