Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-08-04


bly, of the State of Arkansas having taken the
same into consideration have instructed me to
report the accompanying.
j. KrrrREDGE, for the Conn.,
STATE or NEW nANpsnIRE.
Whereas, Ills Exccllency the Governor laid be-
fore the Legislature the following Preamble and
resolutions viz.
Whereas, the right of property in slaves is ex-
pressly recognised by the Constitution OF the Uni
ted States and is, by virtue OF such recognition,
guaranteed against unfricndly action on behalf of
the General Governments; and whereas, each State
in tho Union by tho fact of being party to the
Federal compact is also party to the recognition
and guarantee aforesaid; and whereas the citizens
of each State are in consequence OF such citizen
ship under the most sacred obligations to conform
to the terms and tenor of the compact to which
their State is party; therefore,
"Rcsoved, Be it ordered by the General Assem-
bly of tho State of Arkansas, that the legislation
of Congress repeating the Missouri Compromise
of eighteen hundred and tive 1ty and asserting the
doctrine of non-ntcrlerence with slaves, alike i'll
States and Territories, is in strict accordance with
the Constitution and in itself just and cxpedicnt,
and is, for these reasons, cordially approved by |
tho people of Arkansas.
"Rcsoved, That the opposition of the Northern
States to the legislation above mentioned is at war
with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, is
grossly volative Of plightcd faith and traitorous
blow aimed at tho right of the South and the per
pctuity of the Union.
Resolved That the citizens of the State of
Ohio have pursued a course peculiarly unjust and
odous in their fanatical hostility to institutions
for which they are not responsible; in their en-
couraccmcnt of known felons and endorsement of
repeated and shameless violations OF law and de-
ccncy, and in their establishment OF Abolition
presses and circulation Of incendiary documents,
urging sorve population to bloodshed and ra-
pinc; and by reason of the premises, it is the du-
ty and the interest of the people OF Arkansas to
discontinue all social and commercial relations
with the citizens of said State, and the same is
hereby earnestly recommended as the punishment
of past outrages and a preventive OF further aS-
gressions.
be and he is hereby requested to transmit copies OF
these resolutions to the Governors OF the several
States and Territories of this Union, to be laid be-
fore the Legislative authorities thereof and to our
Senators and Representatives i'll Congress, to be
laid before the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States"
Therefore be it ordered by the Senate and House
of Representatives. in General Court convened, rs
follows:
Resolved That the Legislature of Now lamp
shire expressly and distinctly deny, that the Con-
slution of the United States recognises the right
of property in slaves: and while they admit that
the Constitution confcrs upon Congress no authcr-
ity to Interfere with the subject in the States, they
do claim that from all territory over which Con
grcss have the exclusive power Of legislation, they
may and it is their duty to exclude it, and that the
doctrine of the Slave States, that Congress are
restrained from all action unlricndly to slavery i'll
such territory, cannot be sustained.
Resolved, That the Legislature OF New llamp-
shire entirely disagree with the General Assembly
of tho State of Arkansas respecting the repeal OF
the Missouri Compromise of 1920, and believe
that the repeal of said Compromise was an un-
called for, most gross and wnnton outrage upon
the rights feelings and sentiments of the people
of the Free States, and should be condemned by
every citizen of every State of this Union, as
most pcriilous and trcachcrous violation of pub
lie faith and national honour.
Resolved, That the people of New Hampshire
demand: as right the restoration of said compro
misc and the amendment of the Kansas and Nc
braska bill, so called, as TO exclude slavery
from said Territories, and will never consent to
the admission into the Union of any State formed
out of said Territory with a Constitution tolcrat-
ing slavery.
Resolved, That. while the people of New 1Iamp-
shire are ardcnty and affcctionately attached to
the Union and will do all in their power to pre-
serve it, consistently with their honour and their
rights, they will not, to avoid any crisis, submit to
the introduction of slavery into Kansas and Ne
braska consecrated and set apart to free labour
those Territories have been for more than thirty
years. by the consent of all the States of the
Union.
Resolved, That threats of dissolution of the
Union coming from the slave States, unless they
are permitted to regulate the policy of the General
Government on the subject of slavery, have lost
all their tcrrors, with the people of New llamp-
shire, and that they are resolved to demand and
enforce their rights in every crisis and at any
ritce consistent with honour and the Constitution.
Resolved. That it will be time for the General
Assembly of Arkansas to complain Of the legisla-
tion Of the Free States respecting slavery when
the Slave States shall have corrected their own,
and when the lives, liberty and property of the
people of the Free States shall be made safe there
in
Resolved That the glcston whether it is tho
duty and the interest of the people of Arkansas
to discontinue all social and commercial relations
with the people of Ohio in consequence of conduct
which they disapprove, is one upon which the peo-
pie of New Hampshire not at this time called
to act, and one which they arc willing the people
of Arkansas should settle for themselves, upon
their O,cn responsibility, having no fears that tho
people of Ohio, will be frightened from what they
deem Mer duty or interests, by any threats of the
kind coming from the State of Arkansas or any
other slave State, and that the people of New
Hampshire hereby pledge themselves to the peo
pie of Ohio that they will unite with and sustain
them in all Constitutional efforts to resist tho fur
tbo y aggressons of the Slave Power
o. oyed, That His Excellency the Governor be
~ 10. 'ereby is, requested to transmit copies Of
'a seso, utions to the Governors of the several
and T rrtories of the Union to be laid be
&c tho Leqsl. tive authorities thereof and to oul
Sanotors and Representatives in Congress, to be
laid before the Senase ana House OF hepresenta-
tiyes of the United States
The solset Committee to whom wore referred
certain resolves of tho State of Maine, 'rcatng
10 slavery" have instructed me to report the ac
compan wing Preamble and Resolution
ea MASON w. TArfAN, for the Committee.
Whereas, the aggressive policy which has been
pursued by tho Slave Power, and more especially
the recent wanton abrogaton of timehonoured
Compact, by which vast territory, secured t(
Freedom, has been opened to the curse OF human
slavery, evinces determination on the part o
that Power, at any and every hazard, to acquir
aud hold the supremacy in the Government OF tn
United States to transform this boasted land q