The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-10-03
Mr.. Chase's Confession of Politi-
cal Faith--His Ultra Abolition
and Disunion Sentiments.

and Disunion Sentiments.
We are indebted to our contemporar,
of the Cozum5iaa for an Interesting
and most important historical remini
scence connected with the antedents o
Salmon P. Chase, y hichproves him, be
yound all controversy, to be an ultr,
disunion Abolitionist of the blackes
stripe. In the Cincinnati Morni,s1
Herald, an Abolition sheet published
in this city, of the date Of September 9
1854, an article appeared, over the ini
tials of Salmon P. Chase, entitled
The Liberty Mans Creed" These ar
ticle was regular confession of faith
stating, explicitly and definitely, what
the writer believed in, SO far as nation
al politics were concern. From this ar
ticle of Chase's we make the following
extracts, in order to show its teuor:
| "I believe that wherever tho United
States acquires, by cessions of particular
States or foreign nations, any territory
whatever, in which slavery may exist,
that the Jurisdiction of the ceding State
or nation ceases at the moment of cession
and that slavery, being thenceforth des-
titute of the support Of positive law,
ceases also, and cannot be reestablished
or continued by Congress without a
manifest violation of the Constitution.
/" 1 believe that slavery in the District
of Columbia and the Territory of Flori-
da, and in all the States created out of
any Territory of-the United States is an
Unconstitutional
{" I believe that the clause in the Con-
stitution which allows to the slave hold
ers of the original States a representa-
tion in Congress for three-ffths of their
slaves is altogether anti-republican, ex-
tremely dangerous to the liberties of the.
people, and ought to be abrogated by
an express amendment of the Constitu-
tion.
"I believe the Offices of Goyernment
ought to be filed by non Shareholders,
known as true friends of equal and i'm
partial jystice to all men and that the
policy of this Government should be
directed to the establishments of liberty,
the procuring and extension of markets
for free labor. and to the discountensrc-
ing ofevery form of oppression.
I'll believe that whenever Liberty
men shall obtain the control of Congress
all laws for the maintenance of slavery
in the District and in Florida, and for
the special encouragement of slave la
Dor, will be repealed that the coast
wise aud interstate slave trade will be
prohibited; and that resolutions declar-
ing slavery unconstitutional in al new
States created out of Territories, and
recommending to the legislators of the
ariginal States the abolition of slavery
within. their respective limits, will be
adopted.
II believe that whenever the judici-
ary of the United States shall cease to
be the creature Of the slave power, and
the Judges shall receive their appoint
ments from Liberty President and
Senate, slavery will be declared to be
in the District, in Flor
ida, and in all States created out Of Ter
ritories.
believe that slavery in the United
States will not survive the accession of
the Liberty party to power a single
year. r.''-Sazmoa p. Chase.
It will be seen from the aboves that
Mr.. Chase lays it down as fundament-
al proposition that slavery in all the
States createdsout of territory of the
Of the United Statessis unconstitutional.
This being SO, he would, of course, take
national measures to have the institution
abolished in Arkansas, Missouri, Florida
and other States which have been formed
put of national territory. He is in favor
of repeating that great compromise of
The Constitution which relates to the
,hree-ffth basis of slave representation
n Congress, and without this the Gov
,rument would not have been formed
he believes in excluding all men who
lold slaves from any participation in the
fairs of the GoTernment He believes !.
hat Congress should prohibit the citi-
ems of slave States from taking slaves !
cross their borders into another State,
ither by vessels along the coast or by
and. He believes in Congress passingi
esolutions interfering with slavery in the
riginal States, in the form of a recon-
lendation to abolish it. He believes !
hat when our Abolition Supreme Court
f the United States is chosen, it will
eclare slavery unconstitutional in all :.
be States that have been,erected out of !:
United States territory, and that the in !,
tisution throughout the whole Union
would not survive the accession of the
liberty party to power a single year :
'hese sentiments of Chase, expressed,
leyen years ago, in the most formal and !,
olemn manner, are his sentiments still. :, :,
Tpon no occasion has he retracted or :
lodifed them, but, on the contrary, in g
is speech in the United States Senate g
! 1850, he ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS them
If course, no man possessing particle
sense or a grain of honesty viii deny
lat Chase, ,screed is disn,aion one; and
lust lead directly to the subversion of h,
le sConfederacy. This point is too r