Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-02-23
Tbe Anti 9lapsrp BuaIc.
SALEM, ono, FTBRUARr 90, 1856.
THE FANATICS OF SALEM-TEE DIS.
UNION PETITION.

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The following or something like it is tho notice
which some Of the newspapers give Of the recent
presentation Of the Disunion Memorial to the Ohio
Legislature:
SENATE.-A memorial of the fanatics of Salem
Coluubiana county, in favor of the dissolution Of
the Union. was presented and referred 10 the Com
mittee on Federal Relations.
Many of the notices we have seen represent the
memorial as q mere local affair emanating from q
few individuals in Salem. Whereas it issued from
the Executive Committee of the Western Anti
Slavery Society whose members and friends, SYM.
p~athizing with the opinions Of the memorial, are
scattered over the whole State, We only wisl
it TO be understood that the fanatics" who would
have signed this memorial had the opportunity
offered, are not confined to Salem. But as with.
out much labor the individual signatures of dis.
uniouists could not be had it was thought hes,
that it should emauate from the Committee which
had been selected by them to represent their views
and seek to extend them during the present year.
Last week when our paper went to press, we
had not seen any notice of the action Of the SEN
ate on the memorial sent to n member of that
body, hence our silence in regard to it. On Satur-
day the 9th inst, Jonas D. Cattell, to whom the
memorial had been sent presented it to the Senate.
There, as in the House, it was referred to the Com
mittee on Federal Relations and before the Senate
took a recess, @. p. Brown, Of Pc rtage county
Chairman Of the Committe, made the following
Report;
Report Of the Commite on Federal Relations.
The Committee on Federal Relations, to whom
was referred the memorial on behalf of the West
fern AnfLsln yprV NOpIpty D nNipn. q dissolution %
the Union, respectfully submit the following
report
Your Committee have given all the considera.
ton to the subject of the Memorial that its impor-
lance demands. They are free to admit that the
Federal Government, like all human Governments,
has its imperlec.ions, and that those who administer
it are MT i~nfallible. Still, your Committed be
lIeve that in its principles and works it approx.
mates more nearly to a realization of the wants af
mankind than any one that has preceded it, and
much more nearly than any one that would DC
likely to rise upon its ruins.
Your Committee take pleasure in saying that
there IS no considerable portion of the people of
Ohio who indirectly sYmpathize with the purpose
of the memorialists. Loyalty to the confederacy
OF these States, and untaltering alherencc to the
obligations OF the Federal Constitution, are pre.
dominating characteristics Of our people. That
though they are not Indifferent to the great ques-
ton of human liberty, they believe it is the part of
wisdom to retain in its purity the political, religious
and social privileges which we now en-
and extend those privileges to the whole hn-
man family as fast as n due regard to the rights of
all parts Of the confederacy will permit.
Tor these, and n variety of reasons that might
be stated, your Committee, in the most decided
and e~ulpha:ic manner, condemn the reasonable
Of the memorialists, and ask to be dis.
from the further consideration of the
Signed, O. p. BROWN Com. on