Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-04-05

their best endenvors For the immediate passage OF
an act of Congress admitting Kansas into the
Union Ms n Free State, with such limitation OF
boundaries as by Congress shall be deemed advisa-
BILE; and in case Congress shall not consent to sugh
admission, than to use their best cndeavors 60 Sc
cure the passage of acts enabling the people Of the
Territory to elect their own Governor and other
officers, and fully protect them in tue exercise of
the elective franchise.
FOURTH RESOLUTION.
Resolved, That our Senators IN Congress DO fur
cher instructed, and our Representatives requested,
TO use their best endeavors to secure the passage
of alaI prohibiting slavery in the Territories OF
Kansas and Nebraska, and all territory embraced
by the Missouri compromise, and .e.cstablishing
she original American policy as declared in the
regulation proposed by Thomas Jefferson in 1884,
for the exclusion Of slavery from all territory ced.
ed, and of such other laws as shall best fulfill the
high duty repeatedly acknowledged by the people
of Ohio, of using all the power clearly given by
the terms of the national compact to prevent the
increase, to mitigate and finally eradicate the evil
of slavery. without encroaching upon or in any
way legislating upon the right OF each State to
adopt and modify its own municipal laws, TO regu
late its own internal affairs. and to hold and main
tain its equal and independent sovereignty with
zach and every other State.
Adopted-yeas 81, nays q.
rIFrH RESOLUTION.
Resolved, That the Governor Of this State be
requested to cause a copy Of ,his preamble and
resolutions, properly certified, to be forwarded to
each of our Senators and Representatives in Con
gress, and the Governors Of each State in the
Union.
Adopted without taking yeas and nays.
PREAMBLE.
WHEREAS, The original policy of our country
contemplated no extension of slavery beyorI the
limits Of slave States, and no increase of the Min
Der of such States; and whereas, experience has
sufficiently proved that every departure from hat
policy has been productive of evil only; and " here
as, by the repeal of the slavery prohibition of the
Missouri Compromise the whole question Of slave
ry in its relations to the Union, the States aud the
Territories, has been re-opened; and whereas, the
people of Kansas, deprived of the protection Of
that prohibition, and d~espoiled by armed invasion
OF their undoubted right to elect their own repre-
scntatives, have been compelled to choose between
the alternatives Of resort to the inherent right Of
every community, in the absence of valid la rs, to
provide for its own safety and good order, or sub
mission to the unauthorized edicts of a pretended
Legislature, seeking TO compel the admission of
slavery by appointing its own creatures to all ter
ritorial Offices, whether executive or judicial and by
imposing such restrictions upon the right of suffrage
ut future elections, as will exclude the opponents
of slavery from the polls; and whereas, the people
of Kansas properly adopting the former, have pro-
ceeded to elect a delegate to Congress, and to form
for themselves a State Constitution, with q view to
application for admission into the Union; and
whereas, in the judgment OF this General Assem-
bly,, it is the duty of the Federal Government, and
Of the people of the several States, to unite their
efforts to save the territory of Kansas lrom.thc re.
newal of civil tumult, and from the further shed.
ding of blood. Be it therefore.
Preamble agreed to; yeas SO, nays 20.