The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-04-16
NUMBER 80.
Is al ifitn
speech Of Mr.. Marsh of PrebIe.

on the 1917 aug 01 march, 1857, on the
zJofioaoing p, ezna5te and resolution offered
by Mr.. Kelley, To- acit: - z,.s-
"WHEREAs. the Supreme Court. of the
United States, have in their late. decision
in the case of Dred Scott, virtually deei.
ded that the owners of slaves NAV BRING
and send them into States where slavery
is prohibited, and still retain their owner
ship in such slaves, which decision. in eff.
feet, declares that slavery may exist in.
this and ether fee States; and whereas it.
is deemed essential to The welfare of this
State, that slayerybe utlerlyexcluded from
It's limits, therefore. ss S@ ...e.s
1Resolped, That the standing commits
tee on Federal Relations, be instructed to-
inquire whether any, and if any, what leg
islation is required to prevent the intro
duction of slavery into this State; and that
said committee report by bill or other
wise
Mr.. PRESIDENT: | will briefly say to
our democratic brethren on the other side.
of the chamber,.that " bile their platform
ayows the fact that the only "sound and
safe solution Of the slavery question" is
non-interference with slavery in the States
or Territories or in the District of Colum-.
bia, and out Of which Mr. Buchanan said
he would not remove one plank, confrm-
by his inaugural and sanctioned by the
recent decision Of a majority, Of The United
States Supreme Court in the Dred Scott
case. we have and continue to maintain
the national principle Of mon interference
with freedom in all the free States and Ter
ritories.' You have cut loose from the
Constitution which declares that the
United States shall guarantee to each
State in this Union a Republican form of
government" t." and from all your antece-
dents, national and State, virtually saying
that the trainers of the Constitution, the
ordinance of 1897 and all subsequent sim
liar acts, were wrong. IN short, that
Washington, Jefferson. Jackson, Van Bu-
rem and Polk, all Of whom approved and
signed ordinances or territorial bills pro-
hibiting slavery in the Territories, did not
understand the Constitution; were igno-
rant. total1g igaoraza Of the rights of the
Shareholder, and therefore violated that
instrument, and that the wise men who
adopted the Kansas Nebraska bill and the
Cincinnati Platform were its true expoun-
ders. I desire to say to my Democratic
friends that sanding upon the record as
you now do. giving to Slavery under the
national constitution the right to go into
the Territories unrestricted::and unmolest-
ed. in defiance of any law of Congress.
and protecting. it there by the national
arms, and he national treasury, you must
blot out your record, both in Congress
and out of Congress, in your National and
State conventions. in the Legislature of
Ohio, in all Of which You have repeated
ly declared it as your firm resolve, in
conformity to the pnnclpies and practice
of the Democratic. party, to carry out the
purpose prohibiting Slavery in the ter
ritores, aud stand forth as the advocates
of the political dogmas Of the South, in
throwing the flag of the Republic around
its introduction into the territories; and
there you must strnd and be ranked
among the propagandists of Slavery, as
willing to let the 1900 Shareholders
of the South, with their three millions
of human chattles,-control not only the
destinies of twenty three millions of free
men but the vast free empire Of land
west of the Father of waters, and which
as yet is but partially contamina-
ted with the accursed tyrant sin;which.
like the usurper, adopts no lule but obe-
dience to his behests, Acknowledges no
equality butthat which gives him suprema
acy, and in the execution of his purpose
neither hesitates nor halts, until success
crowns the effort, and he in the plentitude
Of power, in defiant menace, sits en-
throned upon the ruins of the proud
temple of civil, religious, and political
equality, paralizing the arm of mechanics
al, agricultural and commercial enterprises
and prostrating every energy and ambi-
ton. but that which is fostered and ern-
braced in his own polluted household:
Until You in your sober second thoughts
return at the doctrine Of the fathers of the
Republic, and learn again to repeat with
sincerity the language of James Buchan-
an, in 1848, as follows: 'sHaving urged
the adoption of the Missouri Compromise,
the inference isirresistible, that Congress.
in myopini6n, possesses the power to legis-
late upon the subject of slavery in Terri
tories. What an absurdity it would be,
then. if while asserting this sovereign
oowerin Congress. which powermustfrom
fts nature be exclusive, / should, in the
same breath. also claim this Identical
power for the population of territory
in an unorganized capacity In conclu
sion | desire to reiterate and reafirm
every sentiment contained in my Berks