The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-03-20

Press and tho right Of Suffrage arc MAIN
tanned. Especially should We deem disunion
most untimely. now that tho highest tribu-
nal has-thongh extrn judicially and With
out authority pronounced slavery Ma.
tioual, not q sectional. Institution. making
Il a concern of the nomin,lly Free equally
with tho Slave ates. When this doctrine
Gomez to be positively established hereafter,
Il will DO settled that Slavery must pervnde
and control the whole Union or be expelled
from every parr of it. We have not desired
such An issue but, when 1t Ia made up and
forced upon US by the Slave Power, we shall
mot shrink from II. Disunior involves the
abandonment Of our enslaved countrymcn
to perpetual bondage; we choose not to
desert them.
II We do mean TO make plain TO all our
countrymrn who can read, the iniquity and
euormity Of the bred Scott decision in oil
It's parts. but especially in Its fundamental
denial to the feeble and downtrodden Of any
right Of appeal to the Federal tribunals
By every principle Of righteous jurispru.
dence, the more humble or degraded Oh in.
diyidual or class may be, the more impera.
tive Is the duty Of tho tribunals to hear the
plcadings and assert the right Of such sup
plant or class. We mean to make he
American People perceive and feel that in
Justice to part Is peril to oil, and thai
the refusal TO consider Dred SCOTS prayer
for liberty on the express ground OF his be
ing black man, therefore possessing nc
rights which white men are bound to re.
spect, IL fatal blow at the rights and lib
critics ofall.
III. We mean to show that decision o
the Supreme Court, though formidable, Il
not irreverible. That Court affirmed the
constitutional validity Of the Alien and So.
dition acts, yet the People annullcd those
acts and paid back the penalties impo1et
and 'exacted under them by the Federal Ju
diciary. That Court pronounced q Bani
Of tho United States perfectly constitution
al, yet the People ultimately made contra
~ decision, which prevailed over the Courts
So In Othsr cases. So will 1t be again.
w. We mean to urge and effect q read
,ustment of the basis on which Justices o
the Supreme Court are apportioned. Nov
Six Hundred thousand Free People in
Slave District have equal weight In tho CON
stitution Of that Court with Four Millions
In Free District and Six Millions Of Ere
People in Slave States have moro weigh
than Sixteen Millions in Free States. Thu
is grossly unjust, and cannot I've upheld.
Make the Judicial Districts equal, let Jndg
es be fairly selected thcrcfrom, and tho Dre'
Scott decision will soon he oveiruled ant
etiaced
Y. We mean to create and arouse an en-
Heightened Public Sentiment which shall ul
tiInatsly place the Federal Government, II
all it's departments, IN tho hands OF men WIN
love the Constitution and the Union much
but Liberty, Eternal Justice and the mali
enable Rights Of Man, still more-men VIII
will regard Freedom Us the universal ant
everlasting rule and Slavery US the local an'
transitory exception-men who will CIV
Shylock his pound Of fish," but war;
him in taking it to shed "no drop OF Christ
ian blood"-men who will be rs tenariou
of the rights Of men legally free, like Dire
Scott, as of those permitted by vicious locl
regulations. over which the Nation has M
control, to claim property in the limbs an'
bodies of their fellow.mcn. =,
vi. In short, we mean to prove, by tn
issue of this contest, that Justice is the Law
Of Gods universe, to which all human law
should and must conform. and that patien
waiting and earnest working will eventual.
secure It's triumph.
If there be treason in this, let the Fed
eral District-Attorney hurry up his docu'
ments.