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The bred Scott Case in tho Ohio Legs.
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tons relative to the recent decision ofthe Su.
preme Court Of the United States, in the Drel
Scott case:
Your Committee submit that so Ear as they are
able to comprehend the force and effect ofsaid de-
cision, it. among other things, uationalizes Slave.
~, annililaies the heretofore conceded right Of
the free States to inbabit that institution; asserts
that there is no power in Congress or the people
Of the United States or Of the Territories, to ex.
elude slavery; sanctions the mOnstrOus propositions
that man can hold property in man; shuts the
courts Of justice to hundreds Of thousands Of natiye
born citizens assumes that the black man has no
civil rights; and dooms every foot Of soil to the
cuIseof Slavery, aud that irrevocably.
Your committee assert that this case has no
parallel in wickeduess in the history of the world.
Yerus was contented to lay waste a few insiguifi-
cant provinces; this decision deals with a nation,
yea, an entire race.
1t imbrutes and ishumanizes the race, and with
a sublime touch Of Vandalism, it ruthlessly strips
human beings of rights God.given, and hand
them over to be Geyoured by human beasts Of
prey.
Such now is declared by the highest Judicial
tribunal. in the land, to bet be mission Of the Cons
titution of the United States.
Ifso, better far that it had never been written.
This decision, however, is contrary to all precon-
ceiyed notions Of that instrument.
The union Of the States under tue Federal com
pact, has heretofore been regarded as a combina-
ton of so many Independent soyereignties for fixed
purposes and definite objects. States upon enter
ing the confederation, were not supposed to have
surrendered any of their local rights as independ-
ent Governments.
These they are cautiously reserved. They dele
gated to the General Government certain powers
believed to be in harmony with their reservations,
The Object to be attained was not a strong, over
shadowing central government, which should
efrace State lines and obliterata State institutions
but one which should e~lfectually secure to al!
these States, security from foreign aggressions, i'm.
munity from domestic divisions, aud protect, fos'
ter cherish and perpetnate civil and religious IIOer,
ty, and tue rights oil all mankind lne'e as old
as the Constitution, are all IL de'a''' dl's'Pa'ed by
said decision.
1t becomes us then as citizens of Ohio, calmly
yet firmly to take our position ana aOlde Tue con-
sequence.
If we tide out the storm, well; II we 60 down.
better thus than tame submission to such consum-
mate wickedness, Thre} times-once by the ord
nance Of B7' once by the Constitution oil A. ~
l0V2, ana once Oy our P'eSfu' cohs''"''o"- ""S
the territory OIL our o'"'e O9en forever oo"''''''e'
to tretdom' No"' however, We !o"r" '"'' '"0''
instruments were c"o"'' " '''"''O"' "'u " "V'0
rope OF s'nd'
We learn tia. our own Ohio, instead ct beng
in fact a free, is in effect a Slave State. The
mighty sin against God, and the giant wrong a.
gainst man contemplated by that decision, must
not and shall not be consummated in Ohio.
1t attempts to force upon us an institution, ha'
ted, loathod, and e~xecrated by the whole civilized
world, and by no portion of the earth with a dee
per and moro abiding detestation and adherence
than by the people of our State.
rn, ,oo anI vo,oor or Ohio yocard Slavery
-. - ,,fn
Win " loa'n'hS WHICH no "o'uo !e' o""e W"
express. This aceursed institution may De plant
cd upon soil, and interviewer with our institutions
hrt not until avery valley. every plain and every
Ian ,no !, ,ollona1 w;L tbo h,ool and whitehead
n"' ''u0 - ''"00r'U W" WV T'0' L,aLanIs
WIN Tue oone' Vi o' '0"'' o'0'"''' N""'
and fathers.
e,o,rIr 70 ,bo South and THAR Nortb.rn obet-
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tors We say III a" N'uoneS'' ,i' IL ""' ""o
than one decision Illuminated Oy Il Jesu'Vca' Oa'h'
Ollie Judge, to conquer a flee protestant people,
Wa NAV he depriyed of the ability and power to
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