The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-01-11

allowing slavery to 20 into Kansas, or elsewhere
upon soil now free. They have deliberately rejte
rated their condemnation OF the Mssousl restriction
and of those OF their public servants who yielding
to the demand of the slave power gave the measure
their support. They have condemned the barbarous
policy pursued in Kansas. Their sympathies are
awake to the trying and destitute situation OF their
brethren there. And l have the fullest confidence
that some measure authorized by the constitution,
calculated to relieve their necessities, TO animate
their hopes and to sustain their efforts will meet
the hearty appreciation of our constituents, That
emigrants from Michigan, thus situated in a
federal Territory, are beyond the reach OF
our protection i cannot for moment con-
cede. Under the federal constitution we can
not perhaps raise and arm men to protect them,
nor is such step contemplated or desised
But the right to minister 20 their wants, in food,
clothing, and other necessary means the right to
protect them from tie rigors of winter, and the
horrors of beegary and starvation. to which I'M
brded audacity, snd unpublished crime under
the ironical names OF 'aw and ORDER" have ex
posed them, cannot be doubted. l therefore reco n
mend the adoption of such measures of relief, as
in your wisdom you may think fitting the occasion
and worthy of the residents of State whose soil
was consecrated to freedom by the ordinance of
1887.
had the hooor of transmitting to our Senators
in Congress, the resousions OF Instructions which
were passed on the 26th January, 1856, respecting
slavery in the Territories of the United States and
the Fugitive Slave law of 1850, and they were by
them presented to the Senate. i regret to say that
although JDey nave HERETOFORE reccpnSeO tne rignt
of legislative instruction, they have not thought
proper thus far to comply with their requirements
Whatever doubt may have been entertained, at the
time of their passage, as to their representing the
deliberate Judgment of the people of this
State, must nave been completely dissipated by
the strong condemnation which has been expressed
of the Kansas Nebraska act and of those who
deemed it their duty to support and sustain it,
at the recent Presidential election. / submit to
your judgment the propriety Of passing similar
resolutions of instruction. and of again placing upon
record the fact. that whatever changes may have
been going on in the minds of individuals or poll
ticiaIs, the people of Michigan still earnestly cling
t. the principles of the ordinance of l7S7-that
they still adhere to their legislative resolutions
Of ls47, so often reiterated since-"that Congress
has the power. and THAI it is their duty to prohibit
by legislative enactment the introduction or exs.
tence of slavery within any OF the Territories OF the
United States. now or hereafter to be acquired"
The character OF States, like that of individuals,
is formed while in state of pupilage Those Ter
rito,ies in which slavery has been prohibited under
the guardianship and protection OF Congress, have
invariably become free and prosperous States; and
whenever that protection has been Withdrawn from
the Territories States have arisen, which are now
suffering from the disgrace and blight of human
bondage.