The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-03-25
THE UNITED srATEsssUPREmE
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THE UNITED srATEsfsUPREmE
COUNT.
This body has suddenly falfon int,
contempt with Tho Republican party.
Until very recently. it was the only
branch Of the Federal Government emit
tied to their regard. 1t was especiali,
venerated for lis conservatism--its arts
tocratical organization and practices
its high-hauded usurpations--its lati
tudinarian constructions-its bulls
against the sovereignty of States, andthe
wholesome checks which it imposed up.
on equal and coordinate branches of the
government, that wore called into exis-
tencc by, apd responsible to, the Peo-
pie.
But now, presto what a change, in
the twinkliRg of an eye. Their OK is
gored And we find ALFRED KELLEY,
the great embodiment of all that is con
sentative, of all hat is pious, of all that
is wise md honest in finance and morals,
proposing to a~nnihilate tho Supreme
Court Of the United States, in the fol-
lowing resolutions, which he has intro
dueed into the Ohio Senate:
UHereas, The Supreme Court of the
United States have in their late decision
of the case Of bred Scott virtually de-
cided that the owner of slaves may bring
or send them into states where slavery
is prohibited, and still retain their own
ership in said slaves, which decision, in
effect declares that slavery may exist in
this, and other free States-and,
Whereas, 1t is deemed essential TO
the welfasAuef this Statc=that slavery be
utterly excluded from its limits; there
fore,
Resolved, That the Standing Com
mittss on Federal Relations be instruct
ed to enquire whether any, aud, if any,
what legislation is required to prevent
the introduction of slavery into this
State. and that said Committee report
by bill OF otherwise.
Now, VIC don't claim to be much of a
lawyer-that is, q " Biackstun'' lawyer
albeit, we did once exercise the ardu-
Gus duties of judge of the Supreme
Court ia Grecnsburg Township, Putnam
county, /" and Stats aforesaid'-yet we
have the hardihood to make issue with
Mr.. KELLEY on tho positions of his rcso
buttons. The Court has not decided what
the whereases" alIego, and hence the
assumptions arc absurd. The opinion
of chief justice TANEY will be found on
the fourth page Of this paper, and to it
we invite the readers attention. If we
cannot fully coincide with " our broth
or" TANEY in all his positions, We
must be permitted to say, upon our re-
sponsibilities as an ex judge, that his
opinion is much nearer the Constitu-
tional line tban that held by the faction
which is built upon the idea that the
whole design of the makers of the Fe-
derai Constitution was to perpetuate
power in the hands of a Banking or kim
dred aristocracy, and TO confer upon the
African equal social and political rights
with the white laborers of this QUA
try.
It is only a few months since that this
Same Federal Court, on a question grow
ing out of a Bank rebsllion against the
Constitution and laws of Ohio, took
sides with the Banks, ~expuuged the
Constitution, and insulted the dignity
and sovereignty Of the State. Where
was ALFRED KELLEY then? Oh, on his
iron-heeled boots, rejoicing with a Nero
ex~ultation over the muiilated Coustitu-
tion and insulted sovereignty of his
State-because il was his Banks-hiS
pets-that had then achieved the tri-
But now a class of his idols
are violently thrown down. He is
suddenly disturbed in his negro-worship,
and seeks redress by an attempt to
up the broken fragments of a
State sovereignty, and enter into a CON
test with the Supreme Court of the
United Statesl May he BIO as success
full as the People of Ohio were in their
resistance of the decree of the oligarchy
in silk gowns. Go it, Mr.. KELLEY