Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-11

have now seen every department of the General
Government subsidized to the support, spread.
maintenance, and eteruization Of slavery. In
this mad crusade against our dearest, most sacred
and most cherished rights; we have intcrposod our
most earnest remonStrance, and utter ed our most
solemn warning. All UNDECIDED add uncared for
has b3sn tn Vt rom instance and that warning.
This decision, Is undertaken to be enforced,
places us UNNECESSARILY beyond that point where
iorbearance is longer u virtue. Yea, 1t is ques
~tionable whether 1t is not even now q crime against
both man and God. Endeavor to enforce that de.
cision in our State, and IRON the blue waters Of
Lake Erie on the north, to the beautiful Ohm or
the south; from the hills Of Pennsylvania on the
cast, to the plains Of Indiana on the west. but one
voice will be heard echoing and reechoing the wal
cry Of the Reyolution-"Give us Liberty, or give
us Death"
AS an indication of tho purpose of the Genera
Assembly and the People of Ohio, your commit
tee recommend the adoption of the following
resolutions, and the passage of the accompany
ing act.
REVOLUTIONS.
Resolred Jy the General assembly of Me Stat
Of Ohio, /. That this General assembly has OBJ
served with regret that in the opinion lately pro
nounced by Chief Justice fancy, in behalf of a
majority Of the Supreme Court of the United
States. in the case of bred Scott against J. f. III.
Sanford, occasion has been taken to promulgate,
extra judicially, certain doctrines concerning Sla-
very, not less contradictory to well known facts OF
history, then repugnant to the plain provisions OF
the Constitution and subversive of the rights of
Freemen and FREQ States.
2. That in the Judgment of this General As
sembly, every person born within the limits of any
State of this Union, is a citizen thereof, and to
deny to any such person the right OF suing in the
Courts of the United States, in the cases where
that right is guaranteed by the Constitution to all
citizens of the United States, is n pal pabie and un-
W nrrnutoI1p viniation of that sacred instrument.
3. That the doctrine announced by the Chief
Justice, in behalf of n majority of the Court, that
the Federal Constitution regards slaves AS the mere
property and protects the claims of masters to
slaves to the same extent and in the same manner
as the rights Of owners in property, within the
of Free States, during temporary visits or
for purposes Of transit, to the practical consequen-
cs Of which doctrine no Free State can submit
with honor.
4. That the doctrine also announced in behal
Of a majority of the Court, that .here exists no
power in the General Government to exclude Sla-
very from the Territories of the United States,
subverts express provisions of the Constitution,
annuls the just authority of the People OF the
United States over their own territories, and con-
tradicts the whole practice Of the Government un-
der every administration from that of Washington
to that Of Polk.
s.. That, in the PRONUNCIATION of the doctrines
against which we now protest, we recognize the
natural effect of the ascendency of the slave power
in the Supreme Court of the United States secured
by that arrangement OF the Circuits which gives
to the Slave States, with less than one.third of the
Free Population of this Union, five out of nine
Judges, leaving to the Free States, with more than
two thirds of tho Free Population, only four; and
we hereby instruct the Senators and request the
Representatives of Ohio, in the Congress of the
United States to use their best endeavors to obtain
such a modification of existing laws as will secure
to the Free States their just representation in that
Tribunal.