Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-04-10

now a crime against both man and God,--
Endeavor TO enforce that decision in our
State and from the blue waters Of Lake
Eric on the North, to the beautiful Ohio on
the South from the hills Of Pennsylvania
on the East, to the plains Of Indiana on the
West, but ono voice will be heard echoing
and rc-echoing the war cry of the Revolu-
tion--"Give us Liberty, or give us Death"
As an indication of the purpose Of the
General Assembly and the People of Ohio,
your committee recommend the adoption of
the following resolutions, and the passage
of the accompanying act.
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved By ~ General AssemJly of
tie State of Ohio, l. That this General
Assembly has observed with regret that in
the opinion lately pronounced by Chief JUS
tico Taney, in behalf Of a majority of the Su-
premo Court of tho United States, in the
case of Dred Scott against ]. F. H. Sanford,
occasion has been taken to promulgate, ex-
ira iudcialy, certain doctrines concerning
slavery, not less contradictory to well known
facts of history, then repugnant to the plain
provisions of the Constitution and sub
versivc of the rights of Freemen and Free
States.
Q. That in the judgment of this General
Assembly, every person born within the linn
its 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 guar
auticd by the Constitution to all citizens of
the United States is a palpable and unwar-
rantable violation of that sacred instrument
3. That the doctrine announced by the
Chief Justice, in behalf of majority of the
Court, that the Federal Constitution re-
CARDS slaves as mere property, and protects
the claims of masters to slaves to the same
extent and in the same manner rs the rights
of owners in property, within the limits of
Free States, during temporary visits or for
purposes of transit, to the practical conse-
quences of which doctrine no Free State
can submit with honor.
4. That the doctrine also announced in
behalf of a majority of the Court, that there
exists no power in the General Government
TO exclude Slavery from the Territories of
the United States, subverts express provis-
ions of tho Constitution, annuls the Just au-
thority of of the people of the United States
over their own territories, and contradicts
the whole practice of the Government un-
der every administration from that of Wash
ington to that of Polk
5. That, in the promulgation of the doc
trines against which we now protest, we re-
cognize the natural effect of the ascendancy
Of the slave power in the Supreme Court of
the United States secured by that arrange
ment ofthe 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
moro than two-thrds of the Free Popula-
ton, 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
modification of existing laws as will secure
to the Free States their just representation
in that Tribunal.