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serve II. wesrs free, moreover. 10 insist that
20 foot Of territory invaded by slavery. under the
detss,abe doctrines Of the Dred Scott decision,
shall ever lie sdded TO The Union. BY the votes Of
men fairly representing The State Of oLio.
What we are thus free 10 do, every principle
held sacred BY States lie our own, requires Us to
begin, and shall emboldeu US 10 cODsummate, =
"tbough the heavens fall" The sense in which
the North made all the extra constitutional com
promises, bas been rudely stripped Of al practical
recognition and Vitslity. Dear Is the Union must
be TO every true American beah, il ought not to
be dearer than public faith, than The rights Of
States, than the conservation Of the constitution 10
the sense in which It was accepted, Wheu ratified
iST The States There viii be DO lasting peace, ill
there come 40 end Of wrong, deception sBd en-
eroacbment. We are not in debt to The South
The South should bave better remembered lie o.
legations to US. than to have forced upon us the
odious pretended judgment in the case Of Dred
Scott. We deserveto be slaves, meane, than the
slaves Of the South, Il We submit to the impOsi-
ton.
What infatuatiOn possessed the organized force
ofthe Democratic party, when it decided to adopt
the decision referred to, it would be difficult to
divine. Does that party give up all respect for
popular opinion in ohioi ....
It is the fixed, true, unutteFable faith Of the
great body Of our people, that the extension
slavery into territories now free, would be great
and ireparabls evil 1t is the ike fixed, true, un
alterabls faith Of the great body of our people,
that there is a remedy, entirely constitution.
al, against that extension, in the action Of
Congress or in that Of the Territorial Legislature
when clothed with such powers as Congress may
delegate, and such as belong tn the very essence
Of popular government. In this respect, the body
Of all parties, the Democratic as vel as the Re-
publican, the American as well as the other parties,
is in harmony with the body of the people so far
as real sentiment is concerned. But the seeming
necessity of keeping the politicians of the North
aud the South together on the subject of Slavery
has induced the leaders and organs Of the Demo-
cratic party as now constituted, to indOrse pre-
tended decision, that no action Of the Congress
no action Of the Territorial Legislature, can pre-
vent the introduction Of slavery into territories now
free, since, as now pretended by the mere dictum
Of divided court, the STAKEHOLDER has constitu-
tioDally guaranteed property 10 bis slave, above
the reach of territorial and congressional legisa
ton alike. This Endorsement will be construed
by the South, with severe and literal strictness just
as have stated its terms and its effect Has not
the organized force of the Democratic party of
Ohio, then, tramped on the true faith Of our peo-
pie? Will the body of the Democratic party
couutenauce such an outrage? cannot but think
that resistance to the new doctrine is the first duty
OF everv citizen, and that no notion Of the general
proprety Of adherihg to party, in the confidence
that it will correct its own inherent virtues, can
Justify any man who truly understands the new
addition to the doctrines Of the Democratic party,
in acting with that party, while it assets what
will be found, when honestly serutinized, so re-
pugnant to the faith of our fathers, to the inter
ests Of humanity, and the pride Of constitutional
governments.
1 Again: II is tie like fixed, true, and unatera-
able faith Of the people, that Federal COustitu-
ton, made by States. and ratified by States, with
provisions for amendment only by States, cannot
be altered by the mere dicta of Judges in time
of unparalleled confusion and excitement. But
the Democratic party, although insulted and tram
pied on by some Of the same judges, when
III asserted the sovereign taxing power Of the State
Of Ohio, now hastens to ratify the addition, BY
mere Judicial dctum, Of a new and odious term
Ito the Federal Consultation, whereby man and q
horse are declared property by title equally sa-
cred, and of application equally extensive as to ma
Itional territory. In its acceptance Of such nov-
city in legal doctrine, and its submission Of the
Constitution, the organized force of the Demo
cratic party msrepreseuts those who have hitherto
noted with it.
The dearest rights of tie citizen demand that a
rrssry, which, to secure political ascendancy, can
be thus false to itself and false to the people
learn the ignominiOus lesson in ignominious de
feat. fervently hope the lesson will be learned
at the coming election. R. B. WARDEN.
Columbus, Aug. 9Th, 1857.