Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-04-07
sDeech of Mr.. Marsh. of PrebIe,

T., the Ohio Senate in reply to Mr.. lZattA-
ears, on tie 1871 day Of March, 1857, on
the following preamble and resolution,
to-a0I:
..WHEREAs, the Supreme Court of the
Uni ted States, have i'll their late dec1slon
in the case of Dred Scott, virtually decl-
ded that the owners of slaves may bring
and send them into States where slavery
is nrobibited, and still retain their owner
shin in such slaves, which decision, In et-
feet declares that slavery may exist IN this
and other free States, and whereas 1t is
deemed essential to the welfare of this State
that slavery be utterly excluded from its
! limits, therefore
tsResozued, That the standing committee
on Federal Rotations. be instructed to in
auire whether any, and if any, what leg
| islation is REQUIRED to prevent the lntroduc-
lion of slavery into this State; and that
said committee report by bill or other
wise.''
Mr.. PRESIDENT will briefly say to
our Democratic brethren on the other SIDE
of the chamber that while their platform
avows the fact that the only t'sound and
safe solution of the slavery question" IS
lnon-interference with slavery in the States
or Territories or inVthe District of Column
bia, and out of which Mr.. Buchanan said
he would not remove one plank, confirmed
by his inaugural and sanctioned by the re-
cent decision of majority Of the United
States Supreme Court in the Dred Scott
case, we have and continue to maintain the
national principle of "non interference with
, freedom in all the free States and Terrific
ries'' You have cut loose from the Con
stitution which declares that 'the United
States shall guarantee to each State in this
Union Republican form of government,
> and from all your antecedents, national anc
" State, virtually saying that the trainers o
IL tla of
and all subsequent similar acts, wer'
: wrong In short, that Washington, Jetter
!. son, jackson, Van Buren, and Polk, all o
?. whom approved and signed ordinances o
D. territorial bills prohibiting slavery in tn
= Territories, did not understand the Con
o stitution; were ignorant, toidlLy ay'7orG''
of the rights of the Stakeholder, and there
n fore violated that instrument, and that tn
t. wise men who adopted the Kansas Nebras
: ka bill and the Cincinnati Platform wer
lg it's true expounders. I desire to say to m
- Democratic friends that, standing upon tn
: record as you now do, giving to SLAYER
~ under the national Constitution the rigf
5 to 90 into the territories unrestricted an
d, unmolested, in defiance of any law {
~ Congress, and protecting 1t there by TT
: national arms, and the national treasur.
r- YOU must blot out your record, both
OF Congress and out of Congress, in yol
National and State conventions, in the Les
} islature of Ohio, in all of which you hay
We repeatedly and solemnly declared it |
pt your firm resolve, in conformity to tt
- principles and practice of the Democrat
- party, to carry out the purpose of Prohi
oer itng Slavery in the territories; and star
to forth as the advocates of the political do!
: mas of the South, in throwing the hag
et, the Republic around its introduction IN
LOB the territories; and there you must stal
}. and be ranked among the propagandists
: Slavery, as willing to let the 347, 900 slav
urt holders of the South, with their thr
. millions of human chattels, s,-control n
an only the destiuies of twenty-three mllllo
nix of freemen but The vast free empire of la
zoa west of the Father of waters, and WIN
:E as yet is but partially contaminated WI
. the accursed tyrant sin; which like the us'
9,es' per, adopts no rule but obedience to
to behests, acknowledges no equality 1
- that which gives him supremacy, and
- the execution of his purpose neither ne
ptio tates nor halts, until success crowns
= effort, and he in the plentitude of pow
part in defiant menace, sits enthroned upon
ice, ruins of the proud temple of civil, rellglf
ecu and political equality, paralizing the arm
:s; :s:, mechanical, agricultural and commert
iav3 enterprise; and prostrahng every enel
emf n1I and ambition, but that which is toste
hort and embraced in his own polluted hou