True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-04-15
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er can prevent our dying in The attempt.
We may be unable to protect thousands
of our own citizens in the enjoyment of
their civil rights, but long. fierce, and
desperate will be the struggle before we
yield the point. We have seen every
department of the General Government
subsidized 10 the support. spread, main
tenance, and eternalizing of slavery =
In this mad crusade against our dearest
most sacred, and most cherished rights.
we have interposed our most earnest re-
monslrance, and uttered our most solemn
warning. All unheeded and uncared for
has been that remonstrance, and that war
ming,
This decision, if undertaken to be en-
forced places us immeasurablY beyond
that point where lovbearance is no longer
virtue. Yea, it is questionable whether
it is not even now crime against both
man and God. Endeavor to enforce that
decision in our State, and from the blue
waters of Lake Erie on the north, to the
beautiful Ohio OH the south, from the
hills of Pennsylvania on the east. to the
plains of Indiana on the west, but one
voice will be heard echoing and reechoing
the war cry of Revolution" Give us
Lbery, 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 The General assembly of
the State of Ohio, l. That this General
Assembly has observed with regret that
in the opinion lately pronounced by Chief
Justice Taney, in behalf of a majority of
the Supreme Court of the United States
in the case of Dred Scott against ]. F. H.
Sanford, occasion has been taken 10 pro-
mulgate, extra judlcially, certain doctrines
concerning Slavery, not less contradicto-
ry to well known facts of history, than
repugnant to the plain provisions of the
Constitution and subversive of the rights
of Freemen and Free States.
2. That in the judgment of this Gene
raj Assembly, every person born within
the limits of any STATE in this Union, is a
citizen thereof, and to deny to any such
person the right Of sitting in the Courts
of the United States, is a palpabe and
unwarrantable violation of that sacred
instrument
3. That the doctrine announced by the
Chief Justice in behalf of the majority of
the Court. that the Federal Constitution
regards slaves as mere property, and pro-
tects the claims of masters to slaves to
the same extent and in the same manner
as the rights Of owners in property, with
in the limits of Free States, during tenn
porary visits or foi purposes of transit, to
the practical consequences of which doc.
trine no Free State can submit with hon
or. ..
4. That the doctrine also announced in
behalf of a majority of the Court, that
there exists no power in the General
Government 10 exclude slavery from the
territories of the U. States, subverts ex-
press provisions of the Constitution, an
NUS the just authority of the People of
the United States over their own Terrific.
ries, and contradicts the whole practice of
the Government under every administra.
tion from that of Washington 10 that of
Polk.
5. That in the promulgation of the
doctrines against which we now protest,
we recognize the natural effect of the as.
tendency of the slave power in the Su-
preme 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 the free population, only four
and we hereby instruct Senators and re-
quest the Representatives of Ohio, in the
Congress of the United States to use
their best endeavors to obtain such a
of existing laws as will Sc
cure to the Free States their Just repre-.
sentatiOn in that Tribunal.
o. P. BROWN,
II. CANFIELD.
Committed ofhe Senate.
RALPH PLUMB,
E. GUTHRIE,
]. H. LITTLER,
GEO. MYGATT,
Committee Of the House.
The American Republican Victory in
Rhode Island.