Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1857-03-26
What We PROPOSE 70 DO about Il.


What we propose to do about it,
Well, what do you propose to do about
itF' is taunlingly asked by our Northern
ehucklers over the late and unjust aud dsplO-
rable decision in the bred Scott case. "Sup-
pose It is all wrong, in violation Of law and Of
precedent, how do you expect to help your
selves? What will all your protests and agi.
tation amount toy" Let us answer these gen.
lemen briefly but clearly.
i, We do not propose TO resist the Federal
authorities nor to break up the Union. We
do not esteem either rebellion or disunicn the
proper remedy for political or judicial wrongs
while the FreedOn of the Press and the Right
Of Suffrage are maintained. Especially should
we deem disuniOn most untimely, now that
the highest uibual has-thOugh extra iu.
ideally and without auihOrity-pronounced
Slavery a National, not a Sectional institution
making it a cOdcern Of the nOminally Free
equally with the Slave States. When this doc
Ilne comes to be positively established here
after, it will be settled that Slavery must per-
wade and control the whole Union or be ex.
PEELED from every part Of il, We have not de-
sired such an issue; but when it is made up
and forced upon US by the Slave power, we
shall not shrink from it, Disunion involves
the abandonment Of our enslaved countrymen
TO perpetual bondage; we choose not to de.
sert them.
il. We do mean to make plain to all our
eounIrymen who can read, the iniquity and
e%normitY of the bred Scott decision in all It's
parts, but especially in its fundamental denial
to the feeble and down-trodden of any right of
appeal to the Federal tribunals. By every
principle OF Jurisprudence, the more humble
or degraded an individual or class nav be. the
more imperativeTs the duty of the tribunals
to assert theright of such s~uppliant or class.
We mean to make the American People per.
ceive and feel that injustice to a part is peril
to all, and that the refusal to consider bred
SCOTS prayer for liberty on the express ground
OF his being a black man, therefore possessing
no rights which white men are bound TO res
peet, is a fatal blow at the rights and liberties
of all.
Ill. We mean to show that a decision off
the Supreme Court, though formidable, is not
The Court affirmed the Copsd.
.tuIional validity of the Alien and Sedition acts.
yet the people annulled those acts and paid
back the penalties imposed and excited under
them by The Federal Judiciary. That Court
pronounced a Bank of the United States per.
leCtly constitutional, yet the people ultimately
made a contrary decision, which prevailed over
the Courts. So in other cases. So will it be
again.
~. We mean to urge and effect a read
jus!ment Of the basis on which J Justices of the
Supreme Court are apportioned. Now six
hundred thousand free people in a slave dis
Irict have equal weight in the constitution of
Tat Court with four millions in a free district;
and six millions of free people in Slave States
have more weight than sixteen millions in free
This is grossly unjust and cannot be
upheld, Make the Judicial Districts equal, let
Judges be fairly selected therefrom, and the
bred Scott decision will soon be overrulcI and
V. We mean to create and arouse an en-.
ighiend public sentiment which shall Ultimate
J place the Federal Government, in all lis
in the hands of men who love the
and the Union much, but Liber.
y, Eternal Justice and the inalienable rirhts
imam, still more-men who will regard Free
as the universal and everlasting rule, and
as the local and transitory exception
men who will give Shylock his pound of
but warn him in taking it to shed "no 4
lrop of Christian blood"-men who will be as
%enacious OF the rights Of men legally free,
ike bred Scott. as of those permitted by vi.
,iouS local regulations, over which the nation
las no control, to claim property in the limbs
md bodies of their fellow men.
vi, In short we mean to prove, by the is.
Of this contest, that Justice is the law of
iod's universe, to which all human laws
hould and must conform, and that patient
and earnest working will eventually
ecure its triumph. {
If there be treason in this, let the FEEDER
! District Attorney hurry up his documents.
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