The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-04-23
AN ACT TO SECURE FREEDOM TO ALL PERSONS W.T.

AN ACT TO SECURE FREEDOM TO ALL PERSONS WITH
IN THIS STATE.
The People of the State of NelD- York, repre-
scnted in Senate and Assembly, do enact as fol-
iUlos
SEC /. Neither descent, far or remote, from an
African, whether such African is,or may have been
a slave or not nor color of skin, shall disqualify
any person from becoming a citizen of this State
nor deprive such person Of the rights and privileges
of citizen thereof
SEC 3. Every slave who shall come, or be
brought or be, in this State, with tue consent of
his or her master or Mistress who shall come, or
be brought or be- inyoluntary in this State, shall
be free.
SEC 2. Every person who shall hold or attempt
to hold in this State in Slavery or as slave, any
person mentioned as slave in the second section
of this act or any free person of color in any form,
or under any preference or for any time however
short, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and on con-
viction thereof shall be confined in the State prison
at hard labor for a term not less than two nor
more than ten years
The following is the substance of the bill passed
by the Ohio Legislature
!. THAI any person attempting to hold another
as slave directly or indirectly, shall be fined and
imprisoned.
2 That if any person seize or arrest, or use any
force or fraud for the purpose of OBTAINING any
other person upon pretence that such person is a
fugitive from service he shall be punished by fine
ami Imprisonment
3. That any attempt to kidnap with intent to
carry them out of the State for the purpose of en-
shaving them shall be punished by Imprisonment in
the p1nitentaty
a. That the provisions of this bill shall not ap-
ply to any act lawfully done by any marshal in the
execution of any legal process
Among the resolutions reported are the follow
ing:
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 Uuted States, subvGrtS
express provisions of the Constitution, annuIs the
Just authority of the people of the United States
over their own Territories, and contradicts the
whole practice of the Government under every Ad-
ministration from that of Washington to that of
Polk.
That in the promulgation of the doctrine against
which we now protest, we recognize the natural
effect of the aseendaucy of the Slave power in the
Supreme Court of the United States, secured by
the arrangement of the Circuits which gives 10
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 our Senators, and request our
Representatives in Congress, to use their best en
deayors to obtain such modification of existing
laws as will secure to the Free States their just rep
rcseutation in that tribunal.
In addition to this Senator Grswold has report
ed to the Senate resolutions which, in view of Kan
sas outrages, propose 100000 for the protection
of Ohio citizens, to be employed by the Governor
as his discretion shall dictate.