The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-08-20
EKenFy b. Payne's position on the
Fugitive SiuVe Law.

The Ohio Slate Journal, and every other
black republican paper in Ohio have been produ-
eng a single and detached resolution from the
Senate Journal Of ls5o-5l, without giving any
account or history Of the contest in the Senate
in regard to the Fugitive Slave Law, or the posi-
ton the Democrats, and particularly Mr.. Payne
took relative thereto assumes to its readers that
the Democratic candidate took grounds against
the constintioBality o. that law. Though of no
earthly importance to refute such nonsense we
the following to be in briefthe truth, & which
shows for itself whether Mr.. Payne then enter
tanned the views of the Constitutional obliga-
tions OF that law which have always been enter
tanned by the DemocIatic Party and the conser-
vatiye portion of the Old Wing Party, the cor
rectness Of which has received the sanction and
judgment of tine Supreme Court of the United
States
Here is the official rec0rd-
Mr.. Linton, from the committee on Federal
Relations introduced the following resolution.
Il Senate Journal lS50,-5 p 900.
'ResdlUe{, By the General Assembly Of the
State of Ohio, that while the General Assembly
would urge The faithful observance Of law upon
| the people of this State and Of her sister States
OF the Union as the most eiiectual mode of pro-
noting their best interests, as well as a high
duty they owe alike to themselves anil their
common country, it would most earnestly rec
ommend to Congress the necessity of SO amend
ing and modifying the provisions Of the Fugi-
! tive Slave Law that while it secures a faithful
compliance with all the obligations imposed by
the Constitution Of the United States, it will
as becomes a free government, guard with jeal-
Gus care the rights of a freeman"
/ Mr.. Pardee moved to amend said resolution
by striking out all after the word "Oho' in line
one, and inserting ''that the law, COMMONLY
called the Fugitive Slave Law, being in the iudg-
Inent of this General Assembly, unwarranted
by the Constitution, and being law that makes
ex parte evidence conclusive of the masters
right to recapture and return his Slave; that de-
uies jury trial here and elsewhere; that pro-
vides for the appointment of swarmS of petty
officers to execute it; that gives a double com.
pensaton to find every clam that is set up in
favor of the master, and pays the expenses in
the case, from the public treasury, can never re-
ceivc the voluntary co operation of our people
and ought thereto 'e to be Immediately repealod.'
Mr.. PAYNE moved to amend the amendment
by striking out the words "Jeiny ia the ju{gmen
Of this General AsseatNy tul0araatelb By the Con-
stitHtioa, and"
On which question the yeas and nays were
demanded and resulted yeas 90, nays 10.
Those who voted in the affirmative were
MeSSrs. Award, Barker, Beeson, Bill, Block
som, Brackley, Bull, Burns, Cunningham Foust
Geigcr. Hart, Hatch, Howard, Linton, Payne
Schertzer Van Buskuk, Einal, and Speaker.
Those voting in the negative were MessrS
Broadnell, Eckley, Horton Lewis, Lyman, Par.
dee, Randall, Sutihi Thompson and Walker
Mr.. Walker moved to amend the original res.
olution, by adding to the end thereof the follow
ing:
And, if said law in the opinion of Congress
cannot be so amended, as to give to persons
claimed as fugitives from labor, the benefit o
every legal defence OF their liberty, we then re-
commend the repeal of said law"
On the above resolution the vote stood, yeas
l3, nays II. Mr., Payne voting in the negative
Thus it will be seen, says the PlaiRdealer, by
an examination Of th, a1ove votes that this Fu-
Sion mares nest Of the campaign is broken up
and that IL. B. Payne Is as everybody supposed
him always to have been, sound on the grea
constitutional question involved in the act o
Congress, of 1850.