Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1857-04-09
speeOh Of Mr MARSH Of PrehIa

ing preamble and resolution offered by Mr.
Kelley, to pit:
"WHEREAs, the Supreme Court Of the United
States, have in their late decision in the case Of
Dsd Scott, virtually decided that the owners of
slaves may bring and send them into States where
slavery is prohibited, and still retain their owner
ship in such slaves which decision, in effect, de-
cares that slavery may exist in this and other
free States; and whereas it is deemed essential to
the welfare of this State, that slavery be utterly
excluded from its limits therefore.
"Resolued, That the standing committee on
Federal relations, be instructed to inquire wheth-
er any, aud if any what Legislation is required to
prevent the introduction of slavery in this State;
and that said committee report by bill or other
wise."
Mr.. PRESIDENT: l will briefly say to our Dem
ocratiC brethren on the other side of the chamber,
that while their platform avows the fact that the
only "sound and safe solution of the slavery ques
tion" isnonnterference with slavery in the States
or Territories or in the District of Columbia, and
out of which Mr. Buchanan said he would not re-
move one plank, confirmed by his inaugural aud
sanctioned by a recent 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 free.
dom in all the free States and Terrtories"-
You have cut loose from the Constitution which
declares that "the United States shall guarantee
to each State in this Union Republican form of
government" and from all your antecedeuts, ma
tional and State, virtually saying that the trainers
of the Constitution, the ordinance of 1887, and all
similar acts, were wrong, In short that Wash
ington, Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren and Polk
all of whom approved and signed ordinances or
territorial bills prohibiting slavery in the Terrific
ries, did not understand the Constitution; were ig
noraut totally ignorant of the rights of the Slave.
holder. and therefore violated that instrument AMI
that the wise men who adopted the Kansas Ne
braska bill and the Cincinnati platform were its
true expounden. desire to say to my Demo
cratic friends that standing upon the record as
ycu now do giving to slavery under the national
constitution the right to 60 into the territories un.
restricted and unmolested, in dtfance Of any law
of Congress- and protecting it there by the nation
al arms, and the national treasury, you must blot
out your record, both in Congress and out of Con-
gress, in your National and State Conventions, in
in the legislature of Ohio, in all of which you
have repeatedly and solemnly declared it as your
firm resolve, in conformity to the principles and
practice of the Democratic party, to carry out the
purpose of prohibiting Slavery in the territories
and stand forth as the advocates Of the political
dogmas of the Soutb, in throwing the flag of the
Republic of the territories; and there you must
stand and be ranked among the propagandists Of
Slavery, as willing to let the $4,000 shareholders
Iof the South-with their three millions of human
rchattes-control not only the destinies of twenty
three millions of freemen but the vast free empire
ofland west of the Father Of waters, aud which
as yet is but partially contaminated with the accur-
sed tyrant SIM which like the usurper, adopts no
rule but obedience to his behest acknowledges no
equality but that which gives him supremacy, and
in the execution of his purpose neither hesitates
nor balts, until success crownd the effort, and he
n the penude of power, in defiant menace, sits en-.
throned upon the ruins Of the proud temple of ci-
vii, religious, and political equality, parazing the
arm of mechanical agricultural and commercial
= enterprize; and prostratng every energy and am
!, bton, but that which is fostered and embraced in
/ his own polluted household. Until you are in so.
: Der second thoughtsreturn to the doctrine of the
fathers Of the RepuF Fc, and learn again to repeat
with sincertyAhe language of James Buchanan
II in l848, as follows; "Having urged the adoption
of the Missouri Compromise the inference is ire
slstble, that Congress, in my opinion, possesse
the power to egislate upon the subject of slavery
u in the Territories what an absurdty it would be
then, if whilst asserting this sovereign power il
Congress, which power must from its nature b.
exclusive, should, in the same breath, also claim
this identical power for the population Of terrific
ry in an unorganized capacity In conclusion
desire to reerate and reaffirm every sentiment con
tanned in my Berks county letter, cling to the
+ Missouri Compromise with greater tenacity
than ever and yet firmly believe that it will be a
dopted by Congress" And re-adopt the reso
0 luton affirmed by you in your State Convention
in Ohio, in 1916, l848, and in 1850, to wit;
"Resolved, That the people of Ohio, now al
: they have always done, look upon the institution
! of Slavery as an evil, and unfavorable tothe full
deveopement of the spirit and practical benefit,
of free institutions, and that entertaining these sen
timens they will feel it to be their duty to use al
> power consistent with the national compact t.