The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-03-13
Joint Resolutions of the Iowa Legislature.

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Mr.. kirkwood, from the committee or
Federal Relations, having had under con
sideration that part of the Governor
message in regard to the opinion of Ger.
tain Judges of the United States Su.
pleme Court on the nrcd Scott case
reported the following joint resolutions
JOINT RESOLUTIONS
Cfhe General assembly Of the State o,
Iowa, touching the opinions Of some OF
the Judges Of the tSupreme Court Of
the United States on political questions
incorporatea an the opinion Of that
court IN the case Of Scott Us. Stanford.
WHEREAS, The Supreme Court of the
United States, in the case Of Scott VS.
SANFORD, after expressly deciding that it
had not jurisdiction Of the ease, by de-
Gliding that the plaintiff, Scott, could not,
BY reason Of his descent, sue in the courts
of the Unite States, has undertaken to
pronounce an extra-judicial opinion, pro-
hibiting the people OF the United States,
through Congress, and the people of the
territories through their local govern
ments, instituted under the authority Of
Congress, from any control Of the qucs-
tion of Slavery within the Territories Of
the United States, and l"gaizing slavery
in all those Territories; and
WHEREAS, Such cxtra-juli"ial opin-
ion subordinates the political power and
interests of our whole people to the Gu
pidity and ambition Of a few thousand
slave holders, who arc thereby enabled to
carry the odious institution Of slavery
wherever the national power extends,
thereby degrading free labor in all the
Territories which the United States low
have or hereafter may acquire, by bring
ing slave labor in direct competition
Herewith, prc-dooming al such Terrific
ry to all the blghting influence of the
system Of human slavery; and
WHEREAS, Such cxtra-iudical opin-
ion Of the Supreme Court is conclusive
proof Of the settled determination Of the
Slavery propagandists to subvert all those
high and holy principles Of freedom up
on which the American Union was form
ed. and to degrade it from it's intended
lofty position as the exemplar and bull
wark of freedom, into a mere engine for
the extension and perpetuation Of the
barbarous aud detestabe system Of chat
tel slavery.
Therefore, it Is, as the sense Of the peo-
pie of Iowa,
Resolyed, That the extra judicial opin-
ion Of the Supreme Court in the case of
Dred Scott, is not binding in law or CON
science upon the Government or people !
of the United States, and that it is Of
an import so alarming and dangerous as
to demand the instant and emphatic rep
rotation of every good citizen.
Resolved, That one Of the most danger
GUS of the political hcresies thus illeciti-
mately announced, as that which denies |
the equality Of the free States, and renders
them, on account Of their free institutions !
inferior and subordinate to the Slave !
State by declaring that, by virtue Of the |
Constitution Of the United States, slavery |
goes into all our Territories to the excu- |
sion of freedom, and is sustained and pro-
tectea therein until the people Of the
Territories form for themselves State
Constitutions, at which time, if at all,
but certainly not till then, they may rid |
themselves Of the system; and we should |.
be ungrateful to those whose care and |
foresight provided for us free homes, and
derelict in our duty to those who will /
come after us, did We not promptly and |
stcrnlv dcncunce this doctrine, which. if /
established, dcgrades the free States, and |
either confines free labor within its limits
or sends it into our new Territories in !
competition with slave labor !
P@&o1ec3. That We still recognize and |
sustain the time hoaorcd doctrines taught !
by the ear Y fathers Of our political faith,
that freedom is the great cardinal which .
prevades and oxaIts our whole
political system; that the Constitution Of .
the United States docs not, in any way,
recognize the right Of property in man,
that slavery az a system, is exceptional
and purely local. deriving its existence
and support wholly from local law. Any
person held to labor in one State, under
the laws thereof, escaping into another
State may he reclaimed, not as property,
but as person, who by the laws of the
State whence he escaped, owes, aud by
the constitution of the United States. is
capable Of owing, a debt Of service or Ia
Dor which he must discharge
Resolrea, That the State Of Iowa will
not allow slavery within her borders, in
any form or under any prctcxt, for any
time, however short, be the consequences
what they may.