Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-11-14
To Legal Voters.

The attention of the public is invited TO an
examination OF the following memorials which
will soon be circulated throughout the United
States, wherever there ia reason TO hope a con-
siderable number Of signeTs can be obtained.
TO The Senate and House Of ofRcpresentatiues 1tthe
United STATES:
The undersigned legal voters of--County
in the State Oh, regarding Slavery as great
crime, as well as a great evil and disgrace TO
our country, for which we are unwilling that
the general government should be in any degree
responsibility DO hereby respectfully and earnest
ly petition your Honorable Body to take meas.
ures to secure its speedy extinction from the
District OF Columbia, and all other places, nnder
the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress, with or
without compensation 20 the Shareholders, as TO
you may seem expedient.
TO The Senate and House Of Representatives. OF The
United States:
The undersigned, legal voters of-county
in the State Of, respectfully petition your
Honorable Body to repeal the Fugitive Slave
acts Of 1893, and 1850 and leave to the States
themselves the responsibility Of discharging
their constitutional obligations in regard to ia.
gitives from service in their own way.
Iothe Senate and House of RepreSeaaiahpss of
The United STATES:
The undersigned, legal voters of-county,
in the State Oh, having learned that there
have been of lato repeated violations of the
law prohibiting the foreign slave trade, respect
fully petition your Honorable body TO employ
any further legislation which may be necessary
TO prevent revival OF the infamous trailic.
The Executive Committee Of the Christian
Ant. Slavery Convention will Immediately sup
ply every township in this State with copies of
the above petitions, and hope they will be pres
ented to every legal voter in the State. We
call your attention to them through the press,
in order that you may give them a careful ex-
animation before they are presented for your
signatures
The propriety and Importance Of these petit
tions are 80 obvious that remarks are hardly
necessary. Our Federal Government has hith-
erto given its support and sanction TO the crime
Of Slavery The guilt and disgrace oithis mon
strOus institution rest upon the whole nstioni
and every citizen has a personal responsibility
in regard 10 it Congress is the creature of the
people, and should b. expected to execute the
peoples will. In what better way can the will
of the people be expressed than through the
medium Of petitions.
Those who are willing that Jour nation, with
the most liberal constitution in the world,
should support and legalizo the most cruel and
wicked oppression under the sun, and that our
capitsl should be disgroced by the whipping
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not sign the Grst petition. All others, we
presume, will be glad TO do so as soon as it is
presented.
And those again, who are willing that their
personal liberty end the liberty Of their neigh.
bOrs should be at the disposal Of the single Uni
ted States Commissioner, who is authorized 10
decide the case on ez parts testimony without
giving the defendant hearing, and is bribed
by an extra fee TO decide against him, will not
be likely 10 sign the second petition. But those
who believe that the State is the natural and
Constitutional protector Of the liberties Of her
own citizens, and arc not willing that men
should bs deprived Of liberty without jury
trial, ahd denied the writ Of habeas corpus, will
give II their hearty Endorsement
And those who are aware that oArgOes of
slaves from Africa, have been openly landed
upon our shores with impunily, unless they