Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-15
IscsOIufions OF tsac Senate Car-
Csss,

a caucus of the Democratic members
of the United States Senate adopted the
following Resolutions as the policy that
should govern them on the Slavery ques-
ton:
Resolsed, That in the adoption of the Federal
Constitution, the States adopting the same acted
ns free and independent soyereignties, delegatng
a portion of their powers 10 be exercised by the
Federal Government, for the increased security OF
each, against danger, domestic as well as foreign
and that any intermediling by any one or more
States, or by q combination Of their citizens with
/ the domestic institutions Of the others, or any
pretoxt whether political, moral, religious will
a view to their disturbance sphvei,ou, IL IN vic
lation of the Constitution, inluidng to the Statet
so interfered with, endangers their domestic
peace and nquility--obieSts for which the COu
stiLuon was formed-and, by necessary conse
quenco, serves to weaken and destroy the Uniol
itself
9. Rrsolred, That Negro Slavery, as it exist:
in fifteen States of the Union, composes an i'm
portaut portion of their domestic institutions, in
,herited from their ancestors, and existing at tn,
adoption OF the Constitution, by which it is recog
nzed as constituting an important element of th'
apportionmcnt of powers among the States AM
that no change Of opinion of feeling on the part o
the non-savehOlding States OF the Union in rela
ton to this Institution can Justify them or thei
citizens in open and systematic attacks thereon
with view to its overthrow; and that all such at
tacks are in manifest violation Of the mutual an'
solemn pledges to protect and defend each other
given by The States, respectively, on entering i'll
to the constitutional compact which formed thu
Union, and is manifest breach OF faith and
violation ofthc most sollmn obligation.
3. Resoioed, That the Union Of these State
rests on the equality ofights and privileges smons
the members, and that il is especially the duty 0
the Senate, which represents the States in thei
sovereign capacity, to resist all attempts to dis
crimiuate either in relation to person or property
so as, in the tcrritores-whch are the common
possession of the United States-tO give advanta
ges to the citizens of one State which are no
equally secured to those of every other State.
4. Resotoed, That neither Congress, nor Terri
tora Legislatures, either by direct legislation, o.
by Legislation of an indirect and unfrerdly nature
pOssess the power to annul or impair the constitl
tional right of any citizen of the United States Il
take his slave property into the common Terrific
ries; but it is the duty of the Federal Government
there to afford for that, as for other species Q
property, the needful protection, andlf experienc
should at any time prove that the Judiciary doe
not possess power to insure adequate protection,
will then become the duty of Congress to suppl
such deficiency.
~. NFSDCOtu lIiJ lilc Hhiubit'eHts Vi oit VI
ganized Territory Of the United States, when the
rightiully form constitution, to be admitted as
State into the Union, may then, for the first time
like the people of "a State when forming neN
constitution, decide for themselves whether Slave
J ry, as a domestic institution, shall be maintalne
or prohibited within their jurisdiction, and if Cor
gress shall admit them as a State, "They sha
be received into the Union With Or without slave
ry, their Constitution may prescribe at the tim
| Of their admission"
&. Resolved, That the provision of the Const
tuition for the rendition of tugitvcs from servic
$ or labor, ''withOut the adoption of which the Uno
could not have been formed" and the laws
d. 1913 and 1850, which were enacted to secure i
execution, and the main features of which, beir
similar, bear the impress of nearly seventy yea
sanction by the highest judicial authority, hay
unquestionablc claim to the respect and obser
ance of all who enjoy the benefits of our compa
= of Union; and that the acts of State Legislature
to defeat the purpose or nuliIy the Requirement
of that provision, and the laws made in pursuanC
oft are hostile in character subvcisive of Il
Constitution revolutionary in their effect, and,
persisted in, must, sooner later, lead the Stat
injured by such breach Of tie compact, to excrc
) their Judgment as to the proper mode and inca
= ures of redress.