Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-01-06

/ therefore recommend lCSafepeai. !
The Constitution declares that there shall
be no slavery in this State, nor involuntary
sefyitude, except for punishment of crime
70 give effect to this provision and to arrest
the practice, becoming common through inn
punity, of seizing and taking out of the State,
without any warrent or process oflaw, persons
claimed as fugitives from service, though often
in fact. free, | recommend the re-enactment OF
the acts repealed by the last General Assembly
prohibiting slaveholding ard kidnapping In
Ohio, and securing more effectually the benefits
of The writ Of habeas corpus.
Four years since, the military force of the
State was thoroughly disorganized- The pub
lie arms-a large property-werc scattered
through the counties, and in danger of total
loss. No adequate security, in the form OF
bonds or otherwise, protected the State
against that hazard. The laws made no suf-
fcient provision, either for discipline or organ
~ization. This condition of things naturally at
tracted the attention of the General Assembly,
and successive laws have been enacted, de-
signed to remedy existing evils. Under these
laws, considerable quantities of arms have been
collected, and either sold, if useless, or if worth
repair, made fit for service. A respectable
force of volunteers has been organized and Off
cered, aud, as far as practicable, disciplined
This force now constitutes a fitting nucleus for
an organization entirely competent to all
probable emergencies. AS law is the expires
sion of the public will, so police is the expires
sion of the public force. A body of volunteer
militia, not unnecessarily large, but well order
ed and efficient, is an important element of po-
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Unnecessary guaranty of order and peace.
Much credit is due to many public spirited
citizens fer their efforts, both as officers and
men, to promote reform and discipline in mill
tary organization end especially to the Adj -
tant General and the Quarter Master General
for their labors to that end. Their reports
exhibit clearly the present condition and needs
Of this branchtof the public service, and THEN
suggestions will, doubtless, receive your atten-.
| tive consideration. 5ti fe-f - .r5.-s"a a.
% I invite your attention to the increased ex-
pense Of public printing. This results in part
from defects in the act regulating the subject,
and in part from the mode in which the reports
of the several Institutions are prepared. The
evil may be3remedied to a considerable extent.
| by authorizing the Secretary of State to pre-
, scribe the mode in which documents shall be
printed, and also the mode in which the state
ments of receipts and expenditures by the
several Institutions shall be made. la i'al
1AH the official Reports, directed by law to
fbe printed prior to the meeting of tho General
iAssembly, except those of the Attorney Gener-
al and the Commissioner of Common Schools,
delayed by the remissncss of county and local
officers, have been more promptly made THAN
ihiany previous year , and all, except that Of
the Auditor of State which is in the hands of
the printer, have been printed and are ready
to be laid before YOU They will be transmit
ted to each House without delay. s.
raIt becomes my duty to lay before you, in
compliance with the request of the Governor
of New York, the Concurrent Resolutions of
the Senate and Assembly Of that State, com
gdcnling the African Slave Trade, and protest
Ting against the re-opcning of that inluuan.
Traffic. i1Fhe people of Ohio. without distinc-
ton of party, and almost without individual
exceptions, Unite in reprJbation of the traffic
and its: revival. i t-.i4 rl H4a4 ID
with those rcola,ions, l also transmit for
your information, copes of letters addressed
by the Governor of Virginia to tie President
of the United st ties and to myself, and of my
reply to that addressed to me.
| doabt not, gentlemen, that | expressed
your own sentiments, as well as those Of our
common constituents, when l declaired my
conviction that it is the duty of the Executive
authorities of Ohio to exercise whatever pow
CT the law may vest in them for the supprc9=
sion of unlawful combinations against the
peace and safety of other member Of the Fed
eral Union; and that the people oe Ohio,
while they viii suffer no invasion of their own
territory, will countenancc no invasion Of the
territory of other States but, expecting from
them the fulfIlment Of every constitutional
obligation, will require OF th;ir own authori-
tics the prompt performance of reciprocal du-
ties. tT ttsf
n While we will not disavow just admiration
of noble qua ties, by whomso.v2r displayed,
We must not the less, but rather the more
earnestly eonden all inroads into States, not
merely at peace with us but united to us by
the bonds Of political union, and all attempts
to excite within their borders, servile %insurrec-
tions necessarily tending TO involve the coun-
try in tbs calamities OF civil, as well as servile,
war af y! ..- -a {n .
That q spirit Of distrust and Alienation has
arisen in the country, it wc-e Idle to deny
That it is not shared, in amy great degree, by
the masses in either section, is / trust, equally
true. The people desire Union and Concord,
not Discold and Disunion. ." .5
Claiming no absolute exemption
from blame in behalf of the free States
we cannot admit their licbility to ex-
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tence Of Justification, the territory of
Ohio has been c~landestinely entered,
and peaceful inhabitants, guilty of no
crime but color, have been cruelty kid
mapped. The Fugitive Slave Act, nee
e%ssarily tepugnant to public sentiment,
and believed by a large majority to he
unconstitutional in some of its conspic-
uous provisions, if not in its origin,
has been executed within her limits
with circumstances of aggravation
which could not fail to excite the deep.
est feeling; and cases have not been
wanting where her citizens, travelling
on lawful business in Slave States. on
mere suspicion of obnoxious sentiments
have been subject to espionage and
indignity-to arrest and imprison-
ment. To these particular causes of
complaint must be added the gen
eral grievance of the repeal Of the
Missouri Prohibition, manifesting the
determination of a large majority of
the slave-holding class to exted Slave
ry throughout the National Terrific
ries. -.rf
Notwithstanding these causes of
complaint, and in confident expecta-
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