The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-06-21

ever such act may be, should contain
an unalterable fundamental article of
provision whereby slavery or involun-
tary servitude, except as a punishment
for crime, shall be forever excluded
from the territory acquired or annexed:p
By the Legislature of New Jersey: s
That the Senators, &C., be reques-
ted to Use their best efforts to secure as
fundamental provision TO-, or provise
in, any act or annexation of any terri
tory hereafter to be ac acquired by the
United States, &C.: that slavery or in
voluntary servitude, except az punish-
ment for crime, shall be forever exclu-
ded from the territory to be annexed"
BY the Legislature of Pennsylvania'.:
"Against any measure whatever, by
which territory will accrue to the Union,
unless as part of the fundamental law,
upon which any compact and treaty for
this purpose is based, slavery or in
voluntary servitude; except for crime;
shall be forever excluded"
BY the Legislature of Ohio:
For the passage of measures in that
body, Congress- providing. for the
exclusion of slavery from the Territory
Of Oregon, and also from any other
Territory that now is, or hereafter may
be, annexed to the United States" -
By the Legislature of Vermont; sels
"Against the admission into the
Federal Union of any new State whose
constitution tolerates slavery" II
By the Legislature of Connecticut:
That if any territory shall hereafter
be acquired by the United States, or
annexed thereto, the act by which such
territory is acquired or annexed, what
ever such act may be, should contain
an unalterable fundamental article or
provision, whereby slavery or involun-
tary servitude, except as punishment
for crime, shall be forever excluded
from the territory acquired or annexed"
And in 1850 the following:
"Whereds, The people of Connecticut have herel
tofore, through their Senators and Representatives
in General Assembly convened, solernnly and de-
berately ayowed their purpose to resist in all con-
stitutiona and proper ways the extension of slavery
into the national Territories and the admission Of
new slave States into the Federal Union; and also
to seek in peaceable and constitutional way, the
abOlishment of the slave trade and of slavery in
the District of Columbia; and whereas the impor-
tant question now before the country touching
these matters makes it desirable that these con-
victions and determinations should be re-afimed
In the most solemn and public manner: Therefore,
"ResokUed, That Congress has full constitutional
power to prohibit slavery in the Territories of the
United States by Legislative enactment, and that it
sary delay, such strict and positive laws as will
efectuallv shut out slavery from every portion Of
these Territories.
By the Legislature in Massachusetts,,
in 1919: sbi3 -
"Resolued, That Congress has full power to legis-
late upon the subject of slavery in the Territories
OF the Union thati has freely exercised such power
from the adoption of the Constitution to the present
time; and that it is its duty to exercise the power
for the perpetual exclusion of the institution from
those Territories that free and for the extinction
of the same in Territories where it exists. 11is.
"ResolUed, That when Congress furnishes gov
ernments for the Territories Of California and New
Mexico, it will be its duty to establish therein
fundamental principle of the ordinance of 1887
upon the subject of slavery to the end that the in-
stitution may be perpetually excluded therefrorn
beyond every chance and uncertainty" rela r.
J At a State Convention Of the Demo
cratic party in Massachusetts,, COM
posed of more than SIX hundred mem.
bers, in ls49, the following resolutions,
introduced by Hon. B. F. Hallett, then
chairman of the National Democratic
Committee, and of the State Demo-
cratic Committee, were adopted unanil
meusly, as appears from the Boston
Post, the organ Of the party in New
England: 9H 32n sFfa .roL
"Resoloed. That we are opposed to slavery id
every form and color, and in favor of freedom and
free soil wherever man lives, throughout Gods
heritage. Ht
'.Rssolved, That, by common law and common
sense, as well as by the decision of the Suprems
Court of the United States, tn Bragg VS.. Pennsyl-
municipal regulation, founded upon. and limited 10
the verge of the territorial law that is the limits
of the State creating it.
"Resotred, therefore, That as slavery does not
exist by any municipal law in the new Territories
and Congress has no power to institute it. the local
laws of any State authorizing slavery, can never
be transported there; nor can slavery exist there
but by local law of the Territories sanctioned by
Congress" ...,,.f-.,
This, sir, is pretty good Republican
doctrine, coming from high Democratic
authority.
In 1910, the Legislature Of Ohio
resolved: DE
"That the provisions of the ordi-
nance of Congress of l7s7s so far a.
the same relates to slavery, should be
extended to any territory that may be
acquired from Mexico, by treaty or
otherwise. q '
In ls49, Illinois resolved: 81 s2aaii
That our Senators in Congress be
instructed, and our Representatives re-
quested, to use all honorable means in
their own power to procure the enact
ment of such laws by Congress for the
government of the countries and terri
tories of the United States, acquired
by the treaty of peace, friendship, linn
it's. and settlement with the Republic
of Mexico, concluded February .. A.
d. le4s as shall contain the express
declaration, that there shall be neither
slavery nor involuntary servituds in
said Territories, otherwise than in the
punishment Of crime, whereof the
party shall have been duly convicted"
The same year the following was
adopted in Wisconsin,.
"That our Senators in Congress be,
and they are hereby instructed, and