Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-01-24

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Tennessee) nth the crime of staue
stealing. who had fed from justice
ard was found in the State of Ohio.
The Governor refused to issue his
warrant for the arrest and delivery
of the fugitive, and in answer to a
letter OF inquiry which l addressed
;, to him, said: "The crime OF negro
stealing not being known to either
the common law or the criminal
I code of Ohio. it is not of that class oil
crimes contemplated by the Federal
( Constitution, for the commission ol
which | am authorized, as the exc
cutive of Ohio, to surrender a fugi,
tive from the justice Of a sister
State, and hence ! declined to issue
a warrant" &c.; thus deliberately
multiplying and setting at defiance
the clause OF the Constitution
above quoted, as we'll as :he act Of
Congress of February 18th, 1893,
and grossly violating the ordinary
comfy existing between separate
/ and Independent nations, much less
the comfy which should exist be-
TIVE en- sister States Of the same
Coufederacy; the correspondence
corrected with which is herewith
transmitted.
(, Ii has, through the executive au-
thority Of other States, denied ex-
tradition of murderers and marauders.
1t obtained its own compromise
in the Constitution TO continue the
importation Of slaves. and now sets up
law, higher than the Cons titution,
to destroy this properly imported
and sold to US by their fathers.
1t has caused the murder OF
owners in pursuit OF their fugitive
sla, es, and shielded the murderers
from punishment.
1t has, upon many occasions, sent
its emissaries iato the Southern
States to corrupt our slaves; induce
! them to run off, or to excite them to
insurrecIion.
| 1t has run off slave property by
means of the "underground railroad, "
amounting in value to millions OF
dollars. and thus made the tenure
! by which the slaves are held in the
| border States SO precarious as to
materially impair their value.
1t has, by its John Brown and
Montgomery raids, invaded sover-
eign States anG murdered peaceable
citizens.
! Ii has justified and "exalted to
the highest honors of admiration,
the borrid murders. arsons, and ra-
pine of the John Brown raid, and
! has canonized the felons as saints
and martyrs.
! 1t has burned the towns, poisoned
the cattle, and conspired With the
slaves to depopulate Northern Texas
1t has, through certain leaders,
proclaimed the to slaves the terrible
motto, alarm 70 the sleep, fire to
the dwellings. poison 10 the food and
water of slaveholders.'
1t has repudiated and denounced
/ the deci ion of the Supreme Court.
1t has assailed OR rights as
guaranteed BY the plainest provisions
OF the Constitution, from the floor
tof each house of Congress, the
pulpit, the bustings, the school rooml
their State Legislatures, and through
the public press, dividing and DIS
rupting churches, political parties
and civil governments.
/ 1t has, in the person oil the
! President elect, asserted the equality
Of the black with the wh'fc race.
These are some of the wrongs
against which we have remonstIa
ted for more than quarter oil I
century, hoping, but in valn,- i0'
their redress, until some'of our slste
, States in utter despair Of obtaining
Justice at the HANDS Of these law
less eonfederates, have resolved t
t sever The ties which have boun'
5 them together, and maintain thos
rights of the Union, which hav
. been the object Of constant attacI
!. and encroacbmest within it.
e No one will assert that tn
D Southern States or people have, q
y any time, failed to perform, full
e and in good faith. all Of the dutle
e which the Constitution deyolVe
% upon them. .
Nor will il be pretended tn
l they have, at any time, encroache
r, or attempted aggression upon Il