The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-02-27


nov free.
ReSolr,d, That. in our opinion. Congress hc4
the Constitutional polser 10 childish ne sla~
trode, and siarCrv IN tie Distrirt of ColumJio
and thar oLr Senators be distracted. and oui
Representatives be requested u take al cousti
tutional measures 10 accomplish these ottcts.'
The Democratic State committee 81 New
Hampshire, in October, lsi., PASSED Tie follow
ing resolution
Resol,td That we declare Il our solemn con
vic'iou as the Democratic yGrfy hare Iere,ofo,,
done, that II, iIher slavery or Juvo!uutary rv
tude should hereafter exist in d.v teTritort
which may be- acquired by, ~ annexed Ia ihe
I United States; aud thar We approve Of the votes
of our delcgati iu Congress IL h,vcr Of the
/ Wimoi p~oviSo."
/ ILLINOIS, until last year. rrve, voted for
/ any bar a Democratic candidate flr Psesid. nj.
In ,s49. her Legislature beire largely Demo,
cratic. resolved:
That our Senator's in Con- be- -trucrrd.
and our Representatives r.ql SID 20 use al
/ honorable means in their po~er io procure the
enactment of such laws by CONFESS ior the cuy.
ernmeut OF the countries and Territories oi he
. United States, acquired by tie treaty Di peace,
friendship. limits aud settlement With thc ReIuh-
I lie o: Mexico, concluded FcbfuIfy ,, A u SIS,
az shall contain the expires, declaration - that
there shall be neither SLAYER, Ior iHvoluniasy '
servltude in said Territories Otherwise ,hsn in
I. the punishment Of crimes, whereof the party
shall have been dUly convicted"
/ The same wear the following vas adopted in
/ WISCONSIN, also a Democratic State:
That our Senator's in Congress b., and they
are hereby instructed. and our Representatives
requested, first, to oppose TIE passage # Gpy
acf for he gorernplent IF Ns,c u rico AID C,li
~. d q.
the United States, or which may hereafter bc
/ acquired, unless II shall contain - prort,i1,,
10, erer prohibiting tie introdacti q # sldrcry
or involuntary seTvitUde inio said Territories ex
/ cept as punishment for crimes; second, to op-
! pose the admission of any more slave states into
the Federal Union"
/ In 1850 the following was adopted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of INDIANA,
strongly Democratic in both b.auches:
! "That our Senator's in Congress be instructed,
and our Representatives requested, so to cast
their votes and extend their Influence a. to have
incralted upon any law that may BE- passed for
the organization OF the territory recently acquired
! from Mexico, provision, forever extending from
such territory slavery and involuntary seTyitude,
otherwise than in the punishment OF crimes,
whereof the party has teen duly couvicted.n
! Ia lsi7, Governor Dana OF UALNE prom,
]
/ ture, in speaking of the rghl
/ hold their slaves in the Tys11 sSSA:
/ "On the oth.r hand, the slave States claim
/ that this territory will be acquired if acquired
at all, by the blood and treasure of al the States
/ of the Union to become the joint property oi
/ al to be held for the benefit of all And they
emphaticay ask, is it consistent with justice :
! His right to acquire aud possess property i one
of the inherent right Of man. Independent oi
laws aud constitutions Mt 80 sr;.h the right
/ To h's Siaees; that j. an unnatural, an artificial
"a statute right and when he voluntarily pass,
with a slave 10 a territory where the statute re-
cognizing the right does not exist, then at ono.
| tie right &c to srist The slave becomes a
! tree man. with ust as much right to claim the
master AS the master TO claim the slave.
/ la $40 the Democratic party in Maine held a
State convention at which Hon. Jonn Hubbard
was nominated tor Governor. This convention
was composed OF six hundred delegates at which
the following vote was passed, onty one solitary
member roting against it:
l." Resolred, That the institution of human
slavery is at variance with the theory OF our
/ Government abhorrent to the common sentiment
| of mankind, and iraught with danger to ali who
come within the sphere Of its influence: thai
the Ee-eIal Government possesses adequat.
power TO inhibit ais eristence a., the Ie,rst1
ries OF the Union that the constiiuilonahty o
this power has been settied By judicial eonsttsc
tion ty cOiemDsrdne0ns tTpDsItions and On re
peated acts ot legislation and that We cnj0iI
upon our Senators ard Representatives in Con
gress TO make eUery eJertion, and employ a.
their influence, TO procure the passage o' a iav
forerer erctud'ng starery from the Territories o
California and Ncw Mexico
And the Legislature, largely Democratic, pass
ed the 70 lowing:
"Resolce4. That the sentiment OF this Stat.
is profound, sincere, ard almost universal iha
the Influence of slavery upon productive cner,
is ike the blight OF mlldew that it is mora
ard social evil thar it does violence to the right
of man, a thinking. reasonable, and resposb,
being. Influenced by such cons derarons Hi
STATE nil oppose The introdacti9n If 'Stare,y az
to any Itrrtt,yy which may be acq ,ifed : an in
demnity for claims upon Mexico
In i>47, the Legislature OF NEW YORL
resolved:
" That if any Territory is hereafter acquired
by tine United States, or annexed thereto. IN
act by which such Territory IS acquired or annex
ed, whatever sucb act NAV be, should contain al
unalteiabe fundamental article or provision
whereby slavery or involuntary scrvitude excep
as punishment for crime, shall be forever { exclu
ded from the territory acquired or annexed
The Democratic members OF the Legislature
of the State OF New York, in IS, in : seri-
Of resolutions, included the following:
"ReSoiged, That while the Democracy OF Ne,
York vii faithfully adhere To all the compromis
es of the Constitution. and maintain ali the re
served rights oi the States, they Geclare--sinc
the crisis has arrived when tha; question mus
be met tbeir soconap promising hostility 10 III
erteasisn Of staseyy into Te,rifory nop Ire.
which has been or NAV b heretofore acquire
by any action OF the Government Of the Unite
States"
Similar resolutions were adopted the san
year at Utica, IN State Convection in ahic
Hon. John Van Buren, and Hon. John Cochran
; participated.
In lsl? the Legislature of New York passe,
; the following:
'Reso'red, That the determination indicate
by the Governors messages and resolutions q
; the legislatures oi various Of the slavehoiiin
States, and by the Representatives of such State
} in Congress, TO extend domestic slavery over tn
Territory acquired by the late treaty c: peac
with the Republic of Mexico, We feel bound
oppose by all Constitutional means; and reco.
e uizin- the constitutional power # Congress
prohibit, by positive enactment the extension
slavery into free Tertiary, our Senators in Coz
gress hereby instructed, and our Represent.
r tyes requested, 10 their best efforts TO iuse
such positive prohibition into any law they Ina
pass for the government of the Territories
7, question"
81 O State conversion OF the Democratic par,
{, Of OHIO, in the year 1858, the following resoI,
' ton was adopted:
= Reso'red, That the people Of Ohio nov
as they have always done, look upon the instit'