Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-28
The Abolition Leaders ON the
SlaYerY QueafIOu i'm ISRI.


The Abolition Leaders ON the
Slavery Question in IS6I.
The Radical leaders profess to believe
that the encroachments of the slave power
on the Free States was continuous and ag-
gressive, and grievous to be borne, and
they now make open boast that the war
was waged to put down slavery at once
and forever, and thus to redeem the Re-
public from the foul stain and the curse
that rested upon it.
These declarations are all very fine, but
they are not true. The mass of the Aboli-
ton leaders cared nothing for slavery, ex-
cept as a means of kicking up fuss gen.
orally. This is shown in the fact, publish
ed by us some days since, upon the author
ity of New York Radical sheet, that the
New England manufacturers are about
introducing Coolie slavery into that State,
and corroborated by the following joint
resolution, which passed the same Ohio
Legislature that elected JOHN SHERMAN
United States Senator in 1861, and after
Fort Sumter had been fired upon:
JOINT RESOLUTION, RELATIVE TO AMEND
ING THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES.
WHEREAS. The General Assembly has re-
ceived official notification of the passage,
by both Houses of the Thirty sixth Con-
gress, second session, of the following pro-
position to amend the Constitution OF the
United States, by constitutional majority
of two-thirds thereof; Recital: "Joint
lresolution to amend the Constitution of the
United States-That the following articles
shall be proposed to the Legislatures of the
lpnx toto 70 fho
Constitution of the United States, which,
when ratified by three-fourths of said Leg
islatures, shall be valid, to all intents and
purposes, as part of the said Constitution,
viz: Article XIII. NO AMENDMENTS
SHALL BE MADE TO THE CONSTITU-
GIVE CONGRESS THE POWER TO
ABOLISH OR INTERFERE, WITHIN
ANY STATE, WITH THE DOMESTIC
INSTITUTIONS THEREOF, INCLUD-
ING THAT OF PERSONS HELD TO
LABOR OR SERVICE BY THE LAWS
OF SAID STATE;" and
WHEREAS, Three-fourths of the Legisla-
tures of the said States composing the
United States are required to give assent
stitution of the United States before it be-
comes part thereof; therefore, be it
ReSolued By the General Assembly of the
State of Ohio, That we hereby ratify, in be-
half of the State of Ohio, the above recited
proposed amendment of the Constitution of
the, United States.
Resozued, That certified copy of the
foregoing preamble and resolution be for
warded by the Governor to the President
of the United States, with the request that
he lay the same before Congress when it
convenes.
P. HITCHCOCK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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President pro tenn. of the Senate.
Passed May 13, 1861.
'fP. HITCHCOCK" who signs the above as
Speaker of the "Houseof Representatives"
is the same PETER HITCHCOCK, of Geauga,
who figured as the leading Radical mem
ber of the last House of Representatives.
JAMES MONROE, who signs it '.President
pro tenn. of the Senate,'' was, at the time,
a Professor in the Abolition College at
Oberlin, and subsequently Consul at Valpa-
raiso, appointed by Mr.. LINCOLN.
% This amendment to the Federal Consti-
tuition, if it had been adopted by sufficient
number of the States, as it was by Ohio,
,oould hare made Slavery perpetual in the United
States, SO far as the United States Consti-
tuition was concerned, making that instru-
ment, on the subject of slavery, as unalter-
able as the laws of the Medes and Persians.
The extinction of slavery was an after
thought ofthese Radicals. By its abolition
New England thought she could retain the
power of the Government and use it to her
advantage, and hence it was abolished.
WE hope to hear a speech by Gibson from
the State House steps, at an early day. If
he will be just enough to use the informa-
tion he has he will cause fiuttering among
some of the Democratic birds. He may
be able to show cause for their anxiety to
bring reproach upon his name.-J ourndl.
2 Next to the steps of the Ohio Penitentiary,
the steps of the State House, nearest the
State Treasury, from which he distracted
$s00,000 of its funds, is the place for Gibson
to speak. In his argument, we recommend
that he read the affidavits in which he
swore that the money of the State was in
the Treasury, and then subsequently made
oath that he Hedl The latter was the only
truth he told. - He-h
The following advertisement appears al
most daily in the Anglo French Messenger:
"It is youth, education and sentiment
which, united with riches, constitute the
charm of human life. I am young, well
educated and possessed of feeling, but,
alas am not wealthy. Now, which of |
you who have a surplus of riches is willing
to bestowion me ashare? But do not offer
n smaller sum than E10.OOO. for tn accent