The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-09-11
The Abolition Leaders on the
slavery Question In 1851.

The Radical leaders profess to believ,
that the encroachments of the slave powel
on the Free States was continuous and ag
gressive, and grievous to be borne, and They
now make open boast that the war was wa
ged to put down slavery at once and forev
er, and thus to redeem the Republic from
the foul stain and the curse that rested up
on it.
These declarations are all very fine, but
they are not true. The mass of the Abol
tion leaders cared nothing for slavery, ex
cept as means of kicking up fuss gener
orally. This is shown in the fact, publsh
ed by some days since, upon the authority
Of New York Radical sheet, that the New
England manufacturers are about introdu
cling Coolie slavery into that State, and cor
roberate 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 fred upon:
JOINT RESOLUTION, RELATIVE TO AMEND
ING THE CONSTITUTION OF THF UNITED
STATES.
WHEREAS, The General Assembly has re-
ceived official notification of the passage, by
both Houses of the Thirty-sixth Congress,
second session, of the following proposition
to amend the Constitution of the United
tates, by constitutional majority of two
thirds thereof; Recital Joint resolution
to amend tho Constitution of the United
S'stes-That the following articles shall be
proposed to the Legislatures of the several
States, as an amendment to the Consttu-
flied by thren-fourths of said Legislatures,
hall bo ,l; Ill
as Part Of the said Constitution, Wig. Arti-
BE MADE TO THE CONSTITUTION
WHICH SHALL AUTHORIZE OR
GIVE CONGRESS THE POWER TO
ABOLISH OR INTERFERE, WITHIN
ANY STATE, WITH THE DOMESTIC
INSTITUTIONS THEREOF, INCLU-
DING THAT OF PERSONS HELD TO
LABOR OR SERVICE BY THE LAWS
OF SAID STATE" and
WHEREAS, Three fourths of the Iegisla
lures of the said States composing the Uni
ted States are required to give assent to
said proposed amendment to the Constitu-
tion of the United States before it becomes
a part thereof; therefore, be it
Resolre1 By the General assembly of the
State Of Ohio, That we hereby rati!y, in be-
half of the State of Ohio, the above recited
proposed amendment of the Constitution of
the United States.
Resolred, 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 con-
venes.
P. HITcHcocK,
Speaker ofthe House of Representatives.
JAMES MONROE,
President pro TEN. of the Senate.
Passed MAY l3., 1861.
:'P. Hitchcock, who signs the above as
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
is the same Peter Hitchcock. of Geauga,
who figured as the leading Radical member
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 a sufficient
number of the States, as it was by Ohio,
aoould hare made slavery perpetual IN The
United States, SO far as the United States
Constitution was concerned, making that
instrument, on the subject of slavery. as un-
alterable the laws of the Medes and Persians.
The extinction of slavery was an after
thought of these 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.