| Show A SPECIMEN OF POPULAR FEELING it is so seldom that we find room or even deem it worthwhile to notice the violent expression of party f feeling eeling in th the e states fht we have concluded to indulge C our readers to a few quotations indicating indication the growing 0 to constitutional restraint as shown 1 irn int lithe the fhe lail JAli published shed shea speeches spee epee ches and resolutions of a party rapidly I 1 increasing n 1 cin rin in numbers ard aad power A the supreme court pt of the unite united d states stages in what i ia known agthe as the cabe recently affirmed that a negro is not and cannat be a citizen n 1 that decision hag has raised 11 a per perfect fe ct whirlwind of excitement in the northern and many of the middle middie and western states on the of april says the albany ev evening en jou journal anal a large and enthusiastic enthus dred scott meeting ogas was held in the assembly amber CJ Jm bamber hamber ber jn n the tho capitol in albany NY which organized by electing a president 12 vice pres pros dents and 3 secretaries F from to m their pro proceedings ce we quote the following I 1 hon G IV patterson president said lint but for the decision of the supreme court of the united states in the caselt dred scott new york always would have been free shall that decision fasten slavery upon the state of new york cries of no no from various parts of the she house never by my consent I 1 speak with all d deference of arence t to 0 that high tribunal I 1 have yet to learn that a man not honest at the bar becomes more so on the bench we have been told for years it has been reiterated over and over again that the people of the territories have the right to make their own laws without interference from any department of the federal government but how ia is it now this decision of ibe the supreme court of the united states it if carried into effect deprives us of saying whether we will have new york a free or a slave state hon H 13 stanton oe of seneca falls said cin in november last 1856 it was only the executive and legislative departments of the federal government that had given in their complete adhesion to the slave oligarchy and prostituted prostitutes all their energies to the work of extending ne negro nero ro slavery throughout the country now the e supreme court of the united states has by a recent decision thrown its great weight into the same scale in the dred scott case it has pronounced a judgment which has start startled ed the land lanu this decision sir air has hag sho shocked clied the intelli gence ence and the moral sense of all that ia is free in in the country it has aroused the fears of the timid and kindled the indignation of te the bold the genius of liberty leaps to its feet to declare that its authors have won a high place on the scroll of ATROCIOUS JUDGE who in evil times IC perverted the judgment of the just and framed iniquity by a law 5 em bahmed in infamy their thel r works shall follow them and their nil nii names es shall live forever loud applause these peerless principles previously enumerated me rated so iong long approved by the tha public judgment so deeply canonized in the Naf national ional lonal heart judicial serfs of the slave power have in their recent decision attempted to nullify and destroy to establish these prin principles ciplis cost our ancestors in two hemispheres much precious blood will the sons of such ancestors permit them to be overthrown by the coerced fiat of an enslaved court nol no nolt noll nol noi such air is the crisis that is upon us what esthe is the duty of the people in this critical emergency the people existed before judges let them hem bem teach mr justice taney and his associates socia tes that courts were made for the peo pie and not the people for courts applause in the first place it is the duty of people of the free states at the earliest possible moment to wrest the general government from the hands bands of 0 the slave power and its allies and its minions loud applause they should do this that they may proven prevent t slavery from openly taking possession of 0 all national territories and from stealthily plant planting rg its foot upon the soil of every free state in the union they should do this that they may preserve their own personal liberties no now w im i peril led by this combined assault of the executive legislative and judicial departments upon the essential rights of man both bond and free hear then a renovated forum shall overrule this uni usi and cruel decision and by making the federal judicial office thereafter elective and by the whole body of the fhe american people in each instance we will insure that court against any more taney made law through all coming time loud applause let our motto be the remodelling remo delling of the supreme court and the election of its judges by the people renewed applause again sir we must announce as one of the leading measures in our policy no more slave states andablo andalo and no slave territory I 1 the people of new york have present duties to perform the dred scott decision touches us most nearly it audaciously aims to plant and to protect slavery upon our oar own soil whatever vermay may be its fate tin nati politics freedom is in pow power 1 er here and asa as a humble member of our ren renowned dined mined commonwealth mon wealth I 1 am for meeting the supreme court at the boundaries of our state and proclaiming to its face that every being wearing i the human form divine J and who is of crime shall be as free as the running waters that gush out at his feet as chain less lesa as the air that he inhales long continued applause pl ausey ausef sir the crisis is upon us the decision of the supreme court if permitted to be carried out establishes slavery not only in all the territories but in every state of this union it nationalizes the system and declares it inviolable and invulnerable not a social evil to deplored bp be but butu a political blessing to be bi rev erencen and let alone sir in its essence it goes to ta the roots of the rights of man irrespective spec tive of color creed or crime in law it is false in morals I 1 if it is wicked in politics it is alarming this cris crisis i s is pot of our seeking but dut being upon us we ire must meet it like men we follow the above aboe with wita quotation quotations 3 from the Rep report of the jont boot Legis legislative t lati iati C committee om cittee in in is assembly at albany N Y april 9 y ss as taker taken from the same paper and reporting upon the dred scott decision gey mey the supreme court have chave destroyed the confidence of tile the people in the court by stamping upon it a black mark of sectionalism and ship they have moreover placed themselves and the court they control in the front rank of pro slavery pro and offensive aggression upon the r nights rights i of the free states your committee reluctantly admit th the tha 3 tb thought ought that the national ermine was used to cover and effect such an unhallowed purpose but they have seen too many evidences of the desperate acts to which pro slavery fanaticism leads men subject to its influence to lay aside the fearful apprehension that our national court has been brought under its dominion the influence and power of the court having now b been een on the bide side of a ery and agal agai against hist fist the rights of the citizens of the he free states it no longer bonmer 1 accomplishes the purpose of its institution 7 the committee concluded their report by recommending 0 the adoption of the fol foi following lowin resolutions 1 f r and the passage of the them following act resolutions resolved that this state wili will not allow slavery within her borders in any form or under any pretence predence pre tence or for any time however short let the consequences be what they may resolved that the e court of J tho the united united states by reason of a majority of the judge judges s thereof having identified it with a sectional dional 1 and aggressive party has lost the confidence and respect of the people of this state resolved thattie that the governor of this state be and he hereby is respectfully requested to to transmit a copy of this report the law above mentioned and these resolutions to the respective governors of the states of this union AN ACT TO SECURE FREEDOM TO ALL PERSONS WITHIN THIS STATE the tha people of tim tive state of new mork york represented aen ted in senate and assembly do enact as follows oms 1 neither descent nearer remote demot froni from an african whether such Afric african africans anis is or may have been a slave or not nor color of bf skin shall disqualify any person from being or prevent any person from becoming a citizen of this stata state nor deprive such person of tha the rights and privileges of a citizen thereof 2 every slave who shall come or be brought or be in this state with the consent of his or her master or mistress or wh who sha shall it come of or be brought or be involuntarily inthis in this state shall be free 3 every person who shall hold or attempt r to hold in this state in slavery or as a slave any person ment mentioned lond as a slave in the second section of this act or any free person of color in in any form or under any pretence predence pre tence or for any time however short shall be deemed guilty of t felony and on conviction thereof shall be confined in the state prison at hard labor for a term not less than two nor more than ten years HON hov IV 11 SEWARD ON MAIL facilities in the remarks of senator seward on the california mail route bill we find the boilow following in 6 it if it is 3 desirable to have california at all al 1 it is is equally desirable that we shall have hae the customary mail communications with that country when I 1 shall be found unwilling to extend those thos 0 facilities to that portion of the american people residing there I 1 shall then be willing f for or one to release that portion of the i american r people from their obliga obligation ti on to remain m ain aln in this union and allow them the revenues which will arise from their commerce to establish the communications they will require with all the nations of the world 1 if that principle is is correct in in regard to california it is is st still till more applicable to utah for the major part of the meagre mail facilities hitherto so grudgingly and irregularly extended I 1 to us has now been most unwarrantably and illegally withdrawn if california failing 11 to be allowed the cliston customary mail communications can be released from dobli obligations actions to remain in this unior most certainly utah should be |
