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1 Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio, in Favor of the Prohibition of Slavery in Territories of the United States, and the Immediate Admission of Kansas into the Union as a State 1 (1856)

handle is hein.slavery/rlegoh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 34TH CONGRESS, SENATE. Mis. Doc. 1st Session. No. 49. RESOLUTIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF OHIO, IN FAVOR OF The _prohibition of slavery in Territories of the United States, and the immediate admission of Kansas into the Union as a State. MAY 5, 1856.-Ordered to lie on the table and be printed. STATE OF OHIO. JOINT RESOLUTIONS relative to Kansas affairs. Whereas, the original policy of our country contemplated no ex- tension of slavery beyond the limits of slave States, and no increase of the number of such States; and whereas experience has sufficiently proven that every departure from that policy has been productive of evil, and of evil only; and whereas, by the repeal of the slavery pro- hibition of the Missouri compromise, the whole question of slavery, in its relation to the Union, the States, and the Territories, has been re- opened; and whereas the people of Kansas, deprived of the protection of that prohibition, and despoiled by armed invasion of their undoubted right to elect their own representatives, have been compelled to choose between the alternatives of resort to the inherent right of every com- munity, in the absence of valid laws, to provide for its own safety and good order, or submission to the unauthorized edicts of a pretended legislature, seeking to compel the admission of slavery by appointing its own creatures to all territorial offices, whether executive or judicial, and by imposing such restrictions upon the right of suffrage at future elections as will exclude the opponents of slavery from the polls; and whereas the people of Kansas, properly adopting the former alterna- tive, have proceeded to elect a delegate to Congress, and to form for themselves a State constitution with a view to application for admis- sion into the Union; and whereas it is the duty, in the judgment of this general assembly, of the federal government, and of the people of the several States, to unite their efforts to save the Territory of Kan- sas from the renewal of civil tumult, and from the further shedding of blood: Be it therefore- Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the cause Reproduced with permission from the University of Illinois at Chicago

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