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Whereas, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the recent case of Dred Scott; over which it expressly declared it had no jurisdiction, has undertaken to pronounce an extra-judicial opinion, prohibiting the people of the United States from any control of the question of Slavery within the territories of the United States, either through Congress or local governments instituted under the authority of Congress, or otherwise and,

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Whereas, such extra-judicial [stricken] decree subordinates the political power and interests of the American people to the [illegible] and ambition of a few thousand slave-holders, who are thereby enabled to carry the obvious institution of Slavery wherever the national power extends, and pre-dooms all territory which the United States may hereafter acquire by purchase or otherwise, to a law of slavery as irrepealable as the organic constitution of the Country: and,