The continued aggressions of the Federal Government in behalf of Negro Slavery must be met by the States in which the principles of Liberty yet survive. Ohio led in 1855 against the Kansas-Nebraska act; let her lead again against a Federal Slaveholding Court.
Original passage & context
"The continued aggressions of the Federal Government in behalf of Negro Slavery must be met by the States in which the principles of Liberty yet survive. Ohio took the lead in 1855 in opposition to the Kansas Nebraska act, and it is very proper that she should again lead the column of Freedom in opposition to the doctrines recently promulgated by a Federal Slaveholding Court."
Four weeks after the ruling, the response stops being editorial and becomes legislative: an Ohio committee reports resolutions against the decision. Northern states answering a federal ruling with state resistance is the shape of the next four years — and the exact argument the South had been making since 1832.