The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1847-10-01
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ticnal ~lntelhgencer or u recent uate.
The Editors o that paper say it is from
an eminent citizen and farmer of Mary
land. 1t addresses itself to the good
sense of the reader.
Party--0nd the next Presidential
Election.
desire 20 submit to the Wings a few
remarks on these three subjects. as con
nected with each other. | select your
paper as having the most extensive circu-
lation, and with the hope that they will
be copied into the leading Wing papers
throughout the Union.
regret extremely the course taken by
some of the most respectable Wing pa
pers at the North, in making the Wiimot
Prociso the test question atthe next Presi.
dental election. Do they not sec that
if this issue be made by the North il must
~ofnecessity be made by the Southl Are
they not already authoratively advised
that it is the issue now most desired by
your opponents of the SOUTH | refer
them to Mr.. Calhoun's letter of the eth
June last. He looks TO this issue. and
Justly as one that will absorb all other
political considerations-as one that viii
unite the people of the slaveholding
States as one man. And such, most un
d~uestionably, will be the effect. With
this issue there will be neither Wing nor
Tory there. Such, however, will not be
its effect at the North. Though both par,
ties should adopt the issues. yet it will
not effect their union, Its effect on the
election | will notice in a subsequent par
agraph.
To the Wigs of the North | mhesi-
tatingly say that the Wilmot Proviso is
per Sc of no practical value 1t will not
prevent any State from establishing sla
very after its ddmiSsion into the Union.
The Legislature Of Maine has proposed
that the anti-slavery provision of the or.
dinance ofl7S7 should he extended to all
territory hereafter required, This will
give the Wilmot Proviso the most effec.
tive form. Now, admitting for the mo.
meut the Justice of the analogy, | put the
question, if the State Of Ohio should to.
morrow establish slavery; what power in
the United States would nulIify the actl
The argument ofOhio would be that the
basis Unpopular government is that the
sovereign power rests in tho people Of
the Stnte-thc living people-to be OK
ercised by a majority; and that an inhe'
rent prerogative Of that sovereignty is to
determine the political condition of its
people; aud that, to every extent, that
sovereignty, where not restricted by the
Constitution of the United States. now
remains in perfect equality, in the people
of each State in the Union, What pow
er, Ohio would ask, had the State Of
Virginia and the Constitutional Con.
gress, before there was an inhabitant in
that State, 10 determine for all time The
political condition fitsfuture population
She might put a question Of peculiar pun.
gency TO the North: Had that ordinance
instead of prohibiting slavery, established
it, must it have endured forever in Ohio
The South questioning the business o
the analogy. may put the still more strin
gent questions:-From what clause il
the Constitution does Congress derive
the power to limit the sovereignty o
a State, @hca in the Union, to determin,
the political condition Of its people for
everl In the Territories of the United
States Congress may prohibit slavery ~
to tho moment of admission into til,
Union. They may even refuse to ADM
a State under the constitution that es
tablishes slavery. But, when u State il
admitted into the Union, tho question re
ours, what powerhas Congress over the
sovereignty Of that State. to determine ol
restrict the political condition Gifts PEG.
plel
Against such argument, however you
or | may appreciate them, with whal
hope could an appeal he made to The Su
preme Court composed as it is, of ma
iority of slavcholders-to nuIIify slavery
established in the State of Buena Vista
Matamoras OF Vera Cruz, &c, in viola
ton ofthe Wilmot Provisol BY whatac
could Congress nulify III And lift could
is there any hope that it would nulify it
What can be hoped against an even vot,
in the Senate, or from a new growth o
principles in the House of Representative.
| repeat, then, that the Wilmot Provi
50 is Of no practical value in preventing
the extension of slavery. | go further
Ii is not only useless but vicious, as
takes the place of an issue both %effecliv
and ex%pedient-an issue that will pc
sc prevent the extension of slavery, an
on which the Wings o%fevery State in III
Union may unite; and on which, if pre-
sented as the grand issue, they will unite
NO MEXICAN TERRITORY.
Let this be the issue. Letthis DO tn
motto inscribed on tho Wing banner an
victory is certain.
! now state what | deem will be Nh
certain results Of the next President,
election under the two issues.
The whole number Of electoral vote
viii he 290-necessay to choice LAG.
Under the W'imot proviso issue, III
Northern Wing candidate will be vel
certain not 10 have a single vote from
slaveholdiug State. and to get o. vot
from other States, and the Loco candida
rs, while the Southern candidate will o
tain l2l-the entire vote of the slaveht
ding States. The election will then d
vo1va IN the Houae If Ranrosa,,.,;Y