Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-09-26

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er what happy home ours will be.''
Years passed away. The words Of
little Anne. the dfunkara s daughter, had
proved true. The home of the reformed
man her father was indeed happy one.
Plenty crowned bis board and health and
Joy beamed from his wife and children
where once squalid misery alone could
be traced. The pledge had risen him
from his degradation, and restored him
once more topeace and happiness. m
From the Boston Pos..
The Free Soil MCTrment-A Practical view,
The Barnburner's position is, that Con.
gress shall pass law prohibiting elave.
ry in the territories. They deny'fhe pow.
er to The people Of the territories to act on
the subject, and insist upon the supreme
despotism of Congress over the question.
and because Gen. Cass relies upen the
intelligence of the people and their ca.
pacIty to govern themselves without the
dlctatIon OF Congress, and rests the issue
to the free action 'dftbe people Upon their
rights under the constitution, and in the
relations they bear to fhe 'confederacy,
they falsely assume that he is opposed 70
tree soil and in favor Of. slavery exten.
sion. Ht #s 800 ~-l
1t is the practical question, then, be.
tween US. whether Congress, as the pre-.
tended free soil men affirm, shall be the
exclusive tribunal to determine this Issue
in the territories, or whether it shall be
lett to the people and their constitutional
rights, under the construction Of the con.
stitutior by the sole interpreter of the fun.
damental law-the supreme court.
Those who make Congress the sole
tribunal, are in fact the enemies to free
soil. Leave il there, and what is the re-
suit! Even if the Wilmot proviso would
cover it, which is extremely Doubtful, the
fact is palpable that such a provision
could never be got through Congress-
If the house should pass it, or any other
declaration of prohibition, it could never
pass the Senate. To leave it to Congress
alone would, therefore, be TO defeat it,
because negative action by Congress
would, be taken as an affirmative declar
alton that slaves might be transported to
the territories. Under this color, slaves
might be taken there, and if the people
of the territories were denied the right to
act upon the question, Il would come be.
fore the courts, if at all, under the EN-.
barrassment of an assumed and acquired
right. =. ..... ......
Congress, therefore, as the Senate is
and will be constituted, until the terrific.
ries are states, is the most dangerous and
doubtful tribunal to which the real friends
of free soil could resort. A law ofprohi.
bitiOn could never be carried through the
Senate, and thus the friends of free soil
would be concluded, and in the meantime,
II the doctrine be true, that if slaves are
carried to the territories, in the absence
OF prohibitory law of Congress, slave
ry becomes fixed there, against the pow.
er of the people to abolish or prevent it,
then the territories are inevitably opened
to the Introduction of slavery, at the op-
ton of-slave holders alone. ...... ...
This, in fact, is the position Of Mr.. Cal
houn and the extreme south. They do.
not ask for a law Of Congress to authorize
slavery. This, they know, would be use
less. They rely on the power of the
the Senate, if not the House, to prevent
the passage ofahy prohibiIory law. They
then join the Wilmot proviso men on their
own ground, that the people of the terri
tories have no right to interfere; and
here they rest the Strength of their cause.
Thus the two extremes, north and south,
meet; and the only difference is, that the
former rely solely on Congress to prohib.
it, while the latter rely on the strength of
the south in the Senate to prevent the
passage of any such law; and both agree
ing. in denying the power to the people
of the territories, there IS no obstacle in
the way of planting slavery there, but the
naked Issue before the courts. This, the
pretended free soil men Insist, is no secu.
rity, and thus they inevitably open the
territories to slavery if the shareholders
choose to 90 there with their slaves.
Examine this carefully, test it by all
the action of the Senate on the subject,
and see ifthere is any escape from this
result. There is no ground to expert
change in the Senate on this issue.--
There Is no division in the south on this
vital question to them and their interests,
and there are Senators from other states
who will always adhereto the same view
Of the action of Congress. Push it as
you will. form your northern party against
the south, go into the present and the
next presidential election with this terri-
| BILE element of d;scord and dissolution.
and How long will it be before you can
get majority, in the Senate of, the Uni.
ted States. or a casting vote to pass the
/ Wilmot proyiso, or any thing hkeit? p-
In the meantime, the territories are FL
led up. and the people are Powerless 10
prohibit the institution until they become