The State guard., 1848-07-04

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 Cass holds that ''the inhabitants of ter ritory, while yet under territorial govern ment, may make such realdtions aS acil erclade slaveS from beig held in sucl
 Territory" This IS ht great diGiculty and the grand reason int Mir. Yancey gives for not supporting te nominees o the party. Is it suflicien?
 For the sake of the aYument only, lei us admit for moment hat such is tht doctrine of Gen. Cass. And then would ask, what ii he dos? How is ht to be called upon and required to say, 1T the capacity of Presidelt or otherwise that they shall not make sch regulations as they see fit, under the general princit pies of the Constitution 1? Who is tc 'regulate' them? It'mus be either tht President and Congress, ,r the 'inhabit ants themselves. No ma in his sense: can claim such absolute power for the Pre- sident. No such despotisn has ever been claimed for him yet. And l have proved that Congress has no right to interfere and even if it should sofar loose sight o it's propriety as to pass hn act, General Cass, having pronounced the doctrine ol interference unconstitutional, the ret ollec- ton of his official oath would compel him to veto it What so4 of consistency would there be, then, i1 calllng on Con- gross and Gen. Cass to {" "regulete" this matter with these refractory inhabitants, when we ha ve planted ourselves upon the doctrine of non-interferetce, and General Cass says his oath to pre- serve the Consti- tuition intact, would preTent him.
 But again: To say that the 'inhabt- ants of such territory shall not 'have the right to regulate themselves, is to declare the converse of that proposition to be true, and is calling upon the government of the United States to regulate for them. But we have seen that Gen. Cass, as Presi- dent, could not be party such regulation. He has disclaimcd it in advance. 1 have shown that it is in conflict with the doc. Urine of our paty, and of the whole South; for the power to 'regmate' by the Govern. ment of the United States is the power to ''intertere. ]"
 Yea, more it is in conflict with the principles that nerved the arms and free the souls of the Patriots of the Revolution and for which our fathers freely shed theil blood, endured the suferings, privations and hardships of a seven years war. | is in conflict with the fundamental princi pies of Republicanism. which is the righ of self-government; and is perfectly co incident with the very definition of tyran ny, which is "to be subject to laws, in thu enactment and continuance of which wt have no voice. The British Governmen claimed this right to legislate for our col onies. But they resisted, they denied th' right or justice of passing laws for th' government of people without the con sent of that people.
 And is the principle that gave birth t the best government on earth, that wa baptiscd in the blood of Revolutionar, Patriots. so soon toI be forgotten! Is thu British Colonial system to be re-adopted and that, too, by the descendants, the rep resentativcs of those free Patriots, ant and the interiors of that rtch boon? Flo the sake of liberty and justice, for the sak' of the memories of our fathers, the peac, and happiness of our country, hope not 1 feel assured not.
 In this connexion, let me show yol what was the opinion of John Taylor c Carolina, of whom Mir. ,Jeferson has said he ha q never written line of which h did not approve. I find the extract in on of the late speeches of the Hon. MI
 Bayley, of Virginia:
 ''But this feudai power of annexin conditions to the settlement of cnnquel ed or acquired territory, by the govern ment of the country making the acquis
 ton, has ever been exploded as tyranical
 both here and in England. One of ou
 principles in the colonial state was, ths emigrants to such territories carried wit them their natipe rights."
 * ''If the colonists en igrating from England were correct in as !, serting by force of arms, that they brougl with them all the rights conferred by tn English system of government our em grants may also contend that they carr with them all the rights conferred by ol , system. Among these, the unconditiont , right to make their own local constit,aio, r and laus, aoithout being subject to any COZ : ditions imposed by an ertraneous author , ty, has been the most important and un r rersally exercised by ecery State m tt Union." , Thus, the emigrant carried with hil 5 all his rights, the most important of whic } is the right of sel-government.
 } But what, it may be asked, is the em grant to do, when an attempt is made
 violate any of those rights, or in any mar f ner disturbe them, by those he may me, 3 with in the territory to which he em :. gratesl As has already been suggeste 9 and as MT. Yancey himself suggested, - his speech above referred to, 'there is tf = judiciary" he may appeal to that, as a : independent, separate, and co-ordinat e branch of the government, with amp - powers to ascertain and meet out justic d over which neither Congress nor the Pr l. sident dares to assume the control; al Is where the judges, stimulated with a ca h for their professional characters, and d' l. regard for their official oaths, a a bound to decide according to law.
 h Thus. then. stands the ease ,non fl