Hannibal journal and western union. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1851-1852, 1851-09-04
tJoURNALAND UNIoN-HANNIBAL, MO-, SEPTEMBER A, 1851

neiglbor be called upon TO surrender anything,
in endorsing such sentimentP Do we en-
brace the tenets of Seward, because the Wings
of New York will ever be found prompt TO rem
der patriotic acquiescence in such laws 2"
But again, 1.-The National Administration is
entitled to the confidence and support Of the
Wings of New York, for the eminent ability
and patriotism which have characterized its
measures, for its successful management Of our
foreign affairs the generous sympathy it has
exhibited toward an oppressed people struggling
for freedom, the force and dignity with which
it has maintained the right TO indulge such
sympathy, and with which it has rebuked the
threats of an imperious government TO violate
the mmunities OF an accredited public agents,
and the determination it has evinced to repres,
and defeat all movements tending to impair the
public faith, and all unlawful enterprises calcu-
lated to disturb the public peace, OF provoke
civil war, or TO sever and Uedken the relations
Of any State with the Union"
They geographically acknowledge the
right of every sovereign State, 10 regulate its
own municipal institutions in such manner as the
people may deem most conducive to their safety,
without interference, directly or Indirectly, by
the citizens Of other States or subjects Of other
countries" The ''whigs of this State will abide
by the constitution Of the United States, in all
its parts" Do they then "surrender" to the
Abolition wing, because they doonot promise to
disregard every provision of the constitution but
the "FugaiUe Stare LapW Is this expected?
Are the Democratic organs dissatisfied THAT
they will receive its true meaning and construc-
lion from the'udciary? "-lrom whom have them
receive it?-and that they will always sustain and
defend such decisions, the law of the land,
until they are reversed by such tribunals? Will
they have them defend them after they are re-
We psed if, such thing could take place? If I'M
constitutional to reverse, the supremacy Of our
courts will never permit them TO be reversed until
reversed they pledge themselvee to sustain and
defend them What more ask of them? hitherto
the SeDdrdHes have opposed such measures. If
coalition is formed which surrender" them
selves or the Fillmore wings, who before the
existence Of the ''manifesto pere tacHly pledged
from the fact that they had been jealous
advocates of a man who unresevedly says, THE
series of measures, Compromise to which
hive alluded, are regarded by me as settlement
in principle and in Substances final settle
ment of the dangerous and exciting subjects
which they embrace"
II language is susceptible Of accuracy sufli-
cient to preclude the probability OF difference
fof opinion with regard to the subject matter, ii
seems TO us that'the preceding resolution might
with show OF propriety, set up claim. So
far, we have fought our way inch by inch, and
stand upon genuine Wing Platform Wheth-
er our position will be weakened, let thc.two
remaining ''resolutions'' show The Wings
of the State a body are inflexibly opposed TO
the subsection OF any territory o. the United
States now free, to laws imposing involuntary
servtude." This, though it differs from the
views Of great many Southern Wings, is not
surrender and can in no possible manner affect
the Fugitive Bill. II Is not a surrender, because
ii advocates the very same doctrine which every
Wing and Democrat north of Mas on and Dixon
line has promulgated since the union Of the Con-
federation. They haze advocated it and will
continue to advocate it. To what conclusions
will party bias lead man!
The remaing resolution is this, ''that the right
OF citizens as voters, is equally undeniable, IL
discuss, Nth full and mutual regard, for the
rights and interests of all parts Of the confede-
racy, the exPediency of such laws, and the pro-
priety of any of their provisions, and 10 seek
by constitutional means their repeal or modifca-
ton. The issue is made between an abstract
right and the question Of expedency. To de-
! y iiElll Is llhposSlOle, as wen as OPP
nccSed to the spirit of our institutions The rights
of ''citizens as voters" as private or public in
diyiduals to discuss freely is guaranteed to ev.
cry one. Such has been, is, and will be the
constitutional abstract rights, not only of the
branches of the party in New York, but of ev.
cry party in every state,-and it is evident then
as they have come upon the same platform, with.
out parting with their mutual rights, there has
been in this res pect-as set forth in their res
olution, and can hare been. no 'Swrender.'" Blu
confusion has arisen in some quarters from
oonfounding right, strictly constitutional, Will
merely moral obligations. We have attempted
TO show the inconsistencies Of the Courier
proof and that the SelUarddeS yieIded everything
as set down in the ''manifesto'' of the propose