Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-09-02
From the Nashville Banner.
The Northern and the Southern Face.
FACTS winch CANNOT BE DISPUTE

AnU NUl VIC DUuJutIu dCC'
FACTS winch CANNOT BE DISPUTED.
Southern men may well stand amazed at
what is now too plainly disclosed in the
Democratic National Platform! 1t was, at
first reading, interpreted as approving the
compromise. A second reading discovered
that the word approve" no where appears
in it, and that the words "final settlement
are nol TO be found in it. But now let can
did men contemplate the following startling
| facts:
In that Convention were sitting side by
side Secessionsts from the South Compro-
mise men from various localities, and anti
Fugitive Slave law men from the North, all
in full fellowship, and all for Pierce and
King and the restoration of the Democratic
party to power. Well--they adopted O
platform of principles, and that platform
contains the following resolution:
"Resolved That the Democratic party
will faithfully abide by and uphold the prin-
ciples laid down in the Kentucky and Vir-
gnia resolutions of '9S and in the report oil
Mr.. Madison to the Virginia Legislature
in 80; that it adopts those principles as
constituting one Of the main foundations OF
its political creed, and is resolved TO carry
them out in their obvious meaning and i'm
port"
Now what did they adopt when they
adopted ''the Kentucky resolutions of 9S, y
and pledged themselves to ''carry out" their
'princi pies" as constituting one of the
main foundations of The Democratic creedr'
We will show that they kneiU that they
were adopting resolutions upon which Sc
cessionists base their doctrine Of Secession
and upon which Free sellers base their re-
sistancc to the Fugitive Slave Law. We
will take up at present this little branch OF
the subject. Here is one of the Kentucky
resolutions of '9S, which forms part OF
the Democratic platform:
Resolved, That the Constitution Of the
United States having delegated to Congress
power 10 punish treason, counterteting
the securities and current coin of the United
States, piracies and felones committed or
the high seas, and offences against the
laws OF Nations, and no other crimes What.
erer, and it being true as a general princi-
pie, and one of the amendments TO the Con-
stitution having also declared, That the
powers not delegated to the United States
blythe Constitution, nor prohibited by it tc
the States respectively, or to the people,
therefore, also the same act of Congress.
passed on the 18th day of July, 1893, and
entitled ian act in addition to the act enti-
! tied an act for the punishment Of certain
crimes against the United Stales;' as, also,
the act passed by them, on the 9th day OF
June, 1898, entitled ian act to punish
frauds committed on the bank of the United
States" (and all other OF their acts which
assume, create, define or punish csmes
other than those enumerated in the Consti-
tution.) are altogether roia and OF no force,
and that the power TO create, define and pun
ish such other crimes is reserved and of
right appertains solely and exclusively to
the respective States, each within its own
territory"
/ UPON this very resolution of '9S, North
ern friends of General Pierce, it is well
known, rcpudiates the fugitive slave law
They argue that the fugitive slave law
plainly comes within the instances specified
in this resolution, in which Congress has
no power to impose punishment for refus-
ing 10 execute the law.
Here is the language of the New York
Evening Post, a leading Pierce paper, the
office OF which is a great mill for grinding
out campaign pamphlets for promoting Gen.
Pierce's election:
The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions,
according to them, and om reddcrS uiH re-
mcn,Jer that screrdI days since are took the
same UieW ofihe matier--lay down maxims
of construction which, ifapplied TO the Con-
stituton, make the FUGITIVE SLAVE
LAW A PALPABLE VIOLATION OF
THAT INSTRUMENT. BY solemnly
adopting the Kentucky resolutions, say
/ those commentators, THE CONVENTION
GAVE UP THE SLAVE LAW"
The Albany Atlas, the State Paper of
the Democratic paper at the seat OF govern
ment of New York, holds this language:
| "For ourselves we believe the iurisdc-
ton of this subject is with the States. We
do not see how any Democrat who CONSTITUTES
the constitution of the United States, in its
limited sense, can come TO any other conclu-
sion; nor can lre see hO1r he pho recognizes
the rule Of constitutional Interpretation laid
dorm IN THE VIRGINIA AND KEN
lSOhi hLSOLC liONo, can regard the
decision Of the United States Courts, claim
ing the jurisdiction Of Congress over the
matter as anything else than more dam
gerous aggregation Of a dangerous assump-
ton Of porers.".
We have not before us at the moment,
and scarcely think it necessary to give room
at present TO other instances of this Sort
This is sufficient of an example. The dis
closure is well worth the attention of citi-
zens who want no double dealing on this
subject.
| What Will Won nn,