Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1854-05-19

age, and IL is the business OF the States ihro'
their delegations in Congress, 10 take care Of
these minors until they arc Of age-until they
are ripe for State governmcnl-ihcnlgivo them
that government, aud admit them to an equal.
iiy with their fathers. That is-ihc law and
the sense Of tho case and has been 30 acknowl.
edged, since the hrsi ordinance in 1884, by
authoriti-s, federal and state, legislative, ju-
dicial and executive.
The states in Congress are the guardians
Of the territories, and ara bound to exercise
tie guardianship, aud cannot abiieato II with.
out broaeh Of trust and dolericlion Of du.
ty. Territorial sovereignty is a monslrosi.
~, born Of ,imidi,y and ambition, hAiehed In.
To eHis,cneo in the ho, incuLallon of pres.
idential canvass, aud revolving To tho holders
whom first presented Well do I remember
that day when j, vas first shown in the Sen.
ate. Marx Antony dd not better remember
the day when Cesar hrSn put 90 that mantle
through which he vas afterwards pierced with
ihrec-and.tweniy "envious stabs." II was
ia the Senate IN 1915, and was received a.
nsnscnsc--as the essence Of nonscnso-as tho
quinlssscncc of nonscnse-as the five times
distilled essence Of fnOnscasiclliiy.
Tnc STUMP SPEECH ~ ruE nltL.
Why, sir, the territory itself is ,lIa prop.
euy of the states, and they DO what they
please with i,-pcrmi, it To he settled or not,
as they please; cut it up by lines, as they
please chase Nhi,e people from il, as they
please. Amer this fluago-lhis Oia.Podrida
comes a litlle stump speech, injected in tho
belly Of the bill. and which must have prod.
icous effect when rcciIed IN prairies aud out
towards the frontiers, aud up towards the
heads oi the creeks. tLdughir and 0Rsd-
hon.) will read il, and hope without a
ligning the House for It is both brief and
beautiful, it runs thus:
"ll being lhe intent and meaning Of this
act not to lcgislaio slavery into any State or
Territory, nor to o1clude it ihercirom but
to leave the people thereof perfectly FREQ TO
form ani regulate ;heir domestic institutions
IN their own waS, subject only to The ron'ti-
tuliOi Of the United States
This !, Tho speech aud pretty lirlo hing
itself. and very proper to be spoken from ,
stump in prairie. 1t ha, inienri and a true
intent; which is neither to lcgislate slavery
into or out Of State or Territory. Thes
Why leci,laIe at oil Why an ihi. disturb
anco il no effect is produced, ind things TO
remain jds, As they were Let we'll enough
alone, was the old doctrine, to make well
enough s,l,l better, is the prcgrcs, and that
in spite Of the Italian ,pitaph, which says
":l was we'll, aud would be better, took
physic, aud hurc am."
But the States must be greatly delighted
at The pollterc,, and lorbclnnce OF this bill.
Il puts States and Territories upon precise
/ equality wiih respect to the power Of Con.
gees over them. Congress does not mean
20 pu, slavery IN Or ou. ofany State or Tori
tory. To all that polite abncgaiion, | ha'o
to say that in respect Of the States, it is tho
supcrcrogalion OF modc'iy and humility, a,
Congress happens to have no power to put
slavery IN them; and IN rr'per: Of the Terri
tories, 1t IL an abdicaiion Of constitutional
power aud duty; It being the rglt Of Com
e'ess to lrrsIlle upon slavery in the Tsr-
rtor.cs, and is duty to do 50 when there is
occasion for i,-as IA l7s7 anl ls2O.
I object 10 tai, ,hilly-shally-willy.won'ly
/ den dcn'iy.can'iy-;tyle Of Legislation. (loars
Of llughicr) 1t Iisnot legislative. 1t Is not
parliamentary. 1t is not manly. ltisnotwo.
manly. No woman would talk that way.
| No shlly.shally ina woman. Nothing ofthu
female gender was ever born young enough,
or lyci long enough, to get bciosgcd in such
quandary as this. (RcncN cNedlaughlcr.) It's
one thing or the other with them, and -hat
they tay they stick to. No breaking bar
gains with them. but the end of this
stump speech is the hes, Of The whole. Df-
icrcn, from good milk, in which the cream
rises to the top, 1t here settles To the bottom
and is in these words
Leave it to tie people thereof that is to
say, of the states and ofihc icrriMres, to rcc-
ulalc slavery for themselves as they please,
only subject to the constitution of,hc United
States"
Ccrluinly this is a new subjectioi Coz tho
states. Heretofore they have bsen free to
regulate slavery for th0mselvcs-admit II, or
reject it and that not by virtue OF any gran,
ofpower in the constitution, but by virtue OF
an unsurrrndcrcd part Of their old sovereign.
ty. Ills also new of thc territories. Hero
toioro they have been held to be wards sof Con-
ercss, and cr:itled to nothing, under the con-
s,i,ulion, but lhal which Congress extended
to them. But this clause is not accidentally
here it is to keep up the dogma Of the con-
slilution in territories but only there IN rcla-
tion To slavery, and that for its admission
not rejection.
Three docruas now aillrt the land ride-
Hoci squaltet sovereignty, noE-.nisrcniion,
aud no power in Congress To leglslaIe up,n
slavery in territories. And this bill asserts
tho whole three, and beautifully illustrates
tho whole three, by knocking each on tho
head with the other, and irampling each un-
der foot in It's turn. Sir, the bill does deny
squatter sovereignty, and il d,cs intervene,
and il does logislaie upon territories, and for