Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-12-06

wage war for the enforcement Of each aud sT-
ery fits behesis-to sustain the Union Of the
State by prompt and severe punishment Ofis-
fraelory members-snd 10 visit upon Traitors,
whether Of the North or Of the South. the pun
ishmest Of Treason, is TalriOIism Of the highest
order.
Slavery is an institution which belongs 10
not the Federal Union. 1t is purely a dOmss.
tic and local institution which belongs as eE
clusivsly to the States wherein il is tolerated.
as do the internal arrangements Of q private
family to lis social head. The General Gov.
eminent has no more right to meddle with the
question Of Slavery within the States, than has
the State Governments the right to NEEDLE with
the social arrangements Ofits citizens, preserib'
ing the periods for their eating, drinking and
sleeping, But it is the right and the duty OF
the General Government! to prohibit Slavery
from enclOaching upon Free Territory exclu-
sively under its jurisdiction, and to admit orr
iect Slave States at its pleasure. A State once
admitted into the Union, becomes the equal of
its sister States, and its inhabitants, at their
pleasure, establish or abolish Slavery. and ex'
erc:.se all the rights reserved TO the States and
the people thereof by the Constitution, under
which alone the Federal Government exists.
The Free States, and all who are opposed
to the institution of Slavery, may not, dare
not, and will not meddle with the domestic in.
stitutons II the Slave States, nor have they
any desir, SO TO do. The attempt, come
whence il may, would be treason to the Union,
and should be punished accordingly, but their
determination not to permit the extension Of
Slavery into Territory now free, and which was
soemuly devoted to freedom by the Ordinance
of 1887 and the Compromise OF 1890, is per.
fectly constitutional, and all those who venture
to threaten disunon in consequence of the free
exercise Of this prerogative, are Traitors to the
Union, and merit the condemnation of every
honest and right thinking man in the country,
and should their threats ever assume the form
of overt acts, then let traitors doom be their
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richly merited fate,
The rights Of the States and Of the People Of
the States-embracing every right and Privi-
lege not expressly transferred to the Federal
Government by the Constitution Of the United
Stales-are obvious and pslpable to every man
of ordinary intelligence, and woe to him who
dares to iafrings upon them. The AboliGonists
| of the North and the Sscessionists Of the South,
are alike fanatics and disuuionists. and as
such, they merit the execratipn of all honest
and patriotic men. twas against such, that
Andrew Jackson said of the Union, it must
and shall be preserved and so says every
patriot in the land, even if to preservd it, were
to involve the country in civil war. But let
no hone est man in or out Of Congress, be deter.
red from the performance of his duty, by the
threas of dsunionists or the bullying of those
who deny to the friends of freedom, the. same
right to oppose the extension of slavery which
is cheerfully conceded to those who desire to
extend its area If Congress and the People
desire 10 extend the institution of slavery over
all the Territory of The Union now free, so be
it. AS good citizens il is the duty of the mi
nority to submit, and we shall do so, without a
murmur But if on the contrary, Congress
and the people, refuse to permit any extension
of slavery into public Territory from which il
was excluded by the ordinance of 1887 and the
Missouri Compromise, it will be the duty Of
the friends OF the institution to submit to the
will of the people thus expressed, and when
submission is not voluntary it must be enfor.
ced BY the Federal authorities.
These are the principles and these the senti
ments OF the whole North, with few ineOn
siderable exceptions not worthy of being re
garded. and in this State they were emphati
cally indOrsed BY a number ofvoters more thai
equal to the whole number Of shareholders il
the United Statesl'