The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-12-29

1920 ard 1850, were expressly left open fol
judicial decision, by the committee, who new
ertheless swept away by clause subse
quently added to their bill, not only thu
Missouri Compromise of 1890, but also thu
Compromise of $3.50, which left untouched
the Mexican laws prohibiting slavery in the
: coded territories, and which Webster, Clay
Benton, and all the leading lights of the Sen
ate, with the exception of Mr.. Calhoun,
: pronounced valid, and an effectual .restric.
ton.
This repeal was the adoption of Mr.. Cal
houn's multiplying doctrine in easenso. The
power of Congress to make laws excluding
slavery forever from it's Territories, as SUCH
was denied, and all the Territories were
opened to slavery, on the ground of the Gin
alienable right" of every citizen "to move in
to any of the territories with his property,
of whatever kind or descriptions" and the
law of squatter sovereignty was superadded
and substituted for the sovereignty of the
United States over the public domain
Thus fell, at the dictation of Mr.. Atchison,
supported by the coalition effected between
the Wings and Democrats of the South, un-
der the pressure and through the intrigues
of the Nullifers, Mr.. Jefferson's noble prin-
ciple, endeared to the country both for its
moral grandeur and political wisdom. 1t is
the first thought uttered in the Declaration
of Independence; and to the dennnciation of
the King of Great Britain for the crime Of
bringing slavery to our shores, it adds, as the
deepest aggrayation, that che has prostitu-
ted his negative for suppressing every legis-
lative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this
execrable commerce."
The first legislative attempt to restrain
the progress of mischief which the King of
Great Britain visited upon this country, was
Mr.. Jefferson's resolution excluding slavery
from the territory of the United States in
17S4-the next was introduced by Rufus
King, in 17S5-the third, that of Nathan
Dane, in 1787-all receiving the vote of two
thirds of the states of the confederacy, and
the last the unanimous vote:
The fourth movement was that of the
convention, in the Constitution itself, pro-
viding against the importation of slaves after
1903, declaring the binding validity of the
engagements entered by the Congress of the
Confederacy on the Government of the Unit
ed States, to exclude it from the territory,
and securing to the new government the
power of making similar provision for future
acquisition of territory. The fifth regula-
ton to restrain the progress of slavery, was
that of the compromise of 1S2O-the sixth,
that Of 1850.
1t is remarkable that although these great
measures had their origin with Democratic
leaders, Federal and Wing leaders of great
est renown united in their support. The
constitutional provisions on the subject had
the unanimous suffrage Of all the illustrious
men in the convention who framed the Con-
L. Al IL ko%a o,,1 fho
silence on the subject in the State Conven-
tons called to ratify the Constitution, it may
we'll be presumed that those also were unan-
mous in their approval of what had been
done under the confederacy, and in the new
Constitution to restrain the introduction and
limit the extension of slavery. And may
not men of all parties now unite to restore
what the patriots of all parties, during the
first seventy years OF our government con-
tributed to establish?
The work of restoration is simple and ca
sy, if the men who abhor the late innova
ton on the long settled policy of the nation
can be induced to relinquish petty diferen
ces on transitory topics, and give their uni
ted voice, in the next Presidential election,
for some man whose capacity, fidelity and
courage can be relied upon to oppose the
issue which the present Administration has
made to control it. The contest has grown
out of Presidential aspirations. The decis-
ion of the people at the polls, in choosing a
chief magistrate, will end it. Senators will
easily comply when the nations demand is
backed by Presidential power and patronage,
and the hopes of the future, which animate
the leading members of the body.
The Administration has staked itself on
the support of the party of privilege-of
class interest-which makes it unit. 1t
confides in the success which has crowned
the oligarchy everywhere in the Old World,
and secured it's triumphs on the maxim,
ssDivide and conquer" The wings and dem
ocrats of the South, are a combination to
carry into the next Presidency some candi-
date absolute in maintaining the repeating
clause of the Kansas bill, which nullifies the
principles of the ordinance, the provisions
of the Constitution made to give them effect,
and all the compromises which have been
made in pursuance of them, with tie sane
ton of all parts of the Union.
If the majority favorable to the policy
built up with our Government will unite.
accept the issue rendered by the Administra-
ton, and make the repeal of the repeating
clause of the Kansas act paramount in the
impending contest for the Presidency, all
will be restored that has been lost to free
institutions, by opening the Territories North
and South, to Slavery. The compromise of
1920 and 1850 being restored there will
not be an inch of territory in the United
States, once exempt from slavery, on which
it can legally intrude; and Mr.. Atchison's
attempt by an armed force to carry out the
notification plotted in the caucus which
gave birth to the Kansas bill, will, like the
attempt of his prototype; Mr.. Calhoun, to
give effect to the South Carolina nullifica-
ton be paralized by the frown of an indig-
nant nation, made potent by an honest and
firm Executive.
And there will end the career of those
gentlemen who arrogate to themselves the
exclusive tutelage of the Democracy of the
country. as ended that of Mr.. Calhoun and
his proselytes, who took the peculiar charge
of the State Rights" party. They sunk
under the universal conviction that their zeal
for State Rights was an ardent passion to
reach political power, at the hazard of extin-
gushing in the blood of the people the wise
and free institutions it had cost so much to
establish.
Our innovating Democrats, who put under
foot the representative principle; who violate
the known will of their constituents; who
scorn their instructions to redress the wrongs
they have committed; who reply to the suff-
RACES that condemn their conduct, that they
are not Democratic suffrages; who, in the
plentitude of their Inability, read out of
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