The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-27

"Now said senator d. hold that when the citizen OF IL
nos has done all be eradicate all the evil connected
with local matters his political power viii be exhausted
Have not enough OF local matters in Chicago 70 exhaust
all sympathy and philanthropy without going abroad
II is old saying, that charity begins at home Have
not enough exhaust all charity in own
streets
ga Voice. Go to Mississippi.
Without going 10 Mississippi, as that man Laugh
ter and loud cheering Did you know good neigh
Dor neglect his business NEEDLE with his neghbor
affairs Show that viii 20 his neighbor's house
and tell him how he shall and what he shall drink and
how his wife shall cothe herself aud will show you man
that pest to society (Appause II we will mind our
own business win have trouble"
:" Illinois had recently voted down prohibitory law In
diana had enacted one Would the people OF Illinois allow
the indianians to such law for this State Would
the lndanians allow the people Of Illinois to dictate to them
what they should do? Kentucky had slaves; Illinois
Free The people Of Kentucky thought this State did very
foolish thing in prohibiting thought differently by
that prohibition OF slavery in this State be would forever
stand firm But when it proposed him TO interfere
with the matter in Kentucky his would be that it
none Of his business"
The following is striking view of non-inervention
from the same speech:
ole cared whether the intervention to defeat the pop
uar win OF the people of Kansas Missouri Masa
chusetts, from Congress- elsewhere, any intervention
every Intervention, violation Of the Nebraska
and could not receive the sanction Of Nebraska
Loud cheers.l II the anti Nebraska alone who
could not condemn interference from without. They
claim that 1t is the right of outside Of the Terri
tory to determine whether slavery shall go there not
They and they alone declare that the people shall be
free from interference from without The inerposition Of
the Massachusetts, Emigrant Aid Society, with their yaunt
ing and Boosting, and hreatenngs, and then Of
nsn OF Missouri following their example, all wrong.
| 1t was wrong in Massachusetts, to send out to
vote The men she sent out not fitted for border
life men who could not earn aivng at home not
best fitted to explore the wilderness and reclaim the
But they not sent out settlers they despatched
to Kansas political mercenares Why should not the peo
pie Of Kansas make their laws? Who they? They
citizens from New York, Illinois, Virginia, Kentucky
aud Missouri They fit to be ntrus,ed at home with
the right of sefgovernment and could it be that they lost
all their sense, all their intelligence, while crossing the Mis-
souri, in ferry boaY loud applause He then earnestly
enforced the right these had to self He
held that the American people would strictly adhere the
principle that each State and Territory shall be allowed to
enact and enforce its laws there would be diff
fculty on this slavery question. Judge Trumbu in his
speeches. and Fred Douglass in his lectures constantly
gued that there difference between State and Ter
tory In what does the difference exist according to these
eowopponens OF popular right They hold that Congress
has the power Of prohibition in Territory and not in
/ State"
Aud now Unpopular sovereignty What could be clearer
than the following view from the same speech
" Our fathers objected to the British government intro
ducing African into the colonies against the wishes
and in defiance of the protests Of the people, Lond APP
pause Our fathers claimed the right to determine for
themselves whether slaves should be brought into the
colonies not. [Cheers The Nebraska act gives TO the
people Kansas and Nebraska the right which fathers
asked from Great Britain. Cheersl Every battle Of
the revolution fought in defence of the right Of self
government After that revolution when the sages of the
revolution assembled Philadelphia to frame consu-
tion for the of number of independent State
governments the great difficulty how to frame gov
eminent strong to bind ALL and not impair the
sovereign rights of They had instances of the dan
ger consolidation and also of Installation They sought
avoid both evils and how did they accomplish itg They
tabhed government which assumed the control and di-
rection of all exterior matters, but left each State free to
range govern and direct its domestic affairs, without
any interference by the general by other
State The general government was empowered to raise
armies declare war coin money, regulate commerce. and
make treaties All other not given by the constitu
ton the general government were reserved to the States
The States right prescribe punishment for crimes
regulate the laws for the protection of the life
erty, and character OF the citizen.
rbee rights reserved to the people and secured to
them by the constitution There idea that these To-
cal laws the should be uniform 1t was not attempt
ed make them uniform in these particulars If there
any the laws should be uniform then why did not
they allow Congress make the laws for the peope Our
that the laws that adapted for the descend
ants Of the Pilgrim Fathers Of New England adapt
ed the descendants of the cavaliers Of Virginia Our
fathers that each locality, with its different climate, with
its different productions have laws adapted to its
condition They therefore, left the States free to enact their
laws Every evil which has arisen to produce sectional
strife has been excited by departure from this principle
Kentucky chooses to have slaves what business it to II
inos2 When the constitution FORMED there hir
States composing the Union, twelve of them slave
| States and one free State.
Was possible that they should agree upon the ques
of slayery7 If uniformity the doctrine them
it Is now, every State would have been slave State.
But each State left free to decide for ITSELF the
sequence has been that Massachusetts, abolished slavery
New York and six out of the twelve original slave States be-
free. Was that done by the Wimo proviso7 Was it
done by Congress 1t done by popular sovereignty
/ THE ISSUE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
1t is refreshing to read such ouspoken and eloquent
devotion the constitutional equality and rights of the