M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1856-01-10

1sion or domestic violence, like all 9th
.er loca! interests of the several States
Z Each StslereEpressly stipulated, as vel
I for itself as COR each and all ofits cit
izens. and Every citizen OF each Stat
because solemn!y bound by his allieg
} sDce 10 the constitution that any per
sou, held 10 service or labor in one Stat
esca peing into another. should not i
consequence of any law or regulation
thereof, be discharged from their labo
but should be delivered up OH claim o
the party to whom such service or Ia
bormight be dueby the laws OF his State
Thus, and thus only, by the recipro
cal guaranty Of all the rights Of ever,
State against Interference on the part o
another, was the present form of govern
ment established by our fathers ant
Transmitted to us; and by no other mean
is il possible for il to exist. II one Stat,
ceases to respect the tights of another
aud obIfusiyeiy intermeddles with it.
local interests, il a portion o1;he States
assume to impose their institutions or
the others, or refuse to fulfil their OBJ
legations TO them, We are no longe
united friendly States, but distracted
hostil ones, with little capacity left ol
common advantage, but abundSntmean
of reciprocal injury and mischief,
Pnctically,it it is immaterial whether ag
gressiye interference between the States, o.
deliberate refusal on the part of any one o
them to comply with the constitutional OBJ.
legations, arise from erroneous conviction or
blind prejudice, whether it be perpetrated
by direction or indirection, In either case,
it is full threat and of danger to the durabili
ty of the Union.
CONSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS OF SLAVERY,
Placed in the Office of Cheif Magistra te a,
the executive agent Of the whole country,
bound to take care that the laws be faithfully
executive, and especially enjoined by tn {
constitution to give information TO Congras,
on the state Vt the Union, il would be pal
pable neglect ofduty on my part to pass over
subject like this, which, beyond all thing al
the present time, vitality concerns individual
and public security.
1t has been matter Of painful regret to
see States, conspicuous for their services in
in founding this republic: and equally shar-
ing its advantage disregard their Constitu-
tional obligations to it. Although conscious
Of the il inability to heal admitted and pal.
pable social evils of their own, and which
are completely within their jurisdiction, they
engage in the ofIens i've and hopeless undprta-
king Of reforming the domestic institutions
of other States wholly beyond their control
and athority. In the vain pursuits of ends
by them entirely unttainable, and which
they may not legally attempt to compass,
they spurn the very existence OF the consti-
tuition, and all the countless benefits which
il has conferred. While the people of the Sou
then States confine their attentions 10 their
own affairs not presuming officially TO in.
termeddle with the social Institutions of the
Northern States, too many OF the inhabitants
oil the latter are permantly organized in as
socldtlons TO lnilIct injury on the foreigner,
by wrongful acts, which would be cause Of
war as Between foreign powers, and only
fail to be such in our system. because ner.
petrated under cover of the Union.
It's. impossible TO present this subject as
truth and tile occasion requires, without no
tlclng the reiterated, but gruGadl ess aIeoa.
tlon, that the South has presstently asserted
claims and obtained advantage in the prac.
tical administration OF the general govern.
n3at, to the prejudices of the north, and in
which the letter has aCquiesCed. That this
Is the otates, which either promote OF toler-
ate attacks on the rights Of persons and Of
property in other States, 10 disguise their
ow injustice, pretend or imagine and con
SANITY aver. that they, whose constitution
rights are thus syste matically assailed, are
themsel yes the aggreSsors. At the present
time, this imputed aggression, resting as it
does only in the vague, ..declamentory char.
ges oi political agitators, resolves itself into
mlsapTehensions or isinterpretation OF the
principles and facts of the political organi-
zation OF the new Territories of the United
States.
What is the voice of history. When the
ordinance, which provided for the govern
ment oi the territory orthwest of the river
Ohio. and Tor its eventual subdivision into
new States, was adopted, In Congress OF the
confederation it is not TO be supposed that
tie question of future relative power. as be.
tween the states which retain numerous co.
ored population, escaped notice, or failed IL
be considered. And yet the consession oil
that vast territory to the interests and opn.
ions OF the northern States, territory now
the seat OF five. among the largest members
OF the Union, was; in great measure, THE acl
of the State of Virginia and of the South.
When Louisiana was acquired by the Uni
ted States, 1t was acquisition not less TO the
North than to the South for while it was i'm
portant to the country at the mouth of the ri.
yer Mississippi to become the emporium Of
o.! the country above it, so also it was even
more important to the whole Union to have
that emporium, and although the new pro-
vince, by reason of its lmpeIfec: settlement
was mainly regarded as onthe Gulf of Mexico
yet in fact. it extended to the opposite boun.
daries Of the United States, with far greater
breadth above than below, and was in terri
tory, as in every thing. equally at least an
accession to the northe IN States. Itis merf
delusion and prejudice therefore, to speak Of
Louisiana ss &C QUESTION in the special inter.
est Of the south.
The patriotic and Just men, who participa-
ted in that act wereinhuenced BY motives far
above all sectional jealously. 1t was in.truth
the great event, which by completing for us
the possession OF the valley Of the Mississippi
with commercial access to the gulf mexico
important unity and strength to the whole
confederation and attached together by iadis-
soluble ties the East and the West, las well as
the North and the south
As TO Florida, that was but the tranler BY
Spain to the United states of territory ON the
east side Of the river Mississippi in exchange
for large teritouy which the United states
transferred 10 Spain on the west sids Of the ri.
yer as the entire diplomatic history of tht