Washington sentinel., 1856-07-22

action, to establish what shall be regarded as
property within its own State limits. With
the common territory, however, there is very
marked and important difference. THIS terri
tory belongs equally to all the States. This no
one will dispute. If then, this be So where is
the power to inhibit the transfer Of any species
of property to this territory? IT, State has
the right to its enjoyment, under the Constitu
ton, within its own State limits, has she not an
equal right to enjoy it on her ot0n property
outside of those limits 2 IF she has not that
right, then she is not on an equality with her
sister States, and if not on this equality, she is
inferior in her membership in the conte6eracy
She is abridged in the enjoyment and use Of
property recognized as property by the Con-
ter States at the time of its formation, and
afterwards and consequently not inhibited or
intended to be inhibited, by that instrument.
Now, if this be so, where does this power
one State and makes her sttbserriem and un-
equal to the others. Ii is not in the Constitu-
| tion and hence cannot be in the Federal Gov
ernment, which derives its every and only
| power under the Constitution. II resides no
sohere, but in the coinage of the cracked brains
| and fetid hearts Of wicked and bad men, who,
| in a lust for political power, would pull down
the fair fabric that has been constructed for the
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| ment Of all the nations Of the earth
Here we stop upon this branch Of our sub
| iec.. for we have brought it to the point of
present difficulty. By former unjust and i'm
proper legislation, the right Of the people Of
Southern States to take their prope'ty into ter
ritory which was their otcn, was denied. Sub
seouent and wiser legislation restored or re.
enacted this right to them. This legislation
gave them no new right simply restored to
| them their original right under the Constitu-
tion 1t did not assert that this species Of
property should be employed, or should not be
employed, in the common territory of the
States-though the right to do the one was
quite as clear as the right to do the other 1t
allowed it to 90 there or mott denied the
power of Congress (the legislative agent of the
Federal Government under the Constitution)
to interfere in any way whatever 1t did
more-it denied the right of the PEOPLE OF THE
TERRITORY to legislate on the subect-leaving
the whole question open until, having the
requisite numbers, they met in convention TO
form State constitution prior to admission
into the Union. Congress has no power over
the subiect-the PEOPLE have none-but it is
only when they are prepared to come into the
Union that there is any jurisdiction anywhere
at all. Congress is no sorereign, and hence
cannot delegate sovereignty, for it cannot dele
gate what it has not. Congress is the subject
Of sorereignty and that sovereignty is the
States tie Confederacy. They have defined
in the Constitution the powers Of Congress,
their creature or subject, and they cannot be
l.expanded.
This, then, is an argument not as to what
the Southern States ought to have, but de-
monstration of what they hare dl,cays had, and
Of what can never be taken from them under
the Constitution. The re.assertion of this plain
and indisputable right-y1ghtfm eqlaluy-for
the Southern States, has been the subject of
open and double damned treason in the land.
Treason to God-treason to the Constitution
treason to the laws-treason TO the Union, and
treason to common truth and honestly
| DISUNION-as far as Black Republican
ism could doit-has been already inaugurated !
lovers of the Constitution and the laws, and
the Abolition horde, stand painting for the con-
test which they themselves have forced upon us.
The orert act OF disunion has been committed
by them, in that they have presented for the
first time two candidates for the Presidency
and Vice Presidency, sectional in their resi-
dence and sectional in their opinions. They
have presented man without a single claim
or single qualification, for the Office of Chief
Magistrate Of the United States. A man
whose expressed opinions are the widest trea-
son, and be the dingiest and blacklist traitor,
because he has allowed those opinions to be
set TO music for him They have pre-drotced,
pre- expressed, and pre.drered, that it was their
purpose IN eecting their ticket to wrest by the
force of the bandits law the rights and priv
leges Of fifteen Of the sovereign States OF this
Union! They have, as If their own avowal Of
their purpose we're not sufficient, illustrated
their dire intent by placing upon the transpa-
rencies at their jubilant meetings of ratiGca-
tion, John Charles Fremont and "SIX
TEEN STARS" representing the SIXTEEN
NORTHERN STATES They have thus
shown it TO be their purpose, and only pur-
pose, in the election Of Fremont, to subjugate
the whole southern section Of the Confederacy
By the disgracefpl exercise Of their superior
political power, and thus to drive the South,
nolens rolens, out Of the Union! Elect FIRE.
mont, and what will follow7 At present the
lower house OF Congress is controlled by un.
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