The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-10-08
UNITY, OHIO WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER g. 1856.

1ItleS, united to cut loose their forme
l. connection with the British Crown
d When they succeeded in that great Ell
ifl fort and formed our Constitution, the
i. preserved in it the organization of tn
i State Governments for the express pur
}. pose of making it unnecessary for tn
B Federal Government to interfere in th,
domestic relations between parent ant
s child, husband aud wife, master aas
f servant, to regulate the manner il
} which real estate should pass, the man
ner in which the estate of deceased
man should go down to his posterity
When they preserved the State organi
cations for these views, they reserved to
the States the right to regulate the To-
cal labor in whatever form it might be
whether performed by black man or a
white man, or no man at all. (Laugh-
ter.) At last, say what you will in re,
gard to man-an unhappy one, an unfor-
tunate one. 1t is, however, nothing but
relation; so there is relation between
master and apprentice, contractor and
contractes, husband and wife, parent
and child. All these are equally per-
sonal relations, the subject-matter Of
the social organization, and coming
therefore, properly within the cogni-
zance of the local legislature. It was
in order to give each State, by its local
legislature, entire jurisdiction of all
subjects, that the Constitution of the
United States preserved the State gov
ernments. The great object of our Rev
olution was not to work a social change
There was no inquiry then as to wheth-
er our country should be cut up into re-
publics or moHarchies.
When we cut loose from the British
crown We did not ask King George and
the British Parliament whether we
should have nobility or a monarchy, or
not. That was not the question. Cur
fathers never debated that question
among themselves, because there was
rreiim nary point to b. settled, which
was that of independence, by which they
would be enabled after having achieved
It to decide in the absen ce of al foreign
dictation and foreign power whether they
would have this, that or the other form
of local government. 1he first object
was to get loose from England. Why T?
Because whilst that connection lasted
foreign power lcgislated for us. When
therefore the Constitution was about to
be formed, the fathers of the Republic
saw the necessity of guarding this great
principle of local legislation against the
absorbing influence of centralization, by
keeping up broadly and distinctly the
boundaries of State jurisdiction; aud
hence they would not allow the Federal
government to put its finger upon any
one of that large class of domestic ques-
tions which arise out of and peculiarly
belong to the local social organization.
If they had allowed it, what should we
have gained by the revolution If our
Crazy W ho uiO boAhAhS oDOuS Wv |
Mr.. Fremont (laughter) should, by pos
sibility succeed, what will our Southern
friends have gained by the American
revolution They will have gained just
this-beiore the revolution Old Eng |
land made laws for Virginia, now Nea0
England is to make laws for Virginia. |
(Great applause) But, gentlemen, let
old Pennsylvania raise her mighty arm,
and in this contest bear in the palm of |
her hand her own illustrious and worthy |
son, James Buchanan, enthusiastic
cheers for "Old Buck " and the sue
cess of the American people in this
great effort to perpetuate their govern
ment will be complete. Let me dwell |
on this idea for moment.
Our Abolition friends pretend that |
they are very moral; they love God aud
justice so much better than the people |
of the South; that, although negroes do
not interfere with them, they cannot |
rest in their beds at night while there
is slave. (Laughter.) They become
fretful and fevorish their hearts re-
proach them with the sin of remaining |
in connection with the Southe IN States, |
so long as they have any negroes beg
you to bear in mind how easy it is for |
YOU to stand on one side of river and
make system of morals for the people |
on the other side, provided it does
not apply to you. But when man is
called upon to make system of morals
under which he himself is to live, he will |
be little particular about it. If he
is to, bear the burden as well as the |
blessing, he will very quickly commence
to balance the burden. A gentleman's
logic is very hasty aid to his morals
in all his reasonings, when he is laying |
down systems of logic for the benefit of
his neighbors and not of himself. Let |
me put the case as truth requires it, and
then let me get up system of morals,
and see who will be the first to finch |
from it, throwing out, for the sake of
the argument, the idea of local 7legisla.
tion as having nothing to doiw with it. z
~ How came'the negroes in the South ?
The present inhabitants of the South,
against whom the wild fanatics are try
ing to inflame the feelings of the North