Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-09-11
.REpUBIIcAN PARTY IN coscaE.s.

2 has carried the House through the stormies,
session of our history lwith such universal
-fsatisfaction. Has any one heard a word oi
complaint, Yes, says 'docdment- now Ia
I. circulation, he appointed Republicans Chair.
men of thsdifferent COmmittesss Wonder
: fula What did the Democrats Senate do!
- Not single Republican Chairman of q
4 single Commit'ee. Witch in the. House
the Democrats have the Chairman Of one
\ important Committee, aud their best men
placed On ali the important Committees
: This has always been the practice. The
. Republicans after hard struggle. sent =
{ Committee of investigation to take testi.
mony and report the true state Of the Kan.
sasE troubles; they have done so sad how
;. terrible does it shows up the wrongs
OF the Slave power and the efforts
I of this administration to force Slavery'upon
kansas,at whatever cost of life or property!
Was this wrong! Who complaints They
voted to admit Kansas as Free State and
thus put an end to civil war and agitation;
while the Buchanan and Fillmore members
voted against it. Who was right, The
Republicans who voted to save Kansas from
Slavery, and put an end to civil war. Or
the Buchanan and Fillmore members, who
all voted to keep her out Of thes MON un-
til the Slave power could haze an oppor-
ttunity to remodel her Constitution. They
voted to repeal the Infamous Laws of Kan.
sas, and to restore the Missouri Cempromiss
line, thus showing by every ast and vote,
E1felr attachment to the great principles of
unconstitutional Liberty, and a, sincere de-
sire torestore peace and quietness to our
distracted country Ihs- tle
MISSOURI COMPROMISE. -
In the Senate of the United Stateszin
1854, Douglas, as Chairman of the Coin
mittes on Territories made report to. the
Senate for the organization of the territory
of Kansas and Nebraska in which is the
follswing languages: a. iIee5A
"Under this section, as in the case of the
Mexican law, New Mexico and Utah, il, ia
disputed point whether.slayery is prohibited
q the Nebraska country by valid enactment.
The decision of this question involves the
constitutional power of Congress to pass
laws prescribing and regulating the domes-
tic Institutions of the various Territories of
the Union. In the opinion of those eminent
statesmen who hold that Congress is invest
ed with no rightful authority to legislaie up
on the subject of slavery in the Territories,
the eighth section Of the act preparatory to
TIE admission of Nissuri is null ami. void,
while the prevailing sentiment in large
portion Of the Union sustains the doctrine
that the Constitution Of the United States
secures to every citizen an inaIienable right
to move into any of the Territories with his
property, of whatever kind and description,
and tO hold and enjoy the same under the
3anction of law Your committee do not
feel themselves called upon TO enter into
the discussion of these controyerted quss-
tions. They involve the same grave issues
which produced the agitation, the sectional
strife, and the fearful struggle of $780,"
This language will bear repetition:
"Your committee do not feel themselves
called upon to enter into the discussion of
these -eontrovsrted questions. They involve
the same grave issues which produced the
agitation. the sectional strife, and fearful
struggle of 1880"
And they go on to say:
"COnSTess ueeIneu IL Wise ana pru( ent 10
refrain from deciding tire matters in con-
trOversy then, either by affirming or repeal
ing the Mexican laws, or by an act declara-
tory of the true intent of the Constitution
and the extent of the protection afforded by
it to slave property in the. Territories; SO
your committee are not prepared now to
recommend departure from the course pur-
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affirming or repeating the eighth section Of
the Missouri act, or by any act declaratory
of the meaning of the Constitution in re-
spect to the legal points in dispute"
DIXON. from Kentucky, offered an amend
ment to the report in favor of repeating the
Missouri Compromise. A proposition SO
monstrous STARTLED TIE whole country, and
Mr.. Dixon was denounced by the Democra-
tic Press and Democratic Scnators as stir.
ring up question fruitiul of evil and c.lcu-
lated 70 endanger the peace of the Union.
But Democracy is Progressive. The bill
was recomm,ted to Douglls, and in th:riy
days thereafter he reported back the bill
with clause declaring the Missouri Com
promise line "inoperatiye and void" To
sustain this bill was now the test of Demo-
cracy-this amendment which was calculat-
ed 10 dissolve the Union, just one month
before was now The measure of all others
TO save it. Tie repeal of this measure, the
Missouri Compromise, says Judge KEssos,
vas wrong and has brought on our present
iifficuties.' That was plain spoken truth
which ali men can see. And what 10 worse
i was all done for Freedoni-not because
he Free People North or the sir millio1s
,f poor whites South demanded il, but the
;ordiG interests OF $4,000 slryeholders re-
,uired it and Northern Democrts obeyed.-
They damaged their democracy then and
hose who aided and those who continue to
support the inequity will never stand well
With the 1overs of Human Freedom.s
3UcHAEAN AND THE CINCINNATI PL2rFoRz.
The Democratic party are responsible for
he civil war in Kansas, with all its bloody
and blackened horrors, and they propose to
continue it, by the following resolution Of
their platform:
b :. Resolved That the Administration Of
Franklin Pierce has. been truets Democratic
and therefore true to the great
interests of the country, in the face of vio-
lent opposition he has maintained the laws
b home, and therefore we proclaim GcToSr
admiration of his measures azS
policy" s .-....-
The Democratic party and the Fillmore
party propose to leave this question Of Sla-
very to the People of the Territories. II
The People want Slavery thsy may have It.
,Iy they. This doctrine OF "Squat;er Sow
sreignty is of very modern origin, !, g0e
no further back than Gen. Cass's Nicholson
Letter Of 1913. Why did no, our Repub-
ican Fathers leave this question to the
peoble of tne rerritoriest Because Slavery