The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-12-30
From the Drtsoit Tribune.
Republican Festival nt Mhr,halI.

Republican Festival at MarshaII.
, This handsomely managed Festival trans
pired at Marshall last evening, AMI was a re
union Of those noble Fremont counties Of KaI
aInazoo and Calhoun. About two hundre,
persons sat down to a su,nptuously prepare,
meal, got up in the best style Of mine host q
the Marshall House, and the various edible
were discussed with hcartness and hilariti
rarely excelled. Numerous invitations ha,,
been extended to prominent gentlemen in va
rious sections Of the State, many Of whom
were present, and others replied by letters
which are in odr possession, and which W,
shall publish as soon as we fud room. Toast,
and speeches ruled the hour. and there was a
general interchange Of rcjoiccings over the re-
demptions of our noble State from Bogus
Democratic rule. Our victory is, indeed wor.
thy Of such rejoicing.
Hon. G. I. GoRaAM Of Mirshall, presided
with that case nni prophet r for which he is
motel The Marshall Danl cnivened the o.
casion by excellent music. Or special report
or was present, and has furnished us n full ac-
count OF the interesting proccedings. only n
portion OF which can find place in our col
umns to-day. The preamble aud resolutions
which we first present were read and adopted
by the meeting:
Whereas. the Fathers Of our Republic. the
Framers of thu Federal Constitution. and the
members Of the frat Congress, with the NJ.
| proval of George Washington, ab b,lislI,d slave
ry IN all our national territory; AMI, whereas,
Congress. ~ late as 1872. in establishing
territorial government for Minnesota aud BY
other acts embracing a psriol of sixty years
since the organization of tho governments, ex.
erelsed the right OF prohibiting the introduc.
ton of slavery into The territories, precedent
WIS therpbv established against the further
extension OF slavery. The right Of Congress
% prohibit its extension was not denied, nm.
Ill john G. Calhoun first moo:cd the question
by the introduction Of series of resolution in
tho United States Senate, which not only de.
MED the right Of Congress TO prohibit The in.
,roluction Of slavery, but advance :,s H..,her
and W uC,cc.,iine of the South that the poople |
of ,he territories themselves have no right to
exclude slavery thcrefrom, until the formation |
OF State Constitution. General Cass, in |
his Nichoson letter of December, ls47, n
dopted the views of Calhoun so far as they re-
lated to the denial of any power in Congress
To l'gislate on the subject, and by that IA
nous doctrine of popular sovereignty, the
right of Congress to legslate for the terrific
ries is denied. No stronger proof of tho Gala
cy Of this doctrine need be cited than the in
and vital denial of the tenability
Of the doctrine by the repeated votes of the
great Gen. Humbug himself in every act Or
ganizng territorial governments. II Congress
possesses no constitutional power To leeislate
Tor the territories as assessed by Cass and all
the little Cassitcs in this State down to Fla.
rius Josephus Spread Eagle Little John,
who could not have been elected to Congress
rom this district, had there have been no op
,oste candidate, then. we ask, why do the
ldvocates OF This new political creed constant-
y yioate the Constitution in the ex rcise Of
he highest attribute of sovereignty by APP.
pointing for the new territories, the Govern.
y, Secretaries, JUICES, Marshal AMI District
Attorncy AMI drawing money from the nation. {
j treasury for the payment of their salaries :
nd providing by law in every net Of Con- /
ress organizing new territory, waat poii- 8
al rights the citizens thereof may exercise $
nd what they shall notl Ciss an | his fol- ,
overs in Congress, in depriying the citizeus |
u territory Of the right to choos, their rul. /
n, one of the highest attributes of sovereign {,
=, do not leave them in poss ssion of those i
reat rights for which they contend. While G
ley tell us, tho northern free 5tacs, that this :
octrine of popular sovereignty leaves the cit q
ems of a territory the right to establish or
sclude slavery therefrom, the leaders and all d
ne prominent organs Of this samo Democrat n
party of the South insist that where there :,
no law or prohibition, the Shareholder NAV ii
lro into, l
ongress, the territorial Legislature nor the 6,
tizens of territory posscss the right to ex. n
nde his slaves. BY the repeal Of the Mis- I,
uri Compromise in the act organizing the n
e Territory of Kansas, the Slave holder has ii
pursuance Of this Southern doctrine taken r
. slaves into Kansas and dcfies the power n
Congress or the citizens of the Territory ~,
ough their Territorial laws toexclule them. n,
beautiful endorsement in this or the Cass l.,
'ctrlne OF ? pu ar sovereignty, or leaving to Ia
c citizens OF territory the power d, rpgn m
10 their own domestic insti;utions--of es- m
bli>hing or excluding slavery. Notwith- ai
'nling the South have thus tramplel nm ii,
r foot his own doctrine, the General cautin m
8 in his time serving policy. 10 vote anl CO. b;
crate with the South, anI in July last when Il,
,lg' Trunhull introlucrd into the S,Hate 10
e following resolutions: "And be il fIr,h- I'M
enacted, that the provision in tho act 10 ur
game the Territory of Kansas aud Nebras- in
, which declares il 10 he the trur intent and or,
'anmg OF sed act is not to lcgslatc slavery sf
% any Territory or State, mr. to exclu II it no
retro n, but to have the people thereof per- sai
ely free 10 form anl regulate th,ir Il, ncs-
institutions in their own way. subject only fi,,
the Constitution Of the United States" IN,
= intended 10, aud does confer upon, or wi
We 10, tho people Of the Territory OF Kan an
, full power, nj any time, though its Terri lic
ial Legislature to exclude slavery from OK,
i Territory, or 10 rccogniza, and regulate it ma
rein. Strange as it may appear to the fil- ar
e political historian, General Cass instead an
voting in the affirmative anl in favor Of lib
own doctrine, voted in the negative, thus sor
the record either stuliifyng himself. or ex- mn