Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-03-18
WARREN. WEDNESDAY. MARCH Is
TIE President and the Supreme Court

Va a fAAu
guration of the new President, snd th
recent eeisisn of the Supreme Court q
the United States in The bred Scott case
10 the iaaagural every body expeete'
to seee,hc new President bow The kne'
at the altar Of the slavery idol. and lh.
only curiosity has been 10 see the man
ner in which il would be done.
Itzis-Psssible -'hat-a=fw prefessin,
Democrats at the North Jet cherished
hope that Mr.. Buchanan would be foun,
expressing some preiererse for Freedom
over Slavery, some recognition of th,
tru,hthat "ihe rights of man as man.
which the Democracy used to parade 81
essentially are not the rights of whit,
men and slave drivers alone. IF any
suGhhope still existed. the inaugural ha,
rudely dispelled it. Tie new Presiden,
accepts the ultra Douglas AMI Bully
Brooks doctrine, that Border Rufisn;
are the true and legitimate seuatter SOW
ereigns. and makes it plainly understood
that We are not to look to him or his ad-
ministration for any opposition to the
odious laws Of the spurious Legislature"
as our neighbor of the Democrat justly
styled them during the campaign.
That spurious legislature" has organ
lied q new plot against the liberties OF
Kansas, by arranging for a Constitu-
tional Convention in which By their man
Ageneni the Free State men shall have
no shadow of a chance 10 make their
real superiority in numbers felt. Gov.
,Geary, vetoed the bill. but the spurious
legislature" passed the "odious law"
over his veto, unanimously.
All this is done with the full knowl-
edge of Mr.. Buchanan, but he has for 1t
not one word of rebuke. and by implica-
ton glorjfes oyer it as a pant of the
splendid spectacle which we present to
the world. of a people carrying out the
principles of Squatter Sovereignty.
When Mr.. Buchanan congratuIates
the country on the peaceful manner in
which the Republicans have submitted 10
his election, he utters, unintentionallv, a
most severe sarcasm upon his own party.
All through the campaign last fall, the
country rung with their Border Rufian
threats that if Fremont were elected they
would not submit. but would forthwith
dissolved e Union. By such threats, no
doubt, many a weak man whose con
science bid him vote for Fremont, cast
his vote for Buchanan, and now this
same Buchanan congratulates The nation
upon the superior patriotism and regard
for the public peace of the Republicans.
Who but a lille while ago were denounc-
Ell as traitors who were watching for a
chance 10 destroy the country
The President expresses a confidence
that The Slavery question is o decided.
and that agitation viii soou die away
The uneasy old man speaks his wishes.
rather than his judgment. The Slavery
agitation is to-day more radical. more
Incorporating. and more unconquer-
able than eve it was. There is no
peace for the wicked" and the very ef
fort made by the supporters of the infa-
nous institution 10 crush out Freedom, is
in fact Fastening their own DOWNFALL
They may think they have gained an
advantage but in reality they have none.
Senator Sumner in taking leave of the
American people OF his late departure
for Earcpe. declared thai. the Slavery
system is an organized barbarism.'
aid never did genius coin an epithet
more full Of meaning and of truth. II
gives utterance to the feeling which per-
vades the whole North, and which is
growing every day more strong. The
wal is, between true civilization and its
opposite, and no matter what apparent
iriumphs this ~"organized barbarism"
may 0 gain, it is as sure to be de-
streyed by the progress Of free enlight
eminent. as the Night is driven befuIe
the Day,
The Supreme Court of the United
States have lent their aid in this sys-
,temaiic attempt to annul the benefits of
our free Institutions. by deciding that
the Constitution recognizes property in
man. and that Slavery alone is national.
The slaveholding Judges of that Court
in defiance. of the truth of History and
he truth of God, have given a wicked
Judgment, which, a century TO come
Will give them a noloriety as infamous
as that of the English Court of the Star
Chamber. The decision is a purely
sectional and political oae. Il is the
voice of a party. and not the utterance
of truth, Of justice, or of laws. 1t as
sunes that the men of The Revolution,
the men who made the Constitution and
WHO passed the ordinance of 1897. did
not know their own minds, and while
they prohibited Slavery in the Territory
belonging 10 the United States. mean: to
declare that the Constitution protected
Slavery thele.
We rejoice that the Northern judges
ofthat Court have united in a manly,
opposition to the Slsveholding majority.
It. is manifest hat the only wa5 in which
such a decision has been Obtained was