Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-12-17
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the people. The Captain must have assumed
Tie position while in JlissfuI ignorance Of
the facts in reference to tina, Constitution
and The ma.:rer OF is submission. If he is
really in favor 0: the Constitution as submit
ted, hen ie is in faycr OF regulating every
promise ofihis party in the last Presidential
campuign-of rePudiaiing the entire princi-
pie Of Squatter Sovereignty. which the
Democratic party claims as its foundation
slcne. II the Ca plain really insists that The
Constitution OF Kansas shall be made obi
gatory without being submitted TO the voters
of that territory, then he is willing TO give
the he direct to the Ieacing idea OF the Me-
braska-Ka ls1s Bill. which provided that the
people IF Kansas should have the right to
establish ard r, gd!ate their own domestic
institutions in their own way.
Nov the Captain must either back down
from his present ground Of playing second
ssotc 10 te w dSbiHStOh tH'OH 10 "ASEs
BecHAxAx, or he aust sink his former prin-
ciPI"s.
We invite the CapIain's at ention 10 q
few items in the Constitution, simply QUO
III his ~ language in reference to " hat
the "freedon shri, kers'' say Of the subject
in question. Tie Captain oracularly sug-
gests that sit will rot do for these freedom
s~hriekers' rc complain that the question o.
slavery is not fairly submitted TO the people,
because the schedule aduoted provides tina,
no slauery shall s1isi in Kansas. ex ept that
The right vi property in slaves in the terri
tory at the time of the adoption of TIL Con-
slitution, is not to be interiered with"
Suppose We examine the Constitution and
see how "iarhy" the question of Slavery
lie submitted.
. The Constitution saws:
The right OF property IL before and high.
er than any Constitutional sanction, and the
right Of the owner of b slave TO such slave
and It's increase is the same and as invioiable
as tie right # the owner OF any property
whatever"
Now even IL majority OF the voters at
fthe election shall vote .Constitution with
no slavery" it does MT affec, the above Sec
ton, because 1.-THE right of property" is
he'd ulviolahle, and no power can interfere
Herewith. If the shareholders can hold
their slaves, and the offspring of such slaves
in bondage, then is the institution perpetual
te in Kansas, although a majority of the
people Of Kansas have voted sno slavery
This then is what Capt. Heaton CALI a lair
submission OF the slavery question, and hs
inquiries with an arrogant tine, "who vii
Say, outside Of the abolition party, that Ihi'
is unjust!" This question " e will answer
by and by.
The above quotation includes all that i.
submitted y to the people; the remainder o
the Constitution they must take, willing o
unwilling. Among the provisions force
upon them, and on which the Gazette say
There could not possibly arise any differ
enee Of opinion" we ind one requ ring the
Governor 10 be iceniy years a citizen Of tn
UniIed Saies; that is, i'll has the misfortun,
to be a foreigner, he must have re sided il
the United States twentyJfc gears. Car
there be no difference of opinion about thi:
CLAUSE, No longer ago than last week, Capt
Heaton had Il powerful () article in refer
ence 10 the pruscriptive, nature of Ameri
canism. No doubt there are many a foreign
er who wouli very seriously object to gu.
a provision. Again, the Constitution re
rffirms, or re-enGc!s all the statutes in tn,
Kansas Cude, which have very appropriate
iy beeH termed the 'bloody CODE Cal
there not be al honest difference of opinion
in reicrence 1. this provision!
The Constitution provides fox banks o
depus il and exchange, and Tor banks OF dis
Count and Issue. The Democracy OF Onit
have III times past expressed thsnselve.
very strongly in iavor Vf an exclusively me,
la.iic currency, and no doubt, if acme o
them were it, Kansas they might a; leIsr
wish for an opportunity TO express rheil
views OF b~nnking in general, and OF kansa,
banks In particular. But Capt Heatun i:
Ut the opinion that No one outside OF :ht
abolition party can object 10 this feature.
1t is provided, also, by this model Demo.
cratic Constitution, which the Gazette cum.
mends, that no alt.fation can be made in
the Constitution within eight or ten years
and eve n then, after ten years shall nave ex.
pred, render the working of this free {!
Constitution. and the people shall call /,
new Convention 10 alter the Constitution
s.so ALTERATION SHALL BE MADE TO EFFECT
OF SLAVES" Glorious Democra ic docu
ment! Squatter Sovereignty in action!
But let US drop, fer a moment, the idea
that Capt. Hea,on is the Democratic party
and see if we can tell where the party o
the North stands on The Kansas o. stitu
ton. Aside from the Washington Union
alas JAMES BUCHANAN, and the ST. Clairs
vile Gazette. aiias the clique, | know of n,
Democratic press in the North in favor o
this odlous measure.
:: The STATESMAN, which the Gasetie style
"ihe organ of the Democracy of the Stats
of Ohio" ~dgnuunces it in unHieasured terms
VIM. LAwREEcE, our own Congressma
] will vote against the reception Of the Con
stitution. The Salesman says positively
: that Senator PUGH is oppused to"givIng tn
slightest countenance TO the efforts of
petty clique Of dependencies in Kansas, I
foist upon her people a Constitution I
d which they are not allowed to g we their a:
e sert OF express the dissent"
SrtPHES A. DoUGLAs is unqualifedly OF
posed to the Constitution. as submitted an
I will prove a thorn in The side Of the admir-
%.ration, if it attempts TO force that instrl
mont On the people OF Kansas.
Tie Bel.uire Democratic Era, a papt
ably edited by a life long Democrat, denour
ces the Constitution as an attempted chear
o and an outrage upon the principles Of Sqaa
ter Sovereignty. In short, all over I'll
North the Democracy are ~denouncing I'll
measure, and wo unto Mr buchanan if !
lifts 4 finger towards urging it :hroue