Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-20
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From the Cincinnati Gazette.
JUDGE WARDEN'S LETTER.
The New Creeds of the "DcmO-
cratic Party.n

The Democratic Party, in Convention
last Thursday, not only indorsed the Dret
Scott Decision, but declared the ''concur
renee of the Supreme Court of the Untec
States, in the doctrines with regard to The
constitutional Powers and Political Right.
of the States and Territories, which hay,
been maintained by the Democratic party
The fourth and fifth resolutions are in these
words:
"4. Resolrcd, That the great doctrine
of popular sovereignty first proclaimed tc
the world in tbs Declaration of Indepen
dcnce-re-itcrated by Mr.. Jefferson in bis
resolutions of 17S4,-indorsed by the
Kansas and Nebraska Act and re-affirmed
in the Cincinnati platform, if fairly carried
out, will rid the country alike of Northern
and Southern fanaticism, and fixes in per-
petutity the existence ofour glorious Union.
s. Resolred, That while we look to no
authority but reason for our political opin-
ions, we deem it proper to express deep
qualification at the concurrence of the Su-
preme Court of the United States in the
doctrines with regard to the Constitutional
Powers and Political Rights of the States
AID Territories, which have been mainta-
ined by the Democratic Party and formal
ly avowed by it in three National Conven-
tions."
The National Convention of June, 1856,
recognized" and adopted the principles
contained in the organic laws, establishing
the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, as
embodying the only sound and safe solu-
tion of the slavery question: upon which
the great National idea of the people of
this whole country can repose in It's de-
termined conservatism of the Union-non-
interference by Congress with slavery in
State and Territory, or in the District of
Columbia"
The principles" in the Organic Laws
establishing the Territories of Kansas and
Nebraska, were summed up in the Organic
Act as follows: at being the true intent
and meaning of this act, not to legislate
slavery into any State Or Territory, nor to
exclude it therefrom, but to leave the pco-
pie thereof perfectly free to form and rega-
lcte their domestic institutions in their own
way, subject only to the Constitution of
the United States"
When the Kansas act was passed, it
was explained by all the oracles of the
Democratic party at the North as confer
ring on the squatters, the settlers in Kan
sas, through a Territorial Legislature, full
power to allow or to prohibit the introduc-
tion of slavery; every Northern Democrat
ic press, every Northern Democratic orator,
insisting, that no slave could be held in
Kansas except under direct and express
legislation in the Territory. But now it
seems, ''the. doctrines with regard to the
Constitutional Power and Political Rights
of the States and Territories" pronounced
by the Supreme Court of the United States,
concur with those "which have been
maintained by the Democratic party, and
formally avowed by it in three National
Conventions"
If, then, we would know the real mean
ing of the language cited from the Kansas
Act and the real meaning of the "recog-
milton" and adoption" of its aprinciples"
" 49, o""O SOHNclIlOu III 1000, III OlIl-
clnnatl' we have only to read the following
sentences from the syllabus in the Dred
Scott case:
8. The United States, under the present
Constitution, cannot acquire territory to be
held as colony, to be governed at its
will and pleasure. But it may acquire ter
ritory which, at the time, has not popu-
lation that fits it to become a State, and
may govern it as Territory until it has
population which, in the Judgment of Con-
gress, entities it to be admitted as a State
of the Union.
4. During the time it remains Terrific
ry, Congress may legislate over it within
the scope of its constitutional powers in re-
lation to the citizens of the United States
and the form of the local Government
must be regulated by the discretion of
Congress-but with powers not exceeding
those which Congress itself, by the Con-
stitution, is authorized TO exercise oyer ciii-