The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-10-01
The Shareholders President;

The Shareholders President. +,
president Woolsey, of Yale College, and
other distinguished citizens of Connecticut,
have memoriaIized Mr.. B4chansn against his
using the army of the United States to force
the people of Kansas to obey the laws Of the
Border Rufian Code. sEr -a
10 this memorial Mr.. Buchanan has sent an
answer, the pith OF which is contained in the
following paragraph:
Ihe Congress Of the United States had most
wisely declared il to be the true intent and
meaning of this act--the act of organizing the
lerrltorv-not to egislate slavery into any
Territory, nor TO exclude it therefrom, but to
leave II to the people thereof, perfectly free to
form and regulate their domestic institutions
IN their own way, subject only to the Consti.
tuition Of the United States. Fat
As natural consequence, Congress has al.
so prescribed by the same act, that when the
Territory Of Kansas shall be admitted as a
State il shall be admitted into the Union with
or without slavery, as their constitution may
prescribe at the time of their admission. Sla.
very existed at that period, and still exists in
Kansas under the Constitution Of the United
States.
This point has at last been decided by the
highest tribunal known to our laws. How Il
could ever have been seriously doubted is 4
mystery. IL a confederation of sovereign
States require new Territory at the expense
OF their common blood and treasure, surely one
set OF the parties have no right to exclude the
other from its enjoyment by prohibiting them
taking into it whatsoever is recognized to b.
property by common Constitution.
To the statements Of this extract we wish
to call public attention. Mr.. Buchanan here
declares what we have told thousand times.
that the Nebraska, Bill did not legislate slavery
into Kansas. How then did il 60 there I? It
was prohibited by the Missouri Compromise
OF 1920. An. says Mr.. Buchanan IL existed
under the Constitution of the United States. -
Here is the Shareholders doctrine epthroned
in the Presidential chair. The Slave Power
has conquered the Executive, as well - the
Judiciary of the nation.
Our readers need not be told that this Is an
entirely new doctrine for President to take.
No such sentiments can be found iu any Ex.
ecutive document heretofore. We defy the
friends OF the administration to point to a SEN
tence written by any President from washing-
ton to Pierce, which sets forth that slavery ex-
lists in any national Territory under the Con.
stitution of the United States. The old motto
of the Republic was !" Liberty and Unions
Mr.. Buchanan has corrected the fathers Of
the nation, and makes Slavery and Union.
the watchword.
Mr. Buchanan takes no notice of the main
point made by the memorialists--that the Bor.
der Rufian code was not made by the people
OF Kansas, but spends his strength in showing
that Slavery exists any how in Kansas undes
the National Constitution. e..
ltdevolves upon the people OF iowa to say
on the 18th Of October, whether they will send
man to the Senate CT the United States, who
will support for six long years these and 9th.
er usurpations Of the Slave Power.--lBsrliag.
ton Hawk-E Eye.
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