Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-10-31
For the Grant Counts Herald
a.. the People Of flse United
States.

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FELLOW CtrizENs:-Betwixt Black Re
anlIicauism, aud Blue Democracy, il seems
Irre have got ourselves into a terrible smart:
il is to be hoped however, that we shall
not out ayain. We are now divided into
two great political parties, : great Northern
party and a great Southern party, or a
church north and a church south, with a
couple of fractions over; and the leaders
of these great parties do not care a straw
what becomes of me country or lts lnHtl-
t~utions: all they are afteT is the offices and
the spells. Our present chief magistrate.
who is great high priest of the church
south, tells us that the Constitution car
ries Slavery with it wherever 1t goes.
throughout the United States and Ken
tucky. and that when he camr into otfic
he foinl Slavery firmly established III
Kansas, and he intends 10 keep 1t there.
He saws he will execute tie awa,ani, if he
cannot execute the laws. he will execa'"
the people. He seems determined TO ex5
ecu1e something. and | gness he will If II
! should be nothing more than his W
] party. .
On he other hand, we have those OF
the church north, (Jndge Mclean among
tiein) who tell us that the Constitution
does uot carry 81, very anywhere, but that
!, pivps Congress fall power TO prohibit II
in the Territories. Now think James
Buchanan a very nice old bachelor and a
toIeraI.le II an, Tut | would rather sec
bulge Mclean President than any ma
in the nation; but | amLo agree with
either of them on this subject. | do not
think the constitution gives Congress any
power /" establish or prohibit Slavery in
] the Territories or anywhere else: if it
does, it gives equal powerto establish thai
It does TO prohibit. The Constitution SAYS:
Congress shall have power To dispose OF
1 and make all needfIl rules an regulations
respecting the territory and other property
of the United States. On this the church
j Slavery. and the church south to establish
it III the Territories. | conll wish that
j Congress had the power, not only to pro
] hihit Slavery in the Territories, but 10 Il
] boIi>h it throughout the United States and
Kentucky, for | freely admit that Slavery
is a great evil and one which ought to be
removed from among us, seeing that W"
boast 50 much of freedom and equality,
but | think it bad policy for Congress Il"
exercise any power which IL Of doubtful
constitutlonaltv. rs the power to establish
Dr to PROHIBIT Slavery in the Territories,
eyidcntlv Is. Tn the case of Missouri, Mr..
Clay said that Congress had no right to
reject her because Of her liberation Of Sla-
serv, and Chancellor Kent tells Us thai the
pc or to prohibit Slavery was assumed by
Conertss. Thus we see that our great
men Have, ard do still differ upon the sub
eet,
The great trouble now is that we have
90 government to protect the settlers III
the Territories. If we had we should have
D. trouble about Slavery; the question
worll he settl 4 bv those only who have
The right to settle Il, but unfortunately for
us we ave a set of politicians whose inter
Is; it is to make all the capital ont OF the
question that is posi- lie. ! do not blame
the party in power for acting rs they do;
thcv we're elected for that purpose; but
1 blame YOU, my country MEL, tor elevating
such men to oilice: you know better AMI
ought to do better, AMI / hope You Will
hereafter. AN OLD WHIG.
n. B. The writer was a Fillmore man
last fall and has not survived it. he Is
wrapped up in other mems opinions. We
advise him to be his own man and do his
own thinking, without consulting Clay or
Bulge Mclean. Whenever a man eman-
cipateS himself from bondage to g~eat men
who all differ, he is sure to become a
Black Republican. We have as slim opin-
ION of the man who Is the slave of great
mems views as we have of the enslave'i
negrp who worships mass! be ause massa
one berry great man. B"niage, whetf@'
mental, spiritual or physical, is what "
ignore- except alone the pleasant yok'
Nc bear under God and the Constitute"
-the higher law first, next the laws o
on country, but always rs we understanf
them. Can IAN old Wing" say as much
Russian EMANCEpATIoN.-The draft &
the proieci for Russian Emancipation, sub.
mittrd to AMI approved by the Car, L
which we referred lat week, provides tha
Die lime for the abolition of seifdom b'
divided into three successive periods
Contracts shall be drawn between th'
peaSant-serfs and their propiietors, embed
sing the following stipnlations:
q THE land appropriated TO each peas
l,nt to be formed, on the payment OF rent
must he sufficient for his existence and 10
fhat Of his family.
2-The peasants must not leave, at
faSt for the present, the lands they no"
occupy.
3-Ihe payment Of the taxes due to The
hate mast he guaranteed.
This step will do more 10 develop ana
approve the resources If Russia. and to 81
eXate the character of her people, at home