The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-05-27

oy the pleading and every rule of pmclice
the question of slavery as well as that of cit.
izenship, and their decision upon that point
so vital In its character and go controlling in
lis effects upon the future destiny of our peo
pie, will stand and be recognized as of az
much, aud even more authority Than its opin
ion upon the other.
The majority of he committee have insuI.
ted the memory of Thomas Jefferson. by in.
voking his great name and quoting his com.
manding authority, in favor ofthe reasonable
sentim ents contained il The resolutions as
reporied. 10 This they have only initiated the
gross wa Mt of candor which has SO recently
permit ed the opposition 10 justify their feeble
attacks upon the Constitution and The Union
under The sanction of the great men of The
Revolution who labored SO successfully 10
establish both. The majority have quoted
the language, but not the meaning of JefIer-
son. For npon reference 10 the letters from
which garbled extracts have been taken, il
appears that the illuslEjous founder of De-
mocracy was inveishins in eloqusn, and for
chile, terms against that growing spirit of cen.
tralza,ion of federal assumption of power,
which from The days OF The Virginia and Ken.
lucky resolutions OF 1898, to the present lime,
the democratic party has strenuously resisted;
and never SO successful as in The receni Pres,
idenlial contest, when the disregard of State
Rights aud strict constitutional construction
was carried by the Republican party 10. The
mos! dangerous and irsasonable exlremes.--
The opinions of the Supreme Court of the
United States, which Thomas Jefferson then
deprecated, seemed to lend the sanction of
that high tribunal 10 federal Interference in
purely State affairs. ....
!. But happily for The perpetuality Of this Un.
ion, his gloomy forebodings have not been
justified by the result. For not only has The
Supreme Court itself been controlled by wi
ser and more mature counsels, but the federal
government with all lis power and influence,
has recognized and sustained 10 the fullest
extent, the sacred justice Of State Rights, and
placed upon safe and unassailable ground the
vital principle of POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY ir the
Terrlories-in itself, only an extension and
necessary application Of the former. And If
the sage of Monticello were now alive and
in our midst-if he could dwell upon The
proud triumphs of The Democratic party, SO
true, so constant, and SO faithful TO the Con.
stituiion as i; came from its f-amers-his dark
presages as 10 federal encroachments upon
The sovereign rights Of the separate States,
would give place 10 brgh, and prophetic Wis.
ions Of The permanency and grandeur of this
confederate Republic.
In CONCLUSION, the minority OF your COM
mitee have no fears that the Dred Scott de-
ision will moi be sustained and upheld by
the calm good sense of The American people.
In the frenzied oulburst OF defeated sectional
ism, tones of unmeasured denunciaion may
be hurled against il by the party whose hopes
il destroys and whose principles ii over
whelms. But in The future, as IN the past
the great mass oil our people will be true 10
thai high tribunal, as they have ever been 10
the Constitution and the Union. And If ever
the broken fragments of constitutional liberty
strew our paihway--h the exuliant tread oi
internal foes should eveF"ecbo through ouI
deserted halls and linser among the brilliant
trophies of our national greaness--it will be
in that fatal hour, when the strength and bind
ing force of The judiciary shall be forever los
in the reasonable resistance Of degenerate
factions. WILLIAM H. WELSH,
JAMES II. WALTON.
May II, 1857.