The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-03-26

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Post Office and
Post Roads Texas 2
Indian Affairs = Arkansas, 6
Judiciary = S. Carolina 6
District Of Columbia - Mississippi5
Territories Illinois,
Total SO
Every Slave State is represented on the
Committees, while three of the sovereign
States of this Union, to wit Maine, New
Hampshire and Massachusetts,, who have
six Senators upon the floor, are entirely
disfranchised, and excluded from all
these important Committees. Of these
ten Committees Seuen have chairmen from
the South and three from the North Of
the fifty mine places upon these Commit
tees, thirtysix are from the Slave States
and twenty three from the Free States
| Virginia has her two sons placed at the
head of the two most important commit
tees in the Senate, while old Massachu-
setts is entirely kicked out of the ring
This is illustrating the doctrine of equal
ity of States . with vengeance. Then
look at the magnanimity, the boundless
liberality of the equality party of this
country, in allowing or permitting six Re-
publicans out of fifty nine on these ten
Committees, to be placed at or near the
tail end of a portion of the same.
But it is contended by Southern politi
clans, that unless they can carry their
slaves into the Territories, and there hold
them as slaves, they are not on terms OF
equality with the people of the Free
States. have no time to argue the con-
stitutional question herein involved, and
it is not necessary to an answer to this as
sumption. You desire to carry your
Very well; the people of the North do
not interfere with you in doing that
You go another step, and say you can
legally hold them there as slaves; but
the question Immediately arises, by what
authority? And here Southern men en-
tirely disagree. Some say slaves can be
holden in the Territories by the operation
of the Constitution; others contend thai
they are holden in spite of the Constitu
ton while third class carry the doc
trine Of State sovereignty to such ex
tremes that they carry the local laws o.
the States into the Territory with them.
: Section two of article four of the Con
stitu,ion Of the United States, which you
so often quote to remind Northern men
, of their constitutional duties, settles this
whole thing against you. "No person
held to service or labor in one State, un
der the luacs thereof, escaping into anotb
er," &c. Here the Constitution express
ly declares that persons (which South
ern gentlemen construe to mean slaves,
are held by virtue of State law; and i
you can carry your local laws out of ;
State into other Territory, then you neec
no Fugitive Slave Law to reclaim
your slaves, and this section of the Con
stitution is not only unnecessary, but sub
stantially void.
Shareholders accuse the people of th,
, North of desire to exclude their slav
{ property from the Territories, and cal
this estate equality" and yet the,
would drive the free laborerers of th
! North from the Territories, aud occup,
them exclusively themselves, and ca
this estate equality" Garry SLAYER
a into the Territories, and there give it
. legal existence, and you drive out free la
). bor-for the reason th at slave-labor S
! degrades free white labor that the tw
!. cannot exist together. This. attempt o
! the part of the South, to give Slavery
: legal protection in the Territories is notl
e ing less than an attempt to exclude ii
people Of tile Free Stutes from tie public dt
main, and usurp the common propriety
e all the States, and dispose Of the same fe
the exclusive benefit of the slave powel
6. Another charge of the Presidel
against the people of the the Free State
is the ".Sla0ery. agitation,'' which hi
followed the repeal of the Missouri Con
promise. Speaking of the repeating
e the restriction, he says: 'tThen followe
is the cry of alarm from the North again
a. the imputed Southern encroachments
at The history of human governments is fl
ID of just such examples.
We Looking over the past, it will be SEE
le that whenever an insulted people have r
ry sisted the usurpations of tyrants, th'
a. have always been met with the cry
of "Agitation!" | shall go into no arg
he ment to prove that the President himse
and those who were engaged with hi