Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-11

their opposition upon any philanthropic
r principles or any sympathy for the Afri-
l can race, for he says that, Gin their so.
t called constitution, framed at Topeka
} they deem that entire race so inferio,
and degraded, as to exclude them al
l forever from Kansas whether they b.
bond or free, thus depriving them Of
all rights here, and denying We that
they can be citizens of the United States
for if they are citizens they could moi
constitutionally be exiled or excluded
from Kansas. Yet such a clause in
serted in the Topeka Constitution was
submitted by that Convention for the
vote of the people, and ratified here by
an overwhelming majority of the anti
slavery party. This party here, there
fore, has, in the most positive manner,
affirmed the constitutionality of that
portion of the recent decision of the Su-
preme Court of the United States, de-
claring that Africans are not citizens
of the United States"
After abiding to the prospects of
Kansas, upon the peaceable and final
settlement of the slavery question, and
the ruin and desolation which will
follow should it be in tho power of the
agitators to prevent such a result, the
Governor winds up his Inaugural in the
following beautiful language:
"But L do not despair of the Republic.
My hope is in the patriotism and intelli-
gence of the people; in their love of
country, of Liberty and of the Union
Especially is my confidence u~nbounded
in the hardy pioneers and settlers ofthe
West. 1t was such settlers of a new
the Union, whom I have represented in
the Senate of the United States, and
whose rights and interests it was my
pride and pleasure there as well rs in the
Treasury Department to protect and ad-
vocate. 1t was men like these whose
rifles drove bach the invader from the
plains of Orleans, and planted the stars
and stripes upon the victorious fields of
Mexico. These are the men whom gold
cannot corrupt, nor foes intimidatc.-
From their towns and villages, from
their farms and cottages spread over the
beautiful prairics of Kansas, they will
come forward now in defence Of the
Constitution and the Union.
These are the glorious legacy they
received from our fathers, and they will
transmit to their children the priceless
heritage. Before the peaceful power of
their suffrage, this dangerous sectional
agitation will disappear, and peace and
our borders. In the hearts of this noble
band of patriotic settlers, the love of
their country and the Union is inextin-
guishable. 1t leaves them not in death,
but follows them into that niger realm,
where, with Washington and Franklin,
and their noble compatriots, they look
down with undying affection upon their
country, and offer up their fervcntprayers
that the Union and the Constitution may
be perpetual. For, recollcct, my fellow
citizens, that it is the Constitution that
makesthe Union, and unless that immor-
talinstrument, bearing the namc of the
Father of this country, shall be main
tanned entire in all its wise provisions
and sacred guarantees, our free i~nstitu-
tons must perish.
My reliance also is mistaken upon
the same overruling Providence which
has carried US triumphantly through so
many pcrils and conflicts, which has lift
ed IS to the height of power and prosper
ity unexampledin history, and if We shall
maintain the constitution and the Union,
points us to a future more glorious and
and sumblime than mind can conceive
or pen describe. The march of our
country's destiny, like that of his first
chosen people, is marked by the foot
prints OF the steps of God.
The Constitution and the Union are
the "cloud by day and the pillar of fire
by night which will carry us safely IN
der His guidance through the wilderness
and bitter water, into promised and ever
extending fields of our country's glory.
It is His hand which beckons us onward
in the pathway of peaceful progress and
expansion, of power and rcnown,
until our continent, in the distant future
shall be covered by the folds of the
American banner, and, instructed by our
example, all the nations of the world,
through many trials and sacrifices, shall
establish the great principles of our con-
s%titutional confederacy of free and SOW
ercign States"
R On the question which has been
submitted to the people of Massachu-
sets, whether a man could not read or
write should he nnrmitted to vote lint