Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-04-09


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ONE THAT WOULD LIKE TO KNOW.
For the Delaware Republican.
Mn. EDIroR THE decision ofthe Supreme
Court in the bred Scott case is novel and
alarming. The experiences of over sixty years
Is naughli the opinions Of the trainers OF tn,
Constitution are not merely incorrect but out
| rageotsly erroneous; Webster and Clay and
! even that arch-champion of Southern rights
! calhoun, have been cropping in the dark, tn
legislation OF this country since the year 17S
mas been based upon "a false and mistaken
| ycw OF the powers of the General Government
aud the decision of MIR. Chief Justice Tame,
and that of his nigger-driving coadjutators /
the Blal at whose shrine the Wing and Demo
crat, the Federalist and Republican are forced
TO DOW in opposition to the crecds of tho re
spectve founders Of their several sects
u Is generally, nay universally admitted
mat fline is an authority in favor Of the valid.
| lly OF laws and acts OF government-that is
where those laws and acts of government have
| Doen open to the criticism Of the press, and
! the influence ofpubic sentiment; il is indeed
an ail-powertnl authority, equal in force TO sta
| tntory enactment. The principle involved in
| the Missouri Compromises had both Time and
tho opinions of the ablest and best in the land
| in its favor. Ii WAS no new doctrine il was
laid down and carried ont in the Ordinance of
| 1851, which was re-ailirmed and re-enacted
IN liSg. Ills true, it applied only to the
Worth W est Territory but il il was legal in
It's effects upon that, il must have been legal
as to all subsequently acquired territory. The
rishtto acquire, carries with it the right to
govern, and in Congress is vested the power
by the Constitution, to govern the Territories.
me territory is ward--a minor, not capable
TO govern itself or to take care OF its own in
terests; Congress is its guardian, its protector,
It's lord 1t has the same control over it that
husband has over wife, master over a SER
want, II father over a child subject only TO the
provisions of the Constitution, large power
to be welded only in an enlightened judge
ment, with strict integrity and u clear cenvic-
ton OF right.
In former times slavery was reviewed in a
calm and disinterested light; its advantages and
Its evils were discussed in a rational and states
manike manner, with an eye to tho interest of
the whole country, reviewing it in such light
ana IN such manner it was universally agreed
that it was an evil, to be eradicated as soon as
compatible with the interest of those States in
which it at that time existed.
The pleasing spectacle was seen of men
from the extreme North and Fast, striking
hands with men from the remote South and
West, upon subject so intimately connected
with their Interests, feelings and education and
which WAS destined to have such an important
influences in shaping their future interests, for
veal or for woe, as their descendants should
carry out or set aside that policy, and those
maAlms which they ut that time adopted for
themselves aud recommended to posterity.
Slavery was not then used MS ar engine OF
political power. Jefferson, Adams, Washing
ton and those who had surtured the young tree
OF liberty from its inception, with their blood,
ana treasure and watched with becoming pride
its budding into manhood, were unwilling TO
clog It's future growth and greatness with a
burden which they knew might be fatal, and
certainly would bring weakness and anarchy in
It's train. But these were not the only evils
which they foresaw. 1t had existed sufficiently
long to enable them to Judge with precision OF
ITS ELECTS. Slavery at the most can bat sup
port itselti the crops which it produces are
consumed by the producers little is loft for ex-
p0riation. They saw even at that early period
Maryland and Virginia worn ont and exhaust
ed, ana the planters seeking for homes in the
wilderness OF Kentucky, and on the broad and
fertile prairies Northwest oithe Ohio. Such
was Slavery in its full vigor, in the time Of the
COnventioners. They entered upon their du-
ties not with view to future promotion, not
with hope to elevate themselves to higher
position. They werA stern Republicans, taught
by the heel of the tyrant the value of every
thing Democratic, and on that ground gave
whattheyintendedto be, the death-blow to Slay-
eryi they saw that it created a privileged class
renewed from the common mass of their breth-
rem, in their interests. in their hopes and in
Their position, and taught from their earliest
youth to look down with contempt upon all
who toiled with the hand, and to spurn them
frola them as they would the viper
Franklin had been to Europe and studied
the workings of despotism in the Courts Of
France and Engandi Jefferson was the deadly
enemy 10 every thing aristocratic the former,
a native of Massachusetts,. the latter native Of
Virginia. They had remarked the difference
which even then existed between tho New
England States and those of tho South, be-
tween the rocky soil of Massachusetts, and the
rlch and luxuriant country Lying between the
Susquehanna and the ChatthOochee and deter
mined to limit its encroachments. The Ordi-
nance OF 1887 was passed, which prohibited
slavery in all the Territories which the United
States then possessed. Was ii unconstitution-
uli by what is it prohibited Congress NAV
pass all needful rules and regulations for the
government Of the Territories, arc the words
oil the Constitution. II Congress believes slav-
cry to be an evil, it is not only its right, but its
DOnnden duty to forbid it, they are to look to
its future prosperity, to its permanent interests,
to its real advantages; they did so in the case
of the Missouri Compromise; it was admitted
on an sides e. be constitutional it was acqnes
tod TO Southern aggrandizement. Thirty-sey-
en- years have since rolled round, parties are
divided, the subject is up once more. What
do we see a Supreme Court OF the United
States ruled by Shareholders, with a Chief
Justice who violated the Constitution and as a
reward for his perjury, elevated to eXpound
the Constitution, on the brink, ] had almost
said with both feet in the grave, his physical
man tottering to its fall, publishes to the world
a decision opposite to tie previous rulings of
the same Court, and in direct contact with the
judgments of nearly all the Courts both slave
and free, in which the question has been agi-
tated within tho last fifty years. Every act
OF tins government in the matter has been vio-
lalve OF the spirit and letter of the Constitu-
tion and the abest intellects must bow before
the all powerful Judgment of Roger B.. fancy
ana his wooly-heatled cotton planters; the new
lights OF the 18th century, whose brilliancy OBJ
scurGs the mild and gentle luminaries of iiity
years ago, and the glare OF whose impudenee
ami ignorance shines with IN unhealthy SPLEEN
dor and radiates the talsiiy ofthcir sentiments
throughout the land.
And think they that the people of the North
will submit to their decision that those who
fought at Lexington, Bunker Hill, Saratoga,
Brandywine, aye and at the Cowpens Eutaw
Springs and Yorktown, to defend their pacn-
liar Institution, have left descendants unworthy
of their Puritanic iorefathers iftney do, they
VIII DC MISTAKEN. Ihe UNIVERSAL cry will go
up to high Heaven of Death to Slavery and
Oppressi0n!'' The dogs OF war will be let loose
and freedoms sons uniting from the Penob-
scot to the Missouri, will march forward to bat
tie and to victory, and sing the song of their
fathers on the SUBMITS of the Rocky Noun
tains. Would the South avoid the isslo p
Ills not too late, let them leturn to the tenets
Of II Washington, a Jefferson and Madison,
and then will their brethren from the North
march hand in hand with them until the Star
Spangled Banner shall be the great Idoa of
the civilized world and the crowned heads of
Europe SILVER with terror at the scream of the