Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-03-26
NO. 70.

to all the privileges and immmunities Of citi.
zens in the several States" This decision,
therefore, settles the old difficulty between
Massachusetts, and South Carolina concern.
ing the free colored citizens cooks and seamen
Of the former, treated only as dangerous free:
negroes upon entering the ports Of the latter
State. The decision is against Massachu.
setts and her free colored citizens, and in
favor of South Carolina. ]s9,4i =;
The decision concerning the federal ordi.
nance of 1857 and the Missouri compromise
Of 1920 establish the full validity Of the
Kansas Nebraska bill, as the true constitu-,
tional policy in regard to slavery in the Ter
ritories. The decision concerning, slaves IN
transita through free State, or the tempo.
rary sojourn of Southern slave in free
State, settles the Lennon case, and all cases
like that Of Mr.. Wheeler, of North Carroll.
ma, whose slaves at Philadelphia, we're SO
unceremoniously spirited away; and in all
such cases the supreme decree is decisive Of
the shareholders constitutional rights to bis
slave property. -
But the most important of these supreme
decisions, in a political party view, is tho
judgment that Congress has no power, and
can delegate nc power over the question Of
slavery in thel ritories. Thisdecision at o
single blow shivers the .anti.slavery platform
of the late great Northern republican party
into atoms. The policy Of flegislating slavery
out Of Kansas and the other Territories Of
tho Union by Congress will no longer avail
them. Congress has no power in the premi-
ses. That is settled. What was in doubt is
in doubt no longer. The supreme Law is sx.
pounded by the supreme authority, and DISC
bedience is rebellion, treason and revolution.
The republican party henceforth must choose
between submission and revolution--loyalty
or treason to the government. The gall and,
bitterness Of the New York Tribune are be-
trayed in its mad assertion that these vital
and final decisions Of our Supreme Judges
are " entitled to just so much moral weight
as would be the Judgment Of majority Of
those congregated in any Washington. bar.
ROOM" But this madness of our Seward
organs will avail nothing. The only alter
native to the anti-slavery fractions Of the
North, from the Garrison to the Seward and
original Van Buran fractions, is loyalty or
treason, submission or rebellion.
Unquestior ably this bombshell from the
Supreme Court, together with the inaugural.
and the Cabinet Of tie new administration,
will at once reopen the slavery agitation in.
all its length and breadth; but henceforth
slavery in the Territories is an issue which
must be decided by the laws of climate, pro:
ducts, races, and the natural laws of our pop
ulation and our emigration; for Congress
henceforth can have nothing to do with the
subject. Meantime, the new administra.
ton, relieved of the precedents Of the Mis-
souri, compromise, the Wilmot proviso, and
all other unconstitutional laws and proceed
ings of the government during the last for
ty years on the slavery question, had its
course plainly and authoratively marked out.
In this respect Mr.. Buchanan is particularly
fortunate, and his administration will, we
dare say, be singularly satisfactory and sue.
cessful, for the people are ever loyal to the
constitution and the laws. '