The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-08-20
5olllltblIlg fur Gnstll!Jo0u.
Judge Warden on the .sNew Greed Of
the Democratic PaTty.s,

.Idorsement of the Dred Scott decision BY
the Democratic party of Ohio. In a let.
ter dated at Columbus, August 9th, and
printed in the O. s. journal, be says o.
that Endorsement - Ii cuts the throat oi
popular sovereignty in the territories,
and stabs to the heart every compromise
made on the subject of slavery, not actin
ally carried into the Constitution of the
United States.''
Mr.. Warden says further:
We are free to return to our simple
sovereign rights, as reserved when the
Union was formed. We are free to re-
duce the fugitive slave law to its proper
dimensions. We are free to vindicate
the dignity Of our Courts, by compelling
obedience to their process, even by SO a
mighty parsonage as Deputy Marshal
of the United States. We are free to
substitute for the unwise and dangerous
habeas corpus act introduced by Rev.
Mr.. Monroe, such laws, alike vigorous
and free from doubtful constitutienality,
as shall make it a sorry business to des-
pise, here in, Ohio, the writ of liberty,
even in the hands of the humblest citizen,
ordered to serve it. We are free, more
over, to insist that no foo. of territory in
vaded by slavery, under the detestable
doctrines of the Dred Scott decision, shall
ever be added to the Union, by the votes
of men fairly representing the State OF
Ohio.
The sense in which the North made
all the extra constitutional compromises,
has been rudely stripped of practical re-
cognition and vitality. Dear as the I'm
ion mustbe toevery true American heart,
it oug ght not to be dearer than public faith,
than the rights of States. than the con-
seryatism of the Constitution in the sense
in which it was accepted when ratified
by the States. There will be no lasting
peace till there come an end Of wrong, de-
ception and encroachment. We are not
IN debt to the South. The South should
have better remembered its obligations to
us, than to have forced upon us the edi-
Gus pretended judgment in the case Of
Dred Scott. We deserve to be slaves,
meancr than the slaves of the South, il
we submit to the imposition.
What infatuation possessed the organ
lied force of the Democratic party, when
it decided to adopt the decision referred
to, it would be difficult to divine. Does
that party give up all respect for popu-
lar opinion in Ohio :?
1t is the fixed, true, unalterable faith
of the great body of our people, that the
extension of slavery into territories now
free, would be a great and irreparable
evil. 1t is the like fixed, true and unal-
terable faith of the great body Of our
people, that there is a. remedy, entirely
constitutional, against the extension, in
the action of Congress or in that.of the
territorial Legislature, when clothed
with such powers as Congress may dele
gate, and such as belong to the very es-
sence of popular government. In this
respect, the body of all parties, the DEM
ocratic as well as the Republican, the
American as well as the other parties, is
in harmony with the body of the people,
SO far as real sentiment is concerned
But the seeming necessity of keeping the
politicians of the North and the South
together on the subject of slavery, has
induced the leaders and organs of the
Democratic party, as now constituted,
to endorse pretended decision, that no
action of Congress, no action of the Ter
ritorial Legislature, can prevent the in
PRODUCTION of slavery into territories now
free, since, as now pretended by the dc
tum of divided court, the STAKEHOLDER
has constitutionally guaranteed proper
tv in his slave, above the reach Of terrific
rial and congressional legislation alike
This Endorsement will be constructed by
the South, with severe and literal strict
ness, Just as have stated its TEN and
its effect. Has. not the organized force
of the Democratic party of Ohio, then,
I n
trampled on the true faith of our people ?
Will the body of the Democratic party
countenance such an outrage? L cannot
but think that resistance to the new doc
trine is the first duty of every citizen,
and that no notion Of the general proprie-
| ty of tadhering to.a. party. in the conf
dence that it will correct its own errors
through its own inherent virtues,. can
justify any man who, truly understands
the new addition to. the doctrines of the
Democratic party, while it asserts wha
will be found, when honestly scrutiniaed
SO repugnant to the faith Of, our fathers
to the interests of humanity. and, tn
dripe of constitutional government.
/ Again 1t iG the like fixed, true ant
unalterable faith Of ths people, that
T Federal. Constitution, made by States