The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-09-02

uer Color Of tuat iustruWehl u t0 ii6uuua
remedy" al
Notification bv State which has the right
to judge for itself Of the infractions Of the Con-
stltution, Is the rightful remedy! Now look
at these men coming up 10 charge the Repnb-
lican party with great sacrilege in assailing
the obiter dicta opinions OF the Supreme Court,
and at the same time piedging themselves in
their party platform to the right of any State
to determine at it's pleasure and for itself wh Of
the Constitution means, IN defiance Of deci-
sion NJ the Supreme Court and the Executive,
and 10 nuilify an act OF Congress which both
sustain. ["That's it''-good, good."1 This
is the consistency they exhibit when they
make such assaults upon us. BIT, fellow
citizens. il are required TO submit TO the deci-
4 Ions of the Supreme Court, as 10 the aather-
ity of Congress to exclude slavery from Ter
ritory, and if it be true that the people of a
Territory have no authority, as the JUDGES of
the Supreme Court in the bred Scott opinion
say-if the people Of the territory while in a
Territorial condition have no power to exclude
slavery from their midst, has not that court
the same right to decide whether Slate may
exclude slavery? Look WHITTIER this doctrine
tends. If neither the Congress nor the peo-
pie ca exclude slavery from Territory be-
cause the Constitution Of the United States is
the paramount law of the land and carries sa-
very with il, then the States cannot exclude
slavery, because the Constitution of the Uni.
ted States is the paramount law Of the land IN
the State as well as the Territories, aud it
there is anything in that instrument which ex-
tends slavery into the Territories the same pro-
vision must extend 1t in'o States also. Well,
suppose the ipreme Court decide as they are
bound to decide il they carry out the doctrine
they have announced in that Dfed Scott case.
that by virtue vt the Constitutions slavery is
extended into all the free States of this Union,
are these gentlemen prepared to submit to
that? Cries Of no, no. You are just as
much bound 10 submit to It as to this opinion
that carries slavery into the Territories, End
the man who defends the one must sustain the
other. That is the necessary consequence Of
the doctrine laid down. 5000.
There is now a case pending. known as the
"Lemmon case," and when the country gets
prepared tolreceive the decision, Won will pro-
baby hear again from the Supreme Court Of
the United States the doctrine announced, that
under the Constitution, slavery goes into all
the States of the Union. That instrument
which our fathers made FOR securing the bless
ings Of liberty is TINS to be perverted by the
| decision OF this court-to become an ins'ru.
merit FOR the spread of slavery against the will
Of the people. This nee essarilv results from
the doctrine already advanced. II acquiesced in
and carried out to its legitimate consequences.
| THE PUBLIC EXPENDITURES
! But find am spending SO much time up
on this slavery question that am becoming
somewhat hoarse, and ! wish 10 say some
thing to you in regard to the expenditures of
the government, and show that the party in
power is as false to its other professions a . 1t
| is to those it has at different times set up on
the slavery question, will pass for q few
moments 10 that subject.
The expenses OF the government, as you
have probably often heard, have Increased
enormously within Few years. The amount
Of money at the disposal Of government for
this year is more than one hundred millions
of dollars. This know has sometimes been
disputed; but have here the Official state
ment male by the Clerk OF the House OF Rep
resentatives, showing that more than eighty
one millions were specifically appropriated
at the last session Of Congress, and there are
indefinite appropriations to pay claims, the
precise amount Of which is not yet known,
which amout at the lowest estimate 10 three
million and half, making over els hty-fonr
million, and there is an unexpended balance
Of appropriations made last year, amounting
J to more than sixteen millions. These suns
altogether make more than hundred millions
of dollars at the disposal of the Admins
} tration for the present fiscal year. | know
il is "a ia that it is Unfair to charge all this tn
! this year y ata surplus will remain at the
emo OF .n's year 20 De carries 20 .ne aeN ',s,;
pue !",nA u - ,n"c" more "Ne,y ma ,"e Au
minis'fat'on VIII GENE IN WIN .,, ae"c,ehcy
OIL ana ASK TOT so'ne zen mi'iioh mo,e' az
they d'a al ,iie last congress 1tna'' 'hat any
surplus wiz remain. lne EXPENSES =, 'hs
government anr, n ,ne aam'n.s!ra uon OF Ueh
rierce were s%o<'cIy'oo-' LUIS - snp'e u Inn
all the expenses OF the soserhneh. from ~
wnen " was orsan'zed. TOT .h'r,Y years 20
ge1er, Inc 1un''g l'ie war VII We. 3d..
10 ioi@: zen. rierce expepapa more mon,
during roar years OF peace ,han our sovr.h
ineht expepaea Io' she nssS .",r'y al '
us organization. IN 1870 me eAPe',n''uies -
the government. Tor an purposes ny ekc'1siss o.
me Pnotc dsD,, were es,io4,lo4 %. ~ 1901
me expenses OF tue so'e'nhan,, escrns'Va IN, ~
the pnohe deot: We're $oo,oo DOG 10. ,s 1m'
pro Td!a according 70 'he pop.ai"n ~ en,.
was ",he.y.aou, GEMS M 90 =" ~ 'h''s''S -,
pro rag ~ 1901 was 80 per han-'f . =.
70 sZ.Io. accofo'hs u Pop"'aooi. vow ~ .t
lac's ougnt 20 aura. lne a.c''."" =. ="
: country o.t perhaps ~ were 20 sea'e III We
, TAN some oi we "assfiu'ness ~ I"'s sose1'
! me"', some ot '''e uiea"s ny wmc" t"ese
! penses nave oeeh increased; womb s.I.k
some m'nis more !ore,''y; WIZ San 70"
apen.i"" 70 we cnv - Nnehs1' nay
= cas'om-no"se located mere anu :" .oo|'
TOT the nscai year enai"g 20 1unr, 800. W.
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