American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-08-12

believe the nigger viii destroy the white
man in his own house II let alone. That
is. il you permit the negro to work and the
white man TO grow indolent; for il is one
Of the unaIterabIe laws Of God, that the la
borer shall possess the country where he
iabors. Human experience juttifies this
principle. eelieye there should be no
slave labor where there is white men can
work. EApplause.
am no Immediate emaneipationist.-l
What would you DO with the slaves?
know there are those who would say, do
right and leave the resi- to God.' But how
to do right is the question. You can e.
mancipate nigger on sight provided you
cut his throat. But does that remove the
moral difficulty. This is not question
however, for US now to consider. do
not believe there is a Republican in Ohio
who claims the right TO interfere with the
laws of Kentucky to emancipate her slaves,
and SO the question does not vex US. But
further, in relation to this question OF ad
mission OF State with or without slavery:
Suppose the people Of the State Of Penn
sylvania should change their constitution
and introduce slavery. How would you
meet this difficulty? Ought you not upon
the principle Of rejecting the application
Of a people with slave constitution for
their State, to possess the power TO thrust
out State thus changing her organic in.
strument. TIA State has a right to stay
in thus. to send her Representatives to Con
gress, where do you get the right TO pro-
hibit State from coming iu? II you
can't turn out; yeu can't keep out. But
l don't believe it ever was a principle or
creed of our fathers to reject State ap-
plying for admission with constitution a.
DOPING slavery.
| soUATTER SOVEREIGNTY.
What will you do with United Safes
territory Inhabited by white men? Has
not Congress Supreme power over it? Has
she not power to make all needful rules
and regulations for the government of the
territories? Recently we have had intro.
duced upon US the doctrine Of squatter
Sovereignty. We are told that few men
may settle any where at the bass Of the
Rocky Mountains and make what laws
thiy please, and that Congress has no
right to repeal them. Up to late period
} Congress had always exercised this right.
} She had done so during sixty years. 1t
: had received the sanction OF tire ard ex
} perience. The greatest Statesman Of our
) country had sanctioned tie wise proris-
, ions Of our revolutionary fathers. But in
1850, or .hereabouts. a man more saga
} cious than all his fellows, man who
wanted 10 be President, discovered that
the practice OF the Government had been
wrong for the last sixty years. 1t was
, lust al the time Of the Wilmot Proviso dis
. cussion, and being unable to reconcile
: conflicting doctrines upon Slavery. started
r Squatter Sovereignty. Here again we re
, ceive a great moral lesson. We are i'm
: pressed that whenever man makes a miss
r step. and undertakes to correct it by go.
y ing another step. he gets irretrievably
: wrong His only course is TO 60 back
Q whence he started. Experience is the
: best test Of the wisdom of our Consultation
t II had answered all good purposes for six.
ty years.
D The Constitution says that Congress
: shall make all needful rules sud regula
: tions for the government Of the territories,
but Squatter Sovereignty steps over the
Constitution and says Mol What do we
6 find to be the consequences Of this doc
: trine?
u Look at Kansas. Men rushed from the
Q South with arms, to possess Kansas. Met
: rushed from the North with arms to de.
j. fend their rights and possess Kansas. The
+? Government sent her armies to prevent
d brethren from cutting each others throats
Il If Squatter Sovereignty is right, what
9 right had the United States to interferei
e Had not the people the right to do as they
g please? If the Government has no IighI
a to make the laws, what right has it TO ex
}, ecute them. But we see Governor senI
l to Kansas to-day to execute laws which
It Government has made, and the next day
,. he is called back for executing them
u What subject for contemplation; Eve
l. yea, seven Governors Of Kansas; all de
10 feated in their aims. All these difficul
st ties are the result Of that one great mis-
le step-the introduction and adoption o
y Squattsr Sovereignty doctrines-a viola
7, ton OF the Constitution. The repeal o
j. the Missouri Compromise was the fruitful
h cause of all those bitter waters OF our ex
., perience. Nothing but insanity dictsted i
l nothing but anarchy has resulted
(. NO MORE ACQUISITION OF TERRITORY.
ir Mr.. Corwin held that to prevent the fur
g. ther extension o! slavery the Republican
,e must oppose the further acquisitisn Of ter
n rtory, and in this connection held it to b
Of the duty of Congress 10 pass an act prohib
Id iting the extension Of slavery into free ter
e. ritoTy. But he said that when territory !
v. acquired we are obliged to receive it as
er comes. If it is slave territory when acquir
= ed. we have no right to disposess the peO
to pie Of their property unless they conced
~ the right. II you don't wish more slav
ct territory don't take such property. Du
OF ring the Mexican War / maintained thi
ar doctrine. warned the country Of the 9
ee wills which came upon US, and to prov
n. that am consistent, / read to you the fol
~ lowing extract from my speech delivere
ne in the United States Senate, on the lit
to of February 1847,
,s. But, M. President. if further acquisi
ct sition Of territory is 70 be the result eithe
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