The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-01-06

of its political creed, and is resolved to
carry them out in their obvious meaning
and import. Het ei!st
eiSAnd, that we may more distinctly meet
the issue on which a sectional party, sub
sisting exclusively on slavery sgitation,
now relies to test the fidelity of the peo-
pie, North and South, to the Constitu-
tion and the Union ~
Is l. ReSolUed. That the
American Democracy recognize and
adopt the principles coutzinea-irr the or
ganic laws establishing the Territories of
Kansas and Nebraska as imbodying the
only sound and safe solution eff the ''slas
very question. upon which the great
NATIONAL idea Of the people of this whole
country can repose in its determined con-
servatism of the Uniou-non interference
6y Congress a0ith Slavery an State and
Territory, or lnflse District of Columbia.
l.ss2 That this was the basis of the COM
promises of 1850, confirmed by both the
Democratic aud Whig parties in national
coLventions,s ratified by the people in the
election of 1852. and rightly applied to
the organizatiors of Territories IN 1854
8. That by the AM fotnzes application of
this Democratic principle to The oggani-
zation of Territories aud to the admission
of ncto States, with or without slavery, as
they may elect, the equal rights of all the
States will be preserved intact, the origi-
nal compacts of the Constitution main
tanned inviolate, and the perpetuity and
ex xpansion of this Union insured to its ut
most capacity of embracing in peace and
harmony every future American State
that may be constituted or annexed, with
| Republican form of governments.
These emphatic resolutions contain not
word prescribing the mode and manner
| IN which new States shall adopt their
/ Constitutions but breathe in every line
and word stern inhibition against all
outside interference with the new States,
ssiuscucrything arpertainiDg to their oi0ss
affairs. -
+ The full sig nifcation of these resolu-
tiops would be lost if we. were not to
quote in connexion the clauses from the
compromise measures of 1850, and from
the Nebraska Kansas act of 1854, to
which they mako reference
COMPROMISE CLAUSE OF 1850, FROM THE
TERRIToRIAL ACT ORGANIZING NEW MEX
/ ICo AND UTAH.
u Psouided, That, when admitted as a
State, the said Territory, or any portion
| of the same, shall be received into 1.-the
Union, with OF without slavery, as their
Constitution may prescribe at the time of
| their admission.
| The declaration supposes that the new
! State will frame and adopt its Copstitu-
ton in its own way, free from ali outside
iuterference aud dicta' ion not one word
being used which could authorize Con-
eress to look behind the Constitution into
the mode of its adoption, for the purpose
Of interfering to direct that mode.
A clause precisely in the words of the
above clause is inserted in the Nebraska
Kansas act, as well as the following cele-
brated non Intervention clause:
Non intervention. clause Of the Ne
6raska Kansas act Of 1854.
The Constitution, and all laws of the
! United States which are not locally insp-
iplicable, shall have the same force and
] effect within the said Territory of Kan
sas as elsewhere within the United States,
except the eighth .sectionAsf the act pre-.
! paratory to the admission of Missouri in
to the Uuion, approved March 9th, 1920
which, being inconsistent with the princi-
pie of non-intervention by Congress With
slavery iu the States and Territories, rs
recognised by the legislation of 1850
commonly called the compromise meas
ures, is hereby declared imperative and
void 1t being the true intent and mean
ing of this act not to legislate slavery in.
to any Territory or State, nor to exclude
it therefrom, but to leave the people there
of perfectly free to form and regulat.
their domestic institutions IN their oaor
aoay, subject only to the Constitution Of
the United States, &c.
/ Thus the policy of nan anteroention il
again asserted in the most absolute termi
that the English language Gao afford
The phrase ''poaple of the Territory" is
indeed, used in the sentence denying t.
Congress all right of interference in thei
domestic affairs; but the denial. of thi
power to Congress was the sole intention
of the sentence, aud it would he absurd t,
insist that Congress intended, In the very
act of denying itself all power of inter
ference, actually to interfere to the extent
of prescribing the mode in which the Con
4 Il. ian the new State should bt
s. framed : -
Thus carefully, earnestly, and emphati
cally has the Democracy of the Union an
nounced the great doctrine of non inter
vcntion, aud on which they have Tough
the abolitionists for seven years of agita
tion and struggle; and it is hardly to b.
supposed that they can now consent tt
abandon that cherished doctrine or it
antipodcs; aud to unite with their enc
mics in policy of interference in tn,
domestic affairs of Kansas, at war with al
they have battled for for years together
Those who expect to persuade them int
this act of qualification and treason {.
their cause little understand the force o
principles, and little appreciate that deso
tion to the cardinal doctrines of thei
faith that has always distinguished th,
Democracy from the ephemeral parties o
the country, which, catching at expedi
snts and speeialities, have risen up agaips
them one after another, only to be broker
J and scattered to the winds.
j To prevent fish from smelling il
summer-cut their noses off.
j EEThe worst feature in mans fac