The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-11-03
CADIZ OHIO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1855

each State must decide for themselves Illinois
has decided that question hr herself We have
said that in this State the negro shall not be a
slave, nor shall he be a ctiz,n. kentucky
holds different doctrine. New York holds
one different from either. Maine is different
from all the rest. Virginia differs in many re-
spects from each of the others, and so on
There are hartly two States whose policy is
precisely alike in regard TO the relation Of the
white man with the negro. You cannot recon.
cilc them and make them alike. Each must do
as it peases. Illinois has as much right to a
dopt the policy we have on this subject as Ken
lucky has to different policy. The great
principle Of self government is that each State
has a right to do as pleqsc5 on all these ques-
tionS, and that no other power on earth has a
right to interfere with us or to complain of us
merely because our system differs from theirs
In the Compromise measures Of 1850, Mr.
Clay recognized the great principle which
have asserted, and again in the Kansas Ncbras
ka bill of 1854, that this same privilege ought
to be EXTENDED into the Territories as we'll as
the States. But Mr.. Lincoln cannot be made
to unders and and those who are determined 20
vote for him, no matter which side, whether in
the North or in the South, whether for negro
equality at one end Of the State or against it at
another-yet you cannot make one of them
understand how it is that in a Territory the
people can do as they please on the question Of
slavery under the Dred Scott decision. Let us
see il cannot make ali impartial men see how
that is. Chef ifJusticc fancy has said in his opln
ion of the Drel Scott case, that the negro slave
being property, stands on an equal footing with
other property, and that the owner NAV carry
them to the United States Territory the same
as lie does other property.
Now suppose two OF you ncighbors conclude
to go to Kansas. Suppose one should have
hundred negro slaves, and the other hundred
dollars worth Of mixed merchandise, including
a quantity of liquors, you both, according to
that decision, may carry your property TO Kan
saS. When you get there, the merchant with
his liquors meets the Maine Liquor Law, which
lorbids hlm to use or sell his property " hen lie
gets it there. What is his right to carry prop
crty there worth, ifunfriendly legislation rem
ders it useless and worthless when he gets
there? How can the owner of the slave be
more Fortunate? The stakeholder, when he gets
there, finds there is no local law, no slave code,
no police regulation supporting and sustaining
his right as a stakeholder, and he finds at once
that the absence Of friendly legislation excludes
him just as positive and rrcsistibly as posi-
tive constitutional prohibition could exclude
him. Thus you find with any kinl of property
in Territory, that it depends for its protection
on the local and municipal law. Hence, if the
people of a Territory want slavery they will
make friendly legislation to introduce it. If
they don't want it, they will withhold all pro.
lection from it, and then it can't exist there
Such was the view of the Southern mon when
the Nebraska Bill passed. Read the speech Of
Mr. Orr, OF South Carolina, the present Speak
er of Congress, and there you will find this
whole doctrine argued out at ful length which
have now advanced. Read the speeches Of
other Senators and Representatives, and you
will find they understood the Kansas Nebraska
Bill in that way at that time, and hence slave
ry could never be forced on people who didn't
want it. hold that in this country there is no
power-tbere should be no power on the globe
that can force any institution on an unwilling
people. The great fundamental principle is that
the people oreach State and each Territory shall
be left free to decide for themselves what shall
be the nature and character Of their insttu-
tons.
Will the Calz Republican please publish the
above, and irit will not publish all OF it, will i
he so kind to publish as it would say "athcr
Giddings" letter, and the article from the Cincin-
natl Commercial? Come, Richard, let your rea
dcrs see how beautifully the elements are fus-
ing in prtnciD2e.