The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1859-09-14

insisting that Congress- should intervene in "a
vor of their section and against the other, in vi
olstion of the people interested in the question,
to desire it for themselves.
9Th. According to the doctrine of the inter
ventionists, North and South, slavery is right
ful subject of Federal Legislation, dependent
upon Federal authority for its existence and
protection, and, consequently, subject to Fed
eral regulation and control-the one contend
ing that the whole power Of the Federal Gov
ernment should be exerted for its protection and
the other for its destruction.
10th. On the other hand, the Democratic
party hold that slavery is State institution,
and that it exists in the several slave holding
States "under the laws thereof" and not by
virtue of the Constitution Of the United States
and consequently, it is beyond the reach or con-
troll of the Federal Government, for good or
for evil, except in the simple case Of returning
| fugitive slaves that according to the Dred
Scott decision "the right Of property in slaves
is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Con-
stitution, that "the government in express
terms is pledged to protect it in all future time,
if the slave escapes from his owner, that
"the only power conferred is the power coupled
with the duty of guarding and protecting the
owner in his rights" whom the slave escapes
/ ton which gives Congress greater power over
slave property, or which entities property OF
that kind to less protection than property Of
any other description, ,"--thst all other prop
erty is dependent upon tho local law for protec-
ton, as we'll IN the Territories as in the States
and that slave property stands on the same foot
ing in all respects whatever.
l1th. He referred to the doctrine of SCOUT
ter sovereignty" and said that the term, when
first christened by Mr.. Calhoun had no reference
| to the powers of a Territorial Legislature, when
organized under the Constitution and laws of
the United States, but referred to the action of
body of men who had settled on the public do
main without title or authority Of law, and had
set up government independent of the United
States and without its consent, as in Oregon,
where they prohibited slavery before Congress
had established Territorial Government
| This, Mr. Calhoun denounced as "Squatter Sow
sreignty."
18th. In contradistinction to "Squatter sov-
ereignty," as denounced by Mr. Calhoun, and
Congressional Sovereignty, as advocated by the
opposition, the Democratic party is pledged to
the principle of Popular Sovereignty by which
the people of the organized Territories, "like
those of State shall not exist within their
| limits"
18th. Those who insist that the first hand
full of settlers should not decide the slavery ques
ton, should vote against the organization of the
Territories until they have sufficient population
for political community capable ofselE govern
ment in all their domestic concerns--that no
Legislature should be established for people
who We're not qualified by numbers and in all
other respects, to legislate for themselves on all
rghtful subjects of legislation subject only to
he vi fl,n;, 10
ments should conflict with the constitution that
was judicial question, which could only be de-
cded by the Courts, and whose decision must
be obeyed and respected by all good citizens.
18th. He denounced the system Of spurious
emigration by Emigrant Aid Societies for the
purpose Of controlling the Territorial legislation
as fraud upon the elective franchise intended
| to subvert and destroy the great principles Of
self government-that none but the actual in
habtants who had abandoned their citizenship
and allegiance intheir respective States and set
tied in the territory in good faith, with the
view OF making it their permanent home, have
right to voice or vote in the legislature of
the territory.
18th. He emphaticaIly condemned the doc
trine OF Mr. Stewards Rochester speech in re-
spect to the irresponsible conflict between
freedom and slavery" in the several States
said that he had denounced the same doctrine
when announced by Mr.. Lincoln in the Illinois
canvass, as subversive Of the principles upon
which the Union was founded. He contendvd
that uniformity in the local laws and domestic
institution of the several States, was neither
desirable nor posSibie--that so great variety
ofclimate and interests created necessity for
a corresponding variety in the local legislation,
adapted to the wants Of each locality-that the
liberties of the people and the Union of the
States depended upon this inalienabe right OF
local self government in all the States and Ter
rltories.
| 10th. He said that the duty of restoring fu-
gitive slaves was obligation imposed by tho
Constitution, which every good citizen was
bound to obey--that the example set in the
North of refusing to execute the fugitive slave
law because they did not approve its provisions
had been initiated at the South by refusing to
execute the laws against the A rican Slave
Trade for the same reasons-that those who
had set the exa nple, as well as those who had
followed bad example, were alike fathless to
| their duties as citizens and should suffer the PEN
alties of the law.
17th He argued that If the doctrine of non
intervention and popular sovereignty was main
tanned, the Union was susceptible of indefinite
expansion--that steady growth was one Of the
necessities four national exstence--that it was
our destiny sooner or later to spread over the
entire continent and adjacent Islands and make
ours an ocean bound republic--and that our
policy should be in harmony with our initable
destiny.
18th He insisted that the Democratic par
ty was the only political organization in this
country whose creed recognized the equality of
the States and the inalenabe rights OF the peo-
pie, to exercise all the powers of local selfgov-
ernment, and upon which alone it could be pre-.
served in all time to come.
10TH He stood firmly upon the Cincinnati
platform, as adopted and understood in 1856,
without the addition of new plank or removal
ofa single pillar. Standing upon this platform,
and holding aloft the Democratic banner, with
its time honored principles inscribed thereon,
the nominee of the Chareston Convention will
be elected by an overwhelming majority; and
the Union can be maintained forever as our
fathers made it, composed of free and slave
States, with the right on the part of each to
have slrvery as long as it chooses, and abolish it
whenever it pleases.
At the close of the speech the audience gave
three hearty cheers for Judge Douglas, and the
meeting adjourned until ~ o'clock in the eve
ming. Judge D, goes this morning to Cincin-
natl by way ofDayton.
| OTWe have just received box of galvanis-
ed jewelry from Pontotoc. The Fejee King
eats nm nna wEe tn oet rid of the sin nj hioam "