The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-06-02
POLITICAL ITEMS.

SNCAhEh LlAL Ut
Besks county pa LnteIligencer says:
Hon. John M. Read has been named in
CO 7ne ction with the next Presidency, by q
ng nber of journals in Pennsylvania, as a can
dk ate whose nomination would concentrate
uIeSn the ticket the undivided support of those
who will oppose the policy and measures of the
Demo cratic organization. 1t would be scarcely
possible to find a gentleman of equal qualfca
tieas who would be so free from all objections
as Judge Read, and at the same time, would
be 40 heartily accepted by the country as the
re- Tesentative of the Republican cause Penn
sylvaitia will be in 1860, as she has ever been,
the maker of the President, and there is no one
within her borders who could more worthily fill
thai high and responsible station, than the man
wien. we so gloriously elevated to the supreme
jue icial bench last year.
sp1opos of Douglas having spoken in his
limos speech of niggers," Senator Seward is
re or ed to have said that no man can be
elStEd President of the United States who
sR-llf negro with two g'S." Wendell Phillips
ss hat it is the wittiest thing Seward ever got
Of
The New York Journal Of Commerce admits
that Tin all our calculations for the next Pres
ldehuel campaign, we may as we'll assume that
tn f'enty-seven electoral votes of Pennsylva-
MS mortgaged to the Republicans"
Speaking of the adoption of the two years
anerament in Massachusetts, through the com
blNeo efforts of Americans and Democrats, the
DSna Tribune says:
:" { ne fact stands forth for the satisfaction of
that Influential class of our fellow citizens at
WI oss political status this odious amendment
strikes, and that is this that every State in the
Union controlled dy the Republicans, either by
its press, its leading public men, or its State
Central Committees, has counselled Massachu-
sets not to take this action, and protested
against it. The Republican party of the great
Northwest can be inoculated with no such pro-
sctiptive heresy. Michigan again washes her
hands of it, She is for political equality and
nc pr lscrptiye dogmas, as she has ever been y
Tn Pennsylranian, Mr.. Buchanan's home
organ, which could not survive six months with
out Government patronage, says:
The doctrine thus laid down by the Supreme
Courts fully to this effect:
That the Constitution of the United States
Is he Constitution or supreme law in the Ter
m lries as in the States.
bat the Constitution restraints the General
Geseynment from abOlishing or destroying slave
property in the Territories
= That the Constitution equally restraints and
pro-alnts the Territorial Government (which
Is at the creature of Congress) from abolish.
ing a. destroying the rights of property in
slaye.r
:, this decision completely upsetS the
"-5lsraocratic doctrine of squatter sovereign
ty bf the cunning use of which Buchanan was
Ell cited in 1856
cThe PennSylUanian proceeds to lay down the
law to the Democracy in this wise, regardless
Of the whimpering of the popular sovereignty
men:
In this opinion of the Supreme Court, we
have what should be regarded and accepted by
the Democratic party and Union-loving and
Constitution-abiding citizens, North and South.
East and West as the .hnality of the Slavery
question. 1t is thoroughly National; it recog-
Misses fully the doctrine of State equality and
1t secures to the citizens Of every State emf
grating into the Territories, which are admitted
to be the common property of the States all
the rights of person and property guaranteed
by the Constitution Of the United States. In a
word, this is National Democracy; and any.
thing short of it is Sectionalism"
l.
Pro-Slavery men of the South, who make no
difficulty in visiting the slave pens of the South.
ern cities to turn their last crop into Virginia
negroes, torn from their old "Virginnv" homes
and families and friends, and brought to the
cotton States to supply the great demand for
African slave labor, but turn up the whites of
their eyes in holy horror at mention of bring
ing negroes from Africa for the same purpose
when successfully met at every point they make
against reopening the trade, as a last resort
we have noticed, usually take refuge behind
the futilty of agitating the question. "There
Is no use in agitating-Congress won't repeal
the law" they say. If you ask them why Con.
gress will not repeal it, they are bound to saw
" 1t is because the sentiment of the North ID
against it, and the North has got the ascend.
ency." For illustration The Eastern Miss.
CteriON, inveighing against the Southern Con,
yeShon, which, 1t says, may be summed up in
phrase-"the African slave trade "-uses
II as the great overwhelming argument against
the pro-slavers. 1t says:
" If it were possible case that the laws IN!
hiblting the African trade might be repealed
by Congress, then there might be some show
OF sense and reason in this agitation as at
present conducted. But is there a man he.
tween Maine and Texas moon struck enough
to believe that Congress is going to repeal
those lawsE What, then, is the use of agita,
ting the question acithin this Union ?"
We should like to know what use there would
be in agitating the question out of the Union.
The Clarion will neither permit us to 90 out
of the Union to get rid of the law imposing 4
death penalty upon the Southern planters Who
may go to Africa to buy slaves, instead of Ma
ryland, nor will it permit us to agitate a reneaI
in the Union; where and when, in the name
of common justice, will it permit us to sneak
out our sentiments Mobile Mercury.
The same paper has another article upon the
slave trade, from which we extract as follows
But that is not all. If the slave trade is
piracy as our eper-to-berespected law
says it is-then SIaUery ITSELF the creator of
the slave trade, is 'oOrse than piracy and il
ought to be abolished; and Seward, therefore.
and his myriads of myrmidons, are right, logic
ally and morally, in their determination to de.
stroy it. '..
is not this a fair representation of the posi-.
tion and reasoning of the PicayaneP And
does it not show US where the course which that
print and other Southern prints of similar