The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-09-20
WHERE WILL MARYLAND COP


WHERE WILL MARYLAND GO?
We would call the attention of Southern mer-
chants about to make their fall purchases, to the
following paragraph from late speech, by Henry
Winter Davis of Baltimore
81 repeat again, our interests are with the OPP
position of the North. We grow neither cotton,
sugar nor rice; neither do they. We are interest
ed in agriculture, commercial and manufacturing
pursuits, and therefore our interests are with the
North, and with them alone | will further add
that Maryland interests sustained by the OppO-
sition party of the North, and voted down by
Southern Democrats"
Maryland's representative has taken the lead
in severng her connections with the slave States.
Mr. Davis, the Know Nothing representative, adj
vises coalition ''wih the Opposition of the North"
that is, the Black Republicans We have long
known that Mr. Davis proper position was with
the Black Republicans-and the able representa-
tive of the Baltimore Plugs will find his proper
position among the Black Republicans of the
North; the country has never ass gned the Plug
Ugly representative any other utilization, than with
the Black Republicans traitor to Know Moth
ingisln is the proper ally of Black Repubcanism {.
The above extract demonstrates that the estima-
ton placed upon Mr. Davis sincerity to the South,
by the students of the University Of Virginia was
to address Southern audience.
But we have not so much to do with Mr. Davis
and his Black Republican afinities as We have
with the city of Baltimore. Her representative
having announced that her ''interests with the
Opposition of the North we take the city at the
declaration of MIR Davis, and call upon the merch-
ants of Virginia and the South to leave Baltimore
trade to 'the Opposition of the North" Will any
Southern merchant again seek Baltimore to pur-
chase goods after this declaration of her abandon
ing the other Southern States ?-Rich. Enquirer
THE POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY QUEsTION-The
Washington Constitution publishes reply to
Senator Douglas views on popular sovereignty,
filling six columns Of that paper and understood to
be from the pen Of the Attorney General, Judge
Black. 1t is clear in its style, temperate in tone
and exceedingly forcible and cogent in argument
The position presented in this article that of the
Democratic party, is that slaves are recognized by
the Federal Constitution property in States
where the local law treats them that they remain
property when taken into any State of which the
local law does not forbid their being regarded;
that Congress has no right to deprive their owners
Of this property, in the Territories other places
under its jurisdiction and that it cannot delegate
power which it does not possess, neither the
Legislature nor the people of Territory have any
authority to prohibit slavery within its borders
1t comedies, however, that when they come to
form State Constitution, they may establish or
prohibit slavery as they see fit. Until then they
have no power whatever over the subject.
The positions of the article in the Constitution
stated with great clearness and precision, and
leave no room for misunderstanding or controversy
to their meaning. Its ability and the cogency
of some of its extracts from former speeches of
Judge Douglas, will probably constran him to
take some notice of it-Neu York Times.
SENATOR DOUGLAS ON WOMAN's RIGHTs-
Since the appearance of Mr. Douglas epistle to j.
B. DOrr, of Iowa, the Senator seems to have been
taken with mania for letter-writng The Bath
(Maine) Sentinel gives publicity to the following
WASHINGTON, July ii, 1859.
Mrs Lucy STONE.-Dedr .Nudam:--Yo our
kind letter of the Sth inst, wishing me to be pres
ent at a convention of the ladies of the Northwest
to be convened at Chicago on the 18th of Sept
next, to devise measures for the promotion Of the
happiness and protection of the interests and ghts
of the female sex, has just been laid before me-
You arc ri ht dear Madam, when you say that
take deep interest in whatever concerns the
ladies of glorious country. And | need not
now, after many years of faithful labor in the
cause of popular sovereignty, assure you that you
have, in your endeavOrs to obtain the liberty of
governing yourselves in your own way, subject
only to the Constitution of the United States, the
full confidence of my undivided sympathy. | re-
greet dear Madam that business of great mpur-
tance will prevent me from bein. present at your
convention. | have the honor to remain &C.
S. a. DOUGLAS.