The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1859-07-29

laws Of the United States upon this sub.
ject, from the organization cf the Govern.
ment down 70 the Kansas-Nebraska bill
had expressed the right Of Congress to
loglslste for the Territories. The Terri
tory Of Mississippi was organised In 1898.
Congress enacted law imposing fine Of
three hundred dollars upon any person
who would import a slave into TINT Ter
ritory for sale. II did permit man own.
ing slaves, who went there 70 hveto take
thom there with himi but Il forbid the
lsluve trade.
Tho same law required the Territorial
Legislature 90 send up its laws for the ap.
ptovel Of Congress, and if disapproved
they were null aud void. Tho u. s. Court
with John Marshall on the bench sustain
cd this power. In louisiana Territory
organised 1899, the same provision was
applied, and this In the face Of the law OF
1893, extending the slave trade twenty
years, law applicable exclusively 10 the
states. With such imperial power did
Congress administer the Constitution IN
relation 20 the Territories, and In that
very Congress which made tho organic
law Of the Territory Of Louisiana, there
were seventeen mombers who assisted In
I framing the Constitution of the United
Statcs, and there was no petition or ro.
monstrance against the exercise Of that
right, and Thomas jefferson signed the
bill which prohibited the slave trade In
Louisiana. Michigan, Illinois, Wisoon-
sin, Iowa, California, New Mexico and
/ Utah were all organized territorially with
the same restriction laid on BY Congress-.
James K, Polk, whom the democrats
ought to respect, recognized this power by
signing the bill organizing Oregon ter.
ritory with tho Wilmot Proviso. Missou-
ri was an exception, but the Compromise
restricted slavery then by Mason g. Dix.
on's line. Mr.. Monroe and his whole
Cabinet, all but two ofwhom were South
ern men, admitted the power Of Congress
to prohibit slavery north Of that line. For
seyenty-ive years Congress exercised this
poweri and shall we say that those who
made the Constitution did not understand
u! All the great fathers Of the Constitu-
tioni Washington, the Adamses, Jefitr-
son, Jackson, and Polk recognized the eun-
questioned power Of Congress. IL was
only in lS46 that Douglas and Cass dis
covered that Washington and Monroe
didn't know what the constitution meant.
They produced Squatter Sovereignty.
This was hcresy he hoped the Republi-
can party would not introduce into their
Church. He would have them stick 10
the good old Anti-Slavery construction Of
Washington and all the Presidents down
to Polk. Al ofthom said tho Speaker
occupied the ground which the Repubii-
can party now occupies.
He proceeded TO say Of Sauatter Soye-
reignty that ifvoting is the natural right of
a white man so it is the natural right Of
the black man, and If fifty thousand Blacks
should meet in a territory and lcgislate,
and Congress asserting to Squatter Sove-
reignty, must not interfere unless these
democrats, by some chronological or phys
iological argument, can prove that black
man 10 not a human being. Recurring
to the Fugitive Slave Law, he said that
by the same authority that Congress lex,
islates in tho rost-iss;v'' ~ 80,
has right to make laws for 'he recap
This position had always been SUCCESS
fully maintained. While We are denounc-
ing the South, he said, for violating the
law by opening the slave trade, let us not
be found guilty Of violating Il in the North
in another particular. Let us tell them
.i,s S,S 69y nP9p the cotemporaneous
can with unimpeachcd integrity oblige
them to do so. Mr.. Corwin here devoted
some attention TO the question of admit
ting States with a slavery Constitution,
and said he would not do 80 even if his
constituents instructed him TO do so; he
would resign first. He thought, howey-
or, that there is now no practical view of
slavery, which makes II Of deep interest.
He was opposed to the acquisition gilmore
territory.
He would advise Republicans IL they
want the agitation Of slavery to cease they
must not acquire more territory with as
100000 Of people, we have one tenth of
the Globe and we want no more. You
say you want Cuba, or you wont let any
body else have II, because Il Is the key of
the Gulf Why Is not jamaica or Cana
da dangerous 10 our peacel The danger
is not here, II Is in the South. They say
that Is manifest destiny, that We must eX-
pand; but manifest destiny always runs to
the South. After expressing his convic-
ton that the Onti-slavery sentiment must
be victorious over its antagonists, with ei-
ther the Wilmot Proviso or squatter sove-
reignty, Mr.. Corwin referred briefly 10
other topics, which, he said, were opin-
ions of his own-the Republican party
had not expressed itself definitely upon
them; among them were government ex'
penditures and fllibustering.
He opposed the accumulation ofdebt IN
time Of peace, and held II TO be the duty
Of the Republican party to brlngdown the
expenditures Of the Government TO the
lowest point possible with the efficiency
Of the Departments, and TO scale up a tar
ilf 70 that precise point. He was in ia.
vor Of discriminating between home anC
foreign manufactures, while the demo
cratic party advocates horizonitrl tariff
Fillibustering he would put down rigidly
and at all hazards. Il is piracy and vii
lainy that should not be countenanced.
The speech, Of which the above is al
Imperfect abstract, was well received.
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