The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-09-08

Of the Territories Of the United States
aud taking a bar with him, aud using
and selling spirits there. The law also
prohibits certain other descriptions of
business from being carried on in the
Territories. am not therefore prepar-
ed TO sag that under the Constitution ico
haze not the poi5ey to pas8 lars erclpdinq
negro slaUe8 from the Territories --IT IN
Wolves THE SAME PRINCIPLE" ri
Cong. Globe, page 1ll5l
Exceeding good Republican doctrine,
that, and admirably stated by Stephen
a. Douglas, as late as 1850, 10 the U.
States Senate. But this not all. %
the 4th Of January, 1854 Mr.. Douglas
from the Senate Committee on Terrific.
ries, reported bill for organizing Nc
braska Referring to the power Of Con
gress to prohibit slavery in the Terrific
ries, the Report says
"Your Committee do not feel them.
selves called upon to enter into these
controverted questions; they involve the
same grave issues which produced tho
agitation, the sectional strife, aud the
fearful struggle Of 1850.
CAS- Congress deemed it wise and bru-
dent to refrain from deciding the mat
ters in controversy then, either by az
tirmlng OF repeating the Mexican laws.
or by an act declaring the true inteut
Of the constitution aud the extent Of
the protection afforded by it to slave
property in the territories. so YOUR
Committee are not prepared now 10 re-
commend departure from the course
pursued on that memorable occasion,
either By affirming or repeating the eighth
section Of the Missouri act. or by anv
act declaratory Of the meaning of the
constitution in respect to the legal
points in dispute"
The eighth section Of the Missouri
act is the famous Missouri Comprom-
ise section. Soft appears Mr.. Douglas
did not in 1854, claim or suppose that
section had been repealed by the com
promise Of 1850. Nor was Mr.. Doug
las then prepared to recommend" the
repeal of that compromise. Now, that
the compromise of 1920 has been re-
pealed, by the Kansas and Nebraska
bill, aud the Democratic party, the plea
is set up by the Democrats everywhere
in the North, from Mr.. Douglas down,
that the compromise of 1850 repealed
the Missouri compromise. Alas for the
consistency and political honesty Of
modern Democracy
In a report submitted by Mr.. Douglas,
from the Committee on Territories, to
the United States Senate, March y,
1856, he says:
"The sovereignty of a territory re-
H1Gins IN allegiance, susp aded-in The L.
States, IN h,ust for tie people, until their
shall be admitted into the Union as a
State Iu the meantime they are enti-
tied to enjoy and exercise all the privi-
leges and rights of self-government,
in subordination to the constitution of
the United States, and IN obedience to
their organic Ja'0, passed by Congress in
pursuance Of that instrument"
The sovereignty Of a territory is, then,
after all, in the Uuited States, and not
in the people Of the territory. Well.
that is fair statement of Republican
doctrine. In fact Mr.. Douglas never
did claim that the sovereignty of ter.
ritory was vested in the people Of the
territory. Healways advocated the doc.
| trines Of the Kansas aud Nebraska bill
on the ground of "expedioncy" This
question Of "expedicucy" the people
will undertake themselves to solve If
any man, having oontrastod the peace
full history of our territories before this
doctrine Of non.intorfereuce was foisted
upon the Democratic party With the tales
Of blood and Of horror that came TO us
/ from Kansas, shall be of opinion that
the present is an improvement over the
past, let him vote to sustain the Kansas
and Nebraska bill as measure Of "ex-
/ pedioncy."
HON. ALEX. II. STEPHENS, OF GEORGIA.
The Hon. A. II Stephens, who has
/ lately become the exponent of Demoora-
/ tic principles, demands a Slave Oodo for
| the Territories and the re- opening of the
slave trade-these demands being based
upon the ground of the Drcd Scott de-
oision, viz: that the Constitution carries
Slavery wherever it goes, and overrides
all local laws TO the contrary. A some
what striking contrast 10 these views,
says the Albany Evening journal, will
reward the curious ssudont Of history,
who will turn back tho files Of debates
ia Congress 10 the speech of this same
Alox. II Stephens on the 9TH Of Au-
gust, l847 Then he as strenuously
denied, as he now claims, that the Com
stitution carried slavery with it, Well
may Mr.. Stephens remark that Sl0very,
as a political power grows more conf
dent and aggressive, year by year The
remarkable change that has come over
his own views within twelve years is an
illustration of it, at once striking aud
lindisputable.
From the Congressional Globe, Aug. q, l8i7'
Hore Mr.. Stanton Of Tenn asked Mr..
Stephens If the Constitution Of the III.
States docs not recognize Slavery