The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-07-20
! Number 5,

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yress; otherwise, the few thousand inhab
tants of Territory, after its acquisition
BY purchase, OF as indemnity for war ex.
penses perhaps, would have the right to
set themselves up as foreign State, If
they so liked, and to deny the jurisdiction
Of the United States. But Congress, when
Government in a Territory,
cannot impart 70 il authority to do, by
feeble Territorial enactments, What Cor
gress itself cannot itself undertake to per-
form under the Constitution, and cam
never venture to undertake, except in TIA
grant usurpation Of powers not delegated
but reserved to the States
We are opposed, however to the intrd'
duction of any provision particularly pro-
tecting slave or any other kind Of proper.
ty, into an act organizing a Territorial
Government. But if a Territory attempt
notification or rebellion, in the shape Of
resistance to acts Of Congress, OF to Judi:
dicial decisions in their proper logical and
legal consequences, or to any other legit;
innate acts done in and by virtue Of the
Constitutional authority Of the United
States over the same, then the Federal
Government should at once ihtefpose and
put it down; not SO much for the sake Of
slave, or any other kind Of property, or
even of the personal rights of citizens that
may be thereby invaded, though constii
tuting a sufficient reason for the move:
ment, as looking to the necessity Of its oarn
preservation. But before the happening Of
any such act of notification, or rebellion,
and at the time of organizing Terrific
rial Government, the prescriptions are all
lin favor Of alegal and peaceful COURSE IT
political conduct on the part Of the inhab-
itants Of Territory; aohereas the .lodrine
lof Congressional Intervention acoaM assume
the rererss. In fine, we are disposed to
maintain on this question and at all times;
! the fundamental principle Of the equality
Of the STATS. We are distinctly opposed
to any compulsory REIMBURSEMENT, in the
name of squatter sovereignty, Of the rights
of the State Of Pennsylvania, as one Of
the sovereign proprietors Of all the public
domain or Territorial property of the
/ United States, and we still occupy, with
out any change Of opinion, the ground
held by the following resolution q tho
Cincinnati Convention Of 1856, to wit:
Resolred, That we recognize the right
Of the people Of oil the Territories, incl0d
ing Kansas and Nebraska, acting through
the legally and fairly expressed will Of q
majority Of actual residents, and when.
ever the number Of their inhabitants ir,s-
titles it, to form Constitution with or
without domestic slavery, and be admitted
into the Union upon terms Of perfect
Equality with the Other States
This. resolution distinctly represents
the marked difference between the revolu.
, tionary efforts Of the first squatters in a
new Territory to abolish Negro Slavery
, or to prevent the introduction 1t Slave
, property into the. Territory, by the incom-
| petent agency Of a Territorial Legislature,
, and the constitutional and quiet exercise
: Of the rights Of Sovereignty, by the PEG.
q pie of territory in the formation Of d
i State Constitution with or without domes.
. tic Slavery, as they may determine. In
the meantime, the citizens Of each and
every State, being in all respects equal
. with each other Under the Constitution,
take their various kinds Of property with
). them into the Territory, and while in
!. Territorial condition they and their pro
: perty are all equally protected by the
4 Constitution Of the United States and the
= bred Scott decision. We thus stand OF
!. the sure foundation Of tie Constitution
!; and the Law, which sternly and justl,
! deny The arbitrary poluer Of one set o settler
. to eonfsoats the property Of another SCI. w
!, thus avoid, too, those co ntests befweel
" settlers, by which the people are kept j,
constant state Of connection and tlrbn
d lence, with murder. rapine, burniags apd
re all kinds Of violent acts, throughout thei
IS entire Territorial existence, and to tn
. prejudice Of their best interest, and Of th'
. peace and harmony Of the States Of TIL
:" Union.
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