Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1847-1861, 1859-08-24

Mr.. Solomons, the Engineer in chief, after which
he will make his report to the Board
We shall not speak Of the merits of the. routes,
for the simple reason that VIC know nothing about
them. That is matter entirely for the En- gl-
neer who only is competent to do so We Will,
however remark that these lines are merely ex
perimenlal, and that at the proper time the mer'
its of the several routes will be more definitely
determined.
The Game not worth the Powder and Shot
The Edge6eld Adretttscr has rerantly sst q lit.
tie political summerset, and stands now, by lmpll-
cation at least, the apologis:, for if not the fast
friend of S. A. Douglas, the squatter sovereignty
candidate for the Presidency. The Charleston
Mercury and the Columbia Guardian, apparently
alarmed at the mighty consequences that are to
follow, are both down upon the Advcrtiser like an
avalanche, with their arguments against its course
Of reasoning and objections to Douglas for the
Presidency We protest against the fairness OF
this doubling upon an opponent DO let the Ad'
vertiscr have fair play gentlemen, one at n time
is enough. Whenever one Of yor are tairly
whipped, then The other may fall to and Try its
han
But laying joking aside, is there any reas TO
fear the Aduertjsers carrying the State for Doug
lus either in the convention or in the electoral
collegef We think not Indeed. iftte question
between Douglas and the South was fairly stated
there would be no reason to fear his uomuaio
or his election This Douglas rol bis friends dare
do ofcourse, as 1t is upon false issue alone, they
hope for success. Douglas we'll knows, and 80
does his friends that the South does not ask for
slave code-that it only asks for that protection
for lis slave property in the Territories that is ex
tended to all other property by the Federal Gov"
ernmeut. it requires no code to protect other
property in the Territories, and it ought to re
quire none to protect slave property. The con
sttuton and the laws Of Congress organizing
Territorial Governments. already extend the same
protection 10 slave property. That the7 DC TO any
other species Of property in The Territories. and
Territorial Legislatures are hound alike to protect
the one as the other. The Supreme Court has so
construed the provisions ofthe tu former and the
obligations of the latter and all the slave owners
ought To ask is, that the Territorial Legislatures
utrsfi conform TO ruess obligations The southern
States have not asked for, nor will not ask for
Congressional slave code for. the Territories
They have not asked Congress to lesisla'e slavery
into the territories for the constitution carries II
there, and protects il there to the same extent
shat it does any other species Of property: and it
is as much the duty Of the Federal Government
to protect it there as it is 10 protect snyeether
species OF property.
Neither has the South ever objected 10 popular
sovereignty 1t is universally conceded that any
and all Territories, uhen authorized by Congress to
form State Government have the right. the pop
ular right 10 recognise property in slaves or not,
and that this exercise Of popular sovereignty is no
bar to their admission into the Union, But the
right OF a Territory while under the control OF
Congress, and before it has been authorized to
form q State Government, to Interfere with the
rights of property by falling to legislate or by uu'
friendly legislation, can never be conceded by
those who kno W hat the constitution is, and are
willing 10 obey its injunc,ions. The exercise Of
such functions by Territorial legislature would
not be an act Of popular sovereignty, but one OF
squatter sovereignty, at war with the constitution
with Congress. and with the Supreme Court, and
It is the restraint Of such unauthorized and revo
lutonary measures that is asked Of Congress by
the South. Why did the Federal Government
send troops into Kansas, but TO restain this un'
lawful exercise of squatter sovereignty If in a
Territory, and while under the jurisdiction and
control of Congress the might of mobfs right,
why has every departm tment Of the government ex
erled itself t. protect the minority in the Terrific
ries But that Territory has the right before
it is authorized to become State, by either re-
fusiag to act or by unfriendly action TO interfere
with the rights of property is too Preposterous to
he seriously contended for.
Now place Mr.. Douglas upon his true platform,
the advocate Of this preposterous right. and we
feel that the Edgefeld advertiser will drop him
like hot brick Indeed, Mr.. Douglas himself
would not dare to define his true position, strip.
ped of all its sophistry and claim, the support Of
the North or the South as its advocate. IL is
onlv bv dsception and fraud that he hopes to