The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-02-10
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vas for eight or ten years resident OF tAlN
Daca. and during that time was an active
and leading member Of the Democratic par
.y. aIn the last Presidential campaign he
vas 4 zealous supporter Of Mr Buchanan.
For wears Mr.. Z. has been considered one
of the ablest of the Democratic orators of
the State. Only few days before the date
of this letter, the Des MoineS Journal sng-
sested his name as suitable and probable
candidate for Lieut. Governor at the next
election Ia '' 1887
We commend NJ. Eastman's rernrl,s to
thc, candid consideration Of his Old party
friends and co-worltPrS in this county and
vicinity. When men Of honesty and sound
Judgment, who have spent a lifetime or SER
gcc in the ranks of political p2rtv--ats.ach-
Il to its principles its usagc aAd its name,
and Identified with its intcrests---someth;ny
must be wrong, radically and inexcusal!y
wrong, when such men are compelled, by a
sense or fight, 70 cut themselves loose from
that political organization. Such is now the
.asa 'si'h the Democratic party. It has
driltcl away from its old, moorinss aad is
now shifting about on an unknown sea-
Under the Lad of Buchanan, Toomhs, Ste
phens, fef Davis, and others ike them,
that party is now politically corrupted, de
bauo4I.i and demorilized To extend. ma
tionalize and> make perpetual the curse Of
slavery, t, rob decrepit and declining Spain
Of thc richest Of her possessions, and also to
crush out from the minds and hearts Of our
people the principles of independence and
self-Sovernment, seem to be the great. aims
o.! saat party. The wonder is that many
others DO not conclude As Mr.. Eastman has
done, to shoulder their axes and he Off
Read his letter. -Oskaloosa Herald.
t.' s' ELpoRA, JAN -, 1859.
Renr Sir. y 81 * X Tho
time was when took an interest in the she
cess of the Democratic party, but that time
is past. ] do not wish for the success Of
that party WITH the doctrines now fulmina-
It'd from headquarters. ! was Democrat.
not for the hope Of fee or reward but be-
canse honestly beiicy-ed the doctrine which
7 supported was for the best interests of the
country.
The great questions Of Banks, indepcn.
dent Treasury, and Tariff are al settled. 1t
is now admitted that the tariff must be in
creased to create revenue, and it is also ad-
mhte1 that such tariff will give all the pro-
lection desired. But one question is LEFT !;
that is the slavery question. On that the
great Democratic party has been shipwrock-
ed and ruined; and that, ,sstoo, by the ncw-lan-
gled theories Of james Buchanan. He says
that all the American citizens have right to
take slaves into our Territories and there bc
protected By the Constitution Of the Untsi
.States, as long as the Territorial Government
remains. The substance Of this is, that
slavery exists in nature, and is guarded by
the National Constitution This is not the
entertainment to which we were invited.
The great Democratic doctrine of by-gonc
days, has ever been, that slavery does not
exist in nature, but it must be established
by Law. Neither does the Constitution es-
tablish it or recognize it. Take notice. |
say it does not recognize. and, Of course, it
cannot protect it. What mean is, that it is
not National institution And it must be
so before it can be protected by the Colsti-
tuition in Territory where it has not been
established by law. This Nationality Of
slavery is repudiated by the Constitution
Art 4, Sec. 2, says, No person held to SER
vice or labor in one State, not in the Uni
ted States, under the laws thereof, mot un-
der the laws of Congress, escaping into an
other, not carried there BY the ownerI shall,
in consequence Of any law or regulation
therein. be discharged from such service or
labor, but shall be delivered up mot held a
slave there on claim of the party" &c
This, unquestionably, refers to slaves. But
how came they slaves They are "hcld 10
service or labor in one State unde the laws
thereof" This settles two things. lst That
the Constitution does not establish slavery,
nor recognize it as existing in nature. 81.
That it takes law of the State. T.'the laws
thereof" to establish slavery. 3D.. And
most of all, the Constitution does not recog-
nize slavery as existing in any place except
in a State where, "by the laws thereof" it
has been established. Again, the slave has
10 bc'deliyerei up and carried back TO the
Slave State TO be held in slavery. Aud it is
only those who estap., on the underground,
who are liablcro be gwen up" The Con
stitution here does not recognize slavery as
an. institution. 1t is the municipal law of
the State which is here recognized. IT re-
cognizes the '"laws thereof" establishing
slavery in one Statc--not establishing it
equally alike They are both STATE regula-
tons. This is the oLD Democratic construc.
ton. rl4sa fuaa aE .s.rts .sa Np'asm
Again: Following out this doctrine, thai
slavery does not exist in nature, nor by the
Constitution, the old Democratic doctrinc
was that it did not require law to either
abolish or prohibit it in a section Of county,
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