The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1859-09-23

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Who are 10 Be governed. Tne men Who framed
The Declaration Of Independence meant 70 put
their protest against che system In the Old
World where men claim 70 rule By Divine
right, And 70 lord il over others. They meant
TO repudiale, then Aad forever, hat mas iu born
ei1h The right 70 rule over man. He may have
dominion over property, and over the animal
creation bot no maa, In the abssnoa Of Law,
haa dominion over hia fellow man. He derives
that domiuiea from The force Of power When
nations vont 10 war, And an army Of oae natiou
captured that Of another, the oaptives we're
held ~ the mercy Of the captora. They could
pot them 10 death OF reduce them te slavery ID
m by virtue Of The sKsrciss of this povsT, By
local Law, that slavery exisls, And u cannot sE.
iat IN any other way. This vaa proclaimed
Year, ago &c the Law of England. Lord Mans.
hsld declared that slavsry could not exist In
knglAnd that a alave could hot breathe in
England; that the moment q slave touched
British Roil his uhaeklsa fell
Thia magaaine article, the language Of which
l had intended 10 noto more fully thea time
will aou permit, goes on 70 ahov iha, the Ter
Tttoral Legislature bas come rights which Con-
greaa does not poeseas-that that Legislature
has power 70 exclude slavory from the Territory
sad that Congress hes not say Congroas ASs
the povsr ~ srrlnhe slavery from . Territory,
and 20 has Territorial Legiailtuis, -, ,l-s -
virtue Of grant from Congress. How did the
Legialature get this power 70 exclude alsveryi
:, sssuns that some power has bees given 70
The Territorial Legislature that OOnRrosa has
not the suthority 70 give.
The writer says there are . great many thlnEs
thar Congfeaa may auth oriHe Others 70 DO, which
u cannot do itself; and that there are things
Vhieh Congress can do that u cannot authOrine
another 70 do for H. There can BE- no greater
fallAoy. What prepo6terous idea that Congrass
| can authoTiHe something 70 BE- done which Il has
no authority 70 do itself You have onated =
government With certain specific powers 70 give
authority 70 some ether goysrnmshli let this so
on, and there would Be no limit 70 the power Il
might convey away, although had no, anything
70 give GWay,
/ deny that Congress can sohfsr legislative
power upon any body Of men Il cannot itself Ox.
Territorial Legislature, end II may, u itthink
proper, exercise legislative power itrelt In the
Kansas NobTaaka bill OongTsta declares what the
Jurisdiction Of the Justices Of the Peace shall BE-.
II passes law prescribing the number Of tho
members Of the Territorial Legislature, and
judges OF the Courts. Until 1884, all laws passed
/ BY Territorial Legislatures we're required 70 be
unbmittod 10 Congress- and originally had no
force unlena approved BY that body. Afterwards
Il was declared that the laws should be submitted
70 Congress, and 90 into eieet unless dlaapproved.
Does anybody doubt thAs Congress could repeal
the Territory OF Utah, Kansas, or Nobraskaf II
Congress can pass q Law organiHing q Territory,
| cannot 10 annul that laWf II seems abaurd that
Nno IelIltoftA IL NlhlAAufo hAla lno pOWeI 70 OK
olude slavery and that Congress has not
The history Of the colonies prior 10 the ReVo.
lulionary War, ia gone into by the writer OF this
maguEino article. Il IL said In this article the
colonies went 70 WAI with Great Britain for the
purpose Of sstablihhing the right chiefly 70 Tegu
late the slave lradei that the great complaint
against the mother county was, that she would
/ not permit the colonies 20 regulate the African
slave trade for themselves; and the writer ATgueI
70 show, a0t that the colonies we're opposed "a
slavery, but that they we're oOntending for The
great principle Of selfgoveTnmonL and the right
70 regulate the slave trade ~ they pleased, II
was principally for thip, be contendn, that the
colonies vent - war. l think Il very greAi
pity myself thAt some ofthese little modoTn his
tories we're not Into the district col hoolI
Of Vermont when the writer went 70 school, HI
might then have found out II was because The
mother country undertook 70 force taxes upoE
the people Of the colonies, that they went 4
WaTi and that one ofthe causes was that bis msj
ebly George I'LL, forced Judges upon them, Ant
} the AuthOT Of thiS article did With the KAnsal
people IN his Kansas. NsbFaskA bill II ihis bis
lorlcAl record be true, and the Territories Of th
United States are 70 be llkened 10 the colonies
and n the colonies oOntonded for the right {,
regulate The African slave trade, Why have not 10,
people o. Ihe TerriIoLios zoe same IlGhll IN thl
them have them. What right have yOu 20 pre-
Veut tl Was not that the question The oolohls
vent 70 war aboutl You say you ere for pOpula
sovereignty, subject to tho Constitution. Wha
right have you 10 impose the Constitution upoI
The people Of KAnsAsi have the people OF Kan
Oas ever submitted 70 the Constitution OF thl
United Btatesi 10 II any less . grievance K
their great rights Of popular sovereignty o
hslfgoVornmsnt 70 have q law In the chap,
law IN he shape Of an Sot Of oonETsSS,- @
Do you Gee you are bound 10 allow the people
revival OfthO African slave trade according d
your ONn ATgumehti Are you for allowing thi
people Of Utah 10 set up . government upOI
their own notions Of Polygamyi You have N
right 70 impose q constitution upon the people
Of Kansas. They have nsver hssonted 70 th
Constitution. The States Of this UniOn have Al
aaseRtsd 10 the Constitution Of the Unite,
States, but the Territories have not. The WFi
J tor, in order 70 sustain his position, misoon
slTnea, will not say fAlsihsS. Probably he I
Sincere, have no doubt these popular aoVer
: eighty men think they are perfectly honest
, he may have supposed he was stating hiSto'i
cal facts.
He undertakes to show the true plan for th
government Of lthe Territories, iS 10 leAV
I them 10 do a. they please on the subject q
slavery. The writer says Mr.. jefferson In l16
proposed plah for the government Of the Ter
Titories, And In that plAn he hAdA clause sIclu
dinR slavery from them, ARd says that was Vo
. ted out. True, but how was 1t voted out z
I There we're thirteen States belonging 10 th
= OOnfedoraoy. IL required a majority OF th
! States 70 pass the resolution. 0nly ten Btstl
! we're represented, siK Voted TO retain IL, thFs
sgEinst Il, snd Oas did not vote. The hsxt yea
4 l7e5, which the writer Of this article 0VSFlS0ka
4 Whsa twelve States were represented, motto
4 vas made 10 r0-Eairm the clause excluding slI
}. very eight States VotOd for Il, and 10 uss 0deI
8 ted. Il vas. however, only report made By
. COMMITTEES. The plaa Was put IN force, not III
J. I'll in 1857.
2 Ths writer oithis article says that in no pa
I! lio document IL the word Territory used
!. mean anything more thAh a tract Of lhnd. uh
). amer the Constitution WaS adopted. This il
= nSf slauss SsI5i q Inc sfdiRsSes Of 1871, for 4
n ROvsFnmsnt Of the Northwest ToTitoTyi and
n one Of he clauses Of the ordihanoo Of i7e5, q
y eluding slavery from All the territory embraol
q within that ordinance.
10 The Fedoral Constitution vas adopted
p i7o9 10 the same year George Washiugts
Was inauguAtsd first Proaidont Of the U.lt'
y States aad one Of the fret hcts Of the fFst %
\ RFsss uEdOr the OonstiluliOA was 10 re-afir
a tho ordinance Of 1857. In 1900 the territory
\. Indiana was organised and the CLAUSE prohib
3. tinR slavery ro.afiEmod II 1905, the Ten
d. tory Of Michigan was organised. Thomas u
lo fsrson bsinR President and the clause pFOhit
tiag slavery Was Fe-afiFmed.