, 1859-01-24
ExactiOns OF the Stuyo Power.

The Standard, uniontown, Pa, is one Of the
hardest 4'Ameriean" papers in the North but
it seers to have got its eyes open at last to the
s1aveboldara' usurpation. The following article
il one Of its late issues. from tho pen Of the
hon. ANDREW STEWART, is to the point, and We
nsk for it the pe:usal Of every "American IN
Illinois:
TIE PROGRESS OF SLAVERY.
SOUTHERN DEMANDS AND NORTHERN CONCESSIONS.
One Of the tirst acss Of the Government was
the adoption OF the Ordinance Of l7o7, proh1b-
iting Slavery in al the Territories Of the United
6tates- This measure wnh introduced by Jeder-
son, and advocated by Washington, Madison,
Monroe, Randolph and Patrick Henry OF yir-
ginia. and many other distinguished Anti Slav-
err patriots in the South. They would not per.
nit the word "Si4rer}" to stain the pure pages
Of the Constitution. Even the word "seryituda"
Was, on motion Of 31r, Randolph. stricken out,
and tservice" substituted, BY u unanimous vote
The Convention ebhorted everything that
sounded or sBvored Of Slavery. Such was the
beginning Nha. is tha end? Let us see:
l. Since the adoption Of this resolution, no
less than nine Sts:es with Slavery haye been
admitted, some Of them created out Of the very
Territory thus dedicated TO freedom, and always
With tbe aid OF Northern votes.
?. The following Territory las since been acquir-
cd by War cr purchase, for the purpose Of making
mnrc SLAVE States Fir1t, Louisiana, bought fur
<lj,0o0,000; secord, Florida, costing in money
and Indian WAITS 1iot yet over, not less than SIS,
TOO 900; thirl, Texas, by annexation, payment Of
her debts and ille consequent Mexican WAT, losses,
tAucne.s. and bounty lanls, $3.50 600 900, making
$50 ,0N0,U ,UU0 paid ro-tiy ly the Free States for
Slave Territory. Los by the voluntary surrender
to the British from 40 deg. to Il deg. 40 1ln N.
latitude, becaus- it wnuId bc Free aud not Slave
Territory, say S50,0U0 900 u1o7r, and with the MD
- -S.- Ls,,l.. r.
ind all Mexico il to cost to nuke SMye States, Is
in the future.
/" ;. The lllins.inu OF Missouri as SIaye State,
and adoption in 1e20 Of the Missouri Compromise
line, giving Ill the ,e1sitoty dedicated to freedom
by tile resolution IT list to Slavery south Of SO
deg. 80 min n. Atitudr, this loo when the North
had majority 0i - y0les in Congress.
L. Every concea!l:,n lui wAciH The appetite for
neE deul4uds, and ucAt in order is the passage in
1850 Of tue Fugitive Slave Law with the support
ol Northern sotes, to crafty and propiliate lie
South, as i *'lnal,ty'' and payment in lul Of the
demands ii slavery to "saye The Uuion'
S. Finding threats Of disspIving tho Union Sue
cessful, they Try it again. Next they demand
thIt tho whole Of the Territories of the United
Ssatcs shall be opened 10 Slavery by the repeal Of
the Missouri Compromise line, leaving the people
Of the Territories free to adopt or rject Shyeiy,
as tbcy might thlnk proper and this WAS TO be
another tlnality''-u final concession by the
North to thu Soutl-rz; The total abolition of
tie resolution Of l757. This, also, vas carried BY
Northern yoteg.
4. But Kansas having rejected Slavery, they
now determine to rcpuLiate their own doctrine !;
and Popular Sovereignty, 80 lately and strongly
advocated by tue South. is NOW rejected, and they
determine tu force Slave Consultation on Kan.
s3s; but, defeated IN 1his, they arc finally en-
ablc,l, hy tue aid of Northern votes aud Executive
niluence, to pass the Engliall bill, permitting
kansas to come in Us sl1ve state With q popula.
tIon oi % 600, aud requiring 93.00o to come III Us
trce Slate.
l. kausas haying spurned the bribe, now it is
determined, and With tie aid Of the Supreme
Court, the Presidens aud the United States
army. 10 force slavery upon Kansas aud into ali
the Territories and Sta,es Of the Union, on the
ground that slaEery is not local but national, and
has right to exist under the Constitution Of
the United States wherever it extends. and that
ali LAWS, "orgsnze or Otherwise" in the Ian
RuaRe Of The official paper at Washington,
"agalnst HlaEery ate unconstitutional and void -
no State or Territory has right to resiss the
authority Of the Constitution and the Supreme
Court II they succeed in this it must be 9
"haality," for II establishes slavery throughout
the Union, now and forerer. If they carry this
By the Northern douehfaces to become a!aves
themselves to their Southern maaters, VIII
.hey do til Why not make this last concession
to save the Union. which the Pres:dent tells us
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