The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1859-09-08
OF HON. THOS. CORWIN
Al Iront0n, Ohio.
-TCon,inued from last week
ADVICE GRATIS.

At lront0n, Ohio.
-[con,nued from last week. !
ADVICE GRATIS.
We must understand this subject. All of
you have TO act upon it at times. Legal ques-
tons require profound study and research.-
You will not make it, and so | want to make
it for you, lawyer would make it-as an
American should make it-and for tie couu-
sci l give you this day l pledge you my word
will never ask you for fee, although it will
be worth to you, il you will! but follow it.
more than many piece Of advice you have
paid dearly for.
There was talk Of the dissolution of the
Union. and there is now. 1t occurred to the
United States that it might be accommodat-
ed and that Slave State ight come into the
Union, but that the people would be glad to
know it was the last Of it, and they said 50
degrees and so minutes should be the end of
that limit, and that is the question we are
discussing to-day.
THE MAN WHO WAS BURNED IN EFFiGY.
Who was President and who started the
trouble now? 1t was started in that country
AS 10 what you should do with that land
aiken from the Mcxicans-torn from her
Ii was but fitting In the course of COTS ret
ributive Judgment that you should have a lit
tie trouble with that which you tool, from
your neighbor.
There was man, | will not mention his
name, that wanted TO stop that war: AMI he
foratold that the moment you got that land,
it would be a frebrand Of disc,rl; that it
would, if anything could sever the whole
family. The man that | aliudc 30 was burnt
in effiLy often, very often, but he was not
burnt up. Laughter. Well, il just SO nap
pened that in 1850 the same question came
right up, and then for the first time--I shall
not say in lS5J--but when this territory had
been ceded by the treaty OF Gu laloupe Hi
daleo, We endeavored to say that it should
be free territory before We got it. Ol that
question, one OF the best lawyers endeavored
TO establish that the Constitution carried Sla-
very there withou. The need Of law at all
We all thought he failed 10 that. | allude
to Judge Bsrrisn. in Georgia That is the
first time that idea ever entered into the head
of man. l think perhaps it was in isis
Why not think of i before? Why did not the
men who made the Constitution think of it,
when they prohibited Louisiana to import
slaves from abroad. while yet the slaves
might do so?
THE CABINET DECISION.
4,
sident, this law cane t. his cabinet for his
signature. There had been violent contro-
versy and all the problems that could clus ter
around and between the Interests of the free
and the slave States, the contradictory inter
ests of the two. the rights of the free and the
slave States. had been discussed by some of
the ablest men in the worl1. M. Monroe
askel his C ,binet to give hial. every man,
their opinions upon this question, Has Con-
gress the power to prohibit Slavery in the
Territories. north of SO degrees and 80 mill
utes?"
Who were in bis Csbine'? Let US see if
they were equal to the men who have preach
ed this modern idea-I speak Of all the men
concerned in propagating this doctrine. j.
Q. Adams was Secretary of State; William
III. Crawford, Shareholder OF Georgia, Sec
retary of the Treasury; john G. Calhoun -
my Democratic friend, my partner, my bro
ther, you that believe in ..SIuatter Sover-
eighty" was not John G. Calhoun man of
considerable head, and was he not great
friend 10 Slavery, as much as any of you can
be?--he WAS Secretary of War. VIM Writ
Il W onder il the yousg lawyers now Il days
who adopt this ncw ilea of " Sqaatter Sow
ereignty young gentlemen ouly let loose
from school Yesterday. and VIII, in a course
of study have looked 50 far a. to read Espi-
masses Niss Prus, two or three chapters in
Blackstones Commentaries, Swans Treatise
on Justices of the Peace, and Wllcox's
Forms certainly they know more of this
thing than Mr. Writ, man who was born in
a slave State. and as the Tennesseeans some
times say, "rared'' up in slave State, edu-
Gated to the highest point of qualification of
the human faculties with Il heart open as
charity itself to every impression. aud with
a cultivated head, as | have said. the Ike of
which has rarely appeared among our most
distinguished jursts and statesmen; he was
Attorney General. s. L. Southard, Of New
Jersey, was Secretary OF the Navy. John
Mclean was Postmaster General, bat At that
time that office was not 4 cabinet Office. Do
you remember these men? Do YOU know
anything about them! II YOU do, do you
see no evidence Of the decadence that takes
place in republic men of our times? Write
down those names. read their biographies,
aud then write down the names of the pres
ent cabinet. and then compare them. The
one generation has gone away. | say moth
ing disrespectful of these men; L think they
are about the best Buchanan could ge'; but
of course those gentlemen nearer to the time
when the Constitution was made than we are,
would know little better what was meant
by it than we would. Monroe himself did not
entertain doubt upon the subject, land he
was something of man. and if any Leg
islature could expel or admit Slavery into the
/ Territories. Congress could do it. There wa:
ne ether legislative function to be performed
by any body, and no body to perform it
Mr.. Writ. Mr.. Southard. Mr. Adams, Mr.
/ Calhoun, Mr. Crawford snd all # them agreed
Some of these gentlemen | had the honor tC
know, and do not know Of those who helt
to the doctrine of the Dred Scott decision
any that could be said to be their equal. 0
the equal of any of them. 1t was SO i
1928.
ask you. my fellow citizens. is there eve
to be an end of this question! What doe
the judge tell you when he decides case?-
. He tells you in the language o! the law ths
1t is expedien: for the country that ther
should be an end 10 the question" You
law titles depend upon that. Would YOU no
consider it strange if twenty years after al
other court should come snd decide the con
trarys A senSibla eourt would saw this ha