The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-03-23

Court has decided it. Ii seems to be given
out, ard in fact have seen il published in a
newspaper here, that it was psrfeotly right
and proper for General Cas- and Governor
Toucey and others, to hase erred from the
straight path during the whole of the year of
our Lord 1850, cv4n doGn to December, 1856,
when the Senator from Pennsylvania Mr..
Biglerl preached the same doctrine on this
floor such errors were pardonable then; but
we come to March, 1857, and the supreme
Court of the United States took 1t up and de-
cided il, and forthwith we are told that the
Supreme Court Of the United States has be-
come the appointed expounder OF Democrat
| 10 principles. Since when? Since they de-
clared the Bank of the United States to be
constitutional, which you repudiate in your
platform? Since the judges OF that Court
hold the old sedition laws OF John Adams to
be constitutional, which you repudiate in
YOUR platform? Who constituted the judges
| Of the Supreme Court, the makers or ex-
FOUNDERS Of Democratic principles Ger
tainlg not Thomas Jefferson, who pronounced
them the sappers and miners OF the Consti-
tuition certainly not Andrew jackson, who
told them he would interpret hs own oath,
rs we'll as bis own principles, according to
his views of the Constitution. No court
shall make me platform. When we get to
going by courts, it seems to me we have de-
parted from the whole spirit and principle of
the Democratic party.
Senator Pugh speaks Of the Supreme Court
Just as jefferson, Jackson and the Republi
can party in old times and in the present
day are accustomed to speak Of it.
Again, upon the right of the Shareholders
to carry their slaves into the Territories and
the States, Mr.. Pugh's arguments are identi-
cal with thoss urged by the Republicans and
his position is the same in his speech, though
not so in his votes, we confess:
But the Senator from Virginia speaks of
their rights under the Constitution; he says
that the Constitution gives them a right to
carry slaves into the Territories. Where p
Will the Senator give me the article and the
section? Where lie itp There is no such
provision. We are told that slavery is re-
cognized in the Constitution. Certainly, and
Wherein II is recognised as an institution
| established by the laws OF the States, and il
is even recognised a. having no extra terri
torial force whatever; because, but for the
provision for the re-delivery Of fugitivss, il
is evident that the moment = slave escaped
out Of the State the power Of his mas er
would be gone. You needed that in the Con-
stitntion, and il was put in the Constitution
to supply defect in that very form OF prop
erty. believe the Psalmist tells US that
riches have wings. This form Of property
seems to have legs, If not wings; and that
provision Of the Constitution was put there
for the express purpose of guarding the
weakness of tho disposition to emigrate oil
that species ofproperty.
But, sir, l repeat the ques-
ton Of my colleague, does it (the Constitu-
tion) carry il (slavery) into those States
which do not choose to admit that property 2
Has the Constitution that extent? Does its
recognition-of slaves as property to that ex-
tent carry them, not only upon the high seas
and into the Territories, but does it carry
them into the State Of Illinois, which has I'm.
dertaken to declare that she will not have
them? If there be anything in this oonsti-
tutional right which the Senator from Vir.
GINA has invoked, it is right which extends
over illinois as well az over Kansas to- day,
for tho Constitution of the United States is a.
supreme in Illinois as i is in Kansas.
So
| Now, sir, what is the mighty right that the
Senator from Virginia says the Southern De-
mocracy are going to fight for? 1t is the
right OF one man in tho State Of Virginia to
90 into the Territory OF Kansas, with her
ninety thousand inhabitants, all Of whom are
Of one opinon--their authorities, their Leg.
islature, all consider that the presence oil
slaves are injurious to them; but in orde,
that this one gentleman from the State Of
Virginia, who has not aided to reclaim thu
wilderness, who mas undergone none Of thu
perils of frontier life, may enjoy his saored
right Of carrying his negro there against tn,
4 will Of everybody else, tae Seaator from Vir.
ginia, and both OF the Senators from Missis
sippi notify us that they intend to leave tn,
Union, carrying flags and banners and mu
sic. Well, sir, If they choose to 90, on 81
small a provocation as that, | do not thinI
the Union is worth preserving any longer
Sir, it is an attempt to press upon the peopl
Of the Territories the laws OF the States frou
which they come. Do they all carry the law
of their States2 If the law OF Virginia zoe
into Kansas with the citizens OF Virginia il
order to protect their slaves, does the law o
my State 90 with the citizens Of Ohio, an,
the law Of Indiana with the citizens OF Indi
ana, and the law Of Oregon with the citizen
Of Oregon? How many laws will you hav
in your Territories? Why, sir, every maj
will literally be q Law to himself. The law
Of Virginia cannot 60 there unless tho law
Of every other State go, and thus you estab
lish kind Of organized anarchy ia every on
Of our Territories.
Sir, oil this is vast piece Of special plead
ing, eked out by fictions Of history, by prop
, ositons of law that cannot be maintained 70
, an instant, by assertions - to what consti
. tutions give, and by assertions a. to VIVA
, courts have decided, to build up doctrin
, that 10 offensive to the pride and self respec
of every citizen of the non-slaveho ldin
States. Twill give you equality Of righte
J but will have equality. You shall not CO,
~ the laws OF your State into the Terrific
: ries, unless you allow me to carry the Law
OF my State there. Iagree that the laws {