Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-04

oFl1S1 AND ITS EFFEcTs-GRAPutc DESCRIPTIONS
OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY.
From the Cincinnati Gazette we take the
following summary of Hon. Tom Corwin's re-.
marks ma at great meeting, the other day, in
Wooster, Ohio: -
may assure youit will be entirely imposs;.
nle Tor me to extend my voice to the outward
limits OF the crowd, because, as you must oh.
serve, it has been somewhat inquired bv foo
hard usage during the last week or two
wonld very gladly, ifit could be SO, agree that
we should separates upon what weShave heard
celleVel 1t would be preferable to us ALL for
thlnk enough has been said TO enable every man
VINO choseS to exert the faculties with which
God has endowed him, from what we now know
to form right appreciation OF the manner in
winch he should vote on the second Tuesday
IN October, the near approach of which has
brought us together to. day
You will observe that whenever you are nd.
IdresSed-whoever speaks to you about public
affairs this year, makes the burden of all he has
To say to you, turn in the main upon this ones.
ton OF Free or Slave territory Clustering
around these topics, which so cngroSs and inter-
est the mind of all the Free States of this coun-
try, there are other kindred subjects It would
DC an idle task, one the power Of Mr. Douglas
himself would have to knuckle to. the task OF
coming out here to Ohio, to establish that it
had been better for us i'll the year 1887 that
Slavery had been established among US than
that the ordinance made by the Congress OF the
United States had excluded it from u.s. You
never will bc able to convince the peoplc Of n
Free State, who have seen the benefit of what
ne call free institutions, whp have seen the
workings OF free labor as compared with forced
taoor; you never can get a people that have
grown up under the influence nG' this free system.
alter what they have seen Of the product of a
system OF forced labor, to go back to or adopt
the other system; and while we are REGARDING
| nj has lItt,,,
some sort inimical to US, have always thought
OF them as an unfortunate people. laboring un-
der the ntiueEcG of an unfortunate system of
things, and as being more entitled to our com
mlSScration than to any of those feelings of
resentment which controversies of this kind ar.
but too apt TO cngender.
The speaker continued by remarking that all
that the Free States OF the Union can ask, in
the way of legislation, is the exercise of such
power as is given under the Constitution, sub
inittihS lhe question to the people to be govern
ed, aud TO abide by their decision.
1t has been agreed to make five negroes equal
to three white men in the halls OF Congress. and
although this may appear to be wrong, Whatever
shall be the fair and unbiased judgment of the
majority must be the law for ali.
In lS2U-2l, the question of Slavery seemed
TO have been settled. Nobody questioned the
power of Congress TO settle the question by
saying that there should be no Slavery, beyond
certain line, in Territory OF the United States,
aud the able Cabinet of Mr.. Monroe, with him.
sci! as President approved Of the bill in which
| that power was exercised That Democratic
Sagacily which is boastfully paraded,
SeelmS then to have slept, and the discovery was
made but four or live years ago, that the wiScSt
and most patriotic men Of tic land had acted
when they had no power TO act under the Con-
stitutiOn Where was DOugaSand his excellent
| followers in 1913, when Mr. Polk signed the bill
organizing Oregon? When the Democratic
ldivIuitY of Ohio, Col. Allen, was in Congress
voting for the restriction Of Slavery; when he
was uSurPing the power OF the people of the
Territories saying that they should have this
great blessing Of human Slavery in the Territory
0f0rcgon? [Laughter) Surely the people are
asked to believe that some revelation has come
down-or up Qaughter) and enlightened the
llntelectS of one twO men, and these have
scattered it around among n considerable portion
OF what is called the Democratic party Of tho
| North; a revelation which was concealed from
all mankind from 1887 up to 1854 If all this
be true then no intellect in this Republic was
competent to read it aud understand it for sew
entyyearS OF our national existence The old men
in the nat!On are exceeded in wisdom by the
young men who tell us, that the men who made
the Constitution and wentto work aud acted un-
derit, did not comprehend the meaning OF their
own words and deeds. Now in the year of grace
! 1854, gentleman comes from the prairieS of
illinois, with all "the hearts of Egypt" about
him, (!anghter) and tells us that lie has found
OUT LIdl lc knew OcileF wIlaL w WaSulIRtOn, ana
Madison and Jefferson meant when they framed
The Constitution thar they themselves. Ifthat
bc So, let it no longer be said that the days of
miracles are passed away. This new scheme Of
Popular Sovereignty denies the right of Cons
grcSs to egislate for the Territories and yet
the man who made that instrument ont of which
the controversy all arises went to work aud acted
upon it as if they knew they had conferred that
power upon themselves.
Why do the Republicans wish to restrict sla-
very in the Territories? Look for u reply, to
the States Of the Northwest, and to those Of tho
South and Southwest. In the one set is frees
dom; in the other there is slavery. Look to
Kentucky, older than Ohio, with soil and eli
mate as fine as that of Ohio, and then look to
this State. Here in the Northwest are States
more prosperous and better adapted to the ends
to which God has called man into existence
than elsewhere be found in the world,
and these Stntes grew out Of tho Ordinance OF
''87." Such power it was therefore, that he
for one Republican desired to bring to bear upon
the future States Of the Union. Such was the
intention of the Republicans in the Homestead
bill, which was killed off by the Democrats
Their ain was TO settle upon the land the in
dustrous but poor couples, that they might by