The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-01-12
Mr.. HarIasa's speech.

| Mr.. Harlan, in an elaborate argument, de-
Tended the political aims and object of the
Republican party, with especial reference to
its policy in regard to the future occupation
of cur Territorial domain. He thought the
time had now come when the two parties
dividing the country could understand each
other. On the one hand we find the Presi-
dent of the United States, hol8ingr as in his
late Message, that, "the right has been es-
tablished of every citizen to take his proper
tv Of any kind, including slaves, into the
common Territories belonging equally to all
the States Of the Confederacy, and to have it
protected there under the federal Constitution
and adding tina. "neither Congress nor
Territorial Legislature, nor any human power,
has any authority to annul or impair this
vested right" .s.. .,.-...r# .. F.
If this were true the claim Of those who
demand protective legislation for slavery in
the Territories was logical corollary, incum-
bent on the Democratic party as represented
in Congress for legislators are sworn not only
to acquiesce in but to enforce the rights guar
anteed by the Constitution of the United
States The Republican party denied the
premises of the President, and therefore was
not bound by the deductions legitimately
flowing from these premises. e.a .s.
If it were said that Congress could not
Justly and equitsbly exclude slavery from the
public lands of the Territories, it was equally
unjust and inequitable for the States to ex-
clude slavery from their limits so long as
those limits embraced public lands belonging
to the United States. aas.- a#
And if it was said that the principles Of the
: Republican party (Which has branded slavery
as relic of barbarism) are offensive to the
South, and that therefore the party must dis
b midas condition ofpeace between the sec
tons, it also followed, by parity ofreasoning,
that the constitution of every free State,nust
be repealed or modified, because these con-
situations, by making slavery felony and a
crime, were equally in the nature ola stigma
to the South, tf. .s.. ..#
Nay, more; our laws against the foreign
slave trade must be instantly repealed, for if
slaves are to he placed in all respects on a
footing with other property, it was unjust
to discriminate betweeu the importation of
negroes from Africa into Mississippi and the
importation of blooled stock from Europe
into Iowa.
Mr.. II. then entered into an ANALYSIS of the
ordinance of 1897, which he regarded as a
fundamental law and bill of rights. designed
to ascertain md fix the inalienable civil rights
of Those who were to live under it. In like
manner the Republican party proposed to
throw open the Territories to the enjoyment
of the white race. under such regulations as
would be protective of the rights of that
race, and as would, in effect, occasion the
substantial exclusion Of the negro race.
whether slave or free. 1noppostion to such,
exclusion, it was agreed that climate and
interest should dclerlnine the question, and
| he was free to say that if free black men will
not work in the South, and if free white men
cannot do so with IMMUNITY, and if the world
cannot dispense with the great staple pro-
dnctions Of Southern industry, serious
problem was presented for the solution of the
country He thought that no such problem
resulted from the arrangements of Nature,
and in su port Of this conviction proceeded
! to read from large number of authorities
in history physiology and medical science.
1t being proved that white men could work
in all parts Of the United States, it seemed
equally just and expedient to appropriate the
Territories of the Union to the enjoyment Of
the superior rather tEan the inferior race, as
the former were better able to develop the
resources of the country. But it was said
that the Republican theory in opposition to
the extension of slavery was inhuman. as
looking to the painful extinction of the insti-
tuition. He thought there was no place for
such an argument, when the territorial do
main covered by the slaveholding States was
adequate to sustain population of two hun
dred million inhabitants, according to the
relations which obtain between population
and area in China, whose soil was less fertile
than that of the South. If slavery should
be extended because it was humanizing and
outstanding institution, it necessarily fol-
lowed that for the same reason the foreign
slave trade should be revived
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When we first assembled the Editorial Tri-
pod, we made it rule, never to puff or con-
| mend anything to our readers unless the
article noticed possessed, in our opinion, real
merit; and though frequently inportuned,
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COLUMBUS, Jan. 5.-The Democratic State