Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-07-13
Fremont journal.
HEAD AND sL.AvE-CODE
TAIL,
what a nominee
n HofrchelY,
or Qaorr-eaf

ination Of Douglas and johnson, the record
Of the candidate for the Vice Presidency
will furnish tho coloring material. Mr..
johnson was Senator during part Of ls4s-9,
filing, BY Executive appointment, tho un-
expired term Of Mr.. Colquitt, of Georgia,
and bis Congressional record is written,
mainly, in the Congressional Globe, Ap-
pendix, volume 10, pages ss7, &c. Mr..
johnson, July 2, '4s, made a speech upon
the Oregon Bill, in which he thoroughly
ventilated his creed upon slavery in the
Territories, and from which we shall make
some extracts as showing him to be Slave
code man, and opposed to Popular Sow
ercignty, In that speech Mr.. johnson says !:
NO POWER CAN EXCLUDE SLAVES.
That question is, whether it is the duty
OF Congress to guarantee to the stakeholder
who shall remove with bis slaves into the
territory Of the United States, the undis-
puted enjoyment of his property in them,
so long as it continues to be a Territory
Or, in other words, whether the Inhabitants
of a Territory, during their territorial con-
dition, have the right to prohibit slavery
therein. For the purposes of this question
1t matters not where the power of legsla-
ting for the Territory resides-whether ex-
cluslvely in Congress, or jointly in Congress
and the inhabitants of the Territory: the
power is precisely the same-no greater in
the hands of one than the other. In no
event can the Shareholder of the South be
excluded from settling IN such Territory,
'O'th has property of every description.
TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURES CANNOT PRoH1B-
IT SLAVERY.
But suppose that Congress have the right
to establish Territorial Government only.
and that then, all further governmental
control ceases: can the Territorial Leeisla-
ture pass an act prohibiting Savery9 Sure
ty not. For the moment you admit the
right to organize Territorial Government
to exist in Congress, you admit necessarily
the subordination of the people of the Ter
ritory-their dependence on this govern
for an organic law, to give them political
existence. Hence, all their legislation
must be in conformity with the organic law !;
they can pass no act in violation Of it-none
but such as it permits Since, therefore,
Congress has no power, as l have shown, to
prohibit Slavery, they cannot delegate such
poOer to the Inhabitants of the Terrific
rtes;; they cannot authorize the Territorial
Legislature to do that which they have no
power to do. The stream cannot rise high
er than its source.
HE DENIES THE DOCTRINE OF POPULAR SOW
EREIGETY.
But suppose the right of legislation for
Territory be in bis inhabitants, can they
prohibit Slavery? Surely not, and for
reasons similar to those which show that
Congress cannot. Sovereignty follows the
ownership of the domain, and therefore
the sovereignty over the Territories is in
the States in their confederated capacity
Now, if the sovereignty over the Territories
is in the States, and the right of legislation
not in Congress, but in the inhabitants of
the Territories, it is evident that they can
have no higher rights of legislation than
Congress could have. They must be bound
by the limitations Just mentioned; and if
the prohibition of slavery in tho Territories
by Congress, be inconsistent with these
limitations, its prohibition by the Terrific
rial Legislature would be so likewise.
BE WOULD MAKE FREE SOIL SLAVE TERRITORY.
Its urged that slavery does not exist in
New Mexico and California; that they are
free Territories; and although, we deny to
Congress any jurisdiction over the subject,
yet We ask Congress by this amendment TO
establish slavery therein. We ask of Con
gress no such thing. Upon the execution
Of the treaty, all political regulations were
extended over the Territories, and the insti-
tuition Of slavery, being political in its
character, Il no,O erists, IN legal intendment,
as absolutely in New Merico and Califor-
MIA as 1t does IN Virginia and Georgia.
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY is RIDICULOUS AND
ABSURD.
If you assert the broad proposition that
the inhabitants of the Territory, by virtue
of the right Of self-government have the
right to exclude slavery therein, the ques-
ton arises, bow many inhabitants shall
there be to enable them TO do this? Shall
it be five hundred or ten or twenty thous-
andi Shall few thousand people in Or
egon--a vast territory out of which five or
six large States may be carved-determine
that question for all future generations, and
fix their destiny for all time to come Shall
few thousand halfcivilized Mexicans, in
habiting the Territories Of California and
New Mexico decide what institutions shall
exist therel The idea Is ridiculous and
absurd -
u We have given our readers enough, for
one time, as showing the sentiments of Mr..
Johnson, and they can see that the substi-
tuition Of that geutler-,. in place Of Mr..
Fitzpatrick does not relieve the "Squatters"
from the charge Of dishonesty, in having as
candidate for Vice President, on their pop
ular sovereignty ticket, man in favor of a
slave-code for the Territories, and one who
chaIaeterizss Popular Sovereignty as arid-
'icnlous and absurd. - Cleveland Herald.
sFOFney and the KasBOn Electoral TicIref
~ In Fennsylvania.
Col. FoFney, 10 the Press, oftbe Sd inst,
Indignantly Eepudiates the action Of the
Democratic State Central Comnittea of