The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-07-31


BRANCH Of THE GENERAL GOVERN
MENT
Now what is there in this resolution
which should be sufficient Of itself to
give TO the Douglas ticket, in one state
alone, 10000 votes mole than the re-
naming portion of the platform would
give it +? Is it simply because it leaves
the question ofSlavery in the territories to
some future decision of the Supreme
Court? If so, the resolution is super
fluous, because another resolution adopt
ed at Charleston, does this. There must
therefore be something else in it. Ii
declares that the Douglas wing of the
Democracy will abide by the meas
ure of restriction imposed on the Terri
torial Legislature as the same has been,
or may hereafter be, decided by the
Court. What do the words "has been !"
have reference to? Are they not intend
ed to assert that the measure of restriction
has already been decided upon by the
Court? Do they not have reference to
the bred Scott decision-and are they
not intended as an utter reputation Of
Mr.. DOUGLASS doctrine of unfriendly
legislation" by which alone he made
Roadway against the acknowledged
force Of that decision. They certainly
do. They are certainly regarded at the
South as an acquiesence in the declara-
ton of the Court that slaves are proper
ty, and entitled to all the protection ac-
corded TO other property and, not only
as an acquiesence in that decision, but a
pledge TO use every branch Of the Federal
government for its enforcement.
The Missouri Republican is lighting
the battle in that State on this ground,
and if Missouri should go for Douglas it
will be because the Republican has the
ability and the influence TO convince the
people of the state that this is Douglasism.
That paper keeps the Douglas platfol m
standing conspicuously at its head, with
the provisions in reference to obedience
to the Supreme Court set out prominent
ly from the others and then, in expla
nation of these provisions, also keeps
standing, just beneath, the points of the
bred Scott decision, copied from the
10th vol. of HowARD's Reports, page
sos. Among the six points given in
those Reports as decided by the Court,
are the following, which the Republican
HAS also set out in prominent style, in or
der TO give them emphasis
| 30. EVERY CITIZEN HAS RIGHT TO TAKE
WITH HIN INTO THE TERRITORY ANY ARTICLE OF
PROPERTY WHICH THE Constitution OF THE UNI
TED STATES RECOGNIZES AS PROPERTY"
4th. "THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES RECOGNIZES SLAVES AS PROPERTY, AND
PLEDGES THE FEpERL GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT
IT. And Congress cannot exercise any more
authority over property of that description than
it may constitutionally exercise over property
of any other kind
According to the WICKLIFFE resolu-
ton, then, which Mr.. DOUGLAS and the
convention SO promptly accepted, the
Republican argues that Mr.. DOUGLAS is
now pledged to use the whole power OF
! General Government for the necessary
protection of slave property IN the Terri
tories. This is the position Of the allan.
Ia Confederacy. and of Mr. DOUGLASS
supporters throughout the South. L
was for this that the resolution was offer
ed, and il was because the resolution es-
tablished this that Mr.. WIcKLIFFE said il
would bring to DOUGLAS 40, votes in
Louisiana. If Douglasisnl was the same
south as it is al the north, DOUGLAS and
JOHNSON would have fewer votes thar
LINCOLN and HAMLIN below Mason''
and Dixon's line There is radi
cal difference between the doctrines 0
the advocates Of Mr.. DOUGLAS north an(
south, and if it were possible for him t.
be elected, one section or the other would
have TO be cheated The Cincinnati
platform is now universally acknowledg
ed to have been cheat, being suscepti
bic Of, and receiving, different con
struction north and south Nj DOUGLAS
friends have tried the same trick again
The resolution, however. adopted at Bal
timore, and added as tail to the plat
form, is most too transparent to admit 0
the same success AS in 856, and for tina
reason. while it is put forth prominently
at the south. the greater part Of the pres
at the north does as our neighbor ha
done, suppress 1t.
Six thousand sheep arrived here on Friday
, from Kalamazoo, Michigan, over the Michigan
Central Railroad, and left on Saturday for 10
wa via the Chicago, Quincy, and Burlington
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