Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-10-24

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inaugurated. Is it not clear, then, that
the man who refuses Obedience to the
Constitution and laws of his country is an
enemy to the Republic? Judged by this
standard, where stands the republican par
ty to-day
Weanswer, their candidate for the pres.
idency not only refuses to yield obedi.,
ence to the decision of the Supreme Court
but actually declares his intention to dis
regard that decision In his Chicago
speech, July 10, 1858, he said;
"lf | were in Congress and vote should
come upon question whether slavery
should be prohibited in new Territory,
IN spite Of the Dred Scott decision, | WOULD
VOTE THAT IT SHOULD"
Having thus set the example Of disobe-
dience of the Supreme Court, it is not
strange that his supporters should run off
in the same channel. Foremost of them
we find Mr. Sumner thus advising resis-
tance to thu fugitive slave law in aspeech
in Boston in 1850;
"Thc good citizens, as he reads the re-
quirements of this act, lrelative to fug,
tive slaves, )is filed with horror. X
Here the path of duty is clear. lam BOUND
TO DIsoBEE THIS AcT,'
"Sir, | will not dishonor this home of
the Pilgrims. of the Revolution by admits
ting-nay, | cannot belieye--that this
bill will he executed here"
Again, in the Senate of the United
States, we see him again, reiterdting his
determination not to obey the law. Mr.,
Butler, of South Carolina, asked, eff we
repeal the fugative- -slave-law, will Massa
chusetts execute the provision Of this con-
stitution, without any law of Congress
Will this honorable senator (Mr. Sumner
tell me that he will do p To, which
Mr. Sumner replied: is thy servant dol
that lie should do this thing" Mr. Butle
continued "Then you would. not ODE!
, demonstration. Sir, standing here before
this tribunal, where you swore to suppor
it, you rise and tell me it is the Office of
!, dog to execute the Constitution OF the U
nited States?" To which Nr Sumne
\ said: 81 recognize no such an obliga
q ton"
= The Hon. Edward Wade, of Ohio, il
= the House, Aug. 2nd 1855, said;
r "Thus, sir, the ihrice>execrable fugitv
!, slave law, with its catch >pole bevy of slav
r hunting commissioners and deputy mar
a shals, becomes a mLhy ant nuiSancc--th
/. vilanous concoction of slave holding u
,f surpation and dough.faced subserylenc
:, and dissolved like stubblc before the de
| vourng fire"
e On the llth of March, 1850, Senate
Seward, of New York, thus spoke in tn
Senate:
"All this IS Just and sound but assun
II ing the same premises--to wit: that a
IS men are equal by their nature and Of nj
e tonS-the right OF property in slaves fall
II to the ground for one who is equal
the other cannot be the owner or proper
n ~ of that other. But you answer th,
tc the Constitution recognizes property !
d slaves. | would 5e sufficient then 10 re
ply, that tbs constitutional obligation MUS
e BE void, because it is repugnant to the la
Ie Of nature and of nations"
a Again, in his speech at Albany. Ne
J. York, October, II, 1855, Mr.. Seward sal
u at is written in the Constitution of II
" United States, in violation Of tie d,UtHe IN,
u u that we shall surrender the fugitive slav
You blush not at these things becau'
u they are familiar rs household words"
~ Still again, in his speech in the Senat
NJ March, I'd, 1858, Mr.. Seward thus assail
the Drcd Scott decision and the Supren
i, Court
A. "The Supreme Court also can rever:
&C its spurious judgment more easily than y
IS. can reconcile the people to its usurp
# ton" "1he people of the Unit,
r. States never can. and they never will, a
be cept principle so unconstitutional and a
horrent. Never, never. Let the court ,
of cede. Whether it recedes or not, zoe Sh
.. rcorgani-c he court, and thus reform It's pOitit
70 sentiments and practices, end bring them ia
is harmony with the Constitution and
r, lars qfnatre."
n, 10 the same effect is the address of &
40 republican State convention of New Yo
IL in October, 1851;
VS. at is one of tho most lamentable fei
10 uras of the present democratic degeneiac &C
that it has invaded even the sanctuary
he Justice, and from the seat once honor
rt, by Jay, Rutledge, Ellsworth and Marsh
nd nov strains its equity through the sieve
.ry sectionSlism, in accents as bdr6aroGS
o. they are disgraceful to the nation
IN which they belong and the age in viii
e. we live The infamy OF the Dred See
he decision is but a legitimate sequence
he the efforts that have been put forth
ur sectionalize and pack tribunal in whi
int was once centred the respect and con
Ike dence of the nation"
nd Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,, W
y! seem to have been pioneer in the ca'
Ter af assailing the Supreme Court, 1t will
lhe remembered that in 1855 in the city
nly Philadelphia, band of abolitionists, W
md Passmore williamson at its head, reset
one fugitive slave from the hands of the g
zed GERS Of the law. For this he was tr
ain condemned and imprisoned. Reierri
viii to this matter in his speech at New "
October l2th 1885, Mr. Wilson said,
zen eve shall change the Supreme Cour
the the United States, and face men in {
ed. court who believe with its pure and
Ibly maculate Chief justice, John Jay. I
nan our pray ers will be impiOus to Hea'