Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-02-29

answer, l do not know. The trainers VI the
Constitution did not specify the causes for
which il should be subyerted. The conyen-
tons Of the States who ratified il, did not
reject il because those causes were not spe-
cited. Ny relations to the Union were not
established BY the Governor Of Virginia, nor
by tie Legislature, and neither one Of them,
nor both combined can change them; and #
Wise Or Hunter or Douglas should be elect
ca President Of the United States, BY pure
liz sectional vote, and the Governor OF Mas
sachusetts should, on The announcement OF
that event, take military possession Of the
navy yard at Charlestown, and the armOry
ut Springfield, he would IN all probability be
hung for treason for what is treason in the
case Of John Brown, would he treason, in
the case Of Nathaniel r. Banks When the
people Of Virginia find their grievances too
intoerable to be borne, they will by legal
means cause 4 convention To be assembled,
with authority to issue her sovereign com
mand; and when it comes To me in that au-
thcntic form, | will render prompt ODE
dience. And when that day comes which
may heaven III its mercy forbid, ! hope she
will act with the dignity which becomes her
that, discarding the doctrines Of nullIica-
ton and the right of peacCable secession,
she will boldly proclaim that resistance to
tyranny is obedience to God"
a few more words and have done.
ut the end of Mr. BuChanan's term, the
Democracy will have been il power twenty
seven years and eleven months, out 81 thirty
two years, aud now finding themselves una
bic longer ID carry on the government, they
appeal to Us to rally under their banner is
the only means Of defending the rights Of
the South iii the territories Of the United
States, and upon that banner there will be
inscribed at Charlestown, in April next
Stephen A. Douglas and Popular Sovereign
IT, And what do they mean by Popular
Sovereignty? That the emigrants & the
West shall make the laws, establishing On
excluding slavery, As they please. From
whence are these emigrants and law glyers
to come? From tie free States Of the Union,
containing population Of eighteen millions
From England Scotland Ireland, France
and Germany, with q population oi more
than hundred millions, all of whom, that
have been educated, 1T all, have opinions
adverse to the institution, and tile rest u
them without education believe that liberty
consists only in the absence 81 all law.
Bu. it IS said that the decision ii the
bred Scott case lorbjs territorial legisla-
turc to interdjct slavery. Granted but can
judicial power compel the Law making pow
II to lcgislatc against the will Of the legisia-
tors Can slavery exist anywhere without
the special Legislation which the very nature
III the subject impcriouSly demands IN
the territorial legislatures will not protect
and govern it by law, what Is the remedy
! maintain that wherever ID may lawfully
he carried under the decision of the Supreme
Court If il can find 10 other protection,
Congress must give it, Those who are Woo
ING us 10 their embraces Soy no. There ARE
now, and for ak month. past have been, fly
ing at the mast head of the Richmond En-
QuIrer the cardinal maXims 81 Democracy,
aud one Of them Is HO Siarc codr bY Compress.
These are the fruits II the proposed coali-
tion aud like those ol the Dead Sea, they
viii turn to ashes On the lips And who
are We, that ARE thus invited to abandon our
party and our principles? And what has
been our treatment for the last fifteen years?
Seventy thousand Virginia Wings with our
wives and children, are all counted to bc
sure, to ascertain the representative power
ii the State in Congress, and So are the
slaves counted for the same purpose, but II
i ID give, not representation to lis, but dou-
lie representation to tile Democratic party
they would BE-, perhaps, entitled to seven
members and Us - six, but they have taken
thirteen and left is none. | be- pardon
they have permitted lis to elect one for this
term, and that result was produced because