The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-10-11

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Territory than be would cut off bis right
arm. What was all their cry of Black
Republicanism. What propriety was
there iu calling the Republican party a
Black Republican party! We wore now
just beginning the existence of America;
it had been discovered but little more
than three hundred years. We bad but a.
bout 3O,0Oo.o GOO of people now, and be
had no doubt that If we'll cultivated, the
country would sustain SOC. 900 900 of peo.
pie. Those who would extend slavery o.
yer the Free Territory would extend the
colored race. The present slaveholding
States might be capable of supporting
l50. .000. 600 OF people--75,000. 600 black
and $4,000. 900 white. Now, that would
leave 35O. 600, 900 for the Northern States
and the Territories. Now, we Black Re-
publicans wanted this $50 100000 all
white; the Democracy wanted good por-
ton of them to be niggers. The Democ-
racy wanted the future mothers of the
country to be niger wenches, and that
might do very well under the administra-
ttOD Vi NuCu dUIc OIO OdOoCiOi 90
James Buchanan. But be was for
the perpetuation and the propagation Of
white children; he was for the Anglo
Saxon race; he was for the Celtic race;
he was for the Teutonic race; be was
for the Scandinavian race; ell this was
Black Republicanism; be was for the
white race everywhere. and not for the
black race. Let the Democrats bug the
blacks if they liked. We we're told-and
Judge Taney had said so-that We had
DO right to keep the blacks out. Stephen
A. Douglas said we could do it by un-
friendly, that is, BY tricky legislation,
and he did not believe in tricky leglsla-
ton, and be did believe that Congress had
the poser to regulate the Territories
The seventh law which George Washing
ton was called upon to sign as President
of these United States was the amendment
10 1889 of the ordinance of 1887. The
preamble expressly stated that it was done
to make it agree with the Constitution
AL! the laws we're to be made BY Congress
until there we're 5000 voters in the Ter
ritory. After that Congress appointed
half the upper house, and all the time
Congress had the power to abrogate any
law which the Territorial Legislature
might make, and appointed nearly all the
officers. TO reconcile this to this Consti-
tuition, the appointing power Of Congress
was transferred to the President. nder
that law the State of Ohio grew upto be
one of the Free States of this Union. So,
too, did Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.
For the Territories south of the Ohio
River, Congress made very much the same
laws, excepting the slavery clause. Mr..
Smith read the letter from Washington
to Lafayette, in which be alludes to the
Ordinance of 1887 as a wise measure and
says that the prevailing opinion in Vir-
ginia was against Slavery in the Terrific
res Mr. Smith said that during the
XXIXth Congress be met the Lahd Gil
ant in the House of Representatives. He
thought then that be was pretty fierce and
rampant. In the XXXth Congress. he
went into the Senate, and there was pla-
ced at the head OF the Committee on Ter
ritories, when be reported bill organi.
zing Oregon Territory, in seution Ia of
which it was provided that the Ordinance
of 1887 should be extended over Oregon.
Here 10 l64s, Stephen A. Douglas was
Black Republican; but, like the little
animal which Paddy tried to put his fin
ger on, he wasn't there long. In 1853,
the House Of Representatives passed bill
org anising the Territories of Kansas and
Nebraska. 1t went to the Senate, and
be voted against it. because he considered
( it a violation of the treaties with the In
dians. At the next session the subject
came up anew, and then for the first time
Douglas proposed the repeal of the Mis-.
souri, Compromise. The South didn't ask
it, 1t was political movements u move
uent on the Preridentisl cbecker-b board
The irst effect of it was to blow up the
Whig party. There were thirteen Wbig
Senators, all of whom were for the bill
during its progress aud on its passage
They felt constrained to 60 in for it,
Dou slss had put it blindly into his bill
so that Mr.. Benton said it was a stump
speech in the belly of the bill. Mr. Dix
on then dirgrsoed the seat of Henry Clay
which be occupied. BY saying that h'
{ would not propose the repeal Of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, but as it had been sub
staptally proposed by Northern Sena
tor be felt constrained to 60 for it and 81
he moved it in terms. Every one OF thos'
thirteen Wings were hurled into private
life as soon as the people could get
them. except Jas. A. Pearce of Marylan
and Toombs of Georgia, who bad joIne'
, the humbug Democracy. The Democrat
; did not fare much better. Douglas bu
lust saved his bacon. The contest int
which be had to go to get reelected
brought out Abraham Lincoln. Whel
he was 10 the House of Representative
he knew Lineoln as very modest and re
firing man, and he bad no idea that h
had one-tithe of the ability which be dis
= played in his contest with Douglas. Y
I the seventeen Democratic Senators wh
{ voted for the repeal oftbe Missouri Con
+. roU;.o .b;,taar bad hean ardared by To