Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-04
The Con.tltution and tho Union.


1 rFrom the Albany Evening Journal. December Isl
o soutine their efforts within the pale of the con-
sitution is the adYice which the President gives to
those who seek the remedy Of existing grievances
and the extremists of either section may pFont S "
! Il argus
! This is good advice, but it is entirely
! ipapplicnble to Republicans. They have
not gone, are not now going, and do not
propose to go, outside 1.-The pale of the
| constitution" They let slavery alone
where it is, but they oppose its extension.
| There is nothing in the constitution against
that.
Republicans speak of slavery as an evil.
! There is nothing unconstitutional in that,
! for in not using the word ksl@ve from the
| beginning to the end of that instrument its
| trainers showed that they were ashamed OF
| the institution in all its phases
| Republicans hope that some wise and
constitutional mode may be ultimately
adopted, with the sanction of the slave
state themselves, to get rid of slavery alto
gether. Washington, Lafayette, Jefferson,
| Patrick Henry, and all the old fathers,
hoped the same thing. There is certainly
unconstitutional in that.
Republicans believe, too, that the Fa-
Their of all had some more benefcent pur-
pose in permitting the formation of the re-
public than the "perpetuation" OF sys.
tenn with which Jefferson said "God had
no attribute in common" The expression
of this belief cannot be in conflict with
| the constitution.
They also insist that the government, IN
| all its departments, should manifest equal
regard for Republican and free, as for dem
ocratic and slave territories, when seeking
admission into the Union as States. THIS
has not been the case heretofore. We are
told that it shall not be hereafter. 10 IN
sist that it shall be, should not place tho
Republican party "outside the pale OF the
constitution"
Republicans dissent from the falsehood
of the bred Scott decision, that negroes
have no rights which white men are bound
to respect" because it is Il falsehood; and
they do not refrain from dissenting from
other abominable dicta promulgated in
that case, because they find nothing in the
constitution which withholds from them
the right to do So If they should go far
Their than they do, they could quote James
Buchanan in justification, who not only
dissented from decision of the Supreme
Court, but avowed his purpose to war
against it until it should be reversed. If
| he was not outside "the pale of the consti-
tuition" then, Republicans certainly are
not now.
Republicans insist, further, that Repub-
licans have a right to elect Republican
President, if they have the numerical
power. If, upon the happening of such
an event, the minority should, i'll their re-
sistance, go into open rebellion, Republic
cans believe the leaders in the rebellion
should be hung, even though James Bu-
Chanan should be one of them. Is there
anything which places them outside 1.-THE
pale of the constitution" i'll this
John Browns raid upon Virginia ~&s
unconstitutional. That raid Republican,
condemn. They believe it not only un-
constitutional, but miserable species of
robbery, to steal negroes, whether from
| Virginia, New York or Africa. And negro
| stealing they condemn. They deem it in
famous to knock down senators in their
seats; to tar and feather men and women
on suspicion of harboring heretical opin-
! ions; to rob the mails, to muZzle the press;
to curtail freedom of speech; to revive the
i slave trade; to conniye at piracy; to sell
public property at half its value; to pol
! lutte the bullot-box; to squander the pub
/ lie money; to wink at forays upon nations
with which we are at peace; and to do q
! thousand other unwiSo and dishonest
pieces of rascality which they have done
and are trying to do. In all this there is
nothing which places Republicans outside
'the pale of the constitutions" nor in any
thing that Republicans have done, or pro-
pose to do, have they subjected themselves
to any such imputation. Republicans will
coniinc their efforts within the pale of the
constitution now and always.