St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-02-09

. State court is bound SO to declare it.
: That is the true construction of this
, clause But in relation to the other
/, clause the language is: ta..-
1.-THE Congress shall have power to dispose,
of and make all needful rules and regulations
, respecting the territory or other property be-
longing to the United States ...,
The Supreme Court, in five different
decisions beginning about 1910, and
the last one in lS53-iust about six
months before you passed your Ne
braska bill--unanimously decided that
this clause of the Constitution gave
Congress Legislative power over the
Territories. The difference between
him and me is this where | maintain
Congress has the power the Constitu-
ton says it shall have the power he
maintains it has the power where the
Constitution does not say it, My hon
orablc friend here has the faculty of
arguing words in or arguing words
out at his pleasure / have never yet
learned to do that
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
In the Senate on the 26th uIt, Mr..
Browns resolution, that the territories
are the common property of all the
States, &c, came mp, when Hon Hen
ry Wilson of Massachusetts, addressed
the Senate at great length.
Mr. Wilson said
In no country in Christcndom were
frccmen subjected to such insults and
indignitics as in the slaveholding
States Of this American Republic
Southern Statesmen admitted that the
opinions of Southern men had under
gone revolution, and this change
had affected the policy of the general
government.
The power Of the slavcholding class
was obtained through the instrumcn-
tally of the Democratic party, which
was forced to carry flags and bear
burdens of a privileged class. He re-
counted history of events from the
close Of the Mexican war to the pres
cnt time, to show that the Democratic
party had been compelled to act al
ways in the interest Of the slave pow
cr. The slavery propagators desired
Cuba and Mexico in order to extend
slavery, and it was to arrest this pol
icy and to restore the government to
the policy Of its founders that the Re-
publican party was organized. They
believed that slavery was local and
sectional, and that Congress or the
people of the Territories could prohib-
it slavery on these points. They had
joined issue with the Democratic party
which had been ovcrthrown in nearly
all of the free States.
| Mr.. Wilson pronounced the threats
of Southern men to dissolve the Union
in the event of the election Of Re-
publican President, as disunon
farce which had been played in 1856,
and which was to be repeated now
| The northern Democrats who were
fatiguing the weary ear of the coun-
try with worn out professions of love
for the Union, dared not rcbukc the
disloyal threats Of their leaders, and
were willing to continue the dcstinics
of the country in the hands of men
who avowed their intention to rule or
ruin.
He interpreted Senator Clay's re-
marks to mean that they who favored
| a dissolution of the Union did not in
tend to leave the Capitol, but be ready
for general collision-a bloody
struggle in the Halls of Congress. In
reply to this threat he had to say that
Northern Senators could not be intim-
idated by it. They were here not to
fight, but to legislate but he wonld
give the Senator from North Carolina
notice that should they be assaulted
here with deadly intent, while in dis
charge of duties, those assaults will
be repclled and rctaliatcd by sons
vino will not dishonor fathers who
fought at Bunker Till and conquered
at Saratoga. Though reluctant to en-
ter upon such a struggle, they would
not abandon it at this hour
The American Democracy, led and
controlled by the slavery propagan-
dists, stood before the nation as the
enemy of human progress.
He rccountcd the wrongs it had per-
pctrated in Kansas and elsewhere,
and closed by expressing the hope
that intelligent patriotism would re-
buke the mad exhibitions of folly and
fanaticism, which woud silver the
Union into fragments, and proclaim,
in the language Of Jackson, " the
Union must and shall be preserved
THE BLIGHT OF SLAVERY.
In the earlier part Cf the session,
the following debate occurred in the
Senate between Mr.. Mason of Virginia
and Mr.. Doolittle of Wisconsin
Mr.. Mason said he had noticed that
certain terms, which lie had used yes
terday, had been the subject of some
criticism by the Hon. Senator from
Wisconsin (Mr. Doolittle.) In speak
ing of those States where there We're
no slaves, | spoke of them as servilc
States. was not present when the
Hon. Senator made those criticisms,
but used them knowingly and de-
libcratcly, with view to draw what
| understood to be the true distinction
between the States of this Union
where there were slaves, and those
States where there were no slaves.
Mr.. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, (Rep, }
said the honorable Senator would find
he had taken the remark in no often
sive sense, for he said at the time that
he was not aware of the sense in
which the honorable Senator used the
term. l was at a loss to conceive,
and at one time, in the hurry of the
moment, and the height Of debate,
did not know but possibly my honora-
bic friend might have referred to the
Democratic Party of the Free States,
to which | confess have sometimes
thought this term servilc might be APP
piled with a great deal of force. But
i | did nat cboose to take the term in