Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-08-01

they may exclude slavery if they can, and
not before. Hence Congress cannot keep
it cut from a Territory-thc people Of tie
territory cannot keep it out-thc people Of
the CHiOn canine keep it out-nobody can
keep it out, but every slaye-mastSr has
the constitutional right to take it in, and
demand protection for it there, and the
Territorial Legislature must not do any
"unfricndly legislation" and this is the true
Democratic doctrine Of non intervention.
The Judge said moreover that this had
been his own doctrine for the past thirty
five Years and ever since he first read Black
stone, where he learned it from the funda-
mental doctrines Of the rights Of property.
He did not inform the audience why
jefferson and Madison had not defended
these great rights Of slavery, but had ad-
vocated and secured the adoption Of the
anti-slayery proyiso in the ordinance of Il
81 and rc-enacted the same in l789-nor
why Congress three several times refused
to suspend that proviso. such Southerners
as John Randolph ecncurring with the ma
jority-nor why the whole South rejoiccd
over the Missouri Compromise in 1920
and such Southern Statesmen as Pinckney
declared it sacred as the Constitution it.
self-nor why lee the Judge, did not secede
from the Democratic party in lS48 when
it was resolving at its State Convention in
Ohio to DO all in its power to mitigate
and finally eradicate" the institution of
Slavery, That the Judge should have been
50 desperate a frc-eatcr. 10, these many
years, and should not have made it known,
We regard as one of the most remarkable
examples of sclfrcstraint on record; it GER
tainly is an exceptional and anomalous
case in the Judges experience.
When Judge Ranney was declaring in
his Hoffman letter Il have no doubt Of the
power Of Congress to provide for the pro-
hlbition of Slavery within the territories,
and l am in favor of and would Support
such prohibition" Judge Orchard held has
peace, and held his great doctrine of the
rights of property" in his heart, and Meth
er seeded nor published an address de-
nouncing the hescsy.
When, as he says, in his OWL hearing,
Democrats advocated the Douglas squatter
sovereignty gloss on the Cincinnati plat
form, he still did not seccde, but consoled
himself with the apostolic reflection that
by thus becoming ''all things to all mem {
they might possibly win some" and {
besides Yanccy and Davis did not yet Sc {
cede, and if they could stand it why should
not also he? and so he smothcrcd the fire !
burning in his bosom; and continued to toll
crate and to fellowship Ranney and even
Tod likewise. p;
Dat in 1860 the pent-up flames waxhCt-
ter than bcforc-the Charleston convention
mcets-Yancey AMI JEFF. Daris can stand it t
no longer; neither can he. The true DEM I
ocratic doctrine of non-intcryentiOn is pro-
claimed to the world; "If one man wants !
to Tn slave another man. no third man shall .
interfere" this quintessencc of Democratic t
wisdom, Ike a Minerva springs full piano.
piled from the brain of the Democratic {
Jvye. The long incubation is over. The 4,
heresy of Washington. Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe. Pinckney, Randolph, Clay, Mar
shall, Story, Kent, Webster, Jackson, that
congress might rightfully prohibit slavery +
in the Territories Of the Union, exploded,
and Birchard, Atcheson, JEFF. Davis, Yam
cy and fancy are revealed to the world as !
the greater lights in whose presence the +
considerations of statesmen of the past gen.
Grafton pale their feeble light. Its no long {
er a time to say smooth things. The word |
now is 'hc that is not for us is against US" ,
and Tod and Ranney are forthwith cast in t
to outer darkness. !
In plain OutspOkeu advocacy Of ones !
there is, however something adj c
however false one may regard the !
doctrines. We have therefore from the
first locked with some respect upon the {
scec lers, because they have this merit of |
what they mean, and standing by :
ShGt they say. They will follow their r
doctrine to. it, kgical conclusion, though it y
lead them to the d, we mean into OPP 5
to all the political fathers and ev- {
cry principle of right and humanity. Like :
a certain great character in Millions Par !
adise lost, when they have said ''eyil be
thou cur good" there is a kind of sublimi-
ty' in their position which one can't help
recognizing. Like their prototype MOlOch, f
(the original ire-eatcr in the Pandcmoniac i
convention) they cry 1
MY sentence is for open war" q
and have no more taste for the squat 7
er-sovereign subtleties of Douglas than c
had for the hypocritical tactics of t
Belial, the little giant of that assembly. c
We fully believe that the only live po- l
powers in the country are the Re- J
publican and the Iancey-B breckenridge par 4
ties. All other go-betwecns and fossils P
are simply of NJ account They attract a o
fcwwho have no stomach for the fight" !.
but every man who means to do anything f
toward giving positive character to the in b
situations of the country is enlisted on one a
side or other in the irrepressiblo conflict. 9
The right and the duty of prohibiting the :
spread of slavery is the only CUES !
tion which will have any coDtralliDq Dr9r-