Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-10-24

barriers which Government has ereoied
Tor the preservation of the lives and props
; erty oil It's citizens will have been broken
down, and the law Of force will then be
inaugurated. Is IL not clear, then, that
the man who refuses obedience TO the
Constitution and laws of his country is an
enemy to the Repubicf Judged by this
standard, where stands the republican par.
ty today
Weanswer, their candidate for the pres.
idency not only refuse, to yield obed,
ence to the decision of the Supreme Court
but actually declares his intention 10 dis.
regard that decision In his Chicago
speech, July 10, 1858, he said
"lf were in Congress and q vote should
come upon a question whether slavery
should be prohibited in a new Territory
IN spite Of The Dred Scott decision, | woULD
VOTE THAT 1T SHOULD"
Having thus set the example Of disobe.
dience OF the Supreme Court, it i. not
strange that his supporters should run off
IN the same channel. Foremost of them
we IND Mr. Sumner thus advising resis-
tance 10 tn, fugitive slave law in speech
in Boston in 1850:
'The good citizens, as he reads the re.
quirements of this act, treiatiye to fugi.
tive slaves, )is filed with horror. n
Here the path OF duty is clear. IAN BOUND
TO DiSoBEY THIS ACT"
''Sir, will not dshonor this home of
the Pilgrims. of the Revolution by admit
ting-nay, ! cannot believe--that this
bill will be executed here"
Again, in the Senate of the United
States, we see him again, reiterating his
determination not to obey the law. Mr..
Butler of south Carolina, asked, "If we
repeal the fugative .slaye-law, will Massa
chusetts execute the provision Of this con-
sti;u;ion. without any law OF Congress {?
Will this honorable senator (Mr. Sumner)
tell me that he will do itf" TO which
Mr. Sumner replied: is thy servant a dog
thar he should do this thing?" Mr. Butler
continued: Then you would, not obey
theConstitution. Sir, standing here before
this tribunal, where you snore to support
it, you rise and tell me it is the office of q
dog to execute the Constitution of the u
nited States?" To which Mr. Sumner
said 81 recognize no such an obliga'
ton"
The Hon. Edward Wade, of Ohio, in
the House, Aug. End 1885, said:
"Thus, sir, the thrice>execrable fugitive
slave law, with its catch pole bevy of slave
hunting commissioners and deputy mar
shals, becomes a nuiity and nmsance-the
villanous concoction of slave holding Us
surpation and doughrfaced subservency
and dissolved like stubble before the de-
vouring FIRE"
On the llth of March, 1850, Senator
Seward, of New York, thus spoke in the
Senate:
"All this is just and sound but assum.
ing the same premises-to wit: that all
men are equal by their nature and CT ma,
tions-the right of property in slaves falls
to the ground; for one who is equal to
the other cannot be the owner or proper
ty of that other. But you answer that
the Constitution recognizes property in
slaves. 1t would be sufficient then TO re,
ply, that this constitutional obligation MUST
BE void, because it is repugnsnt to the law
OF nature and Of nations"
Again, in his speech at Albany, New
York, October, Il, 1855, Mr.. Seward said,
at is written in the Constitution of the
United States, in violation Of Tie divine L1O,
that We shall surrender the fugitive slavo.
You blush not at these things because
they are familiar rs household words"
Still again, in his speech in the Senate,
March, I'd, 1858, Mr.. Seward thus sssailcd
the Dred Scott decision and the Supreme
Court:
"The Supreme Court also can reverse
its spurious judgment more easily than We
can reconcile the people to its usurpa-
ton" "The people of the United
States never can. and they never will, ac-
cept principle so unconstitutional and alb.
horrent. Never, never. Let the court re.
cede. Whether it recedes or not, we shall
reorgal,ize the court, and thus reform It's DO itcaL
sentiments and practices, end bring them INTO
harmony with the Constitution and the
Ia,os efnaare."
To the same effect is the address. of the
republican State convention of New York
in October, 1857:
alt is one of the most lamentable feat
uras of the present democratic degeneiacy,
that it has invaded even the sanctuary of
justice, and from the seat once honored
by Jay, Rutledge, Ellsworth and Marshal,
nov strains its equity through the sieve of
sectionAlism, in accents as barbaropS a.
thny are disgrsceful to the nation TO
which they belong and the age in which
we live The infamy Of the Dred Scott
decision is but legitimate sequence to
the efforts that have been PIT: forth TO
ssctionaiize and pack tribunal in which
was on % centred the respect and conti'
dence of the nation 70
Senator Wilson, Of Massachusetts,, who
seem to have been pioneer in the cause
af assailing the Supreme Court, 1t will be
remembered that in 1855, in the city Of
Philadelphia, band Of abolitionists, with
Passmore williamson at its head, rescued
a fugitive slave from the hands of the off.
GERS OF the law. For this he was tried
condemned and imprisoned. Referring
TO this matter in his speech at New York
Octooer 18th 1855, Mr. Wilson said,
1--WE shall change the Supreme Court Of
the United States, and face men in that
court who believe with its pure and inn