The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-08-22
The Last Plank Gone.

The Louisville Democrat, Southern pa.
per Of great influence, skaters the last plank
upon which the Disunionists and all other
enemies OF Popular Sovereignty stand in the
following short and expressive article. The
The OiSunionsts allege, that even granting
tl.at the Democratic party had been commit.
ted to the doctrine that the people Of Ter
ritory, "like those Of a State," should vote
on slavery as well as upon all other domes.
Tic institutions, and that the Territorial Le-
gislutures might legislate upon that question,
yet that the decision of the Supreme Court
in the case Of Dred Scott rendered change
Of front necessary, inasmuci. as that court
decided that The Territorial Legislature had
no such poOer, and that the people of the
Territory were mol entitled 10 vote upon
slavery ss well as upon other local and do.
mes,ic institutions. This is their present
patent daily cry, but the words OF the Louis.
VILE Democrat prove it's absurdty:
"We reply that it is utterly false that
submit to an abstract opinion OF the Supreme
Court. The m liter submitted was the octs
wbich Territorial Legislature might pass
They were to DC valid or not, az the court
mi4 4ht decide, when case was brought be.
fore it. be-.
"It is provided in the Kansas bill itself ;
and there is not word about submitting TO
any abstract notions of court. The osser.
tion thathpytbiDg else was submitted is ut
terly false nor was it agreed that any one
should ab ,ndon his opinion because the
court might decide one way or the other
/ The decision oI the court was to be submit
ted to as usual, whether it was held to BE-
righ, or wrong. No man Of senss--no Demo
crat, al atieast-prop .sed TO submit his opinion,
and policy to the notions of ,Oiss men on th'
Supreme bench
"TEe Democratic party never was guilty
Of such I, ut, and we hope it never viii
! be. In the Ksnsas bill, fucilities to appea
from Territorial court to the Supreme
Court were provided; and if any one fel
him,e eli aggrieved by an &C! of the Legisla
tuee, there was his redress. II the cour
r said the act was invalid, then it was not It
be executed /; that was all. Not that tht
Democratic party was to give up its judg
ment and reason to the judgment OF tn
court. The party did not do SO in The case O
The alien and sedition taD, nor in the case 0
ths UntLsd States Bank. In botk cases, I'll
Democratic party ,oas right and the cou'
wron9. The p rty, however, submitted
the decisions OF the court as they will d
when the court decides Territorial act yin
constitutional. They will see to it tha
such al act shall not be put in operation.
"We now challenge The whole boTtin
fraternity to find pledge beyond this, eth
er in the Territorial bills or in the speeche
t IN support oil them. lt's libel on the par
ty to y ocum that it submttei it's con
science to the Sap'em4 G ,urt, and agreed t
substitute it's decisions for the Constitute .
r itself At Charleston, the proposition I
submit TO what a court might decide, wa
repudiatcd by the boters. although the rest
luton only me int what all sood citiz ans NJ
required TO do twas surmised thai it migl
mean too much"