Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-10-10

the Democratic party, and apparently
threatens tho dissolution Of the Unionl
It is that it is the right and duty OF
Congress to legislate for the protection
of slave property in the Territories. q.
t'Now, / take it upon me to say
that more latitudinarian and danger
GUS claim Of powerin Congress never
was advanced by Federalists of the
the Hamilton school. The assumption
that they can lcgislato for the protec-
lection Of slave property leads logical.
ly and inevitably to the conclusion that
they have power to legislate for the
Territories in all cases, Whatsoever
Ifyou can put your finger on the grant
ofthis powerin the Constitution, please
put it also on its limitations, If any
can be found. Upon this principle
Congress may acquire an empire out
side Of the organized States, over
which il may exercise unlimited pow
or, governing as the Roman Senate
did their conquered provinces.
slow do you propose to prevent the
inauguration Of a Black Republican
President, should such an one be un.
fortunately elected? Will you come
to this city with an armed force, and
attempt to prevent an inauguration by
violence? In that event force would
be met by force, and there would be.
instant civil war, in which the country
and the world would declare tho South
to be tho aggressor. .0 '.' 80 .-.
''He would be inaugurated here OF
elsewhere in spite of you. Well, sup
pose you then attempt to secedo from
the Union, and resist the execution o,
the laws? Every lawyer in tho Scutl
knows that every citizen Of every State
is as much bound by the laws of th'
United States, constitutionally enacted
as by the laws of his own State, ant
that it is Us impossible for the State t.
relieve It's citizens from allegiance t.
the United States as it is for the latte
to relieve them from allegiance to thei
own State. And it is the sworn dut,
} |of the President to take care that th
laws Of tho United States shall b
faithfully executed upon every citize1
of every State, and as long as we hav
= faithful President they will bo so ex
|ecuted, if the courts, the marshals, tn
army and. the navy remain faithful t.
their respective trusts.
81 know that much has been said i,
the South about reserved rights of null
litication, secession, and not coercing
Sovereign State, etc., when in fac,
the conventions representing the pee
] .lple of the several States which adopt
ed the Constitution made no such res
ervation, but bound their constituents
one and all, to allegiance to. the Con
stitution of the United States as firm
ly as similar conventions bound then
to the State constitutions.
"There is q notable feature in the a,
htude Of the South. The cry of dis
union comes-not from those who sui
fer most from northern outrage. bu
from those who suffer least. It come
from South Carolina, and Georgia, an,
Alabama, and Mississippi, who's
slave property is rendered compare
lively secure BY tho Intervention Q
other slaveholding States betweel
them and the FREQ States, and not from
Deleware and Maryland, and Virgin
ia. and Kentucky, and Tennessee, an
Missouri, which lose hundred slave
by abolition thieves where the first
!. named States lose one. Why arc no