The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-08-08
Sound Democratic DOCTRINES.

Resolved, That claiming iellowship with, and
desiring the cooperation Of all who regard ths
preservation OF the Union under the Constitu
ton as the paramount issue--and repudiatins
all sectional parties and platforms concerning
slavery, which seek to embroil the States and
incite to treason and armed resistance to Law
in the Territories; and whose ayowed purposes
| If eonsumatedi must end in civil war and disu.
nion--the American Democracy recognise and
adopt the principles contained in the organic
laws establishing the Territories Of Kansas and
Nebraska, as embodyiug the only safe and
sound solution of the slavery question upon
which the great national idea of the people oi
this whole country can repose in its determin-
ed conservatism of the Union--6TN Non-inter-
ferance by Congress with slavery in the State or
Territory, or in the District of Columbia.
Resol0ed, That we recognize the right Of the
people oftbe Territories, including Kansas and
Nebraska, acting through the legally and clear
ly expressed will Of the actual residents, and
and whenever the number of inhabitants justi-
fies it, 0rto form Constitution with or with
out domestic slavery, and be admitted into the
Union npon terms Of perfect equality with the
other States. -c>0Cincinnati Platform, 1856.
(Not word about territorial legislature; and
the power Of the people over slavery asserted
only when they form their Constitution) tss.
Resolued, That when the settlers in terrific
ry, having an adequate population, form State
Constitution, right of sovereignty commences,
and being consummated by their admission into
the Union, they stand on an equality with the
people of the other States and State thus or
ganized ought to be admitted into the Federal
Union. 0J-whether its Constitution prohibits
or recognizes the institution of slavery. Go
Breckinridge Platform, at Baltimore.
Now, as we have already said in an earlier
part OF this opinion, upon different point, the
the right Of slave is distinctly expressly affirm
ed in the Constitution. And no word can
be found in the Constitution which gives Con.
gress geratcr power over slave property, or
which entities property of that kind to less pro-
lection than property of any other description.
The only power conferred is the power coupled
with the duty of guarding and protecting the
owner iu his rights. a.s.. I... ,gsr 81. -.
The rights of property are united with the
rights of person. and placed upon the same
ground by the fifth amendment TO the Constr
tuition, which provides that no person shall be
deprived of life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law. And an act of Congress
which deprives a citizen Of the United States
ofhis liberty or property, merely because he
came himself or brought his property into any
particular Territory Of the United States, and
who had committed no offence against the
laws, could hardly be dignified with the name
ofdue process Of law.
And if Congress itself cannot do ths--if it
is beyond the powers conferred on the Federal
Governmental will be admitted we presume
that 1t could not authorize Territorial Govern
ment, to exercise them. 1t could confer no
power on any local Government, established
by It's authority to violate the provisions Of the
constitution. Opinion of the Supreme Court
in the Dred Scott cas-. h.l