Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-01-05
From the Cleveland Piaindealer.
The Presidents Messase--AnEx.
a traOrdinary PasSage.

'ne 'estaenls aeSsagef IN which occurs
the following extraordinary passage:
| @The President cordially congratulates
Congress on the final settlement by the
Supreme Court of the question of slavery in
the Territories. The right has been estab-
lished for every citizen to take his proper
ty of any kind, including slaves, into The
Territories, and have it protected there un-
der the Constitution.
Congress, Territorial Legislature, nor any
human power can annul or impair this
vested right. =.e.---
Thus has the statutes of Territory, dur
ing the intermediate period from its first
settlement until it has become a state,
been irreyokably fixed by the final decision
of the Supreme Court"
Mr.. Buchanan has gone clear out of his
way to drag this matter into his message,
and TO dabble in controversy with which
be officially has nothing to do. He uses
the influence of his high position to cover
the retreat of his Attorney General, who
has taken tilt with Senator Douglas on
this same subject, and who came out of
the controversy the laughing stock of the
whole country.
Mr.. Buchanan has undertaken to decide
by his ipse dirit a question which the Su-
preme Court has not decided, and to die
tate to the Democratic party what it shall
do at the Charleston Convention in refer
ence to the slavery question. Mr.. Buch-
anan will find out that he is not yet king
of this country nor dictator to the Demo
cratic party. His opinions in regard to po-
litical matters are of very little account.
He is often and most grossly mistaken in
regard to what constitutes Democracy, and
his reading of party platforms and court
decisions amazingly defective. He COM
menced life a Federalist. All his early
impressions and associates were Federal
He lived to middle age an uncompromis-
ing Federalist-so much so that he de-
clared eff he thought he had one drop of
Democratic blood in his veins be would
open them and let it out" He never had
occasion to make the incision. He has
been Federal in disguise all his life, play
| ing possum with the Democratic party,
holding its Offices and enjoying its honors.
In his extreme old age and second child
hood, his early impressions regain posses
sion of his impulses, and placed in power,
he acts out his real character.
"Here tired dissimulation drops her mask"
An egregious blunder did he make when,
| for the sake of an argument to palliate the
forcing down an unwilling people to that
odious federal bantling, the Lecompton
Constitution, he assumed that the phrase
domestic Institutions" as used by Sena-
tor Douglas in the Kansas Nebraska Bill,
"had reference only to slavery" (D Such a
reading of that Bill, and such rendition
of the English language, produced horse
laugh throughout the country. Governor
Wise accounted for this blunder by assert
ing the fact that the President was an in
corrigible bachelor, and his Executive die
tionary knew nothing about domestic re-
lations."
His next Federal notion and political
mistake was in proposing "Specifc Duties"
a system of unequal taxation, which the
Democratic party had fought against for
fifty years. Then came Lecompton, deep
dyed Federal measure, one which has cost
the Democratic party nearly every free
State, and a towering majority in both
branches of Congress, leaving the Admin
istration PROSTATE at the mercy of Know
Nothings and Black Republicans.
Last of all comes the present Message
with the Federal doctrine, unqualifedly as
serted That By virtue of tile Constitution
SLAVERY IS carried into all the Territories
of the United States, and that neither
Congress nor the Territorial Legislature
has any power to annM or impair that
yested right.
More rank Federalism than this was
never uttered by Old John Adams, nor
Alexander Hamilton, the putative Fathers
of Hartford Convention Federalism. And
as falsehood is the ally of all false theories,
whether in politics, morals, or religion, the
President adds his official Statement that,
| the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case
have decided this whole matter, forever
slaverizing the Territories. Now we have
read that decision and claim to be as good
reader as Mr.. Buchanan, as good law
yer, and an older and a much better Demo-
crat and we say the Court have decided
no such thing. Reverdy johnson, late At
:orney General of .. S., and acknowledge
ed to be the ablest Constitutional lawyer
in the country-the gentleman too, select
ed by Government and the universal con-
sent of the Bar to try the Dred Scott Case
in the United States Supreme Court, and
whose brief as to the Constitutional ques-
lions involved, the Court in granting its
decision followed; this gentleman who ar
gued the case and won the decision, asserts
that the Supreme Court decided no such
thing as that claimedby lMr. Buchanan.
Individual members of the Court itself
have repeatedly denied that any such de-
cision was made Yet Mr.. Buchanan says
they did so decide; and this he does, we
are satisfied, for no other reason than that
Judge Douglas denies that any such deei
sion was ever made. II is mere contin-
uation. without argument or fact, rhyme
or reason, of the pamphlet controversy At.
torney General Black so foolishly got en-
gagged in and so very effectually got used
up in. There is not a Democratic paper
in all the free States which represents the
real sentiments Of its readers, that will not |
repudiate both the facts as stated and the
sentiments as uttered by The President in
this partion of his MESSAGE. This doctrine !