The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-12-13

the result justify B revolution, to ]
destroy this very COnstitutionl-
justice, a regard for the COnsututiont-
Reason, justice, a regard for the Con
stitution, all require that we shall wait
for some overt or dangerous act on the
part of the President elect before re
sorting to such a remedy. 1t IS said,
however, that tho nntecedenis OF the
President elect have been sumcient TO !
Justify the fears Of the south that he
will attempt to invade their Oonstltu-
uoual rights; but are sueh apprehen-
sions Of contingent danger IN the tu-
ture sufficient to justify the immediate
destruction OF the noblest system OF
Government ever devised Dy m0r'alSi--
From the very nature OF ms ONCE ana
Its high responsibilities, he must heceS-
sarily be conservative, The stern duty
of administering the vast and comPu'
Gated concerns Of this Government at,
tords In itself guarantee thal ne VIII
not attempt a1y violation OF clear
Constitutional right.
AC,or oil bsisno mora than tho chief
.ovocutivo oficer of the Government.-
His nrovinco is NOT to make. but exc
cute its laws. and it is n remarkable fact
in our history that notwithstanding the
repeated efforts of the anti.slavcry party,
no sucb oct has ever passed Congress,
unless we NAV nrobably except the
Missouri Comnromise impairing. in the
sIiob,ost dogrre rho riobts ofthe South
to tboir rro1orty in slaves. and it NAV
oI,a h. aL.,l.,,J ;,,l,,iro, from, nrosont
a.oG ~ oDo'' ~. iou' yoNTraI ab;;tv ovists
~ ,bo nassooo 49, ~ syo5 an oct bvo ma
;oritr ng b7b unYsos oitbcr in the
Droscnt nr tbo novt Conorsss surely
prdor tboso oirovwstoncSs we ouobt to
~, a,,.;J Cn,, ,rosont oction nv tbe
Dno,,ont 81 d., nix s,oLo os navor man
sn,ko tbat usr#.iont nnt, tbe dov is
| tLo oviI tborooF" Tho d.v Of evil nav
noyor como npIoss wo Shall rasbly
bring If nnon onrsolycs It. is alleoed
~ ono oapso f,r ;n,noJ,oto secession
tL,t tbo Sorthorn Stotps are denied
oonoI riuhts with tho abcr States in
Itbo common Torritorics Rut Inv what
ortbority oro tboso dcnicd2 not bv
/ TonorosS which hos revor nossod and
I boIioyo Doyor will mass onv net to ex-
oInJo SIovorv fnon tboso Tcrritories.
and cort,irIy NOT by tLo snnromo Court,
wbicb bas soIowrIy 5ocidod tbot slaves
,ro .r,ronorty and ito oll other nroner-
~ ,boir o,ynors hovo \ ricbt TO take
tIor, into tbo common Torritorios and
boIJ thom thore under the nrotec,ion
Of The Constitution. So far, men, as
CONGRESS- is concerned. the objection is
not to ANYTHING they have already done,
but TO What tbcv NAV do hereafter. 1t
will surely be admitted that this appre-
bension of future dancer is no rood
reason for an immediate dissolution Of
the Union. Itis true that the Territorial
Lerislature of Kansas. on the 23d Of
/ February, 1860, passed in great haste
an act over the veto of the Governor
declaring that Slavery is and shall be
forever prohibited in tie Territory
Such an act. however. phinly violating
,he rirhts of propcrtv secured by the
Constitution. will surely be declared
void by the Judiciary Whenever it shol
he presented in legal form. Only three
days after NV inauguration, the Su
preme Court Of the United States sol
emnIy adjudred that this power did no
Icvist in n Territorial LEGISLATURES Yc
such has been the facrious temper of tn,
times that the correctness of this de
cision has been extensively impugneC
before tho peonlc. aud tie question hal
piyen rise to angry political conaic
throughout the country. Those wht
have appealed from this Judgment of
our highest constitutional tribunal t,
ponular assemblies. woull if they could
invest a Territorial Legislature will
mower TO annuI the sacred rights of prop
ertv This mower Congress is exprcssI,
forbidden bv the Fedeml Constitution
70 exercise and every State Legislature
in fbe Union is forbidden by its owl
Constitution TO exercise it. II canno
he cxcroised in onv State except by th
nconIo in tbcir biGbest sovereign capac
/, itv. when Famine or amending thei
/, Sinte Constitution Tn like manner,
cam onk he exercised bV the people OF
/ Territorv renreseptel in a Conven
fon Of DELEGATES for the purpose OF
| rromino n Constitution. preporatory Il
odmiss;on ne State into the Union
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