The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-03-02
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Arroia % meet thc issues.
Judge fancy declares that Congress
has no power over the territories, and that
the people interested have the rghtto de-
eide whut their local institutions shall
bc."-A droriiser.
Judge Taney declared no such thing
and such is not the position Of the Dem
oeratic party. What he did decide, in
the opinion rendered in the Drcd Scott
case, is this. That shareholders have
right 70 take their slaves into the terri
tories Of the United States and hold them
there, IN the absence Of all law, by vir-
s,s,sf the Constitution Of the United
The Congress or GRPower, whether Of
ritories or the territorial ieRsi the 'er-
can deprive them Of that rigAtcf,
Docs the 4 dperfiscr deny that this il the
position Of the democratic partyl Il dare
rot assert that the people Of a territory
have the ..pht to exclude slavery, while
iH territorial condition. If 10 dnos. 900
havethU highest democratic authority 10
prove that such Is not the doctrine Of the
party.
james buchanan declares, IN his Sill-
man letter and in his subsequent messa-
gcs to Congress, that this question has
been finally settled by the decision Of the
Supreme Court, that slavery exists in the
territories by virtue Of the Constitution Of
the United States and that "Kansas is
just as much slave state, as Georgia or
South Carolina" Tho people have no
say in the matter and must accept sla.
vcry, whether they want il or not.
But the AdUsriiser suys;
"I,ct Congress keep its hands Off the
Territories Lctthe people Interested de-
ttrmue what institutions they will have.
They sre interested PARTED and tho best
Judges Of what local institutions would
most contribute 70 the happiness Of tho
people and the development of the couu-
tfy."
Yes let the people ulol That will do
20 talk about, but let us see how il has
been carried out. Look at the course Of
the democratic party in Kansas, In at-
tempting 20 force slavery upon Rn unwil-
ing people, by violence aud rr0ud-thc
Gnal contamination of tho Lccompton
iniqui,y and then the passage Of the Eng
lish Bill the object of which was to com.
pol the people TO accept slavery or stay
out Of the Union. Look at the course o
the democratic party in Congress, in OPP
posing the admission of Kansas into the
Union, with a constitution regularly
formed at Wyaudot, just because that
constitution makes Kansas free State
The people Of Kansas aud Nebraska
have attempted to make practical APP
plication Of the doctrine Of Popular Soye- /
reignty, cnunciated in the organic act Of
s's~~~ scrritosisa ''''d l''vsiUtu,od ~ dvnl- I
oorutio editors and stump orators at the
North. How have they bccn trcatcdl
How has the solemn plcdgc, made to tho
people Of Kansas and Nebraska by Stc-
phen A. Douglas, boon kcptl Why, the !
legislatures Of both these territories, act
ing in accordance with the declaration Of
tho Kansas-Nrbrasku Bill, have passed
acts abolishing slavery and these acts
haUs been Uetoed by GoW BLACK, in Me-
braska, and Gov. MgDARY, In Kansas
The people in their sovereign capacity, /
have declared that they do not want sla-
very, but these popular Sovereignty, DEM
ocratic Governors, sent TO rule over them
by James Buchanan, declare that they
must have Il, whether they will or not
This is the way the people fthc ter
ritories are allowed 10 "rcgulato their
own domestic institutions in their own
way" and this is the kind Unpopular soyo-
reignly which the Advertiser approves;
for Il has not dared raise It's puny voice
against the fiat Of the "powers that be-"
Thus il is that the will Of the people ia
10 be defeated and slavery irrevoodbly j
established in ali the territories Of the Y
United States, beyond the power of the
people illegally TO control IT," Demo. .
Gratis, North and South, Ocquesce In the I
doclfino that the Constitution carries
s'svcry into all the territories, the same /,
rs other property, and tha; there is no I
human power to keep Il out; and the next a
thing demanded will be s'Gre code to !
protect il there
Let il not be said, then, that the DEM =.
'cratic party is opposed to the extension
of slavery. "lf such things are done in
lhe green tree, what win 5e done In the h
a., ls,Si,,., NJ, lClns bear no more ofy our sham f
ih'Futof aofcrUigutys-
vy,t,o Are nis,,to,,tstst