Brookville American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-19

as a State, Congress gffnted the request
coupled with the condition that SLAYER,
should never exist in tany part OF th,
Territory North Of 3qdeg. 30min. Thil
compromise was unsatisfactory 10
largo minority, moss< Northern men
But the right To pasf 6uch n law. wa.
not denied. Mr. Monroe. then Presi
dcht, submitted its ceistitutionality /,
his Cabinet. j. q ADAMS and J. g
Calhoun were among uonumber. The,
gave their opinion il writing unani
mously ID It's favor. The samo power
mas since been often exercised. Tht
WiImot Proviso has f4eu appIied II
several Territories; al <is>t-44--l>~crpr
voted for by DougldaA ~ s'sacd ~
Polk. -
| For more than tlitK years all our
statesmen, Of all pas7Ft whether ap-
proving the Comproplise or not. had
cencurred in considering IL sacred. Ii
was all that the Sonn demanded, il
was more than the Moth wsuld willing
ly have granted. Dob<ias himself had
invoked curses on The hand that would
disturb it. Now and 4hon IN unprinci-
pied Northern dcmasDgue, wishing TO
gain favor with the a3uih, would sug-
gest It's extension. Haiit mos with lit
tlo favor k&1I
In 1850, Douglas. Having inhale the
ether of ambition, unf1 his conscience
had lost It's sousibllity. proposed to ex-
tend tho COMPROMISING % the Pacific
ocoan, thus surrendel<<1 Host Of Cmi
fornia 10 slavery. U31did not then
doubt that Congress ia tho power.
Tho maggotof Porul<< Sovereignty had
no. then sprung fionih his fostering brain.
But In 1854 he discofFcd that al the
legislation Of Congrr<A frvla 1887 TO
1854, on the subjccl o. slavery, had beon
unconstitutional. lie hnaved and car.
rcd the ~ peal of the Eompromise. On
whose head shall his cnrScs hgh,2 Other
Democratic poItieianEf4i gore farther
South than he and slbfi higher with
tho controllers ofthc Ienocratic party
lie Judged that this Hffemeut would
bo hard TO beat IL r5oi1 undoubtedly
have given him the CIueInnsll nomina
ton. had he not met s. tl,e ileld more
servlc and devoted wafshippvr of des.
potism. For thirty y,2A Mr.. Buchanan
has dunc the biddin e4.-f flic South and
he received his row<(<< Mr.. Douglas
was disappointed. 4tnrc his snbse-
quent course on the/kansas quostion
Whoever believes thl that course was
dictated by honest 1<rcatIy mistakes
his character. lie, tt'n cxam,no bis
efforts sncs 70 rega. .n''ki flyor of Sla.
tvtS.e iiissVditf8d N$yltit 49,. ~ ID u.
sion, and the speech by which he sup
ported H. wero tho meanost cringlngs
that ever disgracod sycophant. Had
tho South not known his character and
restored him to favor, hc would now be
the slavery candidate, and Yancey and
Wlsc would bo stumping In his favor,
But after no had crawlod on his belly in
tho dust before them--ovcn while ho
was lying with hia facc downward.
they Kicked him on tho upper sido about
tho middle Of his person, and left him
TO walow in his mcmucss,
VIII you trust tho accurscd hand
that struck down tho Missouri COmpro.
misc? ro that fatal measure is TO bc
traced all tho subsequent agitation Of
slaycry--Gl the troubles of Kansas
even tho mischief wrought by John
Brown In Virginia IA his handy work,
Had that law not been repealed. Kansas
would have come into tho Union free
without struggle, lie Invited the
South to convert Il TO slavery ilescnt
tho border ruillans and the South Car.
oina ireo troops 10 drive ous tho free
emigrants TO plundcr, burn and mur.
der those who resisted. Tho murder OF
John Browns family that drove him
cruzy TO Virginia was his work, The
massacros ut Oaaawatomla and al over
Kansas were his doings. Tho subse-
quent unhappy conduct Of tho President,
fortunately for him, diverted public st
tonlion from tho roal author of all this
bloodshod.
Lot Northern froemen who aro troop.
ing ut his hecls-who arc worshlpping
him, ard striving to tonch tho hem OF
his garmonts--renlembe that they are
handling veslments still dripping with
tho blood Of "hleedng Kansas Judge
raney, concediug ,he right Of Congress
To logislato for the Territories, denies
tho power to prohibit orab0lsh slavery
because slaves are ncogniacd as prop.
orty BY the Constitution. ! hclnyo both
his premises and conclusions arc false.
What n there to prevent the Legisla.
turo OF u State from prohibiting tho In.
PRODUCTION Of any Kind Of property
within its borders, If deemed injurious
60 tho public weliare2 Suppose South
Carolina should think II dangerous 10
allow tho existence OF firearms within
tho State What purt of tho Consttu'
ton prevents their eSolusionY Congress
has prohibited tho Introduction OF ar
dent spirits into ihe Indian Territories
and among Indian trlbos on The reserves.
Has anybody ever doubted tho conssti-
tullonallly of such hws2 And yet fire.
arms and ardent spirits arc undoubted
articles of property So long ~ the law
Is general and applies equally to every
citizen, no principloof the Coz stitution,
or of justice, is violated.
IL would become unjust only whom
made To apply to ono class OF citizens,
and not to nil. Nor could il altor the
validity Of the In VI ffroarms were man
uiactured ouly IN Massachusetts, ardent
spirits in Pennsylvania, and slaves in
Virginia.
BW 1t is not truo that slaves arc
property, according 10 the general or
constitutional meaping of that word
BY the law OF nations there can bc no
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