The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1860-06-20

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But another great power has been
granted to Congress which bears directly
on this question. Though il can only
make 'needful rules and regulations for
the territory" &c-note that the word is
territory not territories showing that
the Whole scope OF the gran, of power
was to regaate property only, yet, this
Government, not sovereign itself, can, AS
1t %ere,create a sovereign, by the express
/ " and constiiutionafiy recorded will Of
the sovereign States. II 10 authorized to
admit new States All STATES are SOY
ereign. They can define and establish
property, and your Territories, when they
are admitted as States, may do it Also
In that we all agree. And it seems TO
me very strange that the Territories,
wien few sbor, years will enable them
TO attain The high position of sovereign
States IN this Confederation, should wish
TO SNATCH at sovereignty before their time.
II was not so o: old. 1t can only be ex-
/ piained by re.eiring to the progress of
/ demaeoguery in these degenerate DAYS Of
the Republic, and to The insane desire to
destroy one section Of this Union. But
/ this Is beside The argument. II. the fra
mers Of tue Constitution had supposed
that IN granting the power TO the Gener
a: Government to dispose Of and make
neediui rules. and regulations, respecting
The territory and other property Of tho
! United States. they conferred the mower
to establish in such Territory political
| a. al
/ power 10 define what is and what is not
property, then they would have s,uIified
themselves by the additional grant of
! power 10 admit new States The Terri.
totes w"u'd be : aies n, once, and with.
perhaps, great advantage over the other
States The power sto make needful
rules, &c, has from the frs, b,en stretched
! 80 FAR as 10 au,horjse each Territory To
send Delegate to the House of Repre
sentaLives. What obstacle is there, then.
but the mere will OF Congress. to sending
one also TO the Se|ate-uay, two--and
to the House as may as lie diffrrcn, DO
i.rcsi and other interests Of the different
sections Of - Territory might be supposed
to require Thus they would have am
| pie opportunity 10 attend to all their
wants here. and share in all the honors
| ct lha Government except the very high
| es', while their government, in al its
! branches. would be carried on at tho eos,
"i irc General Government AMI they
vonId be protected by he arms OF the
Uriled States.
! More 'han this rs the Federal Con.
sutuion does not authorize Congress to
define property, if the definition given to
II by each sovereign State is not to pre-
rai IN tho Territories, then, II they can
exclude or couliscste one kind 81 proper.
ty, they can exclude or contiscnte any
krud Of property. Thus The coal and iron
"t fennsy Ivania, the cotton and wooden
manufactures OF New Euglaud, the grain
| and provisions Of the Northwest. in short,
the staples "ul manufactures, aud even
shipping OF every section, nigh, be de
! cIared not to he property in a Territory,
and as the major includes the minor pro
position, might be couliScaled or heavily
taxed. And il It is agreed that the Ter.
rtofies shall not he bound TO consider as
property what the sovereign States, or
any OF them, declares to be property.
then much less will the States themselves
be bound to respect it and that agreed
on, this "more perfect Union" of these
States will snbside into condition not
at MI better than that of the oil Confed
cray, II, in fact, so good.
will Tot pursue the subject further.
The Senate is weary Of il, the country is
weary Of il, and |, myself, am so weary
~ hot I 1
when 1t was the topic, for months /
have presented 1t now briefly, and in on
y one point Of view and even that |
do not folly carry out. | have said en-
ough, aud probably nothIng not familiar
to every one who has heard all that has !
been said here, wbish have not. In |
every aspect Of this new doctrine--aud |
there are many | have not touched--lt |
has appeared to me 40 ilIegilimaie and |
dangerous excrescence on our republican |
systematic offspring OF an unsound, !
morbid ana IicentiOus srrrIi oi mobocra !
cy, we'll calculated, IN fact, if ST. cccssfullv /
persisted in, sure Ito destroy the genuine !
spirit Of our political institutions.
Il was not my intention to have intru
subject but the eDstor from Illinois, in
his speech the other day, made some al
Iusious 10 my State which thought
should be corrected. He asked not to be
interrupted, and afterwards promised to
make the corrections in the report OF his
speech. do not doubt that he has done
so; but what he said has gone forth from
The reporters, and cannot be corrected
fully by any omissions in his speech On
this account ! felt, bound to make the
corrections myself aud The other remarks
have made occurred 10 me.
When South Carolina voted for Gen
eraI Csss, in l94s, after his celebrated
letter 10 Judge Nicholson, she put upon
that letter the Interpretation then uuiger;
sci 10 the South, that he meant to say
that Territory, when It came to frame
constitution, md ask admission as !
State. might lecla "a ubat ebo,iI ba y,top |