The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-27

oQOpJed % tho Convention which nom.
mated Mr. Buchanan in 1856, with an
additional resolution endorsing the
Drod Scott decision IN toto, as an au.
thoritative exposition of the Constitu-
ton Of tho United States; thus in short,
We find Douglas standing on the Gin
cinnati Platform aud Dred Scott Decis-
ion
Let US now by a moments ozamiua-
ton, ascertain the fact Of Douglass en-
dorsoment Of this Decision and its ef-
feet. In a speech delivered by him in
December, 1853, in New Orleans, immo.
diately after the termination of his con.
test in Illinois with Mr. Lincoln, he
said 81, in common with the Demoo-
racy of Illinois, accept the Decision Of
the Supreme Court of the United States,
in the Dred Scott Case, as an authori-
tativc exposition of the Constitution"
And now in order to ascertain what tho
Constitution means, as construed in this
case, VIC have to examine the case one
moment. In the 18th Vol. of Howards
Reports of the Supreme Court Of the
United States, page 395, tho Court in
giving syllabus of its decision said:-
Every citizen has q right to take with
him into the territory, any article Of
property, which the Constitution of the
United States recognizes as property.
"The Constitution of the United States
recognizes slaves as property and pledges
the Federal Govcrnmcnt to protect it,"
Here we find Judge Douglas rccogniz-
ing the Constitution of tho United States
as a Pro-Savery document-uot only
carrying Slavery into free Territories,
but pledging the Federal Government to
protect it after it gets there; and how,
let me ask, is the Federal Government
to protect it after it arrives there2 Il
answer by Congressional Legislation for
its protection, in other words the passage
by Congress Of q Slave Code for tho
Territories. Now the moment Mr.. Doug
las endorses the above, he not only
loses sight of the Jeifcrsonian princi-
pies Of Democracy, but becomes equally
as ultra in Pro-Slaveryism as Mr.. Breck-
enridge, or any other Southern frc-eatcr,
Jefferson Davis not excepted, because
they have never more than demanded a
Slave Code for the Territories and this
Mr.. Douglas agrees they shall have by
the above endorsement
Mr.. Douglas, in endorsing this Decis-
ion in his N. Orleans speech and in ac.
cepting the nomination for President
on the Baltimore Platform, which en-
bodies the same, not only presents him
self as a Pro Slavery candidate, but
pulls up by the roots, and destroys that
other bosom companion and friend,
Popular Sovereignty, or non.iuterven-
ton by Congress with Slavery in tho
Territories, because Judge Taney in Civ
ing the opinion of the Court in the Dred
Scott Case, when reviewing the Decision
Of the American Insurance Company VS..
Cantcr, Peters Rep, page oil, con-
Cured with the Decision in that Sc,
which decided that Congress was un-
doubtedly'posscssed Of the right to leg
is)ate upon the question of Slavery in
the Territories Here then we find Mr..
Douglas occupying no very onviable po-
sitiun; at one time he advocates Popular
Sovereignty, or On.intervention by
Congress with Slavery in the Terrific
rics, and on that occasion he pledges
protection to Slavery in the Territories
by Congressional legislation
Having now clearly demonstrated tho
fact, that both Of the Democratic candi-
dates for tho office of President, arc
Pro-S Slavery candidates and stand upon
PrO-SHvery platforms, l now proceed
to give my reasons for supporting Mr..
Lincoln, the Republican nominee In
the commencement said that was an
AnG-Slavery man, and was conscien-
tiously opposed to the extension Of
Slavery and would vote for no man for
President, who by word or deed iavors
its extension. The last question then
for our solution is what is the position
occupied by the Republican party on
this great question? l answer, that tho
Republicans hold that the normal con
dition of the Territories is free, and that
it is the duty of Congress to maintain
freedom therein. This I understand
to be the position of Mr.. Lincoln, for
in a speech delivered by him in Hi
nois in 1858, in reply to Mr.. Doug
las, he said: "Iam jmpHedH u not cr-
pycssJ pledged to q belief in the right
and duV Of Congress to prohiJit &lavcyy
IN all The United States Territories. -
See debates of Lincoln and Douglas,
page S8. And this being what / con
ceive to be genuine Democracy, as pro-
mulgated by Jefferson, I have determi-
ned, that "spE or slcinp, lice or die, sur
Uirc on pcyjsh"-I will vote for Ahra-
ham Lincoln, and never for man who
when the great battle of human liber-
ty is to be fought, will rise up and say,
that "hc docs not care loheiher Siauery is
Uotcd MP or Uoted dozen"
c. II. BLACKBURN
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Hon. Geo w. Summers Of Virginia,
formerly a Wing, has written a letter,
taking strong ground against any at