The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-10-04

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constitutional right to abolish SLAYER
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jstructed the Senators and Representa-
tives from that state to vote for sue
adjustment.
The Democratic members of the Leg
islature of the State of New York i
1850 resolved:-
"That while the Democracy of tn
state Of New York, will faithfully ad
here to the compromises of the consti
tuition, and maintain all the reserved
rights Of the States, they declare
since the crisis has arrived ache2a til
the Question must be net-their uncom
promising hostility to the extension o
Slavery into territory now free, which
has been or may hereafter be acquired
ny the action of the Government of tn
United States"
In 1849 the Democratic party o
Maine in State Convention, resolved al
follows
"That the institution of human sla
very is at variance with the theory O
onr Government; abhorant to the com
mon sentiment of Mankind, land trough
with danger to all who come within
the sphere of its influence; that Tho
Federal Government possesses the ad
equate power to prohibit its existanct
in the Territories Of the Union; anC
that we enjoin upon the Senators anC
Representatives in Congress, to make
every exertion, and employ all their in
f1uence' to procure the passage ola law
forever excluding slavery from the
Territories Of New Mexico and Califor>
MIA"
In 1848 State Convention of the
Democratic party of Ohio resolved
"That the people of Ohio now as
they have always done, look upon the
institution of Slavery, as an evil unfa.
vorable to the full development of our
institutions; and that entertaining these
Sentiments, they will feel it to be theil
duty, to use all the powers consisted
with the national campact to prevent
its increase to mitigate, and finally to
eradicate 1t >"
The foregoing resolutions adopted
by Democratic State Conventions, and
Democratic Legislatures, may serve as
specimen Of Democratic sentiment, in
favor Of Congressional intervention on
the subject of slavery in the northern
states generally. The same party now
shamefully abandons its former pasi>
ton, simply because the slave owners
have demanded it.
Congressional Intervention against
the spread Of slavery was the doctrine
of W ashington, Jefferson, Madison and
all the early statesmen, as well as a
doctrine sanctioned by all the later ad-
ministrations.
Geo. Washington, in a letter to Gen.
La Fayette in 1898 said:
'The Congress of1787 adopted an
ordinance which prohibits the existance
OF involuntary servitude in our North
western Territory forever. 1 consider
it wise measure. 1t met my appro-
val and assent Of nearly every member
from the States, more Immediately in
terestcd in slave labor"
Hon. Thomas II. Benton spoke of
the Missouri Compromise as follows
cit was the highest, the most sol.
umn, the most momentous, the emphatic
assertion of Congressional poaoer over
slavery in a Teraitory which has ever
been made, or could be conceived. 1t
not only prohibited it when it could be
legally carried, but forever prohibited
it, where it had long existed"
Resolved sentiments like these might
be extended to volums, but these are
enough to show she reckless departure
of the modem Democratic party from
the principles it once possessed.