The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-10-10


ggl Sentinel ! q
,'wsdns.ds cstSbs %, 1850.
JHdge Douslns' Reply Co the Ques.
PrOpounded by the, Gin
IB6atf Commercial. I
The editor Of the Cineinnati Commercial
determined that be must be ss u1geutIemsn.
" as other Republicans have been, and bfnce
prop66Bded sfquestiob, thronRh his psper,
tor Judge Douelasto shswef. The ques.
l:oh was answered !, Hsnison on Wednss.
day lpsl lsas follows I: 81, =: "a "
srs IS ~ asf1a.iss : Y .oss, NJ ihe
questiens the Republicans prnpound to me,
il would tSketmofe time and voice thpn /
have at my command. hold that as gen
tlemen they have no right to ppt questions
TO me without first requiring answers to
them from their own candidate. If Lhey are
proper questions, which ought TO be put TO
Q Presidential candidate, they are bound, as
gentlemen, 10 first get answers tn them from
their own candida'e. Cheets.1 II theV
ate improper questions, not suitable to be
propt undsd to q Presidential candidate, they
do not act like gentl men in requiring IN
swers to them from me. ["Thats So" and
appause.] They can take either horn of
the dilemma.
Yet | am in no wise ANNOYED by these
questions, and now intend tn answer one
which find published in the Commercial OF
| to day, accompanied with very earnest and
snxious appeal TO answer il.
Hon. Lewis ID Campbell here C lied out.
IedVise you not to no ice the Commercial !"
! Dir ID ugl-s-N, m tier; I will ans yer
it, [imme"se "oplause. and first p rmit me
to read 'h@ que tion. 1t is as follows:
"What is the remedy OF the people OF the
Territories, provided tn Suprrme Court f
nally determines that the measure OF re
striction Imposed by the CuUstitui n upon
Territori'l Governments is such that those
Governments cannot abolish slavery within,
or In any way legally exclude it from, their
limits "
How verv anxious they must be on that
subject [Great lau 'hter.] They want to
know what the remedy is it the Courts shall
decide that the Territory cannot exclude
slavery. In the first place will not do the
Supreme Court OF the United States the in.
iu tice to believe that they are goingto stu
iy themselves, much less violate The Con
stitution. have too much respect for The
highes' judicial trbunll on earth to even
suppose that they can be guilty of such an
! i III
not make the supposition until they shali
have perpetrated the act. I assume that no
such decision eusr can be made by any such
court.
\ In the second place. the Supreme 'Cour,
.l.0f the Unilea States: haue. in 1ects decided
hat Very question in Jav0r of my opinton.
Now Tor the facts. II you will read the
Constitution of the United States, you will
find thpi il definee who are slaves, by wha
authority persons are held as slaves, and lr
what case they shall be rendered up when
they escape A slave, within the meaning
OF the Constitution, is. | quote, IA person
! held to service or labor in one State. under
the laws thereof" hence a slave is u person
held to service or labor in The State, under
The la,os Mereof-not under the Federal au-
lhority, not under an act o! Congress, not
under the Constitution OF the United States
but'hel ia the State, "under the laws there
Of" Can anything be palmer than the
word. OF the Constitution on the subject
s. much Tor the question, SO tar as it relates
to the States. A -'t
Now let u inquire how il stands with re-
erence to the Territories. The first Fugi.
tive Slave Inv, which was passed in 1898
and approved by George Washington, pro-
vidps that a person held to service or labor
F., in any OF the States, or in either OF the or.
gnnized Territories, under the laws thereof
A escaping there rom, shall be delivered up
Thus it appears that slaves are to be celiv
d cred up to the States and Territories wher'
0 they are held under the laws thereof Th
d Fugitive Slave Act in itself declares thu
slaves are held in the Territory under tn
the laws of the Territory Now. bear il
mind that the old Fugitive Slave Law j
still in furre, and thai the act OF 1850 is onl
e an mendment TO it, providing that slaves
=, WHEN arrested, shall be taken before n Com
missioner Of the United Suites, instead q
= before Justice of the Peace. This is tn
' chief, the principal alteration, and the 10,
o still stands as it was passed h 1873. declaI
% ing that wherever Slaues eriSt in a Ierr9tor
. tteu are held under the lGWS thereof. II thp
/ vet ot Congress ia Constitution !. popui0
sovereignty in the Territories clearly erists az
u cording TO the Constitution and the EaOs. N
i man can deny the Gu cIus'on, providing tn
,r Fugitive Slave ACT is Constitutional.
in Fifteen or twenty years ago, case hros
IN Penn yIvanis, known Us the case OF Fry
u.s. The Commonwealth OF PenEsylVanI'
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