Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-01-13

their territorial existence that the exercise OF
such a power would be a manifest usurption
of the individual rights of the citizens of the |
territory, and utterly subversiye of all true
popular sovereignty, which demands as a pri-
mary essential condition, the recognition of
inalienable personal rights. They insist also
that coupled with the power, it is the duty Of
Congress to prohibit by express enactment, the
extension of slavery into any free territory of
the United States that the exercise of this
power has been repeatedly approved by every
department of the State and National Govern
ment, and to the universal acceptance of the
people, and that its recognition as a funda-
mental principle, to be hereafter exercised,
whenever occasion may be presented, is inGis-
pensa0le, TO restore the simplicity and purity
Of the government, and to carry out the great
purposes of the constitution, as declared in its
preamble 'to form a more perfect union, to
establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
promote the general welfare and secure the
blessings of liberty to ourselves and our pos
terity.'
Such are tbs judgments of The people of
Ohio, repeatedly expressed on the subject of
slavery, as a social and political question. But
they do not conceal from themselves, that the
practices Of the Federal Government have long
been opposed to their convictions on the sub
ject. They know that it has been administer
ed for many years in subscrviency to the slave
holding States. The war to extend the boun-
dairy of slavery to the Rio Grande-the viola
ton of the Missouri Compact-the war against
Kansas, to extend slavery to tliePaciic, are all
sacrifices of puplic opinion, and the moral
sense of the masses Of the country, by ambi-
tious incumbents in the federal administration
to that combination in the South, whicl, brings
the vote of fifteen Slave States in phalanX to
divide and conquer the Free, and SO continue
their ~triumphs in Presidential elections. This
combination has long been absolute in lis mas
terry over nominations, elections, administra-
tons and even legislation, touching the main
tenance and expansion of the institution of
slavery, to which it owes its political strength.
What is the result ? Is the combination
satisfied ? Far from it. There is q growing
power impaired by free Institutions in the anti
slavery States-by their Industrious economy
by their intellectual resources, which grad
ually render abortive all the acts of intrigue
that pervert the organs of the national will
into Instruments of a sectional oligarchy. The
selfish combination, in vain suborns northern
aspirants to its purposes, rendering all the cor
rupt influence its consolidated force can COM
mand, to scducc scpport in the north, to carry
the chief magiStracy, and threatening in case
of defeat, the overthrow of the Union, to CO.
cree patriotism itself to submit to the minor,
to avert the greater mischief. In vain its
lealen sceptrc has stunned and swayed the ma
tional Observation-Disclosures the conciliating
compacts of 1921 and 185O-and intcrpolated
Slavery as "a part of the nations Constitution.
The spontaneous vigor of free labor overgrows
and heals all the wounds inflicted by these
blows of its enemies. Freedom Is. a giant
which, when asleep, Iiliiputians may bend to
tic Garth with innumerable ine-spun cords,
bat aroused, he breaks with ease the mcshes,
and holds the pigmics in the hollow of his
hand. Kansas, Nebraska, California and Ore
gon, show how Intellectual are the i~ntrigues oil
selfseeking politicians, to dwarf the growth Of
a free people. Tx prosperous and populous
~free-soiI sends forth its children over the invi-
ting territories, and the resistance Of barbar-
ism is overwhelmed
The politicians Of the oligarchy see this with
dismav, and seem to be meditating Il change
OF their design, from that Of seeking a perpat,
uation of their control over the Union by mul-
tiplying slave States within it, to that of aban-
doning it, and making vast acquisitions Of
territory beyond it, to fill by new importations
of Africans. This must result in the subjec
ton of the free laboring native class of every
! complexion to a commo condition Of slavery
lg the glut following the influx of myriads Of
& 'Eled negroes, working like the OK under the
go, i. and fed only to support the yoke, redu
cling he price of labor to bare subsistence
A full supply of negro strength will render
the masters Of the domain independent of the
poor whites holding neither lanl nor slaves
They must H. como slaves themselves to escape
starving.
We have heard it announced that a league
has been formeI to compass this plan-tha'
lis qualifications cover all The Slave States
that the principal nu.l ifiers everywhere are il
the conspiracy, and that it is apart Of thu
scheme to leave Virgin. Il. and Maryland, Ken
lucky, Tennessee and " issouri in the Union
for a time, to cover the seeding States from
the Invasion of northern L'rce to restore the
government of the Confeder&cy over the Low
er Mississippi and the borders Of the Gulf Of
Mexico. Tn policy of leaving a tier .o
Slave States, in connection with the Free
States, confding in the perfect protection o.
the " peculiar institution " under the wings Of
the latter, while the multiplying States fly of to
open the slave trade, and subdue the cnfran.
clised republics of the South, to become the
receptacle of the human spoils of their piracy,
is proof that the multiplying leaders well under
stand, that all the rights of the South recog-
nizcd in the Constitution are safe in the Union.
1t makes manifest, too, their fears, that in
abandoning it, and entering upon Il pirate a
career against the liberties Of two h~emispheres,
they hazard d revolution in the bosoms of their
own communities, full of bloody issues, the
least fatal of which would be the instant over
throw of the institution, for the extension of
which they put everything else they ho!d dear
IN jeopardy. IF attended with success at the
threshold in dissolviug the great Confederacy
and creating a small Que, the introduction OF
standing armies to confront border war on the
slave and free frontiers, and to push the scheme
of Southern conqucsts, and to maintain them
and keep down domestic Instruction, would
be the succedaneum for the security conferred
by a common government. But the way to
the success of the league cannot be opened
without assurance of the conquest and en-
slavement of Mexico and Central America,
the obstacles to which seem not to have been
considered.
1t certainly would not fill the measure of
the ambition of those who first demanded the
surrender of California, then Kansas, and all
South of its Northern line TO the Pacific and
the Gull, to slave States, as The price of re-
manning in the Union, to throw off the Nor
thcru tier of slave States as out-posts to pro-
tect them from Northern aggression, and hud