Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-07

vision the constitution against all attempts TO violate
legislature or of any individuals to give legal existence
to slavery in any territory of the United States
That. gentlemensis our platform. 1t one which
| wish to address you You told on Monday even
| ing last that there nothing in the Chi
non-intervention in the territories. | call your
attention particularly to the language; II SAYS that
after republican fathers had abolished slavery in the
terlores-thereby imply ing iecogntion OF mat Iltht
though that was done IN lS. before te aaoPu1a Oh me
present constitutional is our DUTY 10 MAINTAIN that
| provision OF the constitution which declares that no
person shall be dc rived of life, liberty or property
without due process Of law IL IS. now said that that
does mean that congress shall intervene in the terri
maintain that provision the constitution. and by the
legislation congress Tins resolution declares that
ze slavery in the territories Therefore If congress un-
dertakes to DO it, it violates the constitutions
have before the bill introduced by Mr. Bingham,
Weyico Thc ierrnrial LEGISLATURE of New Mexico have
recognized the existence Of slavery in that territory and
passed code of laws maintaining, protecting, and regu
ating it, This code Of laws not only maintains and reg
uaes negro slavery in that territory but it also contains
aprovso in relation to white servants. The act organic
laws therein shall be submitted congress for
approval disapprOval. The bill introduced by Mr.
Bmglam was not for the repeal OF territorial laws on the
slavery subject but was to declare them null and void
The question before the house Of representatives was
whether that code of lawsthe most inhuman that
| enacted-should be declared null and void
1t said that the republican platform declares such
laws to be unconstitutional and we are asked whether
by act tcongress make them more uncOnstu-
uonal or whether we can make that any more nudity
which already nullity The platform is nothing The
question whether having adopted platform, You
government Congress was called upon to declare an
act nun and void. Why? Because the act uncon-
sutiuna Take the illustration used the other evening
| You were asked what you would think if the town
Of Orange should pass system laws the
wealth Of Massachusetts if Governor Banks should call
the legislature togther TO repeal those laws? Does not
everybody know that that would furnish occasion
calling the legislature together? But if the town
of Orange should set up government and attempt to
carry out those laws in subversion of the laws Of the
commonwealth, it would be occasion for themterven
ton of the governor or Tor the action of the courts No
to repeal the laws the town of Orange (Applase,)
| Besides, Orange does not hold the same relation
to the state OF MasSachusets WhTh inc territory
| of New Mexico holds TO the United States
The territory OF New Mexico was organized win Tsh
to pass laws IheY nave tueIeoie d tlsiit 10 p ~
necessary for domestic purposes but nor IN vocation OF
the constitution VIII put q case areetiy III point ny
u Jaw % M it tn aHes h, avs far its own re%Istiii
town mas right 10 pass oS-iaWS IoI us own
county are in force suppose then the town oI Orange
should pass = oy law ai e GouIe VI e eoun
should declare 1t u II It Is IN
bndingnd should present the bylaw to the esafnre
that one Of our oSn representatives. an Intelligent
Gshar wiz IePesvus at ~ ey o. oces,er IN inc
iIi q t , 10, 9 III i Wy euiles up oll
analiig that pyawmthe lay Is nnc9nsttutlonal and
I ~ Nj L ",S I iIIT so nan !. ~ apPea 10 my
WHY r hVA1 Mo pc @ US IN tle iessiauie
WId 0 1 t "opi% 4 y" " uecie tit law nty
Nv M o ia ,n u Say 70 le parry agSreNeu
S II, me 40 law - ny nv IL Is nun ana vQu
he scbar.n yonr dnty ny h nJs IL
Uv @ SiS "y a. q ivslsld.9i, oy ueGlarg ~
applauseJ
Let me put you case Suppose that same town of
Orange should undertake to establish slavery by by
law and thereby one of its negroes shouid he enlsved
and then suppose the party aeeved shoud 20 +" Bost"
and ask the legislature to annul the law Would YOU
turn round and tell him the law is unconstitutional il
you leave him still in bonage Mo- Won would relieve
him by declaring the law null and void That is precisely
the case in New Mexico to-day. And if congress had
declared that abominabe code null and void. would
have been swept away from the statute-book of New
Mexico, and those poor men and women who while l
am speaking suffering in bondage would now be en-
loving the blessings of freedom instead ~ SUFFERING ali
the horrors slavery because congress would not wipe
1t out
Now say the man who stands in the Mace of mower 10
abrocae sch law and saws viii dt do if because il
is uncoustitutiona but leaves the moor victims of ths
United STATES and fier wears of toll and exnensiye It'll
CATION to secure his freedom does not act tie mart OF
duty of every member of congress to saw at once we
from the book Great apnlnuse II is no. answer 10
saw the senate would not mass if: il is no answer Ia
say the president would veto it, shonld like TO know
fit has come to This that the neonle ana e nenn rem
resenlatives must stand Nv and TX The
of states in the senate will Won PASS this biil if we viii
before fhcv can decide how To ,te NJ Tho ranr.Sert
alive Of the prone should mass the laws frde them
upon the senate and leave the senate 10 take the re-
snonsi,ilitv of dceafne Them if thev will 8nnanse
do not believe The representatives in congress ever
stop to ask the senate whether thew win mass I'M appro
1ria, h i inb no, arc ti -,,.oi,-a hi 9 i
am inl If fheI vii not sfo fr V nav W r. MN
have manhood enuu.h for that they ought TO have man
hnnd emu h 10 ttaTd m 70 ma t,oSe Is,gS hici o
iieccssnr, +" nrec the moor and on,9rosse1 The nan
~ vii MOI H., IL fiaes not @ ny Is nv man
nl,~sS = '''' w N0e' nv ieie'eit ile NNle"' "pr
tories see have an advocate Of Nr DOUGLAS before
(Ar Bates OF the Times and am not going to say
anything disrespectiul Of Mr. Douglas, who advocates
This doctrine sand you viii allow me 10 say in passing
must be grateful to the democracy of this commonwealth
that they have at length paper published in this city,
conducted with spirit and ability and with that degree of
courtesy which ought always TO characterize the inter-
course between gentlemen however earnest they may
be, in the advocacy OF their peculiar sentiment am
daily reader the papernd am glad to bcarts testmo
ny. ItSad very good thing this morning; that being in
favor OF h9nnterVenLlol, II Wotu hOt interfere WIN
matters belonging TO the republican party II Mr Johu
cklnan hHd Dee as consistent ne would liot nave m
ertered here 1t is SAID that the people should have the
right Of se-soyernnent Is there a school by, ten
years old, who doesn know that doctrine to be true :
who does not know that the government derives all its
just powers rom the consent OF the governed Ihal Is
popular sovereignty IN Its broadest sense ana II is moth
ing new We are willing that the people OF the errlt0-
res should govern themselves If they do not violate the
constitution OF the United States Does any gentleman
say that we have not SeltgoVernment III massachusetts,,
and that we have not popular sovereignty here No man
hundred tllss IN respect 10 eslsllilE me costit-
VI the tinted states says mat the legislature Of no state
can pass certain laws without the consent OF congress
w can eel ll'o ~ i3lei aiaiSe We can ueclaIo no
war can keep no sHlps OF war IN TIME OF peace can
impose no posts On exports OF imports we are hlnl-
leu III hudieu Iespectsi anu Yst we nave LEGISLATIVE
government Now suppose the legislature should pass
law Which Is Clearly unconstitutional ana con
gres should ahnul mat law, IS that an intervention
VI me ilsnt % ite @ & IN lassaeiusetts'
mol at a-"1N because we haNe adopted me eOllstl-
tution oil IN, teu states anu aSIee9 10 tet us a ru9
u "eton, W i S ',' t o AZ ~ ~ VI
Massachusetts sha De Dlulhs upon us mat Is no morer
Intervention ol our present Ilst Oh sel-goNermhent-
tin any t"M s,,n "a III o a'te oGon - an ltter
Nehtlo VI inc lieht VI tiose Mho are aneVteu pY H.
shoubt me 10 AioM II one illSll oi Nassacu-
setts snou y, M tiic ~, % crSua, Io Miien
tAcie shouiu pass laws slaNei anu cosress
tiVal, Nheher mat Noulu pe an intervention Win the
rights Oh me people, or contrary 10 e doctrine OF popu-
lar sovereignty Elsty UNDERSTOOD, any more imam III
inc case OF stat CeItaiiy hot-liole Wh4teNer.
l say mat Wheu thls question was presented to
the mouse oI reprtseht"tlNesi IL was inc uuty
OF eNciy man III tlat mouse 10 Note III lavo
OF ahullus inc New -heAiel laws esluolshg slavery
anu Is 10 eAcusc 70 say tht tS selte Woalu no pass
IL On tey hesltale oeeause tHe9 heW INC president
houiu Neto thal pehehceht Jaw, Tue homestead Dill 10
pass ~ NJ, gentlemen, thlt psseu iousu tc mouse
o. III us proper loIh II VA modlned III
G seiite anu pse' anu " a. Heuovu " NY pesluel
II is poor excuse 10 say we VIII not pass law because
II W III De NeIe".c1 Wy d prp-oiaNcl9 seha'y
pass ncAt ~ e Vi te laws III Ivtio
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