The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-10-03
Joseph lane.

This true hearted warrior and statesman
has been assailed with slnder and ridcule.-
The shafts which have been hurled at his feet
were too blunt to take effect. They reboun-
ded and damaged his asailants. He stands
firm in the affections of all who admire the
noblest traits in man, wlb honor patriotism
and approve justice and equality in the Union.
GEN. LANE ON soUAT1ER SOVEREIGNTY.
We quote from his speech in the Senate of
the United State, Dec 10 1859:
Mr.. Lane. well, Mr. President, desire
to say that | DO not beliete that the people of
Territory have rightto exclude or estab-
fish, or abolish slavery No such right is
conferred on them by the Constitution. Any
man has right to go from any State of the
Union into the common Territory of this gov
eminent, and take with him what is recogni-
zed as property in the Safe from whence he
goes, and to hold it in the Territory while the
Territorial condition remains; and when the
people OF the Territory come to form State
Government, they have right to say wheth
er the State shall be slayehoidieg or non-slave-
ding; and as they decide It. is the duty of Con-
gress to admit them"
Mr.. Pugh. 'Did Understand the Senator
to say that Territorial Legislature had no
right to establish slavery any more than to
| prohibit it %
Mr.. Lane. "My proposition is, that Con-
| gress has no power over the question of slave
ry that they cannot under the Constitution,
establish 1t in territory, or prohibit it !; and
that legislative assembly in Territory, de-
irving its power from Congress, cannot do,
what Congress itselfcanAot do.
Mr.. Pugh. "Then you hold that Terri
torial Legislature has no power to establish
slavery ?"
Mr. Lane. "No power to establish it, and
no power to prohibit it; but that property goes
there like all other property, on an equal foot
ing with other property iand while the Terri
tory is in Territorial esndition, it has that
protection which the constitution extends to
it, and which an honest Court would give it,
and the common law Of the country secures
to it,
In his speech on the admission of Kansas
delivered in the House of Representatives
March 9th, 1859, Mr.. Lane said:
Congress cannot then interfere with the
subject of slavery and the people living un.
der Territorial Government cannot do, un
der an organic law framed by Congress, tina
which Congress itself cannot do. 1t does no
minally exist, and must always exist in tn,
Territories, until they come to form thei
State Government, and then it is their RICH
to regulate the matter as they please. / ap
peal to gentlemen, then Northern men an,
Southern men, to maintain and protect tn
rights guaranteed by tho Constitution" "
say to the gentleman, Mr.. Curtis] that tn
decision OF the Supreme Court of the Unite
, States upon this question ofslavery commend
. itself to my judgment; that slavery nominal
exists in the Territories subject to the contrC
. of the people when they come to form aStat
, Government; that Congress has no powe
over the subject"
From the Constitution.
JOE LANE.
l A set of puppies are barking at this trie
= veteran and representative of American m
i biity. Learning that he has risen from I'll
e ranks of the great people, by indomitable Ell
: ergy and faithful performance of duty, an
: without the aid of colleges, they take it f
: granted that they can persuade the people til;
II he is illiterate. Though selfmade and sci
+ taught, nothing is further from the truth tina
s this assumption.
: Gen Lane from the earliest manhood h,
/ filled places Of trust. This he could new
: have done had he been illiterate His di
j patches while Major General in the army, al
Governor of Oregon, and Superintendent
!, Indian affairs. are written in a terse and ell
IS CANT style. His mind being of that noble cas-
SO patriotic, so honest, so faithful, so void
affectation, so eminently wise and just, his ide
all partake Of that character, and hence
always expresses himself e,oquently and
!, the point, without verbiage or clrcumlocutio
Witness his speeches in the Senate, in WIFI
&c in few sentences, he forcibly conveys ide
l. that other men would require four houl
r, Grafton to develop. Every one can understal
Is Old Joc-there is no dispute about his inca
ing
The same objection now urged against &c
Joe Lane, was urged against Andrew Jacks
> but if such men cannot write, they have pro
ed able to make their mar. would we cou
e say the same of their petty maIigers. 1t
from having made their marx on the age
/ which they have lived that Washingto
n Franklin, jackson, and 'a.'troop of other Sc
r taught men have been placed in our temple
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