Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-07-11

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Messrs. Morton and Turpie says: Mr.
Morton, abiding to MIR Douglas Popular
Sovereignty doctrines. said. this Popular
Sovereignty permitted the appointment OF =
Governor, Judges, &c, by the President, in
the Territories. and yet Mr.. d WOULD have
the people regulate their domestic con
cerus subject only to the Constitution ol
the United States According to the Dred
Scott decision the Constitution carries sla-
very 10 the Territories, and If so, how can
any domestic laws be passed to keep sla-
very out Of the Territories, as Mr. ID. sug-
gested could be done in his Freeporl
speech in 1858 The thing is a humbug-
an absurdlty. The Dred Scott decision
was one merely as To the competency of a
negro to sue in a Federal Court. aud the
extra iudicia. opinion of it that the Con
stitution carries slavery in the Territorie-
is not binding That question was mol
before them. and could not legitimately i.r
tried by them, because IL wa a political
Gu ,stion. The Federal Court once assu-
med jurisdiction over political questions.
but Mr.. jefferson denounced the usurpation
and was elected To the Presidency upon
that question. So General Jackson deci
ded about the United States Bank. The
Supreme Court decided that the Bank was
constitutional, but Gen jackson took the
same ground that Jefferson did, and was
alike sustained by the people, as you all
well know
Mr. Turpie wants to know the origin of
the Republican party. From ls49 back to
1881, all parties recognized the principles
of Congressional legislation in the Terri.
tories on the slave question; and Mr..
Courts universally recognized it. The
abandonment of this principle and the doc
trines of the founders of the Republic and
their successors for generations, answer.
gave rise TO the formation of the Republi-
can party. And the principles of it may
be found in the Democratic State Platform
of l649, and that of the Whig Platform of
a like period and all through the history of
the country. If this is Aboliti onism then
the principal IN en- of The Democratic party
are Abolitionists and the old Wing lead.
ers were Abolitionists.
The gentleman has spoken of the Re
publicans favoring negro equality.
would ask him to point to one single in
stance where the negroes have been grant
ed any new privileges since the formation
of the Republican party by any act oflegis-
lation on their part. He cannot do il. In
New York, where a negro is entitled to
vote under a property qualification law,
Martin Van Buren, was mainly instrumen-
tai in its passage. and ne was afterwards
made President by the Democracy. Ne
groes have voted there for nearly forty
years, and that too under Democrats rule,
and yet Mr.. Turpie now thinks the negro
ought not to vote. When sambo voted for
Democratic Presidents it vas all right, but
now, when even the negroes are leaving
their party, they think it all wrong. Ohio,
nearly forty years ago, enacted law pro
hibitng negroes from testifying against
white men that had a preponderance Of
white blood in their veins, but in lS4S, the
Democratic party having over 80 majority
on ioint ballot. repealed that act. And
wherever you find negroes having extra
privileges, If the matter be investigated,
the fact will be developed that they got
them under Democratic rule. Go to the
elevated men of the Democratic party and
You will there find that Vice President
had negro wife and two half breed chill
will find amalgamation to such an extent
that not more than one third Of the negro
population is pure African blood. Then
away with the cant that Republicans are
Abolitionists. and are seeking to place the
negro upon an equality with the white
race. The Republicans are for excluding
negroes from the Territories. and keeping
them for the benefit of the white man.
The Republicans are for the majority
rule. We have nine Supreme Judges, and
FIVE of that number represents, in the
South, only about 100000 of people,
while the four Judges in the Free States
represent a population of 10000, ,000.-
Judge Mclean in this part of the West,
represents within one million as many peo
pie as the whole of the population of the
South, where there are FIVE Judges Is
there Justice in this, if the Supreme Court
can decide political questions? II so. a
small minority can oppress majority
through that tribunal, and the govern
meat ceases to apopular one.
Judge Morton closed his powerful and
convincing speech amid the most enthu
/ siastic cheering, which had been elected
time and again in the course of his re
marks. The Judge did not show off with
the brilliancy thai he would have done had
he had foe worthy of his steel. Turpit
is SO far his inferior that he could not real
ly test Morton's capacity.
The Democracy was much damaged anc
all we are sorry for is, that more Demo
Gratis did not attend the speaking
u Among the confectionery at gran'
ball given recently to the japanese in New
York was a sugar fabric representing tn
frigate Niagara bearing the Japanes
homeward. That proud vessel was sailin
upon an ocean of green sugar, aud wa
wholly composed, hull. spars. rigging
sail, aud machinery of white sugar. Sh
had also sugar officers on deck, in swet
conversation with sugar japanese. VIII
were smoking sugar pipes, from whic
arose smoke of the same agreeable mate
rial.
IL The National Intelligencer, in wr
ting the epitaph Of the late Democrat
party, says with great force that "a part
defeated aud crushed by the weight Of 81
I perior numbers on the side of its antsg,
, ptsts NAV find in its migfortuDe n sourt