Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-07-25

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things.
From the Cincinnati Times.
Popular Sovereignty.
Hear an Opposition Paper Speak.
| Wiz IS Ohio a Free Atate-PoDa!or Sovereign
ty-THe Ordinance If 81.
The ultraists Of the North and OF the
South agree upon one doctr'ne-that OF
Congressional Intervention in regard to
slavery in the Territories. Mr.. Clay Of
Alabama, and Mr.. Giddings Of Ohio, do
not differ at all in reference to the pow
err of the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives at Washington to limit the
natural rights of the white men OF this
country. We are treated every day to
long and hackneyed arguments, design
ed to prove that the celebrated "Ordln-
ance of 1887" kept negro slavery out OF
the Territory Of tie Northwest. Let US
look moment at this matter:
Slavery was actually established in the
region in question. 1t existed IN Illinois
inst as it does to-day in Virginia, aud
the famous "Ordinance" was regarded
as political myth. The people OF lii
nois, when forming their Constitution,
recognized slavery as one OF the lnslitu-
tons OF the Territory, and made provis-
ious for it's gradual extinction. The
arrangements for it's ultimate prohibition
we're based upon the discovery that its
continuance was Incompatible with the
interests Of a climate like that Of Illinois.
1t was no more adapted to the cold
bleak winds of the Western prairles than
would be the orange, the fig tree, or the
magnolia graudflora. 1t persisted as
would perish a delicate maiden Of Flori-
Rda, if suddenly exposed to ''North-
wester" in Baffin's Bay.
Slavery is an institution which, from
time immemorial, has followed cotton,
rice, sugar, and whatever else fl0urishes
in the ncighborhc Cd Of the tropics. The
OOO,O slaves of the South, estimated
to be worth $3,2Oo,OOO,OOO-a snm
hardly less than the debt Of England
would overwhelm with pecuniary ruin
in one day their owners, if the inciina
ton OF the equatorial plane Of the earth
to the plane of its orbit were to be SO
changed as to add % l-2o Of cold to
Florida. Even the hemp and tobs eco
of Kentucky and Missouri afford slavery
only a precarious existence, which will
undoubtedly be prolonged by ulta
Northern agitation.
In the Convention which formed the
first Constitution OF Ohio, the question
arose whether slavery should be adopted
and so close ras the matter IN Commit
tee the casting cote OF the Chairman
decided az fauor Of a Free State. The
man who gave this vote was the found
or, if We mistake not, OF a newspaper
still published in the city Of Cincinnati.
He wac, we believe, what was called in
1902 Democrat. Experience would
have demonstrated the impracticabillty
of continuing an institution like negro
slavery in the Territory like Ohio, yet
in determining the provisions of our
Constitution, the Ordinance of 81 was
not considered one of the high contract
ing parties.
it is truth which cannot be repeated
too often that Congressional Intervention
never prevented the establishment of
slavery on one foot Of territory within
the limits Of this Republic. It is a
truth that up to the period when ultra
abolition agitation commenced, the or
igiual States Of the Revolutionary era
were & adually engaged in adopting free
cons buttons, and that when the storm
broke forth in the North, the Southern
statesman Immediately acted as posi-
tive barrier to the progress Of free terri
tory.
The Ordinance Of 1897 is a magnifi
cent Platonic generality, conceived in
the Hottest spirit Of patriotism, but,
practically, as imperative in the Terri
tory OF the North-West as are academic
precepts Of Aristotle, the Receipts of the
Emperor Domitian, Or the game laws Of
a Norman King.
But we have said the interventionists
are not confined to the North. We
have band OF enthusiastic living along
the bank OF the Savannah, the Flint, the
Black Warrior, the Tombigbse, the
Swsnee, the FenahoIaway, the Conscub,
the Cape Fear, the Sabine, the Appala-
chicoa, the Ockstockany, the Tenuess
ce, the Kentucky, the Cumberland, the
James, the Potomoc, and even the Ohio
river whose paradise is bounded by a
slave code for the Territories. These
men seem to be laboripg hand in hand
with the Penobscot, kennebec, Andres
coggin, and Susquehannah ultraists Of
the North to keep the nation on the
verge of civil war. The advocates Of q
slave code for the Territories are des-
tined to an overwhelming defeat. They
will not be able to present as formidable
front in 1860 whether they shall sail
under American or Democratic coloIs,
as the 1sIe of Wight presented ~ insur-
rectionlsts to the British Empire.
The proudest banner that can Be
borne-the one that should be hung to
the battle and the breeze-the one that
has guided the patriot and enshrouded
the martyr in the darkest days Of human
history-the banner that has never fall
en- bat with the rise OF tyrants-thc
banner that sheltered the heroes Of the
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