The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-08-23

COuIt anu the ueTeSleS Oh tuc hPOStdto
Democracy on the Subject.
No. 3.
In resaming this subject, we again
invite attention to the following Reso-
lutions of the Platform" of Douglas
factional Baltimore Convention:
"Resolved, That the Democratic
party will abide by the decision of the
Supreme Court, over the institution of
slavery within the Territories.
ssResolced, That it is in accordance
with the Cincinnati platform, that dur
ing the existence of Territorial Gov
ernments the measure of restriction,
whatever it may be, imposed by the
Federal Constitution on the poaoer of
the Territorial Legislature over the
subject of the domestic relations, as the
same has been, or shall hereafter be f.
nally DETERMINED BY THE SU-
PREME COURT of the United States,
should be respected by all good citizens
and ENFORCED 10Th prompt,sess
and fidelity by EVERY BRANCH Of the
General Government"
We remarked in our last number
that the first of these resolutions, was
intended as full and formal assurance
to the Slave Power that Douglas and
his faction, assent to the monstrous
claim that the Supreme Court in the
bred Scott case, has decided that the
Constitution makes slaves merely prop
erty; that it carries slavery into every
Territory leaves neither Congress nor
the people of Territory any power to
exclude it; that the prohibition of
Territorial slavery embraced in the
"Missouri Compromise act'' was there
fore "void," as Douglas declared it to
be in his Kansas and Nebraska acts !;
that persons with negro blood, cannot
be citizens or have any rights Of citi-
zenship, &C., DC.
We also remarked that the second
of these resolutions, was incorporated
into the Platform, because some of the
Douglas faction united with the Re-
publicans in denying that the Court
did or could legally embody any such
dogmas in decision in case in which
it decided at the very outset that 1t had
no jurisdiction upon the merits, and
could therefore, do nothing more than
dismiss the whole case; and that this
second resolution was adopted to pledge
all such and Douglas himself in adj
vance to enforce all such dogmas "by
every branch of the General Govern
ment."
BY examining the terms of this last
resolution, it will be seen that it admits
upon it's face that the Constitution does
impose some "measure of restriction
on the power of Territorial Legisla-
ture on the subject of the domestic
relations" and that the Federal Su-
preme Court has already rendered a
decision" upon the subject. This
"decision" is, of course, nothing more
or less than the pretended "Dred Scott
decision" in the fullest extent claimed
for it by the Slave Power. !.
| Whilst, therefore, the former of the
resolutions in question, was intended
as a pledge to the Slave Power that
Douglas and his faction adopted the
Southern version of that so-called
"decision," the second was adopted to
silence all individual dissenters to this
pledge, by compelling them to subscribe
to the admissions which the second
embodies.
This second resolution further pledg
es Douglas and his party to enforce
"by every department of the Genera
Government not only the decision re-
ferred to in the first, but any and every
decision which may hereafter be rem
dered by the same Court, though il
may deny to Territorial Legislatures
all power whatever over "the domestic
relations which include the relations
of husband and wife, parent and child
guardian and ward and master and
apprentice as we'll as the relation oil
master and slave.
This second resolution, in fact, EN-
bodies all contained in the first, and s
good deal more. The first was, there
fore, unnecessary, except for the pur
pose of doubly claiming Douglas and
his faction to the car-wheels of theil
conqueror and task master, the inexor
able Slave Power. And as if to leave
no doubt of his own abject and un
qualified submission to be thus chained
Douglas specially proclaims his sub
mission in his letter accepting his fac
tional nomination
The fact that after all this, Douglas
, takes the stump and continues to pirate
about "my great doctrine of Popular
Sovereignty" and of "the right of th'
, people of Territory to regulate thei