The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-11-03

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sue Of the 10Th inst. that my name j. used
in connection with, and identified a. one
of tine best Republican names l. La Sale
county for proof OF the charges preferred
against l. l. Waterman. late sheriff Of
tn, county. | am at loss TO know why
YOU should 20 ;lr forget yourself a. 70 place
my name III that connection, aud therefore
take thl- public method OF correcting tie
error
A. have fought uader the Democratic
banner for the lat twenty year. d am
not willing Al TIL, late day that my nam.
shall be used a. qosj E.ppi|rga On the
seuse il winch that word J. used AT the
present day You have perfect right 20
refer 10 me ar a Democrat. bUr ! di-c!aim
any sympathy with party who's" object
and aim appears 10 De TO ceutr4ize III.
powers OF the general government. ! hold
to = stIlct construction Ot the Constitution
Of the United States, and defy our oprO-
neuts 70 show IS here there !s any expressed
power IL the Constitution where Con-res.
has the right TO lc-.-late upon the lOCa.
aud domestic institutions Oi state o.
Territory. II. then. there ! no power *
pres,ly delegated 10 Congress, iG- in the
case Of the District of Columbia that
power remains III the people. and a. Tho
mas Joitrr>On declared ~ the Declaration
Of independence, that "Governments were
instituted among men deriving their lust
powers from the consent OF OF the govern
Ell. not from Congress. as all the Just
powers are derived from til. consent OF the
governed, thai i the people o. the States
and Territories. and if they derive any
power from auy other source il must Be an
unjust power You vii! readily see that
any power that the people Of a Territory
derive from Congress upon the slavery
question, ! an unjust power from the fact
that when the people desire the institution
of slavery. our Republican friends wish to
deprive them OF 1t 10y Congressional inter
yeut.on, and when they do not want it.
our Breckenridge friends contend that
Congress should intervene and compel
them 10 have II although nIue-tentns OF
the people OF the Territory are opposed 10
It now ask my fellow citizens whether
1t IS right sad Just 10 adopt system
which Is calculated 10 defeat the known
wishes Of people who are more deeply
affected by the laws aad institutions which
they may adopt than we are
What are We TO gain by the success Of
the Republican party Nothing -posti,sly
nothing Their great object and aim was
when they organized their party to pre-
vent slavery going into the Territories
That is already accomplished 10y tie laws
of the nation. The Press and IiTJtue of
June 29th, admit ii:
.Ih. condition of all the existing Terri
tories ia regard 10 tins question OF slavery
is already determined
kansas and Nebraska viii inevitable be
free, and 10 power can force slavery upon
them
"Dacotah to be organized by Republi-
can Congress, and settled by men going
thi;her to avail themselves of the beneE-
cient provisions OF a future homestead law
will never feel the tread OF slave foot
on its soil.
The Territory which must, at the next
session of Congress, be carved out Of the
country, the centre Of which is Pixies Peak,
will inscribe Freedom i'll its coat OF arms.
New Mexico was provided for by the
legislation OF 1880; and We have no appre-
hen,ion that among the causes which are
degrading and brutitying the polygamists
OF Utah, slavery will ever he numbered.
The new States 10 be organized on Tex
an Territory have their admission into the
Union, secured by the act which added
the Lone Star to the flag of this repulic.
A Homestead bill will make TWO of those
State. free, and the faith OF the nation lie
pledged To the admission Of all, whether
tree or slave.
There remain, then, only the Indian
country west of Arkansas and Arizona to
serve as theaters of pro-slavery strife.
The one is vet in the sole control of the
Indians, where it will remain, until the eX-
tirpation of the race, closed against the oc-
cnpation of white men. Arizona has no
capacity for the support of population, free
or slave; it Is barren and torsa ken, valuable
only for the minerals it is supposed TO con
tain But it will be free"
VIM. III Seward also admits that we can
not have any more slave States unless the
African slave trade is reopened, and he
thus goes on and clearly prove. that
that will not be done As the North are al
most unanimously opposed to it, and those
persons owning slaves in the South are op-
posed to it, as it would reduce the value
OF their slave property. What, then, re-
they contending for? Well, they say,
t0t they want to bring the government
back to the doctrines of the Fathers of the
Republic DO they in reality want this p
Do they want the general government TO
encourage the importation OF slaves As did
the colony Of Virginia? Do they wish to
bring the government back and make all
the st; tes slave, except Massachusetts =
Do they wish to keep the slavery question
out of Congress as the fathers did up to
1918? Do they wish to let the people OF
the Territories make their own local and
domestic laws? Do they want nearly
every member of the general government
a stakeholder? Do they want Abe Lincoln
to recommend an efficient fugitive slave
law. Tor let one remain that is already in
forceN Do they believe that our govern
ment cum endure part slave and part free !?
Every we'll informed man knows full well
that they don't want these things. Why,