The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-07-19
We also find that the Legislature OF
tn. same State, in 1S40, resolved,

columbia; aud that our Senators be in
structed, and our Representatives be re-
questcd, to take all constitutional meas
urcs to accomplish these Objects -.-
In 1s49, at n Democratic State Con
ycntion IN Massachusetts,, Of more than
600 members, Hon. b. +. Hallett, then
chairman Of the National Democratic
Committee aud Of the State Democratic
Committee, introduced the following res.
olutions, which were unanimously adopt
ed and were published in the Boston Post:
L" Resolecd, That VIC are opposed to
slavery in every form and color, aud in
favor of freedom aud free soil wherever
man lives, throughout Gods heritage.
" Resolred, That, by common law aud
common sense, as we'll as by the decision
Of the Supreme Court Of the United
States, Gin Prigg VS.. Pennsylvania, l6
Peters, the state Of slavery is mere
munich pal regulation, founded upon and
limited to the verge of the territorial
law that is, the limits Of the State
creating it.
Rcsolrcd therefore, That, as slavery
does not exist by any municipal law in
,..v new torIi,v.i.r, aua Cvu5'css has ~
power to institute it., the local laws OF
any State authorizing slavery can never
be transported there; nor can slavery
exis: there but by local law Of the ter
ritories, sanctioned by Congress
Iu ls49, the Legislature of Illinois
resolved, "that our Senators in Congress
be instructed, and cur Representatives
requested, to use all honorable means in
their power to procure the enactment Of
such laws by Congress for the govern
mcnt of the countries and territories Of
the United States, acquired by the treaty
Of peace, friendship, limits, and settle
ment with the Republic Of Mexico, con-
Guided February ID, A. D. is4s, as shall
contain the express declaration shat
there shall be neither slavery nor inyol.
untary se:vitude in said Territories,
otherwise than in the punishment of
crime, whereof the party shall have been
duly convicted. Did not S. A. d.
know Of the action Of the body that placed
him in the Senate?
We mi eht give resolutions Of the Leg
islatures of Wisconsin, Indiana, Maine,
all, at that time, Democratic, and resolu-
tons Of Democratic State Conventions of
other Northern States, but We will now
only give one, adopted by the Democratic
State Convention Of Ohio, in 1913:
Resoloed, That the people of Ohio
now, as they have always done, look upon
the institution of slavery as an evil un-
favorable to the full Development Of our
institutions and that, entertaining these
sentiments, they will feel it to be their
duty to use all the powers consistent
with the national compact, to prevent its
increase, to mitigate, aud finally eradi-
cate It,"
We hope that the Democratic Buck
eyes in Cedar county, if any such there
ire, will ponder well the position of tho
Ohio Democracy in the times referred to,
md see if they have not forgotten old
Democratic principles.
In 1886, Gen. Cass, in a speech in his !
own State, said:
Slavery is the creature of local law,
and can claim neither protection, exist
cnce, nor recognition in the Constitu.
ton. Slavery does not and cannot exist
in Kansas while it remains territory
The Constitution neither protects nor
slavery in the Territories.
We think that we have shown conclu.
that the principles of the Dem
ocratic party at the times mentioned by
s. \. ID. were not such as the Douglas
tics endorse at this time Then all
Northern Democrats were in favor of the
Wilmot proyiso, now they are opposed to
it. Mr.. Douglas in his letter refers to
San additional resolution" which was
adopted at Baltimore by the faction that
nominated him. This additional rcsolu.
ton is omitted by many Of the Douglas
papers, and IN others it is changed to
suit the latitude. We published the res
olutiou last week, aud as the Democra,
promised to give us their platform this
week, we will not refer to it now, but
will at future time.
If the course of Mr.. Douglas does not
show him to be dcmagogue, then we dc
not know the meaning Of the word.
BIS" Ben. NJ. Samuvls, "Our Ben
the man Lat ,an for Enynrnnr- three
Court House that they could look at him
and see the next Governor Of Iowa. the
man who made such an affecting ,nna,,
10 the Democrats at Charleston no, r.
place upon the Northern Democracy moro
than they could bear, not because he was
opposed to the Slave Code, but because
the people would not stand it, has been
nominated by the Sectional Douglas
Democrats for Congress in this Distric,
" Den Is good fellow but he is on the
wrong side and cant come in. yandev.
CT Will beat him worse than he did "LeF"
two years ago.
lel5" II Is SO seldom that wo 90,