The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-04-13

right to deny an inalionablo riaht 20 a
white man, and he must abolish the crime
iool code, and let murdcrors and robbers,
thieves and pe1urers, 70 uuwhipprd Of
Justice through the land This shows
the uttor iallacy Of his ATTEMPT TO make
Republicans the advocates ofnrpro equal
ity, because thcy say Oh men are crcat ted
equal, and endowed with certain inal licn-
I0ble rights.
My colleague made another statement
which I must not suffer 20 pass. lie said
that he doubted whether any State would
ever arrogate 90 itself the right 90 diyest
property IN slaves. That is exactly the
point 10 which | expected my colleague
would come. IL is contendod, on the
other side OF this Chamber, that slavery
goes into OH the Territories under tho
Constitution, and remains there go lonr
as the territorial condition continues; end
now we have my colleague saying he
doubts whether any State will ever arro-
gate TO itself the right to divest this prop
erty. Then how can we ever havo an-
other free State added to this Union
Slavery goes, 90 al the Territories, ac-
cording to his creed. know he saws
now, hat by unfriondly legislation the
people ofa Territory may keep Il out,
but ! do not understand him TO a eny,
now, that il has right to 90 into the
/ Territories. 7 understand him TO admit
that under the Dred Scott decision sla-
very may 60 into any Territory, and ne
has abandoned his original doctrine. that
the people of Territory, like those of a
State, may exclude slavery while in the
territorial condition. Now he has added
another article 70 his creed, that no State
can arrogoto 20 itsolfthe right 20 deprive
the holders Of slaves of their propertv.---I
If that be so, how can Territory, which
has slavery in il, when IL comes 20 form
a State constitution, get rid of slavery
and make Tor itself free constitutionl
But, sir, he speaks Of my arraignmont
OF the chairman Of the Territorial Com
mitteo against the Senator hero, when
he stated one thing in his report, and di-
rectly the reverse in his speech. HeI
speaks Of that as a small matter. NoI
doubt il is to him. Some men arc very
large in their own estimation; and mat
ters which would appear to be Of import
anee 70 others, appear very small TO /
them. ] should think it was a matter oil
considerable Importance 70 mo il / were
to state to-day one thing as n fact, and
aver another tomorrow directly reverse;
but to man Of his dimensions il is avery /
small matter; it is the work Of small pol /
iticiRns.
Why, sir, what is the fact about the re-
peal Of the Missouri compromised N.Y.
colleague did not introduce the proposi- /
ton originally. He had reported against
itj he had said in his report that it would
be departure from the policy Of 1850 TO l
repeal il; but Mr.. Dixon, of Kentucky, I
offered tho proposition to repeal the Mis- J
souri, Compromise; and how did nv col |
league take il, and how did the party .
take III The Washington Union came |
.outand denounced 1t as frobrand thrown |
into Congress for the purpose Of stirring |
up agitation upon the subject of slavery
That is the way II was taken hero; itl.
was denounced; but, a few days after
wards, we find my colleague declaring
that the Missouri compromise was incon-
sistent with the measures Of 1850; and
now, to point out this pnlpablo, open con-
tradiction, patent to the whole world, and
on the records of the country, is a very
small politicians! He has gone on to re-
peat again, In his last remarks, that il is
wrong for one State to interfere with the
affairs olanothor. We admit Il; every
body agrees to it; there is not o man In
the land that does not indorse the idea;
and yet he talks against an idea which
his own imagination inyents, ~ if some
body really entertained it.
Sir, / promised not to detain the SEN
ute at this hour. have said enough,
trust, to show that slavery never did
exist in Illinois,; that thero was an at-
tempt TO have slavery there, but that the
old ordinance Of 1887 kept il out In spite
Of the wishes Of the people, aud preserv-
ed that Territory 10 freedom; and 10 il
we owe the greatprosperity and advance