The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-09-19

| the only man who canaconsisteatly do II. 90
4 II has been zyhsrged lately that framed
the Nebraska bill 20, aslto cheat the South
aud make tia free soil measure. Really |
think that they who make this charge have
4 notodnly rejected. What d confession -
That . gtnany from she backwoods OF the
d Northwest came to Congress and cheated
every southern Senstor and every southern
Representative who had q seat there -
! Great laughter snds continued applause. r.
X II Il be true ihatin the Senate of'the United
States no one southern State had Seusto,
\ with sense, enough 10 understand, the bit
!. when HI, read il. u " time you bad changed
Il your Se6ators. u Upfoarous laughter and
4 aPplausesj II haze been pfepared, d0ring IN y
4 political career, for many strsDgethingS, boi
never yet dreamt that men would so far
stbilify themselves as to say that q bill was
drawn that they did not understand Ii sfter
ihhud gone through q discussion OF Hfonr
months, and had been subjected 10 the most
/ thorough investigation that any bill ever had
10 the Congress OF the United States.
Fhsve been informed, too, that il is very
4 fashionable In Vifginia for these secession.
Listslto charge that 4 went home to1Illiaois,
and in a speech at Chicago boosted, that Il
bad so drawn the; bill as to make II an abo-
litionist measure. I hope that ,it.is no, true
that any man clOIming to be o gentleman
has ever made that statement. [Applause.1
! challenge the world, [cheera, / defy any
man on earth, to show that | ever gave
different construction to that bill in the North
from what have always given 10 the South
\ 'LImmense appfause.l 4 h We alwavs said,
land now repeat, that the Nebraska bilLwas
mot an abolition measure, nor was it a pro I
slavery measure. | have always, said, and
now repeat, that the Nebraska bill did not
give 9the North any advantage over the
South, nor the South over the North. Thot-
Ebill only said 10 the people, M IKE your own
laws, establish your own institutions, resu,
late your own affairs, mind yorr own bust.
ness and let your neighbours alone
| [ChssFs, repeat that this Is the expla
nation have always given OF that bill |
deny that cheated nybody, and deny that
anybody had sense enough to cheat me-
Laughter and applause. II in open legis
luton, where the provisions OF a bill are
printed, laid before every Senator and dis.
Iycussed ID open Senate, and the debates pub
Iished to the world, anybody can cheat me
| as to the provisions Of TINT bill, will not
| act the baby about il. 'Rie f9 @9
1.-THE honest truth Is, that the democracy
fSi the North and the democracy of the South
came together aud shook hands in p!ishted
pledge OF honor that they would both stand
on the principleo OF non intervention by Con.
gress with slavery in the Territories Some
imenaatNhe North snid that Congress had the
3power to prohibit slavery iuuhe Territories.
Some men at the South said that Congress
had the power to introduce and protect sla--
very in the Territories; and others said that
Congress had not the power to do either
We agreed that, whether Cungrers had the
| power to do the one or to do the other ,,it
should hot do either. but that the slavery
question should be banished from the halls
OF Congress, and the people should be left
free to decide il as they pleased, subject to
the constitution. Cheers,] Non interven-
lion being the pledge, suppose the Supreme
Court had decided that the Wilmut proviso
was CO constitutional, wouli northern demo
crat have, been at liberty thens under that
pledge, to have voted Tor the. Wimot pro-
viso BECAUSE the Court said he had o right
to Suppose that the Court should decide
,hata codein lsyor of slavery was cons,itu-
lional, can a southern mahsih honor vote Tor
1t after bis pledge Of non interference I! sog
/ Hence, | assert now, as have heretofore
said, that no matter how the court may de
eide this point, the democratic party is plcdg-
ed to the doctrine of non.intervsntion by
Congress 10 the Territories. Great cap-i
pIause. Il Suppose Abraham Lincoln should
be elected President Of the Uaited Stites,
and then suppose that three or four Of tse
| Judges oflthe Supreme Court, now very old
mens should be accommodating enough to
die during his administration. II he should
fill their places with abolitionists, thus Civ
ing them the majority on the supreme
Bench, and that court, thus constituted,
should decide thst the Wilmot proviso was
constitutional, would We democrats be at
liberty then under our pledge Of non.inter.
ventior 10 vote for the WiImot proviso ! |
telllyou otobe, never ON earth. Cheers.
Congress shall never prohibit slavery any.
where il | can prevent,it cheers ], nor shall
Congress ever establish slavery anywhere II
II can pfeventit renewed cheers. but the
/ people shall do just as they please every
where if / can accomplish it. Great APP
4 plause. The only limitation that will ever
| consent to in the power of the people ID the
I'cous,ituiion Of the United States. Caeers.1
i IT,, after the people shull act by passing a
4 law, any man feeie -sRgsisHed- by The EatEi-
ltorial legislation, he may appeal to the Su,
lpreme Court by presenting q case for their
| decision, and, lit the court decide the Terri.
/ torial statute to be uncohstitutional, thenrit
]is void, aud no, interference by Congress is
L. = fho hn
| decide the statute to be constitutional, II
4 must stand until the people get tired Of il
and choose TO repeal. tCheefs.l j ~ 9Fsa Z,
i Here are cases now, in poiatato illustrate
4 this proposition. Ia the fret places New
Mexico about two years ago passed q law
4 itotroducing slavery ID that Territory. Tn,
4 slave cod5luf New Mexico ID as thorough
and efficient code as was ever passed ii
any slave S,aie.l The Black Republicans
4 say that this slave code was demonstration.
i al, end they brought In a bill 10 repeal |
i last winters tell them Congress has n,
4 tight to decide whether that slave code i
Unconstitutional or not. By the Constitutiu'
4 OF the United States, Judicial questions mus
tlbe referred 10 the court, and hence, II th,
II Black Republicans believe that the slave
kcodsiof New Mexico u unconstitutional let
I lsthem make case and bri0g u beioEe ih'
I. oourt and II that tribunal decide, as we be
lfiieye il will, that the code is constitutional
I'm must staud. and Congress shall never re-
i peallis, Ii can ipfeveatsit. As the reverse
4 III this, case, * ansas about gthPl sauie tim,
sEpsssed q code prohibiliqg slavery. 10 I'M
n rsrritnry.. Gov. Brown, Of M,ss.., wsnte,
q fsSsai that Gods, aSd said. No, never
d III thatE EVds. 10 K ansas u c6nstitutiohsi, /
Imdst stand. II il is unconstitutional, il i
u void. AZ Make geur uaas, take it;t ttha co1rs
l-s..A IL shak feihuaal dacida ,l.haihae Il h