The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-02-16
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OF the Government TO the present day
! 7 ou have had possession OF the Govern
uent since its foundation, and where IL
the necessity now of fepealing this Com
promise Why, although you had the
! iuaucuce Of the Government, beth in its
foreign and domestic policy, under pre-
tense of subsetying the rights Of the peo-
PIE, you have used then to Z. aintain the
| rights Of Slavery, and after race Of near
" three quarters Of a century, you arc
entirely behind. The North bas grown
in population aud cI sterial and inIelleetrl
development far teyond your groWtb-
''the see ptre is about to depart !rom Ju-
dea )" snI #hat uoB Why. we must
repeal The Missouri Compromise, aud
take the start upon the progressive area
OF freedom. and check this power of con-
act that Tie L0aisriAe Courier and Gov.
Seward speak Of, and thus We may main
tain our supremacy. That was it! Why,
although you have divided the territory
between the North and the South, that
Territory. Jon say, was purchased by the
coz mon blood and treasure, and therefore
you have ri. Lt to go into 1t, and carry
your slaves; when you DO not allow tie
man who goes there from Ohio to carry
them b e. You hlee passed your las
prohibiting tie African slave trade; you
monopolize the carrying Of slaves athong
yourselves.
Although you divide that territory oe-
dsd to this Government, and make out OF
it Louisiana, Arkansas, end Missouri
three Slave States-and when the North
comes to take possession Of her portion OF
the bargain, consisting of all the terrific
ry north of SO deg. 30 min you say,
"No, gentlemen; that game is out, We mu
have new deal" Laughter. Well.
now my honest friend, what do you mean
By new deal! Are you going to put up
stakes and begin anew? Are you going
to put up Loui lana, Arkansas, and Mis-
souri,, and see in the struggle whether
Freedom or Slavery is the stronger !
"Oh, no nothing Of that kind; We bold
all We have got, and we intend to play
the game of snatch, and set all Ee can
Laughter.
Douglass Dream.
Come on again, then! Mr. Douglas,
FOR the purpose of gaining political pow
er to the loss of bis constituents, aud Tor
the purpose of maintaining the interests
of Slavery and slaseholdcrs, against the
great voting population of the country
both North anc South, and to make S.a-
very predominant, tells Us that the Mis-
souri, Compromise Of 1890 is uuconstitu-
tional. This man, who a few years before
had come irto the Senate OF the uited
States, admitting that this CoDpromi<e
was sacred aud Du>t not be touched,
some two or three days after had
dream, and the result is that be finds
out he had been mistaken, that tho
action taken in 1883 was a mi.tske,
that the action was tic noB-exteDsion of
Slavery, was re-euacted under the ConsI.
tuition in 1889, aud carried out under eV-
cry President froU Washington TO Mem
roe, ia having declared that they had q
right to restrain the spread of Slavery,
was a mistake lie suddenly found out
th6, our fathers did not know anything
about the q natter; their action was uncoO-
stitutioual; it was unconstitutional to
pass this great measure and therefore
the Democratic party repealed 1t, and
Douglass helped them do it.
Well. What did the Northern men do g!
What did the Republican party do Why,
they said, Gentlemen, it is a lamentable
thing that the declaration of the CoOsti-
tuition itself gives the power expressly to
Congress- to regulate the TeTritorics-tb
is the word, ITO regulate the Territories
making no Limitation. bat giving Hbso-
lutte power, and yet you deny the coOsti-
tutoDality of action under it. As said
before. the very first action under the
Constitution in 1889 was an exercise of
that power to make all needful rules and
regulations respecting the territories"
and following down as long as the Presi.
dents that were alive at the signing of the
Constitution, lived, and coming to our own
times as late as when Oregon was formed
into Territory, to few days ago, this
action has been dee med constitutional
when all the measures were found cut to
be based upon fallacy, and it was dis
covered that We had no power to carry
them out What did We do Because
We loved the Urion-becau-e We, North
and South, had fought the common bat
ties OF the country, and joined in the love
of a cor mon liberty, standing shoulder
to shoulder, We will try the thing once
more; We believe Free Labor is comPe-
tent to sustain itself; we will 80 into tie
Territory. apply the test, and see whether
or not it shall be Free or Slave.
(To BE CONTINUED
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