The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-08-09

DcmOCIdCy Oh the Subject.
Within the last two years the Doug
las faction of the pro-slavery "dem-
ocrAcy 7" has adopted as its own, that
heresy of the other faction of the same
party, that the Federal Supreme Court
has by the Constitution, exclusive juris-
diction for determining the question
whether slavery may or may not be
established in the Territories of the
United States.
knowing the ultra and corruptly
pro-slavery character Of majority of
the nine Judges of that Court, foe of
the nine being from the Slave States,
and knowing that majority to be
ready and anxious to decide that ques-
ton in favor of slavery whenever it
should by any sort of usurpation, get a
chance, the Calhoun, JEFF. Davis faction
of the apostate democracy" made
the heresy in question, the prime article
of its creed, when the more Northern
faction including Douglas himself, was
advocating and voting for the Wilmot
ProUiso more than dozen years ago.
This dogma of the Southern faction,
of course denied the Constitutional
right of Congress to prohibit Slavery
in the Territories; as it had heretofore
prohibited it without question of its
authority, in the various Territories OF
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
consin, Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon and
Washington, and by various enact
ments approved successfully by Wash.
ington and by all the democratic Pres.
idents down to and including James
X. Polk.
This dogma was intended to secure
a judicial establishment as as part Of
the "Supreme law of the land" of tina,
other ultra pro-slavery dogma, that the
Federal Constitution carries Slavery
into every Territory in spite of any
Congressional or Territorial Legislation
to the contrary F; and does this by max
ing slaves absolutely and merely prop
erty. ,r
We have never yet seen in newspa
per, pamphlet, congressional speech OF
forensic argument, the full and thor
ough refutation of these heresies, o
their partizan and pro-slavery origin
and object, and of their progressive
adoption into the creeds of the northern
as well as the southern faction of tn,
democracy" for which the politica
history of the country, the Legislation
of Congress-, and the Constitution, anC
repeated decisions of the Suprem,
Court themselves, afford ample mate
rails. We intend to present such re
futation framed of those materials
This cannot be done in single numbe
of our paper. If those who desire t,
see such refutation, or to know wheth
er it be in fact, what we claim it to be
will preserve the succeeding numbers O
this paper which will contain it, or reat
the articles carefully and critically a
they appear, they will be prepared t,
decide for themselves whether thes
modern dogmas of the democracy
he indeed heresies or Constitutions
truths.
If these modern hereto inventions o
the Slave Power were true, then woul'
it follow of course, that the othe
claim based upon them, of Congress
ional Slave Code for the Territories
would be at least logical That CLAIM
is that whenever the Supreme Cour
| shall have decided, as the Southern
faction insists it has. in the bred Scot
case, already decided, that Slavery
established and fixed by the Constitu
ton in each Territory, it will be tn
f imperative duty of Congress to provid
a Slave Code for its full protection i
each.
$ The entire body of the people of tn
Free States being at that time, honestl
as well as earnestly in favor of tn
Wilmot Proviso and undoubting
their belief of its constitutionality, an
; Douglas and his lieutenants havin
t. been open Wilmot Provisoists up
o the time of the PRONUNCIATION of til
: heresies in question, they of cours'
! could not at once induce their rank an
file to subscribe to the heresies. Th
could only be done by degrees; an
Douglas having then determined to
/. what he has almost ever since CONT
sr ually been, an open candidate for Il
: Presidency, the work of seducing tn
!. rank and file with the apostacy, was
sr due time, commenced.
: The first step in this process of $