Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-01-24
It demanded, and frem our love

oil pedCe aiiu uo'o 80
! unfortunately extorted in 1919 ~
a concession which excluded the
South from about half the territory
acquired from France.
1t demanded, and again received,
as peace Offering in iS45. all oI
that part of Texas, North Of Sc deg
l30 min North latitude, if at any time
the interest Of the people thereof
shall require division Of her terri
tory.
It would submit to nothing less
than a compromise in 1880, by
which i. dismembered that State,
and remanded to territorial condition
a considerable portion Of lis territory
South of sc 80.
Isexcluded, by the same Compro-
mise, the Southern people from Cali
fornia, whose mineral wealth, fertility
of soil, salubrity Of climate. is not
surpassed on earth; by permaturly
fsrcing her into the Union under a
Constitution, conceived 10 fraud by
a set of adventurers, in The total
absence Of any law authorizing the
formation of a Constitution, liking
The qualification ofvoters. regulating
the time, place or manner OF elect
ing delegates, or the time or place
of the meeting of such Convention
Yet all these irregular or.nnauthor>
lied proceedings were sanctIfled Sy
the fact that the Constitution pro-
hibited slavery, forever closed the
doors of that rich and desirable
territory against the Southern people.
And while the Southern mind was
still burning under humlllatIpg
sense of this wrong, it refused to
admit Kansas iuto the Union upon
a Constitution, framed, by authority
of Congress, and by delegates elect
ed in conformity to law upon the
ground that slavery recognized and
protected.
1t claims the constitutional right
TO abolish slavery in the District OF
Columbia, .he forts, arsenals, dock
yards and other places ceded 10 the
United States, within the limits OF
sIaveholdiDg States.
1t proposes prohibition OF the
slave trade between the States,
thereby crowding the slaves together
and preventing their exit South
until they become Improbable to
an extent that will force the owner
fiually to abandon them in self de-
fence.
1t has, by the deliberate Legisla.
tive enactment of large majority Of
the Northern States, openly and fla
grantly nullifed that clause OF the
Constitution which provides that
"No person held 10 service or
labor in one State under the laws
thereof, escaping into another, shall,
in consequence Of any law or rogula-
ton therein, be discharged frem
such service or labor, but shall be
delivered up on claim of the party
to whom such service or labor may
be due.
This provision Of the Constitution
has been spurned and trampled under
foot by these "higher" law nulllfiers.
It is utterly powerless for good,
since all attempts to enforce the
Fugitive Slave Law under it, ale
made felony in some OF these
States, high misdemeanor in 9th
ers, and punishable in all by heavy
fines and Imprisonment. The dis
tempered public opinion Of these
localities having risen above ths
Constitution and all other law, plant
lag itself upon the anarchical doc
trines of the "higher law," with i'm
punity defes the Government, tram
Piles upon our rights, and plunder
the Southern citizen.
Ii has, through the Governor o
Ohio, so openly nullified that par
of the Constitution, which provide
that j
] "a person charged in any Stat
with treason, felony or other crime
who shall flee from justice and b
found in another State, shall, o
demand of the executive authorlt,
: of the State from which be fled, b
delivered up, to be removed to th
State having jurisdiction OF tt
: crime"
In discharge Of official duty,
had occasion, within the past yea
: to demand Of the Governor Of Obi
ia person charged In the State (