Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-01-25

!. tortify it against Congressional inter
fereEce the Supreme Court was invoked
to establish ss part Of the Constitution
that the local, domestic, State Institu
ton of slavery was property which 8
ysan could carry with him and hold az
property, wherever he could go himself
and therefore it would be yiolation OF
the Constitution to exclude the Institu
tion from any territory Of the United
7 States. As the Constitution of the
United States is equality supreme in
the maintenance of rights placed under
its protection, whether they are contra
vcncd by the CONSTITUTIONS and laws of
States aud Territories, the bred Scott
Decision. as interpreted by the South,
opens the whole country to the expau=
sion Of Slavery. - .--r
It is not the election Of President
under tie reanirem men ts.of the Constitu
ton whieh has given rise to the move
rient in THE South 1t is not his opin.
ion 3hdat the extension of slavery, for
that Ii Tie Same that was Lsld by the
framsys OF the Constitntion. Nor is it
about the Fugitive Slave Law, the iu-
diciaf decision in the Dred Scott case,
or other political issues, Nor is ii per-
soma! rspagnaace. All parties agree
that he, is hopest, capable and faithful,
ard SO clear Is his reputation that the vir-
plence of party spiritexerted IN a strug-
gIcsfar the highest, place and the greatest
patronage could not be tempted to az
sail il. fhe outbreak which has fol
iowed is not the effect in an election ~on
disappointed parties. Tho result was
stficipated by salf, and the oecasfon, is
! 6nfy seized upon is signai FOR the ex-
piosiUn of q plot, long maturing in 81
trct cbunsels. to accomplish Mr.. Cal.
Koun' new seheine of government for
tie Save States-the establishment OF a
Southern Confederacy, which, IN The
1shguags recsntly pronounced by a dis
tnsdishsd Southern statesman, s'will ex-
pand as bdf growth and eiyilization shall
demand, oxer Mexico, over the isles oi
thexea, oser. the far OF Southern tropics
uhtii we shall establish . great colfel-
Grafton Of republics, the greatest, frees,
and most. useful the world has seen =
On the occasion Of my Inauguration
/ felt it 10 be my duty to warn my coun
trymen of. these hostile designs against
the. Federal Union. But then they were
in speculation only. Now, they are II
net. Shall they be-consumnated? Shall
the, National Government be degraded
into . mere. league tetween indepep dcnt
States. existing only by their suferance
subordinate to them and subject to Be
destroyed at the pleasure of any State Of
the Confederacy? Or shall it continue
70. be maintained, as it has alway been
maintained, as a Government proper
sovereign within its prescribed sphere as
the States are sovereign within their
prescribed spheres - founded on the
adoption Of the people as were the States
and creating direct relations between it
self and the individual citizen, which nc
State authority has power to impair OF
disturb, aud which nothing can dissolve
tut rev olution
Nearly twenty eight years ago the
people Of Ohio, speaking through the
General Assembly, declard what in theil
judgment are the constitutional relations
between the Federal and State Govern
nents. l quote but one Of series o1
resolves Of the General Assembly on this
subject:
Z, That the Federal Union exists in a
solemn compact entered into, By the vol,
untary consent of the people of the
United States, and of each and every
State, and that therefore no State can
claim the right to secede from, or violate
that compact, and however grievous may
lie the supposed or real burthens Of a
State, the only Legitimate remedy is in
the wise and faithful exercise of the elec-
tive franchise and solemn responsible
ity of the public agents,
This is the judgment Of Ohio. to day
There never was people so thorough
ly bound tnsether az a nation, as the
ptopleof the United States. The found
ers.of the government took possession
Of the country under the authority OF
the parent State. aeln lnoMledging its
sovereignty as binding all the colonies
together as portion Of the samc realm.
When they resolved, upon a separation
against the consent Of the supreme pow
er, they entered upon war to establish
arepublican government, embracing the
confederated colonies, to take "their
places among the nations of the earth. p
Ms one and an independent people, con-
stituting another nation, Of which the
Articles Of Confederation establis hing
iton The basis Of " perpetual union, was
the evidence to the world, and the cove
nant among themselves. The Cohstitu-
ton Of the United States was the,repeti-
ton of this grand national act, and, be-
ing more emphatieatTy the acsofthe whofe
PEOPLE, they declared in the preamble
I'VE, the people, ordain, &c, (giving
the scope Of the nation iunetieus,) pro-
claiming one of the .ulain. objects to be
to make "more perfect the union al
ready established as perpetual, " What
nation ever presented 50 perfect record
ofits existence as national government,
and Of the indissoluble ;upion, cemented
among the municipal comm opwealths in
charge of the local, internal atfairs of a
people, as the Constitution of the United
States Every new State is brought
into the Union by an act of the National
Government, and no. man Of foreign
birth can become citizen without swear
ing allegiance cit. 1t acquires terri
tory, provides it with population, nur-
lures them in infancy and introduces
them as States at maturity. It has au-
thority to anaul such constitutions and
laws OF any of lhe States as eontravene
the provisions Of the Federal, Constitu-
ton. All State Executives, Legislatures
and judicial tribunals have accepted it
from the day it was proclaimed as the
supreme law of the land The. Consti-
tuition gives the right Of eminent domain
even over the soil Of the States, the sea-
coasts harhors, for national and oonsti-