The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-01-10


free State admitted into the Union
should be counterbalanced bv new
Slave State Tins the caualitv of the
representatives. of the slave interest in
the Senato-which has controlling pow
er in the rovernmcnt-with the repre-
sentatives of the Free States. would be
preserved. Another proposal is. that
there should be two Prcsidents-one
chosen by the North and the other by
the Southland that their concurrence
should be necessary to the validity of
any Presidential action Still another
proposition is, that the Constitution
should be so altered as TO make n major.
ity Of the whole of the slavcholding
States, and minority of the Free tutes,
necessary TO the election of a President;
and further, that no law should take of-
feet uulgss sanctioned by q majority of
representatives from both sections of
the country. These are so many dcvi-
ces to make one equal to three. They
amount to an avowal ON the part Of
their advocates, that shareholders can
not live in any political community
which they do not control.
The propositions above referred to all
assume that the slave interest must be
dominant; that nothing shall be done
without its consent; no officer, whether
civil or military, or executive, shall be
appointed; no law enacted, no measure
adopted, without its appreciation, and
consequently for its benefit. This sup
poses that the interest Of the slavehold-
ers is antagoaistic to all others, and is
so important that it may rightfully be
dominant, or at least coordinate and
| limiting. 10 assumes that three hund-
red and fifty thousand shall equal twenty
millions. As this is a physical and NOR
al impossibility under our present Con-
sututiOn, it is proposed to alter it, or,
failing that to dissolve the Union
This is the light in which the claim to
equality, MS interpreted and urged by the
disunionists, presents itself to the peo-
pie Of the North. 1t Is an unrighteou5
and unreasonable demand. 1t is de
mandlng far more than the Constitution,
which we have all sworn to support,
ever contemplated, Equality OF all
classes IN the eye OF the law, equality
OF the States as to rights and privileges,
equal protection, equal liberty, equal
facilities OF Advancement, equal access
to all places Of honor and powor-in
short, constitutional equality in its full
est extent, Is what all are willing to con
cede' But that one particular interest,
one special class OF the community,
should have equal weight and influence
with all the others comblned-that three
hundred thousand should equal twenty
mlIlons-Is, at least under our present
Constitution, an Impossioi.ity. And II
South, disunion is inevitable. Our
, present system gives every security and
, advantage to the slaveholding class
which can be reasonably demanded
/ The Constitution permits the reprcsen-
5 species Of property is allowed repre-
p sentation M the national Legtslature,--
= Florida, with ITS torty-seyen thousand
OF white inhabitants and Its twenty
r. influence IN the Senate OF the United
2Io'es a" new ork' with It's three NIL,
S mons ,,,s Oh InnoOI'ahls ana one thousanu
e WIIIons UI T, properly Is not tn'S
ehouSn' mere are only tWenLy-uIy.e