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

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plant This grievance is presented in
different lights by our Southern broth-
rem. lt sometimes means one thing |
and sometimes another. 1t often has
special reference to the Territories
These are the common property of the
country. The North, South, East and
West have an equal right TO their pos
session and occupancy. Hence tits in
terred that if immigrants from the |
North are allowed to take every species .
Of their property into the Territories |
Immigrants from the South have the /
right to take everything which the laws
Of the South declare to be property. To
this it is answered / That there is no
restriction peculiar to the sluveholding |
States. The people Of those States may
take into the Territories everything that |
the people from the North are allowed |
to take. They are placed on terms Of |
perfect equality in this respect 2. That
tho restriction with regard to slaves, I.
which bears equally upon all, whether
citizens or foreigners, whether from the |
North or from the South, is not founded
on any assumed superior claim Of the
| North to the common heritage Of the
country, but simply on the principle that
slavery is a municipal institution, and
therefore can exist only where there is
some law to create aud to enforce it. Car
Olina cannot justly claim that her slave
laws should have authority in France, or
! England, or in the Northern States, or
| anywhere else beyond her own terrific.
Try. Whether this reasoning be correct
or not, yet since the doctrine that Slave
ry is n municipal institution was the
common faith Of the country when the
Constitution was adopted, and the South
ern States entered the Union, as it was
held by all our Presidents and states
men until the time of Mr.. Calhoun, with
few, if any exceptions, it cannot now be
Justly regarded as a grievance. 3. It
may be further answered to this com.
plant, that all difficulty on this score
was avoided by the Missouri Compro-
mise, and might be removed by a rcstO-
ration Of that agreement. 1t is at best
a theoretical difficulty, as the South has
neither irecmen nor slaves to spare for
the Territories. Their slaves are too
valuable where they are, to send them
into regions where their labor could be
turned to little or no account.
At other times, by equality Of the
/, States is meant an equal control in the
administration Of the Governments Tn
the past history Of the country the
South has been dominant. Although
in minority as to population, it has
shaped the whole policy Of the country.
{ A compact minority in almost all Gov
3 ernments holds the balance Of power
o. The Germans, although not more than
onc-third Of the people, secured the con
troll Of the State Of Pennsylvania through
e a great part Of its history. And SO the
. South, by throwing her weight into one
t party or the other, has hitherto secured
y the ascendancy. A protecting. tariff, a
b national bank, internal improvements,
D were the policy OF the country so long as
e the South was in their favor; when she
, turned against them, they were aban-
I doned. This state of things is passing
% away. BY the inevitable progress Of
o events the sceptre is changing hands,
d The more rapid increase Of the free
a States in number and in population, /,
- more and more reducing the relative
S importance and power of the South.
o This result has been long forcsecn.-
a Southern statesmen have predicted tha
u the time must come when the Soutl
s could no longer control the policy OF
10 the country. Not to command, howev
h er, is in their estimation to submit No