M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1861-01-17

ton Of a paroxysm growing ont o
the commercial difficulties contrived
by Great Britain, dissipated by the
Var she provoked, and the momenta
~ panic quieted by the Missouri
Compromise, gave il that Jealous sup
port which rendered this era so happ,
and prosperous for the whole country
Slavery, the anomaly 10 our lnstitu
tions. was ooked upon throughout
this period as a distressing excres
cence, the result ofthc yoke we lac
worn in our infancy, and which th'
strength Of our Constitution would il
time throw OF. --a,aa.s-e-
1t Was not until the Premiership oI
Mr.. Calhoun, which opened the de-
signs ofslayery propagandism and Sc
rious alarm arose among the friendt
of Republican government, that the
power Of a sectional interest, founded
on slavery, was meditating the means
of contesting its supremacy over the
continent. The free States accorded
to the South all the territory in which
slavery previously existed, to open up
and drain of the sonrces of it's mala
ria by tho African labor it possessed
They trusted as the Anglo Saxon race
of ireemen multiplied and overaowec
from the north aud middle regions, th'
inferior race would recede further
Sonth, and make this whole continent
the abode of freedom. But the de-
maud that acquisitions Of free terrific
ry should lie consigned to slavery
that California should be rejected
from the Union because she came
with free republican constitution il
her hand, unveiled the deception prac
tised in the pledge, given by leading
advocates of the annexation of Texas
that it would open the way for tie
withdrawal Ut slavery trIm tbs TEN
perate zons on its march to mingl,
with the reed blacks in the tropics o
Central America. The commo Mise
Of 1850, provd ny Tor the admission
Of four additional slave Stah tron
Texas, cous"crated that portion addeC
from the New Mexican conquest cas-
OF the Rio Grande AMI north OF tn
Missouri Compromise line Of lreudun
Although CLAIMED by Texas --an,
lett all the rest of the territory acquir
ed, to the construction OF the Mrxlcal
law which had abolished slavery a
one time existing tlsr1. This WA
the Stcml hard-won pacificatOn b
which Mr., Clay hoprd TO iay toreve
the spectre ui dlSnnlon, founding it Vi
the !rinciplv OF the Ordinance q
1887, winch had resign, d to SLAYER,
all the territory which properly apper
tainel to the domain of the slav
States, r wing thai belonging to til
United Safes or settlement by free
men exclusively The leading pan
ties in their presidential Platforms i
VIII ch they submitted their claims fo
the sanction OF the popular vote at th
imme lately ensuing election, rattle,
this settlement o 1850, aldiuga new
sincticn to the Missouri Comprc
misc. I..t.,. .E gr.....,.,
But both these compacts betweer
the States Tor the settlement OF tn
great sectional issues were nulltieC
by the Kansas Nebraska bill. Thi
brought on tho civil war in Kansas
waged to defeat the right, Of the pea
pie to exclude slavery from the sane
ton Of their constitution, and this tall
ing. the State itself has been exclude
from admission into the Union, in vi
olation OF the unif0rln practice OF tn
government from its establishment
The repeal Of the Missouri Comprc
mise did not satisfy the slave p.ops
gaudists. 1t did not remove the bs
against slavery in the territory ac
qured from Mexico, and which Nigh
attach 10 other territories thereatte
acquired. To secure this right oftal
ing and holding their slaves in the tel
ritories, and to- tortify it against Cor
gressiona interference, the Suprem
Court was invoked to establish as
part OF the Constitution, that the loca
domestic, State Institution oI SLAYER
was u property which man coul
carry with him and hold rs propert,
wherever he could 90 himself, an
Therefore it would he a violation
the Constitution to exclude the Institl
tim from any trrritpry q The Unitc
States is "a Hy rnprem1 in tlnma'l
Tcnapcc "l .righls. pldctd un Ier its pr
Etectian, wleihe they are contravene
by thu, constitutions and laws OF Sat,
,or Territories, the Drd Scott iecisic
as Interpreted by the South, opens i
whale country to the expansion '
slavery.
1t is not the election of Preside
under the requirements oi the ConsI
tuition which has gwen rise to Il
muyrm ut IN the S9nth. 1t isnoth h
ropiuiln about the eusiOu oI SLAYER
for shat is the same that was held
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