The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1862-09-12

north and the south, and bv the whole
tenof of their legislation wherever anc
whenever they have been in power Tha
large, respectable body of The party la.
no sympathy with Its abolition procliyities
is perhaps true but there is no room fol
doubt that the abolition element in thai
| party is its largest, most energetic, and in
! tluenial element
With the strength and influence of the
Republican party, grew the strength and
influence of the party of secession. Botl
were sectional both were revolutionary
1t would be idle to show the revolution
airy character OF the secession party. It's
revolutionary purposes were avowed.-
The Republican party was no less revou,
tionary, though its revolutionary tendeu
cies were less manifest.
1t is evident, from what has already
been seen, that Washington and Jackson,
TIT representatives of the sages and patri,
OTIS of the revolutionary and succeeding
eras, regarded sectional parties as reyolu
tionary. Under our system thev are es-
| sentlally so; for no sectional party could
accomplish anv end, except bv the sever
ance of the bonds of fraternity and unity
between the different parts of the country
upon which the Union rests. 1t is not We
who say, it is the sages and patriots of the
past who have said, that in American
politics every sectional party is essential.
ly dsloyal to the Union.
In almost every state OF the Union, in
which the republican party had the power
they enacted laws impeding the execution
of laws of the United States. Such laws
were passed by them in this state. 4
republican judiciary in this state nuliifed
acts of Congress, assumed to overrule the
decisions of the Supreme Court OF the
United States in cases arising under the
constitution and laws of the Union
disobeyed its mandates, and sanctioned
by judicial decision the forciJIo rescue O
prisoners held under the judicial process
of the United States But not conten,
with this measure of disloyalty, the re
publican legislature of this state passed in
1899, and has ever since refused to rescind
resolutions setting at defiance the author.
ity of the United States, and asserting the
doctrine of secession as broadly as it has
ever been asserted by any southern state
This is well understood athone, by demo
Gratis and republicans but to avoid the
suspicion o! eXaggeratiOn abroad, we here
insert two Of these resolutions 10 full
Resoived, "That the government formed
by the constitution of the United States
was not made the exclusive or final Judge
OF the extent of The powers delegated to
itself; bnt that, as in all other cases OF
compact having no common Judge, each
party has an equal right to Judge for itself,
As we'll of infractions AS of the mode aud
measure of REDRESS.
Resolved, That the principle and con
s'ruction contended for by tho party which
now rules in the councils of the nation,
that the general government is the exclu.
sive Judge of the extent of the powers del
egated to il, stop nothing short of despot-
ism, since the discretion of those who al :
minister the government and not the Cons
Stlfution, would be the measure Of their
powers: that the several States which
formed that Instrument, being sovereign
aud Independent, have the unquestionable
right to Judge Of its infraction and that
a poSitirc defiance of those sovercignties, oi
all unauthorized acts done or attempted TO
be done under color of that instrument, is
the RIGHTFUL REMEDY"
These resolutions had relation, not TO
the acts Of the executor of tho United
States or even Of Congress, but to a solemn
decision of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States upon the Constitution and laws
of the United States. This is the doctrine
caught from seeding. South Carolina ov
Republican Wisconsin, and repeated by
the Republican party of Wisconsin, in full
communion with the Republican party OF
the north, to Justify secession in every dis.
oval state in the south.
Thus the Republican party, as we'll as
the secession party, was revolutionary
And these two revolutionary parties grew
in numhes anI influence down to the pres
dential election of 1860, when the Demo-
cratic party was defeated by the sectional
influences Of both,
The sectional party Of the south succeed
eG IN intruding some members into the
Convention aud when defeated there, by
the steadfast Loyalty Of the true Dcmocra-
cy, put in nomination renegade from hi.
party and his country. The sectional par
ty of the north put in nomination disiin-
cuished gentleman, the author Of the doc
trine that the several states must ultimate.
lv become all slave or all fIee
The democratic party nominated as their
candidate, a statesman now no more, oil
great experience and ability in public af-
fairs, Of great energy and integrity of char
acter and life, the author OF tue only just
and practical solution of the question 81
slavery in the territories, whose whole
public life was devoted to the maintenance
Of the Constitution as it is, and of the Tn
ion as it was; and whose zeal for the pres
ervati"n Of the country sacrificed his litC
in its prime.
The history Of the convention which
nominated Mr. Dougiss plainly shows that
the champions OF sece ON had no hope I'd
carrs the peop'e Of the south with Them
save by defeating the candidate Of the denl
ocratic party. The whole tone and temper
of the republican leaders and press at The
north, before and during the session Of tli,
convention. plainly shows that they bad u