The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-09-03

1t is said, however, that the compromise
Of 1920 was unconstitutional but what |
10 that to the purpose2 1t was most
solemn compact between the two SEQ
tions Of the country, made for the set
element Of most perplozing question,
and without any reference to its consti-
nationality, should have been regar led
as IN organic law, and observed as sa
credly as the Constitution itself
The effect of this measure was great
and rapid, and there can be but little
doubt that it was such as majority Of
its authors contemplated. The result
was the formation Of great party at
the North opposed 20 the further exton.
sion of Slavery, and which party very
nearly succeeded in eecting their can
didate for the Presidency, Mr. Fremont,
in 1856.
After the election, this party seemed
to be on the vans, until the anti-sleve-
. ry spirit Of the whole North was aroused
to madness, by an attempt on the part
, Of Mr.. Buchanan's administration to
force the Lecomptou Consultation with
8 Slavery upon the people of Kansas, 10
opposition to the known aud expressed
wish Of threo-fourths of them. But for
I this most unjustiiable measure the Re-
publican party would Undoubtedly have
dwindled down to moderate propor-
, tions, and even after this, it is doubtful
4 if they could have succeeded in the
Z Presidential election Of 1860, if the
II Sece essionists with Yancey at their head
had not determined that they should
!. succeed. After Mr.. Yanoey and his par
81 ty had, against their Wishes, succeo dec
. in getting their ultimatum Of nOn.in.
It tervention incorporated into the Gin.
e oinnati platform, they went to work tc
J. cOnjurs up another to present to the
Charleston Convention. Abandonin.
l. their doctrine Of non.intervention n, they
ID went to the opposite extreme and de-
|. manded that the Intervention of Con
r. gress for the protection of Slavery IL
II the territories should constitute par
: of the Charleston platform. This de
D. mand they well knew would not b,
d complied with, nor did they desire tina
it should be. Their object was to pro
|. cure the secession of the delegates o
Ie the cotton States from tho Convention
h and thus by defeating the nomination
Of of Mr.. Douglas, and reading asuu del
I, the Democratic party, to insure the elco
n ton of Mr.. Lincoln, and thereby forge
- for themselves a grievance which woull
d seem to justify them in the execution o
n their long m editated designs Of destroy
~ ing the Union. All Of this they &C
q complished, and the election of Mr.
,s Lincoln was perhaps hailed with great
le er JOY at Charleston than at New York
ID will do them the justice to state tha
r they also claimed to have some oths
IS grievances; among them, that some 0
bo the n orthern States by their statute
IN obstructed the execution of the fugi
he tive slave law, but the only States tina
" could complain much on that score
q we're willing to remain in the Union
/, while South Carolina, the State whic
= set the ball in motion, perhaps novc
al lost a slave. But it must be borne i
q mind that no act of the National Gov
"a ernment constituted any part Of the
On grievances. They did not pretend tbs
be any act of Congress infringod the
in rights, and the decisions OF the Suprem
n. Court were mainly such as they woul
he themselves have made. Nay, even
n the very time of Mr.. Lincoln's inaugl
RI ration, if the cotton States had allowe
he their Senators and Representatives
ed. remain, they would have had a decide
n majority in both Houses Of Congress
- favor of the extension of Slavery, an
ne in opposition to the policy Of the part
in which elected him.
en- The great cause of complaint wa
as that man opposed to the extension
Sc Slavery in the territories,had been eiee
he cd President of the United States a
ati cordiug to the forms of the Constit
in ton which ho was sworn to defend al
nd protect, and who disclaimed any 9th
tn than constitutional means in the a
,us complishment Of his objects. Und
he'd such circumstances it seems that ii tn
in had labored under any real grievanc
ne, their course was plain. They shou
cal have taken the course Of our revol
zen tionary fathers. When the States O
by sembled in Convention, instead of pr
by ceeding at once to declare their Ind
tn pendonoe for the idea of Secessic
to peaeeaLIe if right seems, as Publ
of says, to have exploded and given
TIL the ghost--should clearly aud concise
hat have stated what their grievances wei