, 1900-09-13

a. an 1AAh do u
new dogma" He says that Mr.. Web
Scr completely exposed the fallacy of
the proposition. and that the doctrine
had never been heard of in the coun-
try before.
The bred Scott Case.
I'm the bred Scott case. decided by
the Supreme court in 1856. Judge fancy
followed Mr.. Calhoun. and announced
the same doctrine. and the pro-slavery
party persisted in 1t until 1860. when
it nominated Breckenridge for the pres
idency and declared in its national
platform that during the existence OF
a territorial government all citizens
of the United States have an equal
right to settle, with their property, in
the territory. without their rights.
either of person or property, being de-
stroyed or impaired by congressional
or territorial legislation
THE Republican party accepted the
gage of battle, thus thrown down by
the pro-slavery Democrats. and an
nounced in its national platform for
the campaign of that year. that:
az. The new dogma. that the CON
stitution of its own force carries slav-
cry into any or all of the territories
of the United States, is at
variance with the explicit provisions
of that instrument itself: is
revolutionary in its tendencies and
subversive OF the peace and harmony
of the country
Election of Lincoln.
Upon that proposition Mr.. Lincoln
was elected president. The slave states
seeded because OF this proposition,
now again announced by Mr.. Bryan,
following John C. Calhoun and Judge
Taney.
That the constitutional guarantees
do not go into the territories until con-
gress so provides by express legisla-
ton, has been announced by Chance
lor Kent and by Mr.. Justice Story in
their commentaries and by the Su-
preme court OF the United States, both
before the Civil war and since, except
as to the bred Scott case, and perhaps
some ceses which followed 1t, while
Judge fancy remained as chief Justice
of the Supreme court.
"oubi THAT III Z
suit of the war would have settled for
ever that Interpretation now sought to
be revived by Mr.. Bryan. Its only eff
feet would be to interpret the consti-
tuition in such a way as to diminish
the power of the federal government
to deal with its enemies in time of war.
Mr.. Bryan has misstated the doc
trine. 1t was the doctrine of the Cal
houn-Dred S~cott-Judge fancy pro-
slavery Democrats. and for the pro-
motion of slavery alone. You can see
the discussion in the second volume
of Benton's Thirty Years in the SEN
ate"
Bryan a False Prophet
What do you think of the other
propositions advanced by Mr.. Bryan
His principal propositions are all
equally %fallacious. He asserts that the
administration has wilfully violated
the principles of liberty and has de-
priyed the Filipinos OF their freedom
and that history furnishes no exam
pie of turpitude baser than ours If we
now substitute our yoke for the Span
ish yoke All of Mr.. Bryan's large
professions of generosity of sentiment
and principle are based upon the as
sumption that, having gone to the
Philippines, we can Just as easily come
away again, or as Chairman Jones is
said to have expressed 1t a short
time since. We went there in ships,
and | suppose we can come away in
ships'-or perhaps he said boats
Those who are not responsible need
not be definite in their plans or propo-
sitlons. The country has had great
difficulties to deal with, and somebody
has had to deal with them, not upon
glittering and rhetorical propositions,
but upon the facts and the law.
1T would be a great qualification to
many curious observers to see Mr..
Bryan shuttle together all the noble
and irrelevant sentiments which he has
quoted from Others and the large and
generous and irrelevant sentiments
which he expresses on his own ac-
count and be compelled to mix these
up with the actual facts of any given
case and see what would come of. it.
When Mr.. Bryan begins to soar. IL he
would only start from the facts and
tOuulllOuh NllCh nave " bt utdil Win,
or when he comes down and lights If
he would sometimes light on the facts
and conditions which rave to be dealt
with, we might guess how he would
act In a given case If the management
should be actually intrusted to him.
Dewey ut Manila.
When Admiral Dewey destroyed
the Spanish navy the Spanish sover-
eighty was obliterated. The obliga-
ton to protect persons and property
on the islands. and preserve order and
force obedience to law upon them,
passed over, under the Law of nations,
and devolved upon the United States.
This country became, by conquest
and by the treaty which Mr.. Bryan ad-
vised. responsible to all law-abiding
citizens upon the islands. 1t is a SIM
pie principle of international law that
the sovereign is bound to protect ev-
cry person who obeys the laws and re-
mains in the country. Any neglect to
do SO is a breach OF international law,