The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1912-04-06

bottle to your druggist and get
your money back
the United States provides a way to alter
hat time -honored instrument so as to
meet new conditions.
Jefferson and Jackson both stood for
the proposition
STATE NEEDS A NEW CONSTITUTION.
Our State Constitution, patched up as
1t has been by frequent amendments, is
still unsuited to our conditions We need
a new and up-to- date Constitution, SO
.hat our Government can be considered in
Uniformity with modern business meth
IDS; we need a new taxing system that
i'll be sufficiently flexible to equaliZe
axes and at the same time take the I'M
due burden off the shoulders of the own
.rs of visible property; We need new
provisions so that our banks can do
business as cheaply as the banks in other
arge cities, and thus furnish our mer-
hants and manufacturers and builders
money as cheaply as can be gotten in the
cast In fact, we need so many new
hings that amendments no longer meet
onditions, further amendments would
be putting new wine into old bottles. Our
Court of Appeals has construed politi
ally many sections of the old State Con-
stitution; now If we were to have a new
)ne, and as | have said We ought to for
ye need it, every section of the old Con-
f.itution that has been construed and
hch is changed by the new will be a
section recalling that particular judicial
opinion.
There is hardly clause of the Fed
raj Constitr.. on that has not been con-
strued by the Supreme Court an
amendment of any clause that has been
so construed on lines differing from
nat construction would be a recall of
that decision.
LINCOLN AND HIS DEBATES WITH
DOUGLAS.
The most remarkable illustration of
his proposition is 10 be found in the
Thirteenth Amendment, and as this was
he result of the election of Lincoln it
nay not be uninteresting to note what
Lincoln said in his debates with Douglas
and i nhis campaign for the nomination
or Presidency.
by the Missouri Compromise GS2O)
slavery was prohibited north of the
southern boundary of that coded from
France, except in the portion erected into
the State of Missouri
In 1850 the omnibus bill was passed. |
Under it New Mexico was organized as a
Territory, with the proviso that when |
admitted as State, thu question of slav
cry should be determined by the people |
and that during her Territorial existence
the question of property in slave should |
5e left and determined by the Supreme
curt of the United States
In 1854 the Kansas md Nebraska Ter
ritorial government bill was passed. |
which declared the Missouri Comprom-
Sc to be inconsistent with the principle
Of non-intervention by Congress with
slavery in the States and Territories as
recogni ed by the legislation of 1850, and
therefore imperative and void.
"On March 6, 1857, the Supreme Court
Of the United States, through Chief JUS
tice fancy, decided the famous bred
Scott case, which held that the Declara-
lion of independence ddno apply to
slaves, that a slave Was property within |
the terms of the Constitution and should |
be protected as such in the Territories. |
Then came Mr.. Lincoln's appeal to the |
2eople from this decision, the joint de-
bates between him and Stephen A. Doug
las, in 1858, and the remarkable speech |
IF Mr. Lincoln at Cooper Institute, New |
York, which is perhaps the best expos-
ion eXtant of the slave in the light oil
constitutional history.
WHAT LINCOLN SAID OF THAT DE-
CISION.
LAS showing Mr.. Lincolns view of tho |
right of pouar appeal, ! quote the fol-
lowing from the Chicago speech, July, |
1858:
The sacredness that Judge Douglas |
throws around this Dred ScotD deci- |
other decision. | have never heard OF
such a thing 1t is the first of its |
kind; it is an astonisher in legal history. |
1t is new wonder of the world. 1t is
based upon falsehood in the main as to |
the facts.
And again from his speech at Spring
field, July H. 1858:
Now as to the bred Scott decision,
for upon that he CJudge Douglas) makes
MS last point at me, he boldly takes |
Ground in favor of that decision. $3.50
say that in so far as IL decided in favor
Of bred SCOTS master and against bred
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