Ripley (OH) Bee, “The Two Kinds of Intervention,” August 2, 1860

    Source citation
    “The Two Kinds of Intervention,” Ripley (OH) Bee, August 2, 1860, p. 1: 6.
    Original source
    Detroit (MI) Advertiser
    Newspaper: Publication
    Ripley Bee
    Newspaper: Headline
    The Two Kinds of Intervention
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    1
    Newspaper: Column
    6
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    THE TWO KINDS OF INTERVENTION.

    Popular Sovereignty has been placed by the Democracy between the two fires of Judicial and Congressional intervention, and of the two, the former is the hottest. The Detroit Advertiser asks this pertinent question:

    Can any Democrat tell us the practical difference between judicial intervention and Congressional intervention for the protection of slavery in the territories, except that the former fastens it upon them much more certainly than the [other?] the Supreme Court may declare a law of Congress regulating the question, unconstitutional. But Congress has no power to disturb or set aside a decision of the Supreme Court. A slave code, therefore, might be only temporary, but a decision of the Court declaring the existence of slavery in the territories, would be eternal! To this last has Douglasism come; the former is Breckinridgeism.

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