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Show HOW HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, j In Calhonnitos Keclared the Con ! stitutioti Followed tlie Klas Into New Territory. XX'hile the Van l'.ur-( l'.ur-( ns and 'l ildeiis rrotested I M-mih crats Comb tiiin-J a l ire in the llear. The New Y'ork IeiniM-ratic nddres of IMS. written by Martin Van r.wrcu and Satiiucl J. Ttideu. said, in refer;-. ng to those who attacked tlie administration administra-tion w hile the country w as Involved In war with Mi xico: -However we may differ at home, every ev-ery I ncr of his country must hi-:re that w e should be know n abroad as one and undivided: that Ising at war the only (iui.-:ioti woiiid Is-, how It might b"st l-e brought to an h .notable conclusion." conclu-sion." Further adore In this address It was said the men w ho attack. .1 tiie President Presi-dent In time of war sought to 'wound the executive administration through the bl ling sides of the c-utnrv." When Tihh ti and Van ltuieu laid down these doctr.iie they were try ing to do what many old fash:.. m-J ln-ino-crats have sought in vaiu to accomplish accom-plish in recent years save their party from a destructive clement U-nt Uh u rule or ruin. Calhoun and his following. follow-ing. In the.r effort to piisii shivery Into the new territory acquired from Mexico, Mex-ico, lnsistisl. Jitst ns anri-expatisloiiists do now, that the constitution followed the flag. Said Van liun-n nnd Til.len: -The doctrine N tncrcTiTP YTTi'hly ' statisl that wherever the tlag of the I n i n goes. It carries slavery with it: it overturns the local institct oi.s no inn tier how s r..lv.-ly Intrenched in tlie leg slation. the habits and affections of the jss.ple. if fr.H dotn Is- their fortunate fortun-ate eiifditlon, nnd establishes In its place slavery: It repeals the I. sal laws. If they guarantee htsoii:i1 fris-dom to all. and authoriz.- slavery." Tihb n and X'an I'.nten tlieret!)Hn made an evhaustive review of the ipiestion. and utterly repudiated the doctrine of tlie const ttui ion following the flair, nnd showed that Congress had full authority to rule new territory ns It thought tx'st. Tild. n and Van Huron said in further review of the Calhoun dogma : "Nowhere found In the cctinliition, repugnant to Its spirit and abhorrent as we haVe shown it to be to the principles princi-ples and cinvli-lons of the Illustrious men who framed it. we are ealhd upon to interpolate th new this ry upon the constitution as n sort of mystical common com-mon law. rot Implied in any particular part, but to be inferred from the general gen-eral nature of the instrument." '1 hus the atitl cn fusion dogma of today to-day has John C. Calhoun f. r its author nnd originator, w Idle nidi northern iemoera-s as Samuel .1. T.l.b-n and Martin X'an Huron condemned It then, a thousand of ohl-fasliioiicd I'cmo-crats I'cmo-crats do now. |