The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-07-31

| Democrstis party of ths North and the North.
wess." ut ths South Is 70 look TO mainly fol
Reimbursement n The existing difficulties grow.
inxxs4s( the slavery question--such an ad-
jusiuptak, fhs editor means, and no doubt In.
ssads = b understood, ~ ought to satisfy the
B0uth.
UpOn what facts 10 this assertion founded
IL it upon the fact that, during the present sos.
sion Of Congress the Democratic Legislature,
q Conasstisut, Maine, and New Hampshire,
have Ill passed resolutions adverse to the intro
dacsioa Of slavery into any portion Of the terri
tory acquired from Mexico2 The following re-
solution has just been adopted by the Demo
cratic Legislature Of New Hampshire:
s'Rsso'vsd. That the people Of this State are
bouAd BY no compact. express or implied to suffer
the introducion Of slavery into territory now
free; and that thoy unalterably opposed to the
erection ofany territory, without it's prohibition by
positive law"
Does not the Union ksa0tp that this resolution
embodies the sentiment, not merely of New
Hampshire, but Of the whole North-as well
Of the Democratic party as of the Wing party
vi tnat 6cctlOn OF the Union!
The doctrine Of the Hunker section of the
Democratic party of New York, to which sec
tion Of tho party, and its representative in the
Senate, the Union no doubt had special refer
ence in the foregoing paragraph-the doctrine
even of this section of the party in New York,
as declared at one oftheir State conventions, is,
that the existing laws Of the territory acquired
from Mexico prohibit slavery, and that eft is
well-settled principle Of jurisprudence that
the mere act Of acquiring a foreign province
works no change in its municipal laws, but on
ly in the allegiance Of its people," They are,
therefore, for the Mexican proviso, which they
believe just as potent to exclude slavery as the
Wilmqt itself.
The Michigan Legislature, which nominated
General CAss for the Presidency, passed the
following resolution:
"Reseeed, That hostility TO the xtcnsion of human
slavery Is snd has been the principle Of the
Democratic CREED and that to abandon IL at the pres
sent crisis would be crime against the free prin-
ciples upon which our institutions arc based.''
And what are the opinions of General CAss
himself, the great leader of the Northern and
Northwestern Democrats, on this exciting sub
jectl He believes he)Nexican laws prohibit
ing the introduction Of slavery into these terri
tories are now in force, and he would vote to
repeal them, or to remove the obstruction which
they interposed to the introduction of slaves
into the Territories.
He holds the doctrine, and avows it on all
proper occasions, in his place in the Senate,
that territorial governments ought to be estab-
lished for New Mexico and Utah; and that the
moment they are established, the people Of
those Territories, by their territorial legisla-
lures, may pass any laws they see fit to keep
slavery out of those Territories
the belief, at the same time, that they will
certainly exercise the right, and keep it out!
Is there one Democratic member Of the Sen
ate from the whole North and Northwest that
intends to vote for the compromise, who be-
lievcs that, under its operation, slavery can or
will be introduced into these Territories? Not
enc, we verify believe Is there one in favor
Of the Missouri compromise, with an express
recognition Of the right of shareholders to enter
and occupy with their slaves the territory south
Of that line? Not one, as their votes conclu-
sively show.
What imbecilty, then, does il moi denote in
the editor Of the Union To be holding up the
Democrats of the North and Northwest, as
the main reliance Of the South at the present
crisis to protect their rights and inierests2