Southern standard., 1851-08-16
Slavery i'm the Territories.

ms canvass has been prolific in more ways than
one, and among the innumerabe humbugs none par
take more largely ofthe ridiculous and none surely
draws largely the credulity of man. as that which
propogaes the doctrine that slavery can exist in the
territories of Utah and New Mexico under the late
adjustment bills 1t is contended by the submission
orators that slavery is recognized in those terrific
res by the late bills, and they proceed to prove it by
showing that Congress has said that the people may,
when they come to frame constitution say whether
slavery shall shall not exisand it also says that
when admttance is claimed, slavery shall be no bar
This amounts to nothing. In the first place Congress
cannot properly refuse to admit State that applies in
due form, presenting constitution guarantng Re-
publican form of government In other words, Con-
gress cannot annex conditions necessary adn1is-
sion, because if Congress demand changes and
mendments in State constitution for purpose it
may for any purpose and if the people refuse to mod
fy change it, Congress would not admit the State
We hold that people of any territory having passed
through the necessary puplage, framed constitution
that meets the requirements of the Federal constu
ton and presenting the same that then Congress has
no right to refuse them admission into the Union
The incorporation, therefore, of these propositions
in these bills, bald humbugs. And in keeping
with this, more contemplate because more shallow, is
this which by the way proves how close the submission
driven, when they forced to rely upon
such tricks to sustain themselves. They point to the
fact that the fugitive slave law is in force in those
rtories. Well, that is glorious. Just though all
the laws of the United States were not there Why,
all laws passed by Congress operative in this
State anywhere ese and they are operative in O.
regon in Utah New Mexico and it is we'll known
that the law of 1893 for the capture of slaves was as
operative in all our territories is the law of 1850
hence to seek for the recognition of slavery in the
rtories under the idea that the fugitive slave bill is in
force there and that that recognizes it, is about equal
to saving that slavery recognized in the free States
because the fugitive slave law is operative in the free
States.
If slave escapes in this State the applies tc
the local State authorities for the capture and not
u States officers The fugitive slave law is useless
here because the local laws protect the owner There
are no local laws in the territories recognizing the
istence of slavery am hence the who carries his
slave there and he escapes from him, appeals to
u States officer instead of local magistrate to issue
a process for recovery.
If slaves entced away or stolen from their own
in this State, the have direct process fur
nshed by statute laws for the capture of the slaves
I1OSe NllO dlueu escape OF
who may have run off with the slaves It is the alb
sence of these statutory laws in the territories not
only for the recovery the slaves but for the punish
ment of the thief, that complain Without statute
laws in State meeting and providing for these
cases, slavery could not exist here twelve months. II
clear then that the territorial bills afford no protec-
ton slavery and it is equally clear then that slave
ry cannot exist there.
Our compromise friends not yet satisfied, insist that
those bills authorize appeal to judicial authority
in the territories in involving the title to slaUes
conteEd that that is recognition ofsavery in the ter
rfGories. Chancellor Dickinson read this very clause
from the public stand in this city prove that slavery
was recognized there and he also claimed that that
clause furnished protection to slavery but not to such
degree as he could have wished 1t is little strange
that Chancellor Dickinson Judge Clayton and Other
public speakers shoHld have fallen on this particular
clause to sustain the Southern side of these bilsit il
strange but true and yet strange as it is this very
clause was drawn up and introduced By John p Hale
one of the most jealous able and
in the Union Yet it is produced and paraded before
Southern audience to prove how definitely and posi-
lively slavery is protected in the territories
Should nothing prevent us, we will show the hsto
ry of these bills from the recordin our next issue
We will show that every proposition looking 10 tnt
Recognition aud protection of slavery in these terrific