Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-21

an issue in the Election, and where, in some
places, il was proclaimed that the President
was unfavorable to the Bill!
What do the honest People Of the country
think Of Pro-Slsvery politiess
BADGERs AlCEMDMEET-sQUA S0vER-
EIGNTY
Lst not the, opponents Of the Nebraska Bill
be deceived by the clamor raised by . portion
Of the Southern press against Badgers amend
ment, or that Of Douglas depriving Congress Of
revisionary power over Territorial legislation
1t may serve to illustrate the wonderful zeal
and vigilance Of certain gentlemen ambitious
of notoriety, and to deludo some Northern men
with the notion that these amendments arc
signal concessions to the North, 30 valuable
that they should disarm all opposition to the
Bill
The fact is they concede nothing to the
North, they take nothing from the South
With or without them, the Bill is an outrage
on good faith, reversal Of the policy Of the
country for the third Of century, base be
trayal Of Northern interests, profigate and
ruinous concession to Slavery
Messrs. Badger, Butler, and Mason, are too
clear headed not TO understand the true nature
and object Of the Bill, and they are not the
men to propose or tolerate any amendments
that would impair its efficiency. The design Of
it is, to repeal an act which discriminates SO
far between Liberty and Slavery as to imply
national disapprobation of the latter; to open
the whole Of the unorganized territory Of the
Union to the curse Of slave labor to secure to
| shareholders facilities for maintaining and aug
menting their political ascendency; to estab-
fish Principle, in virtue Of which all future
territorial acquisitions may inure to their spe-
oial benefit; and to repeal the act on ground
which will supersede and virtually annul what
ever restriction in relation to Slavery may have
been imposed by Congress in the Constitutions
Of Oregon, Minnesota, Washington, and Texas.
This design is completely covered by the Bill,
in its present shape. Badgers amendment,
and the absence of provision securing to Con-
gress revisionary power over Territorial legs-
lation, do not interfere with it. The Southern
Senators, who explained their views yesterday,
held that his amendment was really nominal,
did not change, and was not intended to change,
the nature Of the Bill All concarred in repu-
dating the doctrine Of Squatter Sovereign
ty,D or the right of the People of Territory
to legislate as they please, and in denying that
the Bill recognised or gave countenance to, any
such doctrine
As we said once before, what care the
shareholders for the old Slave Code Of Louisi-
ana--uncertain and indefinite at the best
whether it be revived or not by the act Of re-
peal, so long as they bulwark their claims with
the Constitution Of the United States? This
is their Slave Code, as they boast, and SO long
as they have the majority of the Judges Of the
Supreme Court ON their side, and are masters
Of the Administration that constitutes the
Territorial Courts they can make good their
boast MIR. Butler, Of South Carolina, frankly
expresses the opinion that "the Territorial
Legislature will take no action on the subject
of Slavery, and will leave to American citizens
residing in the Territory, 10 act as they please
in regard to the introduction of slaves" but
that ashould question be made as to the
freedom Of slave, and he should demand his
freedom, on the ground that he was free under
Territorial Law, the answer of the master
would be, that he held the SLAVE as property
under higher law than the enactment Of a Ter
ritorial Lsgislatwe-under the great, funda-
mental laD Of the country"
"We conceive" says the South Side IVA J
Democrat, "that the thirty-fve Senators who
recorded their names in its favor Badgers
amendment) commit themselves to the great
principle, that BY Uirtue Of the Constitution,
every citizen Of the Union has right to re-
move to any of its Territories, and carry his
property with him, and claim for it legal pro-
lection, whether that property be persons or
things"
@With the Democrat VIC contend" says the
Richmond (va) Enquirer "that Slavery exists
in the national territories in virtue of the Con-
stitutionn
The Washington Sentinel thinks the wise
men of the Senate knew what they wero about
and mat Badgers amendment ought to dis
turb no Southern mans nerves.
aUnder the Constitution" it says there is
theoretical existence Of Slavery in all ac-
quired territory-that is, any man can carry his
slaves into il This is the view Of the amend
ment in question There is no need Of reviving
the old French law. There is no power in
Congress to legislste in regard 10 it, either the
- 49, - xbn othar Wa v,rcsunnc No ona
can seriously believe that Mr. Badgers amend
ment will have the effect Of preventing mas
ter from carrying his slaves into Nebraska and
Kansas The objection to Il, in order to be
valid, must show that il either abolishes Sla-
very in that Territory, or inhibih its going
there, or that il interferes In some way against
IT, To our mind il has no such operation
On the contrary, we regard II, taken in con-
neotion with the rest Of the bill, as the most
complete assertion that We can conceive Of the
doctrine Of non-intervention II we had one