New-York daily tribune., 1854-09-06
SLAVERY AND PEACE.

SLAVERY AND PEACE
The Richmond Hhig calls loudly for peace be-
tween the North and the South respecting Slavery
E1ttpsion. So fOrcbe is the statement Of Th,
Bhig-s journal seldom sectional or narrow in its
views, but betrayed into taking false attitude on
the Nebraska bill-that quote its article entire,
in order to place both sides before readers. Ii
will be found in another part OF this paper, aud we
trust will have the careful attention of our read
er-. We proceed to the comments it suggests:
!. TIE Hing must be careful of its facts The
pOint.blsnk repeal Of the Missouri Restriction
was not proposed by the Mississippi STAKEHOLDER
Douglas, whom The Whg terms ." Northern
"Sena'or," but by Dixon Of kentucky, long
known as leading Slavery ultraist. IttoOk con-
side rable spurring aud eoaxing to briog Dous las
up to that work. True, bis original bill looked
toward some Judicial or other juggle whereby
the Restriction was to be nullifed, but it il not
true that the que stion of repeal presented By
ga Northern Senator" Keep truth on your side
2. The principle which The Whig stigmatizes
as "sn odious and unjust discrimination against
" ye South" originated in 1854 with THOMAS
JEPFTRsoN, Vrginis's Magnus Apollo, and was
ssseDted TO By the Delegations of all the States in
the last Continental Congress- three-fourths of
the States being then holding. GEORGE
WASHING TON. PATRICK HENRY, JAMES MADI-
son, JoHN TAILOR, JOHN RANDOLPH. acqui-
esced in the application of that principle
70 the vast domain ceded to the Union by
virginia herself, not one of them ever charac-
teriziDg it as "sn odious and uGjust discriEi-
"ination against the South" On the contrary,
when Indiana, through her Territorial Governor
and Legislature, petitioned Congress to release
the rule temporarily in her favor, and ALLOW her
to hold slaves, John Randolph, ar Chairman Of the
Committee "a majority of it slaveholding) to
which the petition was referred, reported unani-
mOusly and decidedly against it. With what JUS
tce, then, is that Restriction which the South
herself proposed, enacted, upheld and Gu l59o)
reenacted, now denounced as an odious and
unjust discrimination Ggains, the South l'
,. The North asks no sE,. Congressional legis-
laton as The Wing talks OF il does ask is
that COngrss shall DO for the e. ritores, so long
as they remain Territories, haI which the Fed
eral Constitution itself declares to be its main
objects-namely, 4" establish Justice" and "se-
"cure the blessings of Liberty We demand
simply that those 'inalienable rights which the
Declaration Of Independence proelsims the birth
right ofevery human being shall be practically
maintained aud defended so long as the Territory
remains Territory-that is. so long as it re-
mains under the guardianship and tutelage of the
Federal Government. Only let the Rights OF
Man be secured to every human being in the Ter
ritOries so long as they remain Territories, and
there will be no question to settle as to Slavery
in the new States applying for admission. What
we demand of Congress is not the formation Of
States at all but the protection of individual
rights in accordance with the principles and de-
cared objects of beth the Declaration Of inde-
pendence and the Federal Constitution
4. The right of Southern emigrsnts to re
move into Kansas or Nebraska with their
slaves" was never one moment disputed.
They have as full and unquestiOnable right to
remove thither as into Pennsylvania or Massa-
chusetts. But the claim set up in their behalf is
very different from this. Ii afrms their right to
take not merely their slaves with them, but their
unrepsblicsn, unjust and barbarous Stare lars;
and this cannot be conceded. As Senator Wade
told Senator Badger last winter. when the latter
was whining over the interdictiOn of his taking
his old slave nanny wet nurse) in,O Kansas,
Nobody wished to forbid his taking his old man
"my with him to Kansss-we only sought to for.
- bid has selling her after he got her there"
). The BRig is mistaken as to the practical
meekness of the slavehOlders. The Douglas bill
had hardly passed before crowd of Missouri
slayekolders rushed over into Kansas, began
stalking out and claiming all the best lands and
held meetings to denounce and threaten all
Northern Abolitionists" who should venture
into that region. There have been several such
meetings since held in Kansas or in the Missouri
villages along her frontier. In every one, the
resolves of the slayeholders are enforced BY
mesnipg reference TO the bowie knife and rife as
the faverite arguments of their caste. Individual
settlers from the Free States would have been