New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-01

v;tu5eVas % be- extended 70 I'll territory 20 be &c
orirad from Mexico. ST. Cas- exhibited az first. .
rrest zeal u behalf Of tbs Who. PrJs-o. bar dljng
a,terwsrd bow posed the Sola was 20 submit 20
II L rrd-or 20 uss his0 wu expr ssi0nin tie Letter
itself l. public mind I'm ierwen.a great change,
beginning in doubts ard endln- in certsiI-ie-
Mr. Cass was got yet prepared % cone ~ % the
true fou.ieru staGaaritl- mark which 10 il-l-e 81
unst too vLorey upon re slave-hoiipg tsvor Newls
rot prer -eG 70 tIss is opinion. il many words
that Slavery D, benevolent Institution .1d lot Only
that but tie bet ouuoa ion Of rePubc4nsn the o1y
.ord basis of Tree GOyern1eut and 81 such Thing
which ought to be introduced into aud .osee in Oh orr
uew territories NJ Cas- as casila.e 5r - r:s'i-
1ency-for we are OILY Speaking here of his public
mind and not Ot lis private opn.0n,-Vl- not get
prepared 20 give these pledges 90 tie S0ui But Ie
6i1 ibrk it necessary 70 crawl Of from tie Wi.not
Proviso and in order % 10 that he rcs)rted % the
oli musty t1ick Of al those who wish excuse or op
posing hing the abstract justice proprety snl ez
podiency Of which they 30 not venture % dely. 1t
nay be a very desirable measure, quo.h Air Cas-, 70
exclude Slsyeu from al the Territories bui-sththe
air Of man very scrupulous On very corscen-ols-
Congress has 10 constitutional power T. DO 50, IL
httN vi MS at'N WI. Aot I'--'-ar'r tfpt1 vA-
rev e1pounter If the Constitution, his persPicuty
shGrpened b, tic Presidential Nomination noN a fdl
view and within few months OF being made. because
the Constitution only gives 10 Congress the power 70
dispose Of and TO make all nsedfI rules and reglll
tlons respecting the territory AMI other property
belonging to the nted safes. which authority
does not extend to the unlimited power OF legi8tion
to the passage Of all laws in the general accePtotiOn
" Of the word Certainly this is somewhat OF con-
stituiionsl discovery, tumllug over Ike bricks set in
a whole continuous series Of acts o. Congress
from the first session OF that body downward. Con
gress it seems has no power 10 establish territorial
governments uOr to provide my laws for TIE ,errto-
RES Congress has 10 other power ia The territories
than any other owner Of lands would have. Tae sole
and exclusive right Of establishing governments and Of
making laws for the territories according to tais
new exposition Of tie Constitution with the nh2b ants
thereof or Il ,here happens TO be only one why then
with him alone.
Had Mr. Cass manfuily adhered TO the constitutional
primo pie thus laid down aud followed il out cOnsIs
tently AL ITS consequences especially had he given
proof OF his sincerity b. reuulng into the public
reasury-at that time ina good deal Of distress through
the pressure Of the Mexican warthe very large sums
of money which he had unconstitutiOnlly according
to his own interpretation received Territorial Gov
erLor together with the large profits derived BY the
investment in western lands Of that money 40 would
have placed himself on little more respectable ground
before the public But Mr. Cass does nothing OF the
sort lie has not he least inclination to Unc!asp his
clutch on the dollars. lie admits on the ground OF
suggested ssty at all events he does not deny the
ali Il yxlicd
head by the way the Missouri proyiso ials) lie was
only anxious for the future especially on nehaf OF our
then expected new brethren, the New 1exicaus and
Spanish Caliornans whom he tel, US are just Is ca
pabe Of regulating their internal concerns in their owa
WAY az tie people of the States. For Congress -
question their intelligence and capacity for sell gov
emmeut by undertaking to regulate for them the rela
ten of master and seryans would, be suggca', stand
Just upon par with undertaking b. Congress to pre-
scribe the terms OF msrragc In New-l0rk or % regu
late the authority Of parcuts over their children IN
Peunsy ,aria.
Well aduit for tie sake OF the argument that this
strange Interpretation Of the Constitution is the true
oneadmit lo- tie sake Of the the power
10 acquire and possess territories does not OF necessity
carry with it tie power to govern them, without
has no other power in the territories than those
Of mere landed proPretor-yet even then, whatever
may become Of the territorial governments and laws
and Of Mr. Casss wei invested salaries, Congress viii
still have ample aud abundant power left to prohibit
the Introduction Of Slavery into Nebraska. There is
not foot OF land within the proposed limits Of that ter
roTy which does not belong eithernow or through the
right Of presumption from the Indians pr0spectiyely 20
the United States Now there is no more con-
exercise OF the rights of landed proprietor than
in selling out his land to others to prohibit the pur
cbaseTs forever from introducing nuisances upon il.
Such restrictions nay be in the highest degree cslcu
lated both to raise the value OF uusold lots and to Sc
cure better price for al those actually sold. There
are many villages and even some considerable towns in
the West al the lots of which have been sold upon the
express condition that no erog-sbops shall ever be
established upon them. Similar restrictions have been
often introduced into their leases and deeds by public
spirited individuals. The nuisance OF rum selling is no
doubt great enough to justify all these expedients to
prevent is introduction into new territory But the
introduction of Slavery uto such territory a mis-
snce & thousand times az great. What the territory
nortL-West O. the Ohio would have been bu, for the
original prohibition of Slavery, any one may judge
By taking the very worst part OF southern illinois for
specimen. Admit, then, TO please Messrs. Cass al1
Douglas that tie United States have no other right.
authority or power in Nebraska than that Of a mere
landed proprietor yet such proprietor merely have
they enough right to prohibit the Introduction Of
Slavery into that territory "a right which every con-
sderatcn political moral or reg ous calls upon tlem
to exercise in the most peremptoTy manner.