New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-18

State, cf Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin 'nd hic''
;o,n-6ye States DOT exceeded. ifequaled' IN popui'
ton. growth. wealth eud prosperity-aee, &c-' con-
.;d,red-by any other FIVE States 10 the Union. Aai
!, ia morally certain that three OF these Sli'es-sh
hnt Michigan and Wsconsin-would have been slave
s,,ss but for the operation of the Ordnance of lS'.
TIE Ordnance prsred strongly eondHeise 10 Psae'
and ysrro,p beireen the North and the Sssth.-rhe
slave States never complained OF it, never asked its
repeal but on the contrary, when the ierrtof! in
diana. BY her legislature, almost unanimously Pc
,t;or.d Congress 10 be allowed TO establish slavery
for +. limited term, (Which would IN due TINE nave
been Transformed into term riiaon lmit) the memo
rial WAS referred 10 Committee OF whom MAJORITY
were Shareholders John Randolph OF Roanoke Char
,rs,-vho in due tine unanimously rel, rted tha' tae
,,.r oC The petitioners ought not 10 be granted De-
e.rss il WIS forbidden by the Ordnance o! 81 aud
bec,u,e the temporary increase OF population anu
,,a.,,b which vould accrue 20 the young Territory
from the introduction OF Slavery would DO more .nan
counterbsspced BY the permanent evils OF the SlaSe
s, stem Congress heartily acquiesced In 'n'' ''o"'
and refused TO suspend the Inhibition
A The Missouri Restriction has Pror.d e7Hdity P'1-
s,ful cRd ben,fcert nth regard TO the Territory |"
to ulieh 1t apples it, Iowa became Free
Tsrritory. next Free State, and Minnesota has al
ready advanced half way on the path. The very
frat case tried in the Supreme Court of Iowa was one
wherein Southern master claimed as his slave black
r.n whom he had taken thsher and Chief Justice
Mason row L. s Commissioner of Patents) decided
that the Missouri Compromise had abolished and pre-
Guided ell avehOdirg in said Territory, aud that the
usn claimed 81 slave therefore entitled toms res
DOM This settled the law so far a. Iowa was con-
cerned And it is not many months since the supreme
Court of Missouri oyerruled law OF that state eA
Guiding Free Negroes, declaring it invalid because
oprosed to the fundamental compact imposed on MIS-
sour BY the Congress Of 1920. Thus Southern As well
y, Northern Courts have ajjudged the Missouri Com
prcmise valid and binding and have protected Free
Blacks 40 well as those claimed slaves against op-
preston, by virtue of that compact.
; The Harmony created by Tie enactment and masae-
nance of the Ordinance Of 81 and the Missouri Compro-
mis-, LGs not been impaired by the South but could "a7e
renained still pnbroken bit for the intsrmefAing
Northern demaeogues-The South never asked for re-
neal of the Ordinance of 81 it has not now asked for
a lubyersion of the Missouri Compromise. On the
contrary Mr. Yice-Presdent Atchison only last year
waived and withdrew his opposition to Mr. Douglass
genuine Nebraska bill (Free-SOiD expressly on the
ground that was hopeless to expect the North to sur
render the Missouri Restriction. Thus all was peace
between the two sections until Douglas wantonly threw
his bone of contention between them.
judge Bronson's and Mr.. Grinnells proposition,
stripped of oil yerbisge, is simply thisLet che North
surrender at discretion confess that it has been grossly
wrong ard the South entirely right in all their past
- all khapaa forth ava
perfect International peace and fraternity But this Is
no new prescription. As long ago as iIudioras' no
earlier il was discovered that there would be m end
of fighting if ore side were allowed to give all the
blows and the other content merely to take them
Let the North proclaim for all, that it knows no
difference between Liberty and Slavery, Right ana
Nrcrg God ard the Devil, and there Will De nothing
left TO faht about For if ace cherish sublime nllI-
ference as between Liberty and Slavery, the
South rotoriously has very decided preference,
and will manifest it by establishing Slavery IN
all the Territories that We thus surrender.
But if following Mr.. GriBnell we decline to stand
ND for Freedom in Nebraska we snail very soon
lie summoned to resist the relntroduction OF Slavery
into NewYerk the very same pleas that we are re-
sstipg ia the other for if the sacred right OF
" self government" requires that every man be per
mitted to govern and his negroes Nebraska 1t
ine1oraby requires the same in New-York And when
ever the shareholders shall proper to assert their
constitutional right to take their property into this
State and here hold and it, we shs expect to see
Me,srs Bronson AMI Grinnel Insisting on that as the
true doctrine OF Non Intervention, AMI its concession
a. essential to sectional harmony and the safety of the
Union Men OF peace rely on it, you have got TO
make your stand somewhere and every inch OF grouad
you yield now weakens your chance of successful re-
sistance at last