Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-08

be established not but whether Il should be abolish
cd You may rest assured that gentlemen Of the North
who have advocated this bill with so much zeal enter
tain no such idea OF its construction. When they say
they wish the Territory 70 be a5ula rasa they IL
They do not that should be first written all over
with slavery and then the people should have the pryi
ege Of erasiug and inscrbing other principles there
This privilege the people would have at all events ana
is useless to il to them by this BILL The CON
structon have conended for is that which the North
viii place upon it. and that which it will receive at the
hands of the judicial tribunals.
We are told there is danger of the consequences
have depicted that this squaer sovereignty which, ac
cordng to gentlemen, is recognised in the BILL and
according others is not will settle the question AZ
once the Territory is organized but think
sr such expectation will not bc realized. The prin-
cipe will be settled in any such manner nor in any
such short space Of time Before its settlement look
Tor trouble and agitation. imagine case not un
hkey to occur which would dissenson and
arouse more terrible excitement than any which ve
nave hitherto witnessed. Suppose man removes with
ms slaves 70 THIS Territory, after it is organized under
this BILL and before any action ON the subject is had i.
the Territorial Legislatures of them escapes into
free state he 10 pursued and arrested by his master
the matter is brought before tho courts and thew Arc
called upon, in the application Of the fugitive slave Law
decide whether the fugitive could be held to slavery
in the Territory from which he had escaped in the an
of any law recognising that institution Can
man doubt what the result would be The slave would
bo discharged and the whole South would deem itself
outraged by the decision Probably nothing would vound
us more sensitivey than this, and yet would have
brought it upon ourselves thousand times better that
the Missouri compromise should remain than be replaced
by q law leading to such consequences.
ask Southern gentlemen to test the merits of this bill
by very simple method Carry yourselves back TO the
year 1903 1904 place yourself in the Congress which
celebrating upon the purchase Of Louisiana let the
appropriation bill for the purchase money be under con-
sderaon and let some gentleman rise in his place and
move the following proviso: Provided That in the
territory thus acquired there shall be law continued In
force either protecting establishing prohibiting or abo-
lshing slavery Would the bill have received sipgle
fherQ nrusfh htySk kIa~a
voice who represents slayehoding constituency Who
would not have raised his voice in indignant remon-
STRANGE? And perohance it could have been carried
there one who would not have risen from his seat and
washed his hands Government which could
so iniquitous act? And yet this is precisely the pro-
position which We are called upon to vote for now We
are invoked IN the name of nonntervention
the banshment of slavery from what remains the old
Louisiana territory Is there with Southern heart
animating his bosom ready to do itg hope not
We ask the North to restore original condl-
ton or to let alone. We have not much to lose now
by abiding by the Missouri restriction. There is not O
foot Of earth north 800 3 the character of which not
already fixed by helaws of Congress- There not foot
Of earth there upon which slavery could make stand
it We're opened to the stakeholder. Then say to my
brethren of the South, before commit ourselves To
principle which, in the event of the annexation Cuba
would wipe out the status Of slavery there in order that
the matter might be submitted the free surages of the
people, let us pause and look around us.
But there is another objection this bill which to me
is nsuperabe have had very little experience in egs
atonnone beyond service Of few years in State
Legsature-and Imay take very plain, unsophsticated
verdant views of this matter but sir will never give
my hand or my vote, if know it. to any bill which
tains within itself intentional cquivocaon and this
believe to be Intentionally equivoca and obscure it's
pbraseology. believe it to have been framed with full
knowledge that gentlemen from the North would put
construction upon and gentlemen from the South
other, upon matters Of vital Importance; and cannot
bind myself to any containing within ITSELF
essedy the elements of discord strife and radical differ
Of opinion II could refer to the debates in the
tn thesed In
which allude but it is every newspaper confirms it.
The question Of squatter sovereignty is contended by
some to be the most charming element Of the BILL while
others deny its recognition altogether Is there dis
cord agitation to grow out Of this? Suppose the
Territorial Legislature of Kansas should recognise ss
very, would not the cry of the aboltonst at bo
heard in these halls calling upon Congress to anDu tho
unholy law, as he would term it! And when he was
told the squatters had decided the matter for themselves
according to the nonnteryenon doctrine Of this act
could he not quote Southern Senators show that Con-
gress had could not part with its own sovereignty
with its right ofrevison the squatter lawsY Is this
the to Danish agitation from the halls of Congresss
Can be possible that the passage Of this bill dry up
the fountain Of bitter waters 1t is almost solecism in
terms say so, when its phraseoogy 10 such tho
most astute lawyers cannot understand it, and two
whom you meet in the agree upon its
meaning Why, sir, it is unmitigated folly to hope to
Danish agitation from midst by the passage of bill
which is warmly supported by gentlemen becanse they
give the most opposite and interpretations to
its provsons by the passage Of bill which stulties
ITSELF and which does not contain single great principle
upon which patriotic Of all sections and oil parties
may rally.
Now, sir, if have succeeded in the design Of these
remarks, have shown that, far from the princi-
pie Of non-intervention appearing the face of this
BILL directly the is the case and that lis main
principle is that where laws authorizing slavery exist in
any territory which may hereafter be acquired they
shall be repealed in order to make it tabaia but
where laws do not exist shall remain
in stdu quo That is the main leading principle Of the
bill and the next is that there slavery in this
Territory either by natural law by the Constitution Of
the United States until the Legislature Of that Territory
by Law admits it.
Holding these views, do, and feeling with all the
warmth of Southern for that institution in which
reared and with which every interest that have
earth is entwined again ask Southern gentlemen to
pause and deliberate before they commit themselves TO
this principle
THE SANDERS DINNER TO THE REVOLUTIONARY
EXILES IN LONDON
The Nation" Of Brussels, has the following:
"We have just received additional details Of tho
dinner given by Mr. Sanders, the United States Consul