The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-02-02
ANOTHER DECEPTION.

For the sake Of securing the support Of those
| Northern Democrats who in 1913 supported
General Cass, and aequiesced in his doctrine of
| Congressional Non Intervention in the Terrific
ries, the Slave Power is just now profoundly
impressed with the conviction that the People
Of Territory have right to settle the Cues
ton Of Slavery for themselves, without inter-
ference and it is shocked that any American
citizen who believes in tho right of lfgovern-
ment should be found arrayed against this
policy.
This is sheer humbug. The Slave Power
does not itself believe in this policy. 1t DOS
not admit that the People Of Territory haze a
right to exclude Slavery. 1t denies tho right of
Congress to exclude Slavery from any Terri
tory-this is all it means by Congressional non-
Intervention Tho doctrine of Non Interven-
tion as held by those who claim for the inhab-
itants of Territory the right to prohibit or
tolerate Slavery, it denies as STIatter Souer-
eighty Did it not refuse, in ls4s, to recognise
such right in the People of Oregon, when
all of it's advocates in the South, with one Or
two exceptions voted against it in tho Senate !!
Did not Mr.. Calhoun, and the present Score
tary of War, Mr.. Davis and other distin.
guished Southern Senators, direct against it
their fercest denunciations, in 1850? Did not
the members from the South in both Houses
array themselves almost as one man against
the action of the People of California, because
they incorporated in their Constitution clause
excluding Slavery And yet, we are now to
be told that all the South asks is, the recogni-
ton, by the North of the principle and policy
of Non-Intervention
Do not be deceived. The position of the
Slave Power is simply this-rcpeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, Non-Intervention by Con-
gre-s, and nor, action by the People of the Ter
ritory itself as to Slavery, except 10 SECURE TO
citizens Of the United States the aaves whick
they mag choose 10 take there.
The Richmond (Va.) Examiner, the boIdcst
most out-spoken of all the Pro Slavery rapers
Of the South, does not mince the matter. It
says:
"Whilst the amendment of Senator Douglas
affords assurances of his devotion to the insti-
tutions of the South, and provides effectualIy
for the protection of Slavery during the exist
ence of Territorial Government in Nebraska,
it does not meet our appreciation so fully as
does the amendment offered by MIR. Dixon, of
Kentucky.
The amendment of Mr.. Douglas provides
merely for the protection of the rights of the
South in a single Territory. That of Mr..
Dixon provides for the protection of the slave.
holder in all Territories belonging TO the United
States. 1t is more catholic in it's provisions,
and, by an emphatic declaration, guarantees
without further agitation or Legislation, safety
to every citizen Of the South when no emigrates
into the Territories Of the United States It
renders special legislation for each Territory,
when it demands Territorial Government
unnecessary and gives 10 the constitutional
rights of slaveholders the additional and prao-
teal security Of special law"
The Bill OF Senator Douglas secures to the