New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-08
DOUGLAS.

Mr.. Stephen A. Douglas has been spending some
days in our town-perhaps is still here-where he
has made one speech to Mr.. John Cochrane IN an
apartment of his tavern and another in the street TO
the Empire Club and such adjuncts as could be
drummed up by an hours industrious cannonadng in
the Park and drumming through Broadway. We wish
more of our citizens could have been induced to gauge
the intellectual calbcr of the Little Giant who has
stirred up all this row about Nebraska The first
shock of amazement must have been severe, but the
subsequent reflections would have been salutary. Do
consider few ger ns from his Tuesday evening
speech:
"Tbe sinple principle involved in that Nebraska
question was that the people of The Territories OF the
United States shall be allowed decide for themselves
what kind of laws they would have: 1t is no
excuse say that the people if left to themselves wll
pass bad laws if they do the consequences OF those Dad
laws must fall upon their own heads.
That is to say: if A. is allowed to beat sell or
starye B-the consequences Of such bad laws fall
not on deenseless b. who is beaten, sold and starved
but on powerful A. who is enabled to do him the
wrong--and so there ia no danger that the wrong will
not be speedily rcdressed
Now If the people of the Territories capable Of legs
lang upon every question involving the weibeing OF the
White man. are they also capable Of essatlng for the
neorol Laughter and cries of Yes DO not think
il requires any higher intellectual power to make laws for
the negro thGn ior the white man Great cheefng.I
Is MT this something to be cheered over! just
think OF Butte North getting up in the House of Lords
OF I775 and saying "My Lords il Parliament is capa-
bic OF legslang for Englishmen, think 1t qualified
8. to legisate for Americans we'll" How pot
belied couhtIy squres would have chucked over aud
cheered the suggestion! How Sam. Johnson's tory
ism would have spread itself! PARLIAMENT makes
good enough laws for uSwhy not good enough then,
for Yankees" why. replies simple DIR. Franklin,
because Parliament represents you, is responsible to
you aud does not represent nor it ponsbls to,
1.-the Americans" What Republican can fail to see
tie distinction But Douglas gloats on his glimmer
of an idea, and returns 10 it something stunning.
Let us follow him.
.sThe Abolitonists tel you that the proper way is
give the people Of the Territories power TO makc aHie lars
t0r fhl wlcs Jut none for Le bi0cks Now say that
should maintain and support principles consistently,
and that rhat good eaoagh tor hte " good enough or
ntgrots lCheers.
The living little villain knows this to be stepped in
observation-disclosures that no Abolitionst ever proposed
TO deprive the People of Legislative power over Blacks
or Whites. What they do propose is that the laws
shall be just and equal TO all men, and take no
recount Of their color as reason for nficting degra-
daton, injury and wrong upon any class or faction.
1t is he Stephen A. Douglas who il trying to tx mat
tcrk 20 tHdl WIFI is R"Ou thJugh ioi Pois sho ""'
he legally accounted good enough for the residue-so
that the power to make all laws shall be confined to
mon of one color, while those of another shall be
abused and oppressed under those laws without re-
dress
- But We ought not TO have wasted so many words
on tbs miserable creature with his mpudent, brazen
sopbistry Rynders himself might have uttered as
wicked but not 80 weak rgmaroe aud we are rather
surprised that he did not, ~ if in Tammany after
getting touch Of its quay order the Giant to shut
up and to proceed to make the speech OF the evening
himself