New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-21

tlsp tie OILERS in some respects st Because he A.
wsysis pointed and able and ID Because be doa hsa-
tate 70 SLY what BE- thinks and what are the real set
Ielts and oil. eots Of tie slave power.
We lamented that there was nobody % rise ali
pke the guns OF the lean GeOrgians argument on tie
spot, as soon they were DISCHARGED.
Briefly tleu: OF tie GTgURea to repeal the Missouri
C0uIrCmise. LTst Nlr Badger. Mr. Stephens The
Jnion newspaper and al the takers and writers great
ard snail, say they put the question 81 "h ther
Slavery slal shall Lot 90 into the Territories upon
puloly Republican ground. TO declare whether they
Will have Slavery or not They say they wish TO laaye
it to tie people Mr Stephens spent half bis hour on
friday in itersting this argument in every variety OF
statement illustrating tie soundness OF the doctrine
tud in declining upon IL. r. dweit. with tie gfeat
ei urcton upon the rights cf the people ~ tne safes
and Territories % establish -Aer Institutions. -
GO Mr. Badger. So does TIE Union So do all hands
This tie great poiu;ihe rights OF the people Of
States aud Territories 70 establish their own nst-
tutiCus Il is asserted The doctrine II n0n r en-
ton by tie National Government ia regard - cagcry
srd as thus being the only Constitutional as well rs
tie only Republican doctrine
Now, in the first place, tie! DO not mean What taey
soy. because they la,e not tie remotest intention Oh
giving 10 tie c0i0Tcd Inhabitants who may dwell in the
states ana Territories any voice in the matter. Yet
tie coored population certainly people, and rather
more interested in this question Of Slavery than any
body else. Why tie men Who argue in this way should
desire 10 exclude the black and yellow population from
taking any part m this csion OF the question IS NOT
tL,m 10 be i happier STATE. while in Slavery. than
when in state Of reedOm. there should be no Ob &C
ton 70 letting him give bis testimony on this point Ii
tie people the whole people Of the States AMI Terri
tories could be allowed to vote or the question OF Sa-
very. IL would be republican, and not voice among
tie lieI3s Of freedom anywhere would be LIKED
against 3ccigi OF the question O.; Liberty or Save
T. In any State. OF Territory or kingdom under heaven
but cur BsCceis and Stephens and other eulogsts OF
tie rights al tie people, do not mean anything Ike
In ~ al. lao flaV. a
HGsit7s.
But this is not the reply we wish to make 10 the
argument Of these gentlemen. They "a! the people
Of the Territories should themselves decide whether
they will or VIII not have Slavery among them. But
do they that the rbe men OF the Territories
shall determine this question To hear the declama-
ton cf these gentlemen upon the principles OF self
government TO listen 10 their lofty herolcs upon non
Intervention OF the National Government with the
Affairs Of the people of tie States and Territories, one
would suppose Of course that they meant tails and
nothing else That if this s not what they are driving
ar they nothing at ALL or they are tie greatest Oh
deceiyers aud hypocuts. Now marx. we brns
tIer cent 60 square 70 the point to show that they
do not mean vi at they say and that their declarations
on this head false and deceptive, and intended to
be- so.
On Wednesday last, Mr. Chase offered in the Senate
an amendment 20 Mr. Douglas amendment touching
tie rights of the people OF the Territories in respect to
Slavery Mr. Chases amendment Was in these words
- under which the people OF the Territories,
through their appropriate may they see
it, prohibit the existence OF Slavery therein.
Ofceurse. everybody would say, in view OF the arIu-
ments We have rccited the stock in trade Of the
Gierds Of the Nebraska bill that the amendment was
at once adopted No SIR! Mr.. Badger said, no, Sir
judge Butler said. 10, Sir Gov. Brown said, no. Sir
And vhvl Gov. Brown gave the reason lie SAID the
peo1e Of tie Territories had authority Rnd6r he COH
siiiufioa 10 cIciude Si0rery hsrJrOm. Mr. Chases
amendment was uo acted IN H. but it viii DE- rejected
by a un2lincus vote OF the friends OF the Neor1sAa
D.| SoLeIeScr ayOte On 1t IS taken.
Here ten is the argument Of the advocates OF the
r.real OF the Missouri Compromise, and here Is the
p-actcal commentary thereon by the very men "he
are using i.
l. It asked, What then, do these men really mean
We will state what they mean. The Nebraska bill
now before Congress allows of territorial legislature
to le chosen By the people. l. provides for the ap
poIiUCnt of Governor by tie President II also
provides for the appointment Of Judges by the Pfesi
d Mt Ii then Etipuates that the Governor may veto
auy law that the Lcaifature passes ard it is
qualified veto Though the Legislature may pass a
law excluding Slavery tn times in succession, aud
gfaHiHoNsy pass II. tie Governor may say forbid
az the ret or the Legislature becomes wholly nuga
tory. But this is not all. The Judges may sit in
council On ar law passed b. the Legislature and APP
TCVed Is tie Governor, and declare il uIc0ugtitu-
t,ral ard void. Neither is this all. Congress may
revise any act passed by the Legislature, approved by
t'e Governor. and declared constitutional by the
judges, ard without why or wherefore repeal IL,
and sweep il from the statute booL Now, when
We consider. first that We have an Administration
ulcirg On Ills Nebraska bin With n view of intro
duciIg Slavery into that Territory who aTow their in
:rBton to crush out freedom, Who Will ppOlnt the
Governor and appoint the judges OF that Territory,
which officers will, Of course, be men rct 7g the
peculiar sentiments of the Illustration On sarery,
az who will be responsible 20 nobody and no interest
in tie Territory and who VIII be liable 10 instant
moval by the President if they either Of them fail
10 execute liz desires and purposes, may see when
v. consider this what chance the bill offers for the
clusion Of Slavery. And secondly, when We reflect
flat after an act shall have been passed b. the Terri
ta.ia Legislature, approved b. tie Governor, sane
TONED by the judges and acquiesced 10 D. the Presi
dent that Congress may repeal it, and that Congress
Il father ard supporter Of the whole Nebraska ni-
auitv We may have sil clearer perception OF the
chances TO exclude slavery by the Peope OF the Terri
tory
What these men mean then by leaving the subject
OF Slavery 10 the people of the Territories is this and
nothing more, and nothing less Ii is 10 establish
coyernu ent for them o such character that the peO
pie cannot possibly keep Slavery Out, let them desire
10 do so ever 80 much and vote to do il ever 50 often
Cur exposition demonstrates this. The Badgers. and
Stephenses and Mons, and all tie advocates OF Ne
bIalka. little and big. thus guilty OF mDn5Ir0us
fraud IN the Of their great argument that
II is tie design Of the legislation contemplating
tie repeal OF the Missouri restriction. 70 leave
tie Introduction or exclusion OF Slavery to the
people of the Territories which that restriction now
covers and protects. Instead Of giving tAat power to
4 q peOUe they by the provision of the bill, We
have shown, absolutely and unqualihedly withhold il,
a1d Iut that power solely in the hands Of the Presi-
dent and Congress Either Of them and both OF tnem
have onte control over the subject These advocates
OF Nebraska not then after Nonntervent0n they
p-eterd iut are making OF actiye Intervention
il lyor q slavery. And in addition TO the evidence
oi il which the bill itself exhibits, AID which was
snitestc0 in tie Senate, proceedings 70 which We
lave adyerted il notorious that Whenever these men
s, messed On the point of whether they mean to