Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-18


will not allow them to elect their Judges their
Secretary Of State their Governor we VIII
apply to them all the laws Of the United States
we think applicable to their condition and we
will REQUIRE that whatever laws may be passed
by the Territorial Legislature shall be submit
ted to lie"
And vet we are called upon to admire the
Principle Of SELF Government, as applied to the
People Of Territory The Bill Of Mr. Dong
las is itself total denial Of this Principle in
such an application
And then the People are to be cheated with
another fraud. Let the Territorial Legislature
regulate the subject Of Slavery as its constitu-
ents may decide, subject TO the Constitution OF
the United States g This is the doctrine"
shout the paid presses Of Slavery at the North
awho will not trust the People? No fear that
Slavery will be introduced into Nebraska, il
they are left to decide the question. Better Tor
Freedom than all the Congressional Legislation
in the world!0
Have honor, fair dealing, common honesty,
ceased to exista Do not these presses know
that they are guilty Of infamous deception
Their masters at the South deny that Terri
torial Legislature has the power to exclude
Slavery. Fortunately, the following article
from the Charleston g. C) Mercury, furnishes
a timely exposure Of the imposition they are
attempting upon the People of the North.
There is one thing about Masterdom that ex-
ats it heaven high above the supple Servility
that bends the knee before tit il too proud
to sneak, too audacious to play the hypocrite.
Read what follows, and then say what you
think Of Self Government, Non.lntervention,
and other humbugs peddled at the North
Senator Dougla Squatter SoUereagnty,--
The Boston Posi-, in commenting upon this gen.
tleman's recent speech, takes much pleasure
in finding, as it asserts it's fayorite doctrine Of
SauATTER SOVEREIGNTY, OR THE RIGHT OF
THE People OF THE TERRITORY TO LEGIsLATE
UPON ALL LEGAL SUBJECTS, AND THEREBY TO
EXCLUDE SLAVERY, fully maintained and vim
dicated WE CANNOT ASSENT TO sANy SUCH
CONSTRUCTION Of the speech, and of the bill
which it sustains, without imputing duplicity
to the former, and an unconstitutional charac-
ter to the latter. For, fit is intended to be
argued By Senator Douglas, that an creating
Territorial Governments, Invested a0afh the usual
poiDers, they can iegislGte so as 10 exclude and
abolish Slavery, Dhen the very lar Wtach or
ganizes them declares the Territories open TO
the Immigration and settlement Of the siam
holder, we must reject such a proposition as not
only unconstitutional, but as containing upon
its very face the mark of treachery. 1t would
indeed be the climax of specous Justice, to pro-
claim Non Intervention on the part Of Congress
~ the principle of fairness and the Constitu-
ton, yet that it should pass law CONFER
RING UPON TENT-FULL OF HUNTERS AND OUT
Laws THE RIGHT TO INTERVENE IN THE MOST
ABSOLUTE AND SOVEREIGN MANNER. If the
Compromise Of 1850, and the present bill for
the admission Of Nebraska, really mean any
thing Of fairness and Justice to the South, il
the latter be not intended as trap to catch
her support for a principle seemingly of value
to hcr, ace are NOT in error i,l saying to slaUe-
holders, here lies this Territory go into ii NTH
your property If you mil and you shall be
safe, until, as a sovereign State, the people de.
eide for or against the institution. Otherwise
the Nebraska bill is worthless and deceptive
truce
aBnt we mistake Mr.. Douglas if such an
inference can be properly drawn from his ar
gument and bill Indeed, whatever may be
his own views on the subject the bill itself pro-
uides, in the first place, that all latos passed by
the Territorial Government, shall be submitted
10 the Congress of the United States, and If dis
approved, shall be null and Of no effect Sec
ondly, that all cases Involving title 10 slapes
and questions Of personal freedom shall be sub
ject 10 the ultimate decision of the Supreme
Court of the United Sfaies' So far, therefore,
from these Governments being empowered to
exclude Slavery, any action they may take
upon the subject would be matter for discus
sion and decision, both by Congress and the
Supreme Court Of the United States. Should
the issue arise upon law excluding or abol-
ishing Slavery, the question of the power to
pass such law would be the first inquiry and
q decision which acknowledged that power in
the teeth Of proclaimed non. Intervention, and
the rights Of the stakeholder, would be as mi
quitous as it is absurd. IL would be Congress
sIonal Intervention ono step removed, not 80 d.
rect as the Missouri Compromise or the Wilmot
Proyiso but more insidious and fatal, because
while protesting equality in theory, Congress
and the Supreme Court would become the in
struments Of wrong, welded by tho hands Of
othersn
10 We have received Of Hilbus & Hitz
Music Dealers, Pennsylvania avenue, between
10th and 18th streets, the following peices Of
music: aLet us Speak of Man as we Find
Him. Dedicated to the Hon. John p Hale
words by J. Simmons. "Eva to her Papa as
sung by little Cordelia Howard in her original
character Of the Gentle Eva, in Uncle Toms
Cabin--words by her father, G. Howard.
MEETING AT New YORK TONIGHT. A
numerously signed call appears in the New
York papers, upon tho citizens Of New York
who are opposed to the violation Of the Mis-
souri, Compromise and the extension Of Slave
Territory, to meet at the Tabernacle, this even
ing to utter their stern protest against the
threatened breach Of faith, and their determin-
ed hostility to any encroachment by the slave
power on tho rights Of free labor in the terri-
tory secured by that compact