Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-30
4MAKING THE ISSUE IN MICHIGAN"

following article In the last number OF the wash
ington Union:
we expressed our qualification yesterday the
mnation Of Mr.. STUART for Congress. The following
proposition addressed by him to his competitor, Mr.
HOWARD manifests the spirit with which he enters the
canvass. Mr. SruARr voted for he Nebraska J and he
challenges his competitor go before the people
and discuss that issue The following is the proposition:
DETROIT SEpTEmBER %, 1854.
"WM A. HOWARD, Eso--SIH: The Conventions which
nominated you for Representative in Congress having
made the act organizing the Territories of Kansas and
Nebraska the only issue in the approaching election
propose discuss the principles Of that act with you at
the following places to wit Detroit, Ann Arbor jack
son. and Howell at such times and under such regulations
as mutual friends may determine.
g Sir respectfully, your obedfent servant,
DAVID STUART"
The Southern reader must not infer, from the
above statements, that Mr.. STUART has taken the
field in decided support Of the Nebraska act as that
measure is understood and sustained at the South.
Not at all. The issue made by the Democrats in
Michigan and other Northern States is, that the
Nebraska act by establishing the principle Of "po
puar sovereignty" Cor, in other words, the @squat
ter sovereignty" SO universally repudiated at the
South,) is in fact " boon to freedom" Conse-
quently the whole drift Of the argument in Michi
gan is to show that the Southern States have in
truth lost privilege they possessed before the
peal Of the Missouri Compromise, and that, as sla-
very can only be protected in the Territories by the
positive enactment Of Congress, the Nebraska act
will necessarily prevent the formation Of any more
Slave States. 9
The subjoined article, copied from the Detroit
" Free Press" the leading Democratic paper in
Michigan, will show what really is the issue pre-
, sented by the Democratic party Of that State.
FROM DETROIT (MicH1oAS) SPREE rnEss.''
The Effect Of the Nebraska BIZ not to open the ne,c
Territories to Slavery
The chief objection urged ~ the anti-Nebraskaites Of
every hue against the Nebraska is that
opens an tract Of territory the spread Of
slavery Driven to the wall every other point of OBJ
lection they cling this with the tenacity Of drowning
men, Let us dislodge them from their last hold.
Slavery is The creature Of muaicpallaw IT NOWHERE
EXIST EXCEPT by POSITIVE ENACTMENT Until laws
passed in Nebraska and Kansas establishing slavery every
slave taken there becomes free man the moment he
steps upon the SOIL Does anybody doubt it? viii any
Wing, Abolitionis Fusionist deny Lest it may
be denied propose to bring authority rrefagabe
so overwhelming that THE WILL DETERMINED IN
THE MINDS OF ALL This authority follows and
are indebted to the Kalamazoo Gazette for the
| pilaton:
The relation of The o,cner and slape in the States of
the Union in which it has legal existence aceature
Of the municipal law"lHdrtns Louisiana Reports p 402.
The right of the master exists not by force of the law
of nature nations, but by virtue only Of The Posre dc
And again. in the State slavery is condemned by
and the laws of nature II EXISTS, and only
isf, through municipal regulations Walkers Mississippi
Reports, page SO.
Slavery exists only by positive Law Of municipal
character without foundation in the law of nature
or
Reports page 40.
The state Of Slavery is deemed mere municipal re-
guation, founded upon and limited to the Of the
territorial law.Peterss (Pa Digest pol 2, page GOT.
States seventh circuiD that whore slavery is not
pressy established BY law every without distinc
ton of color. is presumed to be free I'D Aceans s-
ports page co.,
Between you and me, Mr. Chairman, the Constitution
does carry slave any where except it be runaway,
and does take him back from free State to his master
in slave State. There is law for that But, sir, in
Territory from which all law has been swept in what way
does the Constitution protect slavery! There must be
local regulation enable you invoke the Constitution
Is the Constitution to keep marshal there to prevent
the slave who may be carried there from setting up for
himsclf If Nebraska is to remain free of local law
laye to slavery like island fresh risen from the sea-
and two men, black and white man, find them
selves there will the Constitution decide which is the
master and which is the slave2 confess should feel
there would be ground to apprehend that the
black might turn the tables me- Speech of Mr..
\
There be slavery in this Territory either
natural Low the Constitution of the United States
until the Legislature of that Territory by law admits it,
/ Speech Of Mr.. Franklin, of Maryland.
"Without the sanction Of law slavery can no more
exist in Territory than man can breathe without air
Slaves property where they not made by
municipal law."-Jndye MeLsan's Letter 10 the Buffalo
/ Contention.
Believing in what have said from the beginning,
that slavery is extinct in New Mexico and in all Califor
MIA and cannot be revived in either in any part Of
either, without positive enactment, ready to vote
them Governments without any provision the subject
| of slavery."-Hon. Thomas III. Beaton
"My rules of interpreting the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States the good old rules Of 98 and 90 never
have in my life devated from these rules And what
they The Constitution is aggregate Of coded powers
No power is granted except when it expressly deegat
ed when is necessary and proper carry into effect
o delegated power; and if in any instance, the power
to carry slaves into the Territories is guaranteed you by
the Constitution in any incident necessary to the
rying Of any other power that is delegated in the
Constitution, have been unable perceveit It is mo-
where to be found You resort such gene
raj principles the Federasts did, in the early history
of this country, when they contended for the doctrine Of
the general welfare but you cannot put your finger
the part of the Constitution which conveys the right
power to carry slaves from OF the States Of the
Union to any Territory Of the United States"
Speech Of Henry Clay.
Here is array Of decisions and opinions which can
be disturbed by any conflicting authority. They come
from the very highest in tho courts
and nrists and statesmen in both sections Of the Union
from men Of oil political parties.-FIse Press.