The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-17

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The following letters were received by the committee
LETTER FROM JOHN cocHRANE, THE SURVEYOR OF
NEW York, March TO- 1854.
GrST1ENyx-I have received from you invitation to
attend and address meeting Of the democracy OF tho
city of New York, to be held this evening Tanmany
Hail. ITO respond to the great democratic truths Of the
right and duty of State or Territory to frame their own
form OF government and control their dome fairs
contained in the bill now before the Congress Of the
United States for organization Of the Territories OF
Nebraska and Kansas The circumstances which slr-
round me render cxpedient that should decline your
invitation to address the meeting should not how
ever refrain from exposition of the opinions which
have influenced my assent to the bll the principles Of
which your meeting Is intended to endorse for that
purpose shall avail myself Of the occasion to address
to you few lines.
of the Territories OF Nebraska ans Kansas under
stand viii be the ratification Of the principle of
Intervention BY Congress- IN the domestic affairs and in
generally conceded that the Observance of this principle
by Congress- in its legitimate intercourse with the States
is but the emblem Of that general re,pact in which
organized democratic law is held by people. It's vo-
aticn would be treason to the rs principles OF gov
ernen and the attempt would be the signal general
resistance am unable to appreciate the argument
which afrms the vitality of this truth in the States and
denies its existence the Territories Its application is
TO the people and 50 long as State governn mt and
Territorial government are but the various designations
Of the polty Of people in the corresponding stages
belief that 1t is operative over the whole land,
wherever the people are present. in their rights of poll
riy conflict with constitutional law. Many pu5liciss
inclined to the opinion that the federal
ments Territories. Were this unsound ciy disorder
would prevail in the anomalous spectacle of creation
Of government BY power foreign to that in which re-
dtions would bc the nucleus of States and annexation
the only method Of multiplying the federal Unoa The
Just exercise of this power is found in the enactment
by the government Of authority to the occupants OF
the unorganzed domains to institute
them and when Congress have thus authorized the for
nation of government the just power contemplated by
the constitution to be vested in them, the Terrific
| ries, will have been exerted From this point
ences properly the action Of the principle OF noninter
vention with the efforts of the people to govern them
selves.
IL 70 that every instance Of departure from
this principle has been attended by calamity All efforts
by Congress TO qualify characterize Territorial consti
utons have but produced the legitimate consequences
Of disregard OF organic laws-teynporary relief and
recurring disease Questions Of vital i'm ort.ncc
the PEOPLE to be governed have been agtatet and dis
cussed without their represented participation and in
that have witnessed the suffice OF the theme
by collateral issues, its contraction 10 party interests
and its degradation TO confederation Of Political
truck between politicians Of various schools. iIe,cc
prolific progeny Of ccmpacts naities and comprom SEES
duy labelled Of their respective years suspended In the