, 1855-06-22

Ih'CI'l WHICH HclluCT ChNll nave utulCNtt
alone. Lexington and Bunker Hill ma,
be said 10 have been fought on free soil
but Saratoga, Camden, aud Yorktown fol
lowed Oh slave soil The actors Of thai
day agreed upon what they considered
EQUALITY, and their sagacity and Judgment
compels our admiration, and secures oul
sanction for after a lapse Of seventy
years we find sons enough, true TO the sirei
Of the revolution, stepping forward and
sustaining that equality wherever the terms
of the agreement command it, But an
other principle, Territorial Acquisition, ha.
disturbed AID broken that .cquality-po
| litically. The laws Of nature, Of climate,
and cultivation, may he said to have step.
ped in and favored the Northern piscon
tep. Minnesota, Utah, Washington, aud
Oregon have already settled the question
by northern maiorities-and Nebraska,
Kansas, New Mexico, and the country OF
the Colorado, have no chance for the tStfh.
lishmeut Of the Southern Institution. Cal.
ilornia extends further south than either OF
them, and she rejected slavery by vote
of ten TO one. Those countries az pa,;o.
ral-not agricultural-iu those products
which make slave labor valuable They
have no summer rains, and cannot grow
successfully any crops but wheat and such
grains as can get their start amid winter
rains, Saltillo, in Mexico, is one of the
best wheat countries on earth. Tobacco,
Rice and Sugar grow in u country where
rains fall in the Summer, or where irrigation
is practicablc--not in land Of sun burnt
plains. Some Of those great rivers Of
those territories are at times almost lost in
sands-and drifts of sand would ill up the
canals of irrigation. In fact. there are
whole districts of burning drifting sands
that would "drnk old ocean dry" The
sage bush and the lizard, the Indian and
the bnllalo will in a few years give place
to the enterprising cattle grower Of the
Western States, who will breed upon its
oases and streams those immense herds
which will soon be demanded to supply the
mine lands Of California, the cotton and
sugar lands Of the Mississippi, and the corn
and wheat lands Of the North and West
Slaves can never be kept in those terrific
ries, Uhey are not susceptible Of q suii.
cient destiny of population to secure u
ncgro.) There is not the first likeness Of
a preventative to their escape. They
could not run of into Mexico on the south,
or into Canada on the north. There are
no natural distractions or boundaries to
prevent their Highland not for half q
century will there be people settled thick
enough 10 stop them, if they had not the
will, which they will not have either on the
south, or north, or west There is no in-
ducement for q slave owner to leave any
of the present slave States, and thus risk
his property; and besides all that, he runs
the great risk that northern men will out
number southern on the formation Of Ter
ritoral goverament-or if not at first, that
they will overpower him in few years,
and fnally rout him, il not as a Territory,
yet as a state; and until territory is or
ganized, and laws of property passed, he
could not hold bis slaves here. BY law
they are entitled to their freedom when
their master leaves his slave state to settle
in one where this institution does not exist
In fact it is doubtful il Comfy itself be
law sufficient to project master with his
slaves passing in trdnsitw over free soil.-
So close is this issue regarded that it is
now being tested in the courts Of the
state of New York. Every Northern Dis
content, if he could see without the scales
of Abolition fanaticism, would this day
instead of cursing Douglas be voting him
thanks for having lifted of from those
southern territories the lawless restriction
of $3.50. Some short sighted men, in heir
miserable blindness, would drag back that
Legislative fraud, the Missouri Compro.
mise, and place again within the power o.
the South, pretension she would never
again yield up. The Right ia the GbsoiRt
to make slave domain Of the southern Ter
ritories.
POSITION OF DOUGLAS.
Amidst the rage Of ignorance and fanaii
cism. Douglas has temporarily lost the
Presidency; ye; who that can appreciate
true fame would not willingly exchange 1
mere external official glitter, for that da
mord light, which ilumes the brow Of In
tellectual Superiority-and when the pen
of the impartial historian shall come tC
trace his eountry's annals, whose fame shal
be greater than his, who has established
and perpetuated amongst bis countrymen {
God created principle, that holiest, divincs
right of man, selfgovcrnment2 Thus afteI
a contest OF more than fifty years have
some OF the greatest, mightest principles
which belong to the confratcrnity of mai
been decided, and successivcly settled il
! favor of his individuality, and self sover
eigNty-and justly proud may be the mel
, who have succeeded in yindicating an,
maintaining those principles, from the blind
ness OF partisan interest, often from re
, publican zeal without knowledge-from til,
injustice of bgotry and the intolerance o
priestly fanaGcism, which has sometime
, attempted to thunder with q voice lik
Gods" What greater power did the Pop
: of Rome ever pretend to possess tha
: was declared by the three thousand AM
: twent-fve Protestant priests of New Eng
land. and Chicago-to speak political il
| terdict in the name of God Almighty