The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-30

The people may decide the question: subject to the
ilavsry prevails permits NO nsrfsrsnos With the sub
ect II not tho whole thing them cheat and delusionf
Practically and enthusiastically no such power = GRANTED
resolved into long and desperate struggle between ne
settler from the free States going there to clair 70 ms
contguity his side striving to wrest y from him:
would seem that fair field is not sen 70 % allowed
borne and down BY the ssvsss aud savage
lence Of msr RAIDERS from an s<Joinng save etats WIN
the send zoe o. Ss %"rv
TO DO is d bell, clear imperative, and beyond al
controversy .sa no. stop to argue At Length that =,
every Terri,oy by their arms purchased by their
money sns people of the United States, SHOULD strip
them:sves heir POWER to shape its osstnies for tae
fpsare We were its true soversisns -it uus-t
sled wderness q with man ere 70 TIL the ground"
II ve had sea. red IL to remain it was, land from
which slavery excluded, NO man who went there
with knowledge OF its destination could Justly con
plain that his rights IS one OF the sovereign people
invaded He would go voluntarily, with huow-
ledge OF the future Institutions OF ths country II ns
preference was for coantry where slavery should
fertile regions Of the south which still unsettled
This the ancient, the safe, The only statesman
lie pripciple--thst which fathers have acted
since the establishment OF our government We began
with the ordinance OF 1887 and adhered to the same
pr nciple TIL this attempt was made to change Soan
not discar6,pg tins vat!on, return to the old
tin honoured, well approved syster, Of fathers?
rbsl follow in the pain Of thoas modern politicians
Who avoiding mmittal upoo Ia 8, which they rs-
gard a. most delicate and dangerous question, would
have the represe natives OF the pople lab ca govern
ept" this great subject, and throw its determine
ton upon the o.c,s on Of ths transient and accidental
settlers the Territory Slater Woald it really
be better fer the pesce Of the to leave TO be
decided by the casting Of dief We should ut least
escape from the force and fraud which, under this kind
Of legislation, are hsel even to decide the result
What more Astonishing exhibition of folly can be con
ceved than this scheme Of sending toto the Terri
tory the pstzsns OF the slave and the free system Of
ballot Boxes sno p-rch.ncs with arms in their hsndss
You are to incose the lists lead in the couoatauts
sons to carry On the contest for OF tn. M
Certain IL il, thai whichever way it may result the
Good is suffer- Even ia esrr aae o.
even in the very dawning Of civhzston-ths matter
was better understood We read that when there was
strife between the herdsmen Of Abraham and those OF
Lot Of those holy said to the other Lst there
be no strife between thee and me. Sepsrate myself
from me. II thou wilt take the left band, will 80 to
the rieht If thou depart to the right hand will 60
the l.it All experience, we'll thu nature Of the
case shows that the yeomsn OF the free States
slavery prsvais though on the Other hand 1t 10 quite
true that the free States are extensively peoped oy
tmsrants from the South To those who t.
leave that institution behind them, they leave the
other peculiar laws and systems their native States
OPEN while thote VINO from choice CT supposed neces
sity are welded to tnAt system may take the other
Of tho ma and fertile regions vSies naSs
long since been assigned to them ss their share OF
the common inner lance Of the States ! will add NO
The great question recurs, What remedy remains Tor
those who regard IS unmtgsted act Of injustice
and ollyg are they scquiesce Are they to listen
the counsels of those Who tell them that it's
pisbed iact and that can do nothing but submit
Never hope and trust, never shall we listen 70 such
follow them Is the very way to invite further agRss
sion and outr.ge It il like saying to me- when s6n1
taken What Is mine, "submit Make no attempt at re-
covery or redress {" II We wish the Same attempt re-
from one end Of this broad land to The other an oOpor
tuny may occur, then acquiesce make NO attempt to
right this great ,rong but permit those who have done
not all believe that this very aggression invited by
the fact that resistance in other instances had been
,ndusriousy disseminated that cannot refuse to 40
init any Territory state, however repugnant 1t
may % 70 the principles o. uscs sb ana o. rgn
binds ADMIT every Territory that may apply in tbs
prescribed mode and that we have no right to ok at
its pstutops, to consider the fitness any respect
of any such Territory Do admitted into the Union
associate Of the existing States But 10 this anything
ciples which, though where found the leaves Of
that instrument are regularly announced whenever An
important point TO be gained by IT. Look at it for
wisely provides that States may be admitted-not
that they shall be admitted the facts
in their history or in their condition which render
their admission into Union act Of injustice
towards part Of their assoclasss Az the eovsramens
Changing TIE limits Of any Territory which may after
be offered admission constituting it. in this re-
soonsres or on that Of snars
ing curtaDg its boundaries at their pleasure it
not surely be said that the Inhabitants Of any partsu
lar Territory can, IS matter Of right, claim to be al
mitted to q community Of rights with the old States
only Sorpons, but Chinese Communities and
partl ersbip whenever they shall AK for III And have
Is shrs any other on NV which We
stand true and consistent men, than this that
original resistance to this Ubiquitous MEASURE
vsing, chiefly because it effected by kind OF
surprise, its opponents being taken at disadvantsgs
ito osinstOrs shall never SO long as We can prevent
for which they seek? Is there any other consistent and
manly course to be taken9 Is there any other that will
sionsS On this ground, then, let stand. Admit
state from Territory with slavery as one Of its inst
tutitns, which il excluded by the Missouri
compromise. Restore that compromise line whenever
1t shall be in power to effect it. Restore II in it
full integrity, not because seek for triumph but for
justice and security Does some good man say this viii
.noangtr the Unions reply that the Union is dear
to me as any man. LOOK upon its preservation as OF
Much has been and much should be yielded to its pre-
servation And it is because 1t lie dear to good men,
ant import.nce that would insist that each section OF
country should do full and exact justice to the rest
In no other way can that Union, in my humble juds
ment, be preserved am ready TO resist any encrosch
ment the rights of the South With their peculiar
institutions have nothing to do. They respons
BILE for them and not the people Of the free States IL
wrong has done to them let there be redress And
respect to the grest wrong done 10 the people Of thu
free siaes let that also be redsssed And then with
the scrupuious snd regard either side to
the rights of the other the Union may be But
while the aggressive spirit Southern brethren
to make conquests BY the exercise OF the national
power snd to extend by any and all means the region
in which their peculiar form Of society predominasss
long strict justice does not govern each section in
IFS dealr with the other there security for
our continuing together as psople have sad thai
much has been ieeed for the Of the Union
In their different appreciation Of the danger that
| threatened 1t, some men at the North yielded
to e1actons which other good and true men
have thought should be resisted The South claimsa
the enactment OF law which certainly stringent
harsh and opposed to the free spirit OF the common law
and which great numbers Of people regarded in its
probable worsing. cruel and barbarous. Upon the
point of yielding to this exact public opinion in the
free States was, IS We all tnow, come what divided
Those who were inclined to yield to it, to avoid what
they regarded as worse were influenced by the
the last final point which they would be asked
to yield anything the subject of slavery The
territory wss already partoned outrghts every
Defined They suspected tieachery. They mis-