New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-17

wss thus very doctrine, embodied Tito tue hrnsas-
Nebraska BILL Of " the right Of the people Of the
Territories to govern themselves and 10 frame
(" their own institutions" upon which the Free
State majority Of the citizens Of Kansas had acted,
first, in immsrating into the Territory; and When
they found tina. the Territorial Government, under
the administration Of the wre;ched Shannon, was
a mere tool in the hands Of intrusive balotbox
suffers from NJ ssour, in, secondly. framing q
State Government for themselves under the Topeka
constitution. But both these acts-the audacity on
the part Of Frees State men in presuming to immi-
crate into Territory which the slayeho iers con-
sidered as having by the Ksnsas-Nebraska bill
been formally set over to Slavery, and the stu
greater audacity Of assuming 10 take any part
"in framing their Own institutions been
loudly denounced by the sAveholding masters
Of The Ne,es, and Of the Cincinnati Convention 81
the cause Of all the troubles in Kansas, as gross
violations of their rights, fully justifyins all the
Border Ruffaa atrocities resorted to TO suppress
and drive out the Free State men; just as the same
political leaders uphold the assault Of Bully Brooks
upon Senator Sumner if not as strictly legal, yet a.
having been fully justified by the circumstances OF
the case.
The Southern Buchaneers dc.nOunce this whole
doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty, or as The Ne''
prefers to call it, Popular Sovereignty in the Ter.
ritores." If this doctrine were conceded. it would
give to the people of the Territories full right TO
prohibit Slavery therein-a right which the slave
breeders strenuously deny, and which The Nens
therefore finds itself obliged to deny also COUGHING
it, denial in the following terms:
ave must, however, urge that the people Of the
Territory are clothed with the dignity OF full SOW
erel nty under the operation OF the principle OF Con
gressionsl non interference. Until the FORMATION OF
State Constitution and entry into the Union the Fern
tories are 10 BE- viewed Colonies entitled to lgae
for the protection of life property and private rights
but not invested with unrestraned and Independents
sovereignty Their Government IA provisional ana Is
in many respects in an embryo, formative ana lPer
feet condition. There subjects that the legislative
power of the Territory has control over, especially
those connected with the rights Of the citizens OF the
United States freely TO participate IN The formation OF
the State, and build up homes Tor themselves Ia
the unoccuped regions that held in trust tor our
people and indeed for mankind, under the guardian
ship of the Federal Government In other words, no
Territorial Legislature has the right TO form Const-
tuition in advance and force II on the people oi the
Territory and subject the tide Of ad vancng emigration
10 burdens until the tine when application IL made for
admission into the Union and State Constitution ex'
pressive Of the sovereign will OF the new state, IL pro-
pounded to Congress for them to approve or reject,
its form is not in accordance with that type of repub
licapjsm which belongs to the members OF our Ameri-
can Union and in other contingency.
But in thus endeavorine to keep the peace with
its whip.cracking masters, who deny to the Terri
torial Government or to anybody else the right to
prevent them from holding slaves in the Territories,
The Naes completely upsets its attempted apology
for the nOnnterventiOn of Congress and the EXecu-
tive to protect Kansas against the balot-box stuff
ING, the intrusive voting, the bogus legislation, and
the horrible Border Rutlian atrocities of which
Kansas has been the scene-atrOcities of which We
may truly say that except in the history Of Indian
wars or of the civil war in the Carolnas during tho
Revolution, this country presents no parallels. IT,
as The Ncns says, :" the Territories are to DO
viewed as colonies, with government merely
provisional and as % in many respects in an
"embryo formation and imperfect condition" what
duty more impressive or more imperative on the
parent state, which in this case the United States
il, than to protect its weak and dependent colonies
against such outrageous, bloody and cruel invasions
from abroad, as those of the Border Rufians into
Kansas, carrying fire and sword wherever they
went If, as The Ne,es says, the legislative
'power of the Territory has no control over the
rights of the citizens of the United States freely
TO participate in the formation of the new State,
" oDd to build homes tor themselves in the unoc.
cupied regions that are held in trust for our peo-
pie, and indeed, for mankind, under the guard
ian ship of the Federal Government it fol-
lows. that even admitting the monstrous ialsehood,
which it must have taxed all the brass even OF The
Ne,es TO utter, "that the laws and ensctments OF
the Territory Of Kansas were passed by body
legally consttuted"-it follows, we say, even adj
hitting this monstrous falsehood as TRUTH from the
very principles laid down by The Ners, that all the
pretended enactments of the pretended Territorial
LEGISLATURE, designed and intended to deprive tho
State men of the right of voting, and of other
privileges Of citizenship, are bogus bsseless, void
and of no binding force whatever.
1t il in vain for The Noes or anybody else to I'M
dertake to uphold the conduct of the Administrs-
ton. of the Administration party in Congress- and of
the trainers Of the Cincinnati PLATFORM in respect to
Kansas any more than TO defend the conduct of those
Border Rufian instruments by which the policy Of
subduing Kansas TO Slavery and barbarsm-now
by ballot.box stufing, now by bogus legislation.
and now by fire and sword-has been attempted to
be carried out. Upon any principles whatever,
whether The Nens undertakes TO stand upon the
doctrine of popular sovereignty in the Terrific.
res" or whether it prefers to regard the Terri
tories As COLONIES hot invested with unrestrained
land independent sovereignty Upon either
theory the pretended laws OF Kansas, and the policy
pursued by the Administration and the supporters
Of Mr.. Buchanan toward that unhappy Territory,
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