Washington telegraph., 1856-04-30

| 'c'S"|y 70 Ad0e Gpp0ented Congress
/ their guardian in order to prcseyue that
freedom of sclsicA they boast so ,such2'
In regard to the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, Mr. Douglas, in speech. de-
ilvered at indianapolis. in September, 1854.
denominated it an arbitrary geographical
line, guaranteeing slaUeru South of 36o
30 as much as it excludes it North of tba,
line" He asked of the Indiana abolition
lists ''dre you IN taror of stablishiiu .
such G tiue?" He vas answered bv cr;es
OF mo. No. He told his abolition
hearers that they called the Missouri Com
promise "a barrier oe slavery and said
they nzsght as areU call az a barrier OF
freedom" He stated his objection to the
Missouri Compromise to be '.ttat Il is an
sound IN principle and Legaiizes slarery
South. as far as IL prohibits 1T Noyth.,'
In bis speech, ON the same subject. at
Chicago IN the same month. Mr. Douglas
said of the Missouri Compromise, that-..it
was the prohibition of slavery North of the
line, and the recognition of slavery South Of
that line. Was there he asked "a man
IN the croacd in .faror of recognizing
slarery South Of any hne77'' In this
manner Senator Douglas shut the mouths of
the Abolition opponents of the Nebraska
bill. 1t is now supported. by its North
ern friends, as the bes. Abolition measure
ever passed BY Congress
Gen Cass holds that slavery is not pro-
tected by the Constitution; and that, in the
Territories, ''ere1y man as Jree-theze as
M sLare-n0 master" Gen. G. utterly
repudiates the doctrine that "any citizen
has constitutional right to take with hiu,,
and hold In the Territories, any kind of
property recognized as such by the laws of
the State he leaves. (including slaves.) and
there hold it, whatever may be the local law,
until presented by constitutional provision
of the new State. embracing such district
of country" and the Ohio Statesman. a
leading Democratic journal, and advocate of
the Nebraska bill, stigma.ized such doctrine
as 'tpro-slavery in Its fullest extent" and de-
clared that ''such position cannot be toler-
ated by the Northern Democracy" Thus
according to Gen. Cass and the Ohio States
man. the slaves of Southern citizens who
have gone to Kansas, by virtue of the Ne
braska bill, are free. Speaking of General
Cass' position and its own, the Ohio States
man said: I'VE beg leave to assure our
Southern cotemporaries that We have yet to
meet the first advocate Of the late Congress,
who upholds any other construction of the
Nebraska Kansas act than what is embodied
In the proposition quoted above. In ats
adherence 10 this doctrine Of tie nation
atty Of freedom. and the limitation of
SLarery, the UcSt Is. and aciU be a unit
IL H
cratic supporter of the Nebraska bill, said
of it. in speech. at Springfield, Illinois. in
October, 1854, Kansas and Nebraska
acre free nOte, and The people there acouLd
keep them free The establishment of
sIaUery IN those Territories aoas not on
ly improbable, Last impossible. =
The principles of non-interven-
tion would not only keep Kansas and Ne
braska what they are now-free-but would,
by its full and fair operations. If ace ac-
quire TIE continent to tie -IstItDsns of Da-
rien, arork aeith such posceyfu! force and
effect. that no man aooukd eUer see asloth-
er stare Territory on thiS continent"
Mr.. Richardson, of Illinois, holds senii-
ments similar to those just quoted from his
other distinguished Northern Democratic
confreres. He holds, and has frequently
announced the doctrine, that Congress has
the power to pass the W;lmot Proviso He
would have favored the application of the
Wiimot Pfoviso to the Territories of New
Mexico and Utah, If he had not held that
the Constitution did not protect slavery In
the Territories. and that this peculiar in
stitution of the South" was excluded from
IT, a.
of Congress. In certain contingencies,
however, he warned gentlemen from the
South. and Northern Wings" that--':If
the bill for the Territorial government silent
upon the subject of slavery, shall be defeat
et, then l am for bills with the Wilmot Pro-
viso, in order to give government to the
people in the Territories; and speak for
four of my colleagues. assured that they
will feel constrained TO pursue like course )"
In further discussion of the same subject.
Mr. Richardson continued
Il believe Congress has full power to pass
such laws as they think proper for the gov
ernment of the Territories. There Is, con-
seqently, no constitutional difficulties in my
road"
We have thus given the positions of a
few of the most distinguished of the North
ern Democracy o. this great Shibboleth of
the same party in the South. We have
done this for two purposes: First-to show
to our readers the manner of men which
are held up, daily. to their admiring view
by the anti American press. as true South
ern men: Second-to show that the self
styled Democracy Of the country, is a house
divided against itself, and caRnot stand
for while they are united only on one meas
ure-the Nebraska bill-that measure is
made to suit the views and purposes of the
most ultra slavery, and anti-slavery. men in
the Union. No one can say that, In calling
witnesses upon the stand. We have not intro
duced the very best. and most favorable
men to the South, that the party North con-
tains
While the anti-American party is thus
rent assunder, by hostile factions, the sue
cess of either of which would be the death
knell of the Union, the American party In