New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-08

Every day brings ado itiOnal evidence of the fact
that support of the Buchanan and Fillmore Plat
forms involves complete surrender Of all that
the North has cobtended for in past years with
respect TO Slavery Restriction, and that the cham
pons Of those Platforms can only sustain them
selves before a Free Peope by the most brazen
denial Of notorious facts. Thus Mr.. EIlwood
Fisher. in his letter printed Yesterday, says:
u1ta Ordinance of 49, by interiictIng Slavery in
tho .eritory northwest of the river ONO AMI teGrtES
me Terrorl SOhibrcs OF NGt Tirer THho! mar tH1e
Jt eff Tie territorial area of the two sections almost
a,,iv .onal md showed that discrimination was
made against either.
Now tLe undeniable fact is that the Ordinance OF
17s7 with its absolute and perpetual prohibition OF
Slavery. cor,re4 erery oot Of territcry belonging to
The Copfcaeracy at the time Of ITS passage. Ii lett no
foot Of soil open to Slavery but what was shielded
from interdict by State authority. And Tine TER
"rtory southwest of that river" (Oho) was after
ward given over to Slavery only because the states
which coded it-(North Carolina in l'o9-9O, ana
Ceorpia in l-O2)-expressly stipulated and exscted
that Congress should have no power 10 prohibit
s,v.rv therein. Would this have been requisite if
Congress lad made virtual partition OF the terri
tor, between Free and Slave Labor in 1857
AGAIN: Mr. Fisher ignores the fact that Mr.
.Jefcrson's original draft of the Ordinance for the
Govern ent of the Territories, reported IN YEA
covered al the territory outside of the proper
boundaries Of the several States, that which
had not vet as well as that which had been
coded by the States laying claim to IT. and pro-
yided for its ultimate division into seventeen
States. nine of them to be- formed from she territory
living above the Falls of Ohio (Lousyile) and eight
below that line, stretching down to the southern
limit of Georgia; and as To all OF this territory,
southern as well IA northern, including what now
forms the Slave States of Tennessee, Alabama and
Nississippi-Mr Jeaerson's Ordinance provided:
THAT after the year 1900, of the Christian era
here shall be neither Slavery nor involuntary sefyl-
tide in any of the said suites, otherwise than IN the
papishme mt of crimes whereof the party shall have
been convicted to be personally guilty.
- Such was the provision with respect to
Slavery Of the first bill ever submitted to Congress
for the government of the Territories and their
gradual rpening into republican States-a bill re-
ported BY Committee of three representatives OF
Slave States Jefferson of Va, Chase Of Nd, and
Howell Of r. ~, and sanctioned by vote OF
SiIteeR 10 sertH Members Ol Inv HIst NohtlAcu'"i
Congress held after the close of our Revolutionary
War-Aore than twO-thirds Of the whole number,
though unhappiIy not constitutional majority, be-
caufe Of the absence of member from
New-Jersey, whereby the vote of that State
was rendered null, while that OF North
Carolina was divided. A full half Of the MEN,
beers then representing Slave States voted Ay-
that il for the absolute and total exclusion by posi-
tive act Of Congress, Of Slavery from all the out
lying territory, whether yet coded 20 the Confed-
eracy or not. There was no senlblsnce OF bargain
partition counterpoise makeweght, but SIM
pie. positive universal prohibition of Slavery de-
vised by a stakeholder, adopted by slavehoding
Con nittee, and sustained by more than two to one
Of the Members present OF Congress mainly rep
resehtiDg Shareholders
And this is the identical policy wh;ch Mr.. Fisher
and others tell us can be reestas,ished only at
the cost Of dissolution of the Union
What jefferson devised and urged i'll l76i, the
Republicans may not carry out in 1857 without
provoking the South to dissolve the Union Let us
see