New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-26

What Mr. BucbanAns election has settled aud all
thai Il ba. settled so far relates 20 the subject Of
| Slavery is simply this-tbst the Slavery question
belongs not TO Congress but 10 the people Of the Ter
ritories ard that The latter sha be lett free 10 form
Their domestic institutions in their own way, and to
come into the MO, Free Slave States a. they
may elect OF course the doctrine settled necessarily
implies that the decision il 10 be made by the sctus
inhabitants Of Territory with full opportunity for the
expression OF their opinions. unawed by violence aud
protected in the free exercise Of the right OF suffrage
"Thus far, and no farther. is Mr. Buchanan COM
med by the verdict Of the people which elevated him
to the Chief Msgistracy of this Republic. Thus far
and no farther, will he 60.
To this statement, THE TRIBUNE replies as
| follows:
/. We understand the doctrine which The Atlas
| now procaims and commends as that Of Mr.. Bu-
chanan and the National Democracy 10 be precisely,
| identically, the doctrine which The Atlas and the
Radical" Democrats ofour State formerly repudi-
ated, opposed, and stigmatized as involving or
amounting TO acquiescence in and practical con-
nivance at the Extension OF Slavery. Can we be
mistaken on this point
.. We understand 4" the corner stone which was
for years displayed at the head of The .itias and
which proclaimed Incorporating hostility to the
Extension Of, Slavery into Territory now Free,
to promise active, positive, practical and eff
Gent resistance to Slavery Extension, wherever,
however, and BY whOmsoever attempted. Are we
mistaken on this point
3. We understand the Radical Democrats of
our State, and The atlas as their organ. to have
secuted ard execrated the doctrine of "Squatter
Sovereignty" when propOunded BY Gen. Cass in
his letter TO Nicholson, as a device, an evasion, a
dodge, to avoid the plain, broad, 0yershadowng
issue Of Slavery Extension or Non Extension; and
We understand that same doctrine Of Squstter
Sovereignty TO be in essence the doctrine which
The atlas is now commencing. Are We mistaken
on this point
a. We understand this Cass. Buchanan Demo-
cratic doctrine that the question of Slavery Exten
sion or Non.Extebsion should be left exclusively
to "the local government Of the people directly
interested to be precisely antagonist to that pro-
pounded in lisa by Mr. Jefferson in lis report and
bill providing for the organization of the Federal
Territories and their gradual conversion into States
wherein be stipulated-wi.h regard not to a part of
the existing Territories but to all of them
"That after the year 1900 Of the Christian era there
shall be neither Slavery involuntary servtude IN
any of the said States otherwise than in the punish
ment of crimes whereof the party shall have been con-
yicted TO be personally guilty.
What says The Atlas to this prOposition1
3. We understand the Cas- Buchanan doctrine,
as e1pounded by The atlas, to be in direct conflict
with that affirmed by large msjority of the Con-
gress of "a, in affirming the Jefferson proyisO afore
said, as also with that of the Congress Of 81, in
framing and passing the Ordinance of that year,
whereby it was enacted, with respect to the Terri
tory Northwest Of the Ohio-(all that had then
been ceded by the States to the Confederation)-
that
There shall be neither Slavery nor involuntary
servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in
punishment Of crimes whereof the parties shall be duly
convicted"
Does The Atlas demur to this
6. We hold the Buchanan doctrine to be likewise
in direct hostility to the repeated reusals Of success
sive Congresses, on the report and recommendation
of John Randolph, Jesse Franklin and other slave
holders, to permit the people of Indiana Territory
to hold slaves, even for limited period, though no
one doubted that "the local government of the
"peOple directly interested" was strongly and ur
gently DESTROYS of establishing Slavery. What
says The Atlas TO this7
7. We hold that Congress did right in thus refus-
ing permission to the few hundreds thousands of
pi, neers of the vast Northwest (or Indiana Terri
tory then included what are the States Of Hi
nois, Michigan and Wisconsin, to pollute the i'm
mense area-of which they had never even seen
one acre in a hundred-with Human Bondage;
ninety nine hundredths of the land belonging TO- and
being destined to be settled by, the people of all
the States, who were thus directly interested" in
the righteousness Of its laws What says The
Atlas3
e. We hold the doctrines now commended BY
The Atlas to be the antipOdes Of those which our
State has maintained in every struggle respecting
Slavery Extension, especially as propOunded in the
vmani,aoxs resolve of both branches of her Legs-
lature in January l30, which stands on the record
as follows:
"Vheyeas The inhibitine the further extension of
Slavery in these United States is subject of deep
among the people OF this State; and rhereas
consider Slavery evil much to be depored and
that every constitutional barrier should Dc 3terpo.ed
ton If the United States clearly gives Congress the
right 10 require OF States not comprised within the
or gna boundaries Ct the United States the prohb.
iion of Slavery condition of its admission into the
Union; therefore,
'.hssored If the honorable the Senate herein
That Senators be ucted, and our Representa-
tyes in Congress be requested to oppose the admls-
sion State into the Union any OF territory not cem
pristd as aforesaid without making the prohibition Of
Slavery therein an indispensable condition Of adml'-
sion"
May We hear from The atlas on this point
If The Atlas will meet the issues above presented
We are ready TO go forward and show. That the
Democratic platform and party do not permit and
enable the people Of the Territories 10 decide for
the mselyes whether they will or will not have
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