Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-02-29

COhG ~ .NN'VN n.y. 80 tuShA0GA VI SASAASA
branch of the Legislature. and part and
parc' of the people who are to prohibit
slavery in common Territory belonging
to all the States of this Union.
Mr.. Sandidge. Ii the gentleman from
Virginia will allow mc-and do not de-
sire TO emharrass him in his remarks-I
wish to ask him question. The gentle
man denies the power OF the Territorial
Legislature OF Kansas, and those OF other
Territories, to legislate upon the subject
of African slavery so as to impair the
rights of the Shareholder. Now, | de-
sire that gentleman to say. to the House
whether, in his opinion, the convention,
So>calletl. lately held in the Territory of
Kansas. did prohibit the existence Of Az
rican. slavery in the Territory by the
adoption Of State constitution, prepare
tory to their admission into the Union as
IL State and whether it IS considered by
him as obligatory and binding him /?
Mr.. Garlic. will say to the gentle
man, that when that question is presented
for the action of this House, aPprehend
that the gentleman from Louisiana and
myself will be found side by side acting
together.
But there is another principle of this
Nebraska bitl,-as expounded by the Ad-
ADMINISTRATION, and that is, that a South
Carolina stakeholder shall be selected for
Governor Of the Territory of Nebraska
Territory in which no one ever dreamed
that slavery could exist; while on the
other hand a Pennsylvania Frees oiler is
placed rs Governor over the Territory Of
kansas-the only Territory where we
Lol tk0t c1oVoru would no lilo.
" to go. That is another principle of
the Nebraska Kansas bill.
Mr.. ElmuudSon, desire to say to
my colleague, that the gentleman from
Pennsylvania. who was appointed Gov
ernor OF Kansas. avowed himself in favor
OF slavery, and that he was going to take
u slave with him.
Mr. CarIile. Well, If the President
was deceived by any false impression
made upon his mind by his friends, and
appointed Mr.. Reeder, will take back all
have said upon that subject, and say
that it is not one Of the principles of the
Nebraska bill. But I apprehend, when
the President had it in his power, by the
removal from Office Of his first appointec,
to place man there who would, at least,
maintain the constitutional rights in that
Territory Of all the members OF the Con-
federacy, lie ought to have exercised it,.
But how did he exercise it? By select
ing for the Office of Governor another
gentleman MT from slave State-ex
Governor Shannon, Of Ohio-who, as Mr..
St1ingfellow says in late paper, has
betrayed them, too ~
Mr. Clerk, it will not do for the Demo-
cratic party, or for any other party which
expects permanent success, to turn its
back upon principles clear and we'll de-
fined, and plant itself upon measures
which are construed one way by one gem
tlemnn. and in different way by 9TH
err gentlemen. l was grati6ed the other
day. III a debate which took place upon
this floor. 10 find that the gentleman from
Pennsylvania on my left Mr.. Jones
maintained the true constitutional doc
trine upon the subject of slavery; while.
ut the same time, l regretted to hear the
gentleman from North Carolina, Mr..
Cliagman, and another gentleman from
the South. Mr.. Jones. of Tennessee, say
that the Nebraska bill asserted the doc
trine of popular sovereignty in the Terri
tories.
Whenever, Mr.. Clerk, the people Of
the South, or any portion of this Union;
begin to compromise away their rights,
they will soon have no rights left to COM
promise about. Now, l desire to say, in
answer to IL question prorounded 10 me by
my colleague. Mr.. Faulkner. and other
gentlemen, had been a member Of the
last Congress. | should have done pre-
cisely what l wrote 10 the worthy gentle
man who then represented my district,
CbC,,ll 4 u,,l l,cf tlie- that
IL member OF Con 9ress, acting as l have
always done, according to the dictates OF
my own Judgment. lshould vote against
the bill lur Two reasons, if not for more.
The first reason. that it would reopen the
fearful agitation of the subject OF slavery.
without bringing to the South any prac-
teal good. and would violate the plighted
faith OF the two great parties, pledged by
them in their national conventions ; and,
secondly. that il asserts the doctrine OF
squatter sovereignty, which Virginia has
ever opposed.
But. sir, l am free TO admit, like the
honorable and distinguished-and, will
add, neutrality-suspicious. from Pennsyl.
vanin, for whom have so long voted, l
would, under no circumstances, vote for
the re peal of the Kansas Nebraska bill, or
the restoration Of the Missouri compro.
mise. because ono Of the reasons which l
urged against it was the agitation to
which it would give birth and were l
now to vote for its repeal should be
guilty OF aiding to produce this very agi-
tation again. Why we're not the Terri
tories OF Kansas and Nebraska organized
AS were the Territories of Utah and New
Mexico? BY the bills organizing these
latter Territories. the Missouri compro-
mise was practically repealed. But it