Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-07-08
Dl.tinction without "a difference.

I III.
IL of California when he uttered these memorable
ysords.aAl will admit that the people OF that terri
tory assembled in Convention TO form State Const-
tution possess the sole, the exclusive power 10 de-
teriue whether slavery shall or shall not exist
in its limits The Lynchburg prg'n'dn afhrms Una,
wa have no right TO take this language In general
sense and as propounding principle equally apPlica-
hle 10 all territories This is poor sophistry. IL Is
hvous that the rights Of one territory are equal to
and no greater than the rights Of any other territory
and that II the people of IN Con
yention TO form State Constitution, possessed the
sole the exclusive power to determine whether slave
~ shall or shall not exist within It's limits so do the
neonle of Kansas New Mexico or any other territory
Every rule of law Is ennnciated in ocnnexiea with
par,icuar case bn it becomes general principle OF
universal application. The rTsin,dr's dodge wont
do-R. Enquirer.
1t is too apparent to admit of fair dispute that
Mr.. Buchanan,in referring TO the California Con
pentisn the sole and exclusive power to deter
mine the question Of slavery in that Territory,
had regard only to the competing claim OF Con
ersss to exercise that power. As between Con-
rress and the irregalarly called Convention "i
the Territory, he meant TO assign the power to
the latter body. He had no occasion. at that
,;me. to say what would have been the rights of
n Territorial Legislature, because there was not.
had not BEEN and was not To bs. any such body
in existence. There is, therefore, peculiar sig
nif;capce in Mr.. Buchanan's Language, when he
saws An admit that tho people Of that Terri
tory, 60" In the case o Territory where
a Legislature had been established "aH' would
not admit that a Convention had I" the sole the
exclusive power" to settle the question The very
candidate Mr.. Buchanan was supporting for the
Presidency (Gen. Cass1 when he made this
soeech would have made no such admission For
il is perfectly well known that he maintains the
power Of Territorial Legislature TO settle the
question Of slavery. II is impossible therefore,
Tor the Enquirer to make good It's construction oil
Mr.. Buchanan's language, as applicable to other
Territories and all Territories. without nscIIbing
TO him declaration that would have been no,o-
riously untrue. IAN" do not now, nor ever did.
adm. that the people Of "a" Territory have the
cole, tho exclusive power to settle the question OF
sluveyy---but "all" may have admitted It with
reference to that Territory. The Enquirer,
u, will be perceived, carefully avoids all allus'on
60 the very pertinent and conclusive statement OF
Mr.. Yancey, of Alabama. upon the point IN is
sue. That gentlcman's direct and explicit eu-
.hority /. on record, aud was cited by US, that
Mr.. Buchanan expressly declined to give his aP-
prcval to The Alabama resolutions. Of the same
year with his speech, denying the power TO n
Territorial Legislature. Yancey and Moore both
a firm that Mr.. Buchanan declared that he could
not como up to the Alabama platform and his
letter refusing to givehis assent 20 the resou
tons il given in corrcberation Of their own tes,
mouy. If the Enquirer Ind met the full argu'
ment made by the Virginian. with the unimpeach
able democratic testimony Of these gentlemen,
: sustaining that argument. il would have had
better right TO use the cpithets dodge" and
=. sophistry"-and might have done so, without
e xciting the natural conjecture that its own
course had suggested the terms. The subject
is far from being exhausted, aud we hope the
Enquirer may find leisure and inclination for
something more in regard to it.
The New ORLEANS DELTA, rs Il Democrat.
being obliged to advocate the election of Mr..
Buchanan, (which it does on the principle Of
less feels constrained to confess that the favor
lite son of Pennsylvania has promulgated the
doctrine of squatter sovereignty, in his letter Of
acceptance. We invite the attention Of Virginia
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