The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-03-14

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| change Of moment IN rates
The bred Scott Declsions-rhe New Slavery
~ Agitation.
1t is very evident that the late decisions Of the
Supreme Court of the United States on the Drei
Scott case will lead to the opening Of the agita
ton of the slavery question upon more comore
hensive basis, and Of a more virulent and in
tensely sectional character, than anything Of the
kind which has ever been inflicted upon the coun
try.
The agitation of 1sl9-20, ending in the Mis-
souri, Compromise, was limited to the Missouri
question. The result was not constitutional
settlement, but rather Presidential armistice
among Northern and Southern politicians The
South always have maintained that it was pro-
ceeding outside Of the constitution, but they &C.
cepted it and adhered to i as bargain for thirty
years, in good faith. They would have extended
| the Missouri line TO the Pacific in 1850, as
''fnalty," and this would have been fnality
but the North would not have it so. They would
| take nothing less than the whole of California
| The South, after repeated efforts for the line,
gave way, and upon the basis Of the whole
Of California as free State, in pursuance of the
expressed will of her settlers, the compromise
| acts Of 1850 were passed.
Thus ended that agitation Of the slavery trou-
bic. 1t covered a good many issues; bat
| they were all considered by the majority Of
the American people as settled by those
five great healing measures Of Mr.. Clay, to wit:
/. The admission of California intact as q free
State. 2. Popular sovereignty in Utah and New
! Mexico. 8. The "fxation," es Mr. Clay called it,
| Of the Texas boundary 4. The abolition OF the
slave trade in the District Of Columbia. 5. The
Fugitive Slave law.
In the midst of this peace, thus brought about,
Mr.. Douglas, Mr.. Pierce, and other Presidential
spectators, acting upon constitutional sugges-
ton thrown out by Mr.. Dixon, a Senator from
Kentucky opened the third great slavery aglta-
ten in the repeal OF the Missouri compromise,
and in the application of popular sovereignty to
the Territories Of Kansas and Nebraska. While
this agitation is still hanging upon the solution
Of slavery or no slavery 10 Kansas the Supreme
Court of the United States comes forward and
gives its qeius to all the disputed constitutional
issues upon slavery of seventy years standing, in
the following sweeping and decisive constitution
al decrees:-
!. That negroes are not citizens
2. That slaves are property.
3. That Congress has DO power over the sub
| iect Of slavery in the Territories.
4. That il cannot delegate power which II
does not possess to any Territory.
5. Tha. the Southern man with his property
| Including slaves) has the same constitutional
| right to settle in the common Territories OF the
| Z lion as the Northern man with his property.
These are the decisions OF tribunal from
which there is no appeal. They are decisions
which can only be constitutionally reversed by
the reversal Of the majority Of the tribunal Il.
| self; and to effect this change will require the
| agitation and incessant labor Of many years. In
the interval Congress can do nothing, and the
| President can do nothing but obey the supreme
law, and LEI the question OF slavery In the Ter
ritories settle itself according TO the laws of
| climate and products, and the superior pressure
of the emigration Of the free white or the black
slave race into this or that Territory as the case
| may be.
| But the Northern mind, TO a very great extent,
has become fixed in its ideas OF the constitution
concerning slavery; and fresh from the hot con-
troversy Of the late campaign, II Is not in the
| mood for acquiescence 10 these decisions Of the
Supreme Court. Agitation must necessarily fol-
Iowa broad and continuous sec ional agitation.
II has already commenced. IL Is assuming In
one place the shape Of treason and rebellion; In
another, the form OLA perpetual political war
| against the Supreme Court until its ma
jority shall speak the doctrines of Judge
Mclean. In this latter view Judge Nc
Lean may become the republican candidate
in 1850 for President, with his opinions upon the
| bred Scott case az the platform Of his party,
| against one of the Southern Supreme Judges as
| the democratic nominee
| The great advantage TO the democracy in the
interval will be that they will have the supreme
law Of the land on their side. This fact will do
much to eonciliate even the most fiery Of South
| ern ire-eaters to the administration Of Mr.. Bu-
chanan, whatever may be his course Of action In
respect to the spoils We may thus, with every ap-
pearsDce Of safety, assume that Mr.. Buchanan will
have comparatively smooth and en- entirely guc-
cessful term Of Office in the Presidency. But the
mendous problem of the successionf Who will
be The opposing candidates in an appeal from
The Supreme Court 10 the people