New-York daily tribune., 1857-09-26

The President, in bis New. Haven letter, is nj
content with tbrusting the Dred Scott decisioa
with great air of triumph, into tho faces Of BIZ
correspondents, as judicial decision that Slaye1
exists in Kansas under the Constitution Of To
United States. He must needs add by way d
comment "HOw it ever could have been doubted
"is q mystery" BY way of aiding to solve
this mystery, and also by way OF caution 10 tho
President how he dances about too carslessly
among the chickens we beg to call bis attention
to the two following extracts from two speeches
oEe delivered by Mr.. Douglas in 1850, the otherk
Dir. Cass in 1S54-extricts which we find CITED
along with other matter bearing on this question: h
very able speech delivered last Winter byk NJ.
Wasbbun Of Illinois.
Mr.. Douglas in 1850 thus expresses himself:
"But you ssy that propose to prohibit bylw
emgrspg to the Territories with your properly.
We propose no such thing. We recognize your ngh,
in common with our own, TO emigrate to the Tente
res with your property and there hold and erjoyk
in subordinat0n to the laws you may find 10 force n
the country. Those laws. in some respects differ from
our own as the laws Of the various States OF this
Union vary, OH some points, from the laws Of esh
other. Some species Of property are excluded By Law
in most OF the States as well as Territories, ~ being
unwse immoral or contrary to the principles OF sound
public policy For instance, the banker Is prohibited
from emigratiDg to Minnesota, Oregon or Caifornb
with bis bank. The bank may be property BY The
laws Of York, but ceases to be when tskes
into State or Territory where banking prohibtedby
the local law. SO, ardent spirits, whsky, brandy ai
the intoxicating drinks ere recognized end protecteu
as property in most of the States not in all OF them
but no citizen, rhether from the North or SoafA, can
take Hts soecies Of property rA him, and ho,d Sa 0
use at has pleasure an all the Ieyrttores, because
lrth ufa
Of the Territory, and in tie Indian country by the
Acts Of CoDgNss. Nor can a man go there and ta~
and hold has Slare, for the same reason. Ihese hm
and many others involving similar principles are d.
rected against section and impair the rights Of %
State in the Union They are laws against the intro
duction sale and use Of specific kinds of property,
whether brought from the North the South or from
foreign countries
Mr.. Cass (now, we mistake not, Mr.. Buchanans
Secretary Of State) so late as 1854, was not les
explicit:
"The second objection which propose to consider.
connected with this alleged seiz OF the publcda
main, Is that Southern man cannot 90 there b<csus
he cannot take bis property with him, and is thasef
cuded by peculiar considerations from his share n'
common property. .
SO far as this branch Of the subject connects ssa
with slaves regarded merely as property, it cer
tsny true that the necessity Of leaving and of dspov
ing of them may put the owners to Inconvenience
VI Ill
10 distant regions for there are many species OF tne
property which constitutes the common stock Of soc
ety, that cannot be taken there Some because tbeJ
are prohibited by the laws Of nature, as houses soa
farps others because they are probibed ed by the ss
CT man, Gs slaves incou GRATED companies monopoles
aud maDy interdcted articles; ana ohers again, o.-
cause they are prohibited by statistical laws whics
regulate the transportation OF property, and vlnF
silly coLfDe much Of IT within certain limits whica
t cannot overcome, in consequence Of the eXpen~
attending distant removal; and among these latsf
articles are CATTLE and much OF the property which
ever where to be found. The remedy in all thes
cases is the same, and is equally applicable to 81
clssses Of proprietors, whether living in Massaehs
setts or New.fork, or South Caroips, and that Is
convert all these various kinds Of property into uni
yerhl representative OF value, money, and 10 tsS
that to these Few iegicns where II will commsna
whatever may be necessSy to comfort or to pro-,
peious enterprise. In a these instances, the pfsfhc
result is the same, and the same is the condihoo
equality"
Such principle would strike at independsal aud
neeessary gsston, at many police laws at ssnssH
laws snd at laws for the projection OF public end pr
vate morals. Ardent spnts, deadly poisoos, imp,y
menfs Cf gaming as well as various articles, doaou"
foreign bsIk bills among others, injurious 10 spios
porous condition OF q new society, would be Pscea
beyond the reach Of legislative nterdotion, whsteve'
might be the wants the wishes OF the country uPos
the subject. For the constitutional right by vhca
10 canned that these species Of property may 90
BY the owners TO the territory Of tne h'10 c1tSo'
cannot be controlled il il exist by the iocsl hesh
tuIes for that might lead and in mafy cases "ou'.
lead to the restriction OF its value.
"And we are thus brought TO this strange, practical
result that In all controversies 70 .aese p..
hibited articles it s not the ,atate book OF tue ceaS
Try where they are to be he'd whieh mas. oe consa
to ascertain the rights Of The parties out ths s'.'
books OF other governments: whose c'nzeos sa.
in rect b,iro tssir Iaws with them, and hold os~
hem.
Very likely il has beeo BY the influence IA pax
tlsast, Of n,ss ,2esstss-ihdssa, b. sas 's''"a'