The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-12-19
The Prssres. Of the Admlni.,ra.ior.

We have recently referred to the new views
advanced by the Administration through the
columns of the Uniosa, looking to the estab-
lishment of Negro Slavery in the States now
free from it.. = eeaA 1a4 .a.e.E ~
The doctrine of the Administration is,
that negro slaves are, to all intents and pur-
poses, and in all places, property, and that
their masters are everywhere entitled to be
protected in holding them in servitude. On
this view, and the Inference is carried out in
terms by the Union, shareholders are enti-
tied to carry their slaves into any free State,
and there work and govern them rs such.
We admit, that We have no particular APP
prehension that these theories can be reduc-
ed to practice at present, although disposed
to make great allowances for the progress
of the age. lib l.~. ..s-6.' : A.
More recently, the Union has been ad-
vancing, IN behalf of the Administration,
some views, in reference to the Territories,
which have vastly more real Importance,
because it is much more easy to establish
Slavery in the Territories than in the free
States. r@5~szs~ I'D .s.aa I'm z.s-. II
As the matter was left judicially BY the
decision in the bred Scott case, Slavery in
the Territories was placed beyond the reach
either OF Congress or of the Territorial Leg
islatures. All this seemed to secure to the
shareholders, as against the people, advan-
tages OF position sufficient to satisfy anv
appetite for powernot absolutely Unsuitable.
Until lately, it was conceded on all hands,
that when the people of Territory emerged
into the condition of State, they might fix
the personal relations of everybody within
their limits, by sanctioning or prohibiting
Slavery.
This is now denied by the Administration,
and, what is of more consequence, the Ad-
ministration insists that the right of the
Shareholders to hold their slaves, whether
the new States are willing or otherwise, il
so clearly "just and equitdble,'' that any
Constitution invading this right, ss,could be
rejected by any Congress that euer assem-
Died, or ecer tcilt assemble" el @ a
The Administration doctrine, that, as a
matter of law, shareholders NAV carry their
slaves into the free States, and hold then,
there, and which doctrine applies, of course,
to new States rs we'll as to old ones, is far
less alarming in reality than this new dogma
that Congress will coeroe the new States to
respect the rights of shareholders. under
penalty OF refusing them admission into tho
Union. Esgt I'M; f,;7gt5s.g-s.i $50 'o ' '4
As tothe right of the shareholders to hold
thor slaves in the old free States. even II
such right should be judicially affirmed. Il
would be difficult if not impfacticable. to
enforce it.. 5sua.g bga Il -" - = -
But this coercion, proposed to he exerted
upon the new States, to compel them to up-
hold all existing rights of slayehollers. i.
more serious, because it is more practicable.
AS the matter stood before this last mn.
nouncement Of the Administration. owners
Of sfnves could take them to tho Territories
and their hold them against everybody. INIT
with this risk, that when d State Const;tn-
ton came to be formed, the relation Of mas
ter md slave might be prohibited. bv which
they you'd lose their slaves, unless season.
ably removed. raj Esili.g ss9Fsl{ -, -
lf'fature CongreSses can be controlled "a
act upon line Of policy now indicated. and
tolreJect oil new States which do not uphold
Slavery to the extent of its actual exiefence-
owners OF slaves may take them to the Tar,
r,torles, secure against allrisks. and bevond
the reach of even Constitutions. 81 a.
NO dOctrine could be more em;nentlv ct
ted to encourage owners Of slave To- -.
them into this Territories; and Il i. ~ m.
prohend, mainly with apview to sueh enconr.
agement, that the cabal who control the
demonstration 8 now put it forward.- Nah.
& sst.s La .sts s N 81