New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-06

~ States Many other decsions OF the supreme
Court and Of different State Courts mgn. cs cn -
tntitn could be regarded settled beyond dispute III
1854 4 was that OF thapower OF Congress 10 leglsa.e
for and govern the Territories. IL possessed ms
newer 10 The same extent ne State in the establish
men. Of courts Il possess il also TO the same
extent in the exclusion OF slavery. unless there ~
som. thing " The Constitution OF the United States al
Loving its exercise n The enc case and denying II IN the
other; bat such clause can be found nat insiru
ment contains no provision establishing Slavery II 1t
did Slavery would he universal throughout the Ne
public and shere would be equally lack OF power TO
prohibit II in a State es 10 q Territory. with
a plain provision of the Constitution, the prac-
tice of the Government under il for more than
sixty wears and the decisions OF the Judiciai
tribunals of the country al! in its favor, i would
seem that the kepuehcsn creed asserting tae
power Of Congress the Territories, and 20 exclude
Slavery ,herefronI. rested upon foundation which
could never be shaken, especially as under this
Interpretation ofhe Constitution the United States had
zone on peacefully settling Territory after Territory and
adding State after State to the Republic till the number
had more than doubled the population, wealth and
resources Of the country increased many fold, and
when il was in the full tide OF prosperity. advancing
with rapid strides in all the elements which contribute
to the greatness of nation and add to the happiness
and rerown of its people. But in 1854, new policy
WAS inaugurated and since then new Interpretation
has been given to the Constitution and these are the
cause of all the woe which has since befaen the
try and now threatens with destruction the best and
fauest system Of government constructed by human
hands, The departure from the former policy Of the
Government in 1854 consisted in the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, whereby the Territories Of
Kansas and Nebraska opened to Slavery although
in consideration of the admission OF Missouri into the
Union as slave State, they had in 1890, been apart
for Freedom The Northern pretense under which the
Missouri Compromise was repealed. snOw abandoned
We longer hear its repeal justified on the ground
that necessary in order to establish the principle
Of Terro,sl self government to enable the people
Of Territory to regulate the subject of Slavery for
~ oh hpr Terri
The advocates Of the repeal now insist that the peo
ple while in territorial condition, have no right to
exclude Slavery, but that in the formation of state
Constitution they will possess that right The repeal
therefore additional right upon the peo
ole of the Territory for il is clear that the Missouri
Eompromise would not have prevented an exclusion
of Slavery by the people in the formation OF their
State Government The only effect. therefore, Of its
repeal was to open Kansas and Nebraska while Ter
r,ories to Slavery, and not to confer upon the people
of those Territories any great principle OF self-g0v-
eminent or anything else except Slavery.
Mr.. Buchanan tells us in his inaugural message that
il is of but little practical importance ut what tune the
people of Territory are permitted to decide the ques-
lion of Slavery for thenselves-whether while the
territorial condition continues not. And he and the
lesser lights Of the self-syled Democracy, including
Gov. Walker, Of Kansas, stil talk about the great
principle OF selEgOvernment and popular sovereignty
which allows people when they come to form state
10 regulate the subject Of Slavery for themselves as
II that were question between parties. No man OF
either party denies this right certainly one OF the
Republican party though it may be necessary con
seGuene of q recent decision that the people of State
cannot exclude Slavery. The whole controversy is
about Slavery in the Territories of the United Stat
and not in the States. of the Union, aud what
mockery ii is for men to harp about the great prin-
CHILE of popular sovereignty being guaranteed to the
people Of aTerritory, when they deny them the right
TO act for themselves long as the Territory
jasts, even if ii be Thirty years, as was the case
with Michigan. The Republican party differ with Mr..
Buchanaa to the importance of keeping Slavery out
Of the Territories. The poet tells Us that " as the
"twig is belt the tree is inclined "a wiser than he
has said "toin up child in the way should 60 and
when be il old he will not depart from it, We be-
ieve if Slavery is tolerated in Territory it will most
likely be continued into the State. When the people
of saveholding Territory form State government,
what is TO be done with the slaves among them 1t
out compensation, which it may be inconvenient for
the people to provide; free negroes Objectionable
it is always difficult 10 change existing institutions.
All these considerations combined will be very apt to
| make Slave States out of Slave Territories.
How many of the self-styled Democratic party in the
North would have sanctioned the repeal Of the Mis-
touri Compromise had been candidy avowed at the
time. that the consequence would be what We now
see Many good men depored the repeal, who sub:
seoueny acquiesced in the measure, under the belief
that the people of the Territory had the power and
the been told that the authors Of the repeal would
eventually deny them that right, and insist upon the
doctrine that Slavery could be taken into Territory
in spite Of the wishes of its inhabitants to the contrary
| thew never would have sanctioned tue deed. cal
upon all such Ont from among this Pro- Slavery
| parry row they see whittier it is leading them.
But the extension of Slavery into Kansas, bad as
is is not the worst of the consequences which have
followed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
That measure has led to others which subvesive
Of the Constitution Of the principle Of setgovernment
and the rights of the people, and which must speedily
lead to the destruction of the Government, unless the
people seeing the danger shall rouse In their strength
before il is too late and rescue the Government from
the HANDS Of those who using it, not merely t.
spread Negro Slavery, but 10 trampe under foot the
| C,arest rights of Free White Men.
| With many of the professed principles of the self
STYLED Democracy, enunciated in their PLATFORM
concur They consi, chiefly Of declaration Of those
general principles which distinguished the Democracy
| in the days when the name Democrat meant some
thing different from advocate of the expansion OF
slavery But their professions aud their acts are quite
| different things.
| Thcv professe in repeating the Missouri Compro
mise 10 confer upon the people of Kansas, while IN
Territorial CONDITION, the right to regulate their owl
| domestic affairs through Territorial Legislature tc
be chosen by themselves; practically they have de
lied them the right to elect legislature at all, and
now opeAly repudiate the idea that Territorial Legs
eture has any right to regulate the domestic affair;
OF the Territory by excluding Slavery. Protesting to
love and revere the Constitution, they have trampled
under foot its most sacred provisions; prOfcssHg to
be observers of law and the law and order patty they
| have repeatedly violated all law and naugu,ated
reign Of anarchy and tyranny in one portion OF the
| country; profe ssng devotion TO the Union, by
| their acts they have put 10 hazard its existence
and many of their most distinguished Leaders
| have threatened its dissolution, if majority OF
the people, in the constitutional mode should elect the
President Of their choice; protesting to place then
trust in the intelligence, patriotism and discriminating
Justice Of the American people, they have not only
hurg out false eolors by which to eoncca! their OWL
actions and deceive the people, but they me- N and
misreprcsent their political opponents, and appeal &c
the bad passions and prejudices Of the ignorant thai