New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-27
J. ~ OF TixM OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
~ r OvENlTlIE TERRf1sDRIEE

have Rad with interest 9 speech defVered
lFece in tfs national House Of REPRESENTATIVES ~
-oa John 4. Quitman, Of Mississippi npon the
powers~of the Federal Government with regard 70
the Territories. Gev. Qutrran's views arc usually
i comprehensive and correct upon most subjects and
lexprsssed in clear and concise mannes In the
s6st heiSfe rs be touches the several points con,
Eaaeasaswitha ditasuit ma subject q
Stats sovereignty and abe pogefsaof The Federal
Goyernient withshis usual searching analysis, and
deduees NTH sklfnl and unanswerable
\ cgic euiiiicstng Views which forciby assert and
Illustrate the claims Of the South to those Ightsto
which the people Of all the states are entitled in
seemuon-the enjoyment Of the Territories and the
pfptection and civil privileges therein which apper
tsil % them IN their respective States
IN every political system there nustef course be
one controlling power, power superior to an
others from which there is no APPEAL, and this
power have local and, generally, a
name ~ despotic ernments 1t III
80 well defined That question can arise respecting
but In our country it snpt 50 clearly under
and IL attrbated sometiEaes to one branch of the
government and sometimes to- another and were the
existence Of aspoticM system without 4 ssaprenes
authority possible I'VE have no deat, shat Ii would
often he contehdea that there IL none in the United
the Federal Govefnment nor. in the State govern-
nents hit ii thu Of The several States,
Ito be exercised only ID conyention, Or such other
mode ~ theK constitution o. organic Jaw shall pre-.
escribe,. So " Y. Il. - VA
Tie inhabitants 81, a Territory possess no sort of
sovereign oseri anttheir powers oflegslation for
It'd municipal government are derived from Congress-
under The Constitution, and consequently they can
which Is gnafaniesd BY either OF the statcs The
soseregn power therefore, exercised BY the
inhab itantS of Territory nor BY the Eedesal Govern
nent and only brought into astionapo the admis
sioa IT. Territory State, in which process Con-
only assumes The sn agent d. thetpllest
he sesgeiynt 1f the States. The Constitution cons
es apen Congress the authority sstodispose 81 and
make al needfaI rules and the territory
gand ether property the United IS terri
toral municipal communities were not existence at
thet ime shat Instrument was framed, thes General
thinks tauaewas not intended 10 convey ia Con-
gresstle right ii Legislation over the al
subsequently rensttafed, hut only to prepare them,
or occupation and fnal admission into the Onion,
IN regard TO the source whence Congress derives
the right Of legislation override Territories Gene
raj says ts 5sss sse. = Il 4. 80 !
Satssto 10 ant new
the Enicn the 1T Il III.
poxsr then asnet under the
and for thedspesal ft
gcvsSnri therein 5sFs
Y Al tie States, acting III their soyefe 81 capacity,
alone have the power of changing the organic law, it
TINT slavery, being thesacial system
of numbered the States, cannot Be inseffsfed With
IN ang ore Of them except BY that Stale
MOI any power to Impair a maiss to his
slave aRen removal ina since heakes With
him essential .uhi eh he held HI his own
State, and stands ID that sense pho,
lection 80 als55 So. n