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

existing parties. Tho power OF Congress over the
Tenitones during period Of more than sixty years.
from Washington down 10 Pierce, had been 1Dques.
Toned, and recognized in some form by q. the depart.
ments Of the Government Congress had in all in'
stsnces when the Territory was free when acquired,
continued it SO; and IN some instances pnovided
ibin rlavehodipg Jurisdiction. twas not strange,
therefore, that departure from the weLsetted pol
icy Of the Government should have given rise to new
parties. The Republican party was 10 favor Of re-
storing the action Of the Federal Government TO the
principle Of Washington and Jefferson, from which
The self. yed Democracy bad departed, which prin
cpes eseeLsl to the preservation Of our repub
ican institutions II both the right and the irn-
riesthose twin relics Of barbarism, Polygamy and
Slavery The creed Of the Republican party in the
DAYS OF e erson the creed Of the Republican party
to-day; and what friend OF constitutional liberty canor
will eap.sy or assail 1T jefferson the first who
proposed to exclude Slavery from the Northwestern
Territory and afterward President, approved the
bill establishing the Territory of Illinois, which adopted
the provision of the Ordinance VI l7s7, excluding
Slavery. -,.., r..
Nnn.so,n and Oregon. The Constitution Of the
United States declares that " Congress shal Fave
"power to dispose Of and make all neediu rules ana
",cuatons respecting the territory or other property
belonging TO the United States. The right TO make
oil peedu rules is expressly conferred upon Congress
So long as the territorial condition continues congress
can determine what rules and regulations are neeaui
interests Of territory 1t is its duty to exclude H. ke
publicans believe that Slavery is wrong, aud would
oppose its introduction into new territory.
Chief Justce Marshal gave it as his opinion when
he presided over the Supreme Court, that the power
of Congress over territories was "unqae"ioHdef,
and cecar that it had the combined powers OF the
General and Stat Government.
The departure from the former policy OF the Govern
ment in S54 consisted in the repeal OF the Missouri
Compromise the effect of which was to open Kansas
and Nebraska to Slavery. The advocates OF the re-
peal insist that the people while In territorial condl
tion have no right TO exclude Slavery but In the ioI
alton of State Constitution they will possess that
right No new right was conferred upon them by this
repeal and the only effect was to open Kansas ana
Nebraska, while Territories to Slavery aud not con
fer upon the people any great principle OF segoVern'
ment or anything else except Slavery.
The whole controversy is about Slavery IN the Ter
rioyies and not in the States of the Union, and what
mockery it is fer men to harp about the great prnc
pies of popular sovereignty being guaranteed TO me
act for themselves. 70 long the Territory lasts even
If be thirty wears. as was the case with Michigan.
The repeal Of the Missouri Compromise has led to
other conse quences beside the Introduction OF slavery
into KUntas which are subversive OF the Constr
tuition, cf the principle Of self-government 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
bands of those who are now using 1t, not merely 10
spread negro Slavery but to trampe under foot the
desreet rights of free white men.
/ concur with many of the principles OF inc Ne.
mocracy in the days VIXEN the name Democrat meant
something different from an advocate OF the exPan'
sion of Slavery Look at some OF the acts OF the
selfstyed Democracy, and see how they accord win
their professions lp3int you TO Kansas ruieS o.ei
uro its inhabitants in violation OF the protested prih
ciI,le of selfgovenment and OF law, passing ana
enforcing laws abiidging the freedom OF speech ana
of the press by making it penitentiary oense 70
speak or publish anything denying the right to hold
slaves in the Territory. Witness me dlsarmihg Vi
the people of Kansas when assembled in sef,defense
against invaders, and their dispersion by Federal
troops when peaceatly assembled for q redress OF
Grievances in direct violation of those clauses OF the
CONSTITUTION which declare that the right of the peo-
pie TO keep and bear arms shall not ee hiingeo, not
their right peaceably to assemble ior REDRESS ol
oreya1ces be abridged And we now hear those who
were ever oudest in proclaiming the sovereign right
Of the people Of Territory to regulate their own 40
nestle ffairs advocating the total repeal OF the act
organizing one Of Territories placing Its in6a9i
tants under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction OF me
United States and subjecting them to trai Tor OF
lenses not before aury vicinage but to be trans
ported to foreign jurisdiction for tral: as Engant
6nce did the inhabitants Of her colonies IN Norm
Auer;ca and what is stranger than all the advocate
of this ne asu,e It'll paes OF his devotion to the greas
princ les of popular sovereignty and set-eoyernmeht
But have not space to follow e non t ITO 10
hours in the delivery. The entire speech will be pub
lished and no synopsis can do it justice. ).
Corr. .pondence of the Chicago Tribune, CO.,.
SkINGFIELD, H., june p, 1851.
The Hon. Alb. Lincoln opened his great speech here
few minutes after eight O'Clock p M, IN the hail
Of the House of Representatives. His speech was an
ans wer TO Senator Douglas. The han was hiied
con for.ably full and the Intense interest with which
Republicans, the Bogus Democracy and others list
eDed to every sehtence-syery word-testnes 10 lhe
abdr interest felt in the subject and to the power
of logical truths-truths welded together by the
powers Of logic. There was no rant-no fustian-no
bonbast but there was something in 1t OF more force
and mower than these; the heart iet and he gave Ut
teIance 10 tine heart Inspirations clothed in the eternal
maxims Of the purest reason. Mr. Lincoln divided
his subject into three heads
|. He addressed the people for about half an hour
on the affairs of Kansas stating that nothing but bod
wicked 6espOsm ruled or reigned there since II was
organized into Territory. We'll might Mr. Doug,
ss slip slyly hs psrt Of his case as II ne heard
"notbirg Of Kansas. Let him but look over into the
weseln horizon and see the heavens lit up by the
oories of SGuater Sovereignty, which Douglas had
Z" 20 backed down from. Look, Douglas and see yon-
der people feeing-see the full columns OF brave men
"soppec-see the press and the type flying into the
and tell me what does this IL your Squat
ter Sove Yeignty and you have now backed downfrom
"thc principe The people there cannot vote, ana you
fought to Know it If you do not"
9. He then took up Mormon Utah, and dwen aoout
as long on this head as he did on hansas stating as
reason that as Douglas had not made these the heads
Of his speech he would not. Lincoln said Douglas
had alleged that the Mormons were inrebeon against
the Government ard law: :,
1.-The Mormons ought 10 obey the law, as all good
citizens do and should They burned up the rec1rds
of Utah; but Let NE ask Douglas one question: Inc
Mcrmcns desired TO live without law without rec.
o,ds without courts and thought the sacred right
Of Souater Sovereignty secured TO every people me
right Of the people TO live as they pleased Now why
deprive them Of this fundamental night ina, Is lhe
auction. Why your present backing down. his
L.; 90 Souot,er Soverecuty was never anything but