The Washington union., 1857-12-06

rosautertaaos By Congress rph slavery ia sas ad 7sri
tOry, "a hs Diara Of Columbia
That Ass was the basis OF the compromises OF 1880
confirmed by both the democratic and whg parties In
National Conventions ratified by the people in the cleo
ton of 1884, and rightly applied 70 he organisation @ Iern-
tories "a 1854
3. That by the uniform application Of this democratic
principle 10 the organisation Of 7oss and to the admission
Of Staes with without slavery Qy may elect
the equal rights of all the States win be preserved intact
the original oompacs Of the constitution maintained in
violate and the perpetuity and expansion Of this Union
insured TO its utmost capacity Of embracing in peace and
harmony every future American State that may be con-
sttuted annexed with republican form Of govern
ment
These emphatic resolutions contain not word
prescribing the mode and manner in which new
States shall adopt their constitutions but breathe in
every line and word stern inhibition against all
outside interference with the States sin epsry-
thing appertaining to hir oten affairs"
The full Specification of these resolutions would
be lost if we were not to quote in connenion the
clauses from the compromise measures of 1885, and
from the Nebraska Kansas act of 1854 to which they
make reference
Cbnoniss clause Of 1885, from the territorial act orgarg
Nev Msroo and Uioh
Prooided That when admitted as State the said Ter
rory any portion of the same shall be received into
the Union with without slavery, their oonsStoi
may prescribe at the time of their admission.
The declaration supposes that the new State will
frame and adopt its constitution in its way, free
from all outside interference and dictaton not
word being used which could authorize Congress to
look behind the constitution into the mode Of its adop
ton, for the purpose of interfering to direct that
mode.
clause precisely in the words of the above
clause is inserted in the Nebraska-Kansas act, as
well as the following celebrated non-intervention
clause
intervention clause Of The Nerasta Kansas Of 1854
The constitution and all laws of the United States
which not locally inapplicabe shall have the same
force and effect within the said Territory of Kansas
elsewhere within the United States except the eighth
section of the act preparatory to the admission of Mis-
souri, into the Union, approved March 6, 1920 which,
being inconsistent with the principle OF onntervention
by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories
recognised by the legislation of 1885, commonly called
the compromise measures is hereby declared imperative
and void it being the true intent and meaning of this
act to cgslate slavery into any Territory State
exclude it therom but to leave the people there
of perfectly free form and regulate their domestic nsons
their dy subject only to the constitution of the
United States, sc.
Thus the policy intervention is again asserted
in the most absolute terms that the English language
can afford. The phrase ''people of the Territory
is indeed used in the sentence denying to Congress
all right Of interference in their domestic affairs but
the denial of this power to Congress the sole in
tenton Of the sentence and it would be absurd to in
sst that Congress intended in the very act of deny
ing to itself all power of interference actually to in
terere to the extent ofprescrbng the mode in which
the constitution of the State should be framed
Thus carefully, earnestly and emphatically has
the democracy of the Union announced the great
doctrine of non-interrenton which they have
fought the abolitonists for seven years of agita-
ton and struggle; and it is hardly to be supposed
that they consent to abandon that cherished
doctrine for it's antipodes and to unite with their
enemies in policy of interference in the domestic
affairs of Kansas at with all they have battled
for for years together. Those who expect to per-
suade them into this act of qualification and treason
to their cause little understand the force of prnci-
ples and little appreciate that devotion to the cardi
nal doctrines of their faith that has always dstin-
guished the democracy from the ephemeral parties
of the country, which, catching at expedients and
specalities have risen up against them one after
another, only to be broken and scattered to the
winds.