The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-06-24

the People, and which has already sttested its
power by such series of political victories, to
be " reconstructed" or thrust aside, by politi-
cal hacks and managers? Has its work been
doneY Have the expressions that led to its de-
velopment been repaired, have the aggressors
been stripped of power2 Which Of the issues
of 1856 has been settled?
The Slave Power against which you battled,
maintains its seat of empire, and its agents are
as active as ever. How are you to displsce
them by your Protection movements and your
of 1856, that Power has taken another stride
in advance. 1t has obtained from the Supreme
Court an opinion justiying its EXTREMIST pre-
tension-the opinion that the Constitution of
the United States recognises slaves as proper
ty, and protects them as property, in any Terri
tory of the Union, against ell Congressional
or Territorial legislation. Not only against
Republicanism, but against the Popular Sover.
eighty of the AntiLecompton Democrat is the
authority of the Supreme Court srrsyed, and
the Administration, speaking in behalf of the
socalled Democratic Party, accept the false
aud detestable doctrine. Have Senators CANE
RON, SIMMONS, CoLLAMER, and FeoT, 30 soon
forgotten these things; that they are willing to
substitute the Question of the Tariff for the
Question of Freedom, to supersede the Rspub-
lican Party, by Protectionist Organic alton
Is Mr.. CAMERON, in his contempt for existing
parties, willing to vote for Pro Slavery man,
provided he 60 for Tariff on Iron Does
not Mr.. SIMMONS think that the ascendency of
Free Principles in the Federal Government is
as necessary to the salvation of the country +"
as home valuation ?" Is Mr.. Foor 20 tired
of the Republican platform, that he must needs
exchange it for the broad, high, Henry Clay
platform of American Industry, on which he
hopes to affiliate with men of all parties and
sections? Republicans, unless they are pre-
pared to brand their movement as blunder,
sbandon their work On the threshold, suffer
themselves to be drawn off upon obsolete issues,
to be embarrassed and demoralized by timid,
conservative, or sordid politicians, would do
we'll to look to their leaders, and admonish
them that the great Question on which they
organized in 1854, and went into the election
of 1856, is to give place to no other, until set.
tied once for all in favor of the Non Slavehold.
ers, against the usurpations of the Pro-Slavery
Interest.
Were the condition of all the Territories
fixed by law, as was the case with the old
Northwestern Territory were the policy of
the ordinance of 1887 in full operation in all
our Territories, the question could hardly be
so important as it is now, when Congressional
action is repudiated, when every Territory is
laid open to Slavery, when the power of pro.
lection is denied to its People by the Supreme
Court, when Administration intervention is
substituted for Intervention by Congress. This
state of things renders the question far more
momentous, and gives it more permanent
form. 1t is now more important than ever to
revolutionize the Administration, 80 as to pre-.
vent its being prostituted to such work as we
have seen it attempting to perform in Kansas.
Kansas, by the welldirected efforts of Repub
licsns and Free.Sta men, in the Territory and
out of it, will probably be secured to Freedom
in defiance of the ProSlavery conspirators
but the game so shamelessly attempted there,
will be renewed elsewhere. The same Admin.
istration that sustained Slavery Propagandism
in Kansas appoints the judges and the officers,
and dispenses the patronage in other Ter
ritories. What it has done is but an earnest
of what it, and all Administrations, controlled
as it is, by the Slave Power, will do hereafter.
They will neglect no opportunity to secure ad-
vautageS for Slavery. Judges will be appoint.
ed to advocate its doctrines, Executive officers
to enforce its edicts, editors and postmasters to
protect its interests. With the Democratic
Party to sustain the doctrine of non intervea
ton by Congress-, and with the intervention of
the Administration and the Supreme Court on
our side, we are all safe, cry the Pro Slavery
men: Banishing Congress from the Territories,
subjecting them to the Administration and the
Supreme Court, both of which are subject to
us; having established, in opposition to the
dogmas Of Popular Sovereignty, that the Peo.
pie of a Territory cannot prohibit Slavery while
in Territorial condition, and have not the
right to vote upon Constitution after it shall
have been formed by Convention, no matter
whether it represent them or not, we can or.
ganize Slave States just as fast as population
and circumstances will permit and where the
climate absolutely forbids, seize enough of ad.
jscent Territory from Mexico to compensate for
our present deficiency.
Do we exaggerate2 If not, what shall be
thought of the cowardly conservative that
deprecates sectionalism;" of the schemipg
politician who would reconstruct Parties 90 as
to leave the Slave Power in the undisturbed
possession of its gains; of the short sight
ed, shallow economist, who would suspend
struggle involving the vital question, Shall
Slavery or Freedom administer the Govern.
ment, and decide the destinies of this Union.
for the purpose of determining whether the
American People will not tax themselves to
increase the profits of the iron masters of Penn.
sylvanis, and the cotton manufacturers of New
England.
THE SLAVE TRADE UNDER A NEW FORM.
1t seems now to be admitted that the plan
adopted under the authority of the French
Government, of supplying Guadaloupe and Mar.
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