New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-06

that had IL be appropriated IN dcfcieaey 5tHS.'
Yes; but what were they, Inclusive of such def
ccnces That is the vital question.
Mr. Senator DOrGIaS, on the 10Th ut, n;de
speech at Memphis, Tenn, on his southwark )ur-
ney, which we fad reported in The Aratcneie Of
that city. II j. u compact and vigorous effort
presenting the leading points OF his various
speeches in the late canvass, aud standing pretty
fairly by them all. We do not see that he can be
justly charged with varying his position. to suit
this more tropical latitude The following is the
only passage in this speech which seems to rs
sufficiently novel TO bear citston:
Whenever q Territory has climate, soil anl pro-
ducion, akin. it the Interest OF the inhabitants -
encourage slave property, they viii pas slave cole
and give Il encourag cement. Wherever the climate
sU and production precldes the possibility ot Slavery
beng profitable, the viii not permit It. You come
right back TO the principle OF dollars and cents do
not care where the migration IA the Southern country
comes from; il old Joshua Il. Gddngs should raise
colony in Ohio snd settle down in Louisiana, he woui
be tie strongest advocate Of Slavery ia the whole
south; lie would find when he got there bis opinion
would he very much modified; he would find ON those
sugar plantations that was not q1estion between
the white aud the negro, but between the negro
and tie crocodile.
lie would say that between the negro and the
crocodile took the side of the negro. Bat, between
the negro and the white man, he would 60 for the
white man. The Almighty has drawn the lice on This
cor tnent side OF which the soil must he culti
waited by slave labor. the other by white labor.
That line did not run on thiItysx degrees ard thirty
minutes for thItysx degrees and thirty minutes runs
over mountains AMI through valleys. Bn; this slave
line meanders in the sugar fields and plantations OF the
South the ander OF the sentence was lost by the
confusion around the reporter. And the people living
in their different localities ard in the Territories must
determine for themselves whether their middle bet
il best adapted to Slavery or Free Labor.
Hence under the Constitution there s no po Ser
20 prevent Southern goDg there with his slaves
more than Northern man.
Mr. Douglas is not content here with com.
plctely ignoring the moral element of the Slavery
Qqe.tion- with deciding and affirming that any
man III hold slaves who csn make money by it
he goes beyond even this and clearly aflirms that
theIc is portion Of our country in which
Slavery is profitable, outrageous, expedent-
therefore right Ii is not often that Northern
Statesman, even though standing under aSouthern
sum-" has gone 80 far this. If Mr.. Douglas
be right in his position, then Slavery in the Cotton
region is not only expedient and right today, but
must be so etersally. II Mr.. Douglas be right,
then our Revolutionary fathers were wrong in sup
pre- ssing the African Slaye-Tfade, and the Federal
Constitution is wrong in giving Congress power
TO renew ard perpetuate that SUPPRESSION. If
Nj. Douglas be right, then John Mitchell, Gov.
Adams William l.. Yancey and all the advocate, of
reopcning the Slave-Trade are right. For if,
"tbe Almighty" as he basphemously asserts,
." has drawn line or this continent, on one side
" of which the soil must be cultivated By Slave
Labor" how can Mr. Douglas, how can any but
s rtbel against God, uphold llw which prevents
those who would cultivate that Cotton region from
obtaining that species Of labor BY which only has
God ordained that il should be cultivated F! We
have in the United States only -Four Millions OF
slavee while the proper and sufficient cultivation
Of the slave region requires the labor OF st least
i've times that number. our laws making the
African Slaye-Trade piracy have hitherto pre-
eudej, are to-day precuding, the importation
Of the laborers by which Mr. Douglas says
God intended to have the Cotton region cult-
waited. Texas and Mississippi Florida and
Arksnsas, want cheap field hands, Afri;a is ready
to supply them. Judge Douglas insists that God
intended she shouid supply them. How then can
the Judge Uphold the laws that forbid her supply
ing them In so doing does he not clearly take
the side of the crocodile against the negro =
And when John Mltclel, lUncey, Nch fc u 70
shall present the cl,ims Of - lac negro to that
region against those Of the crocodile shall In
.ist on allowing each State to judge for herself on
tie principle Of Popular Sovereignty" whether
she will "patronize the King OF Ashantee" or the
slaye.breeders Of Virginia and Msrylsnd-what
can the Judge ssy He must clearly submit TO
stand exposed TO the world Inconsistent, illogi-
cal and mere political juggler. or ne must agree
that each State shall "pa,ronize the King OF
"Ashantee" or not, IS to her shall seem sood-in /
other words, that Popular Sovereignty shall
triumph over the laws suppressins the Slave !
Trade, as it triumphed over the Missouri Eestric-
ton.
We would fix atentiOn on the main point, and
AK every one who can reason to judge whether
there 10 any mistake about it. Ii Popular
Sovereignty" is good in the Territories, why not
on the high seas and in the Gulf Of Guinea How
are the two cases to be distinguished, 90 a. to
make 6sh Of one and fesh Of the otheri 1t 10 easy
fo ssy 90 Tha Conth 1o<sur ,.apf thA SlAVe.TradA