Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-10-06

which that judgment imposes. They &C
knowledge the rights of the slaveholdeI
in the Territories, and the full validity
OF its obligation TO supply the proper rem
ediss for those rights. They met simitQl
obtigotions as to the rights of Shareholder,
IN tie States, BY snQcting tie fugitive siaV
TAG. for which Judge Douglas never vo
ted in any form, and they will not lik,
him, shirk the question of remedies in
the Territories.
| Here the doctrine is distinctly an.
nounced. that Congress is under the
same obligation to legislate for the pro
lection OF Slavery in the Territories. as
it was to pass the Fugitive Slave Law
for The protection of the rights Of slave
holders iu the States. A s'slave code fol-
the Territories" therefore, may be sci
down as one of the measures TO which
this Administration stands fully commit
ted. and which it viii use its whole pow
er and influence to carry through Con-
gress.
And now the question arises, what is
TO be the character of this ''slave code
for the Terrilories?' 1t must be reco-
lected that tue reason why Congress is
to be called upon 10 legislate for the pro-
lection of Slavery in The Territories, is,
that the people of the Territory. if op-
posed TO Slavery, will Reglect, through
their Territorial Legislatures, to pass
such laws as have been found necessary
in all slave States, 10 protect SHAREHOLDERS
10 the full and uninterrupted enjoyment
OF their right of property in slaves
Congress is merely TO do what the Ter
ritorial Legislatures would do, il Pro.
Slavery. Of course, then. Congress will
be called upon to pass Just such laws for
The protection Of Slavery in the Ternto-
ries, as slave States have found it neces-
sary to pass for the protection of the in
sntuIion within their own limits.
This programme would embrace a
great variety of laws to be passed by
Congress, which we shall not attempt
here TO enumerate. There is one pecu
liar class of laws, however, which we be
lieve every slave State has deemed it
necessary to enact, and which slavehol-
ders declare to be absolutely essential,
not only to the preservation of their
rights of property in slaves, but to the
protection of the lives of the inhabitants
We allade TO laws limiting the freedom
Of speech and the freedom of the press
laws prohibiting under severe penal
ties. all discussion of the right of man TO
hold his fellow-man in bondage, and of
kindred subjects. AS matter of course.
one of the first duties which Congress
would be called upon to perform, 10 car
rying out this new doctrine, would be to
pass laws on this subject, similar to
those which the slave States have deem
ed it necessary TO enact. And as the
laws wonld be designed 10 protect the
rights of Shareholders in communities
where majority of the people would
be opposed TO the institution, they would
necessarily have 10 be made more strin-
gent than laws enacted for the same pur-
pose in the slave States, where the ma
jority of the people are in favor Of the
institution. Congress would be requir-
ed to follow In the footsteps OF the Bor-
der Ruffian Legislature OF Kansas, which
enacted law, The faithful execution of
which would have consigned 10 the chain
gang any man who should have the tenn
erity to publish the Declaration of Inde-
pendence within that Territory.
This would be an admirable plan for
establishing the institution of Slavery in
all the Territories, on such basis as
best to secure its adoption by them.
when applying for admission as States of
the Union Let il be established as the
law Of the land, that the Constitution
carries Slavery into all Of the Territories,
and then let Congress place lock upon
the lips and a muzzle upon the press of
every advocate of free institutions in
those Territories, and obstinate, indeed.
must be the people of that Territory
which would not, under this kind of tu-
telsge, in due time be prepared to enter
ihe Union as slave State.
But Whist becomes of the doctrine of
ao;s Intervention? During the late ses-
sion of Congress. that doctrine was held
so sacred in The eyes Of the Adminis,ra-
ton party, as to give unimpeachable va
lidiiy to gross fraud perpetrated in its
name, so fearful was that party of as
suming position which might, by a
sheer tschnicaiity. be construed as an in
reference with the right of the people of
Kansas "to regulate their own domestic /
Institutions in their own wsy." Only q
lev weeks have elapsed since the Ad-
orgsn. out of tender regard
or :his sacred principal of non.intervsn.
ion, was protesting against the rigb, of
Congress 10 requirea Constitution, form
ID by Territory with a view TO ad.
mission as State, to be submitted to a
'ote ofths people. But now the South i