Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-12-18

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Mr.. DOUGLAS AND THE SoUTH.-Senator Douglas
has been feted and Toasted in New Orleans by n
portion of his enthusiastic friends. But however
much this ovation may have grati6ed his vanity or
cheered his presidential hopes, q sudden reverse
has overtaken him in the action of Congress, dis
placing him from the chair of the committee on
territories. His oldDemocratic southern friends for
eaking him and joining with the president to pun.
ish him for his rebellious contumacy. In this re-
pudiation Of Douglas by the Democratic Senators,
there is, however, more to be seen, than q purpose
to punish his disregard of party dictation. 1t is,
We think, an evidence that the south is displeased
with his position in regard to slavery in the terri.
tories. True his declarations of opinion are rather
distractions, not likely to prove ve.y injurious to
the rights of southern property'bolders in the ter
ri.ories; yet it is at variance with the new pro.
gramme of the slavery propagandists. That pro-
gramme is briefly this LIST, that the doctrines Of
the bred Scott decision are law-that there is to
be no distinction in regard to different species of
property in the erritories-that human flesh is
there as legitimate = subject of property and traffic
as horse flesh or swine fesh-that under the con-
~stitution Shareholders have as good a right to their
slaves as to their carpet bags and their overcoats, Z"
md that il is the especial duty of the federal courts
70 protect them in the enjoyment of these rights;2d,
That in connection with this power and duty of
the courts, to protect and foster slavery in the ter
ritories, it is also the duty Of Congress to legislate
for it there, to provide a slave code for its growth
and security.
Mr.. Douglas, though troubled with no conscien-
,tious scruples in regard to either of these plans,
has been compelled by the anti.slavery sentiment
Of Illinois, to assume a sort of consistency with his
squa.ter sovereignty doctrine, and declare that the
people of the territories may protect themselves
against slavery "by .unfriendly legislation to it,
thus admitting that the people Of the territories
are not quite as utterly DISTINGUISHED as the slaves
themselves. Mr.. Douglas has given confirmation
of this mall concession to the rights of the PEG.
pie by asserting in his last southern speech that
s"not 70 legislate for slavery is to give it support"
This In the eyes Of the south is an anti.slavery
position as Kansas history has proved, they can.
not trust the people of tho territories with any pow,
or on this question. Hence there is a point of ia.
tai difference between Mr.. Douglas and the south
And this seeming, partial anti-slavery position o!
Doug as and not his disagreement with Buchanan
10 probably the occasion of his present humiliation
in the Senate.
Shareholders know they have the fullest occasion
20 repose confidence in the man, ne one who will
unscrupulously and with alacrity serve them if he
can only be sure Of his pny. And yet this posi-
ton, though in accordance with what has hitherto
always been the popular doctrine of the south it
self, does not square with their present purpose
and Douglas is dropped from the position in which
he has hitherto so faithfully served them. Wheth
or this difference, not with Buchanan, but with
Buchanan's masters, is likely to affect Mr.. Doug
las Charleston prospects, is one with which We
have no concern, but which may furnish a theme
for the speculations of political "wiscacres." Be
yond oil question, however, the slaveholding Dem
ocratic Senators have treated Douglas most shah
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