Worcester daily spy., 1858-09-22
A New Demand for Slavery,

vi AL Lne current stu pluttiSs VI an Ahoho
and babblng age, the cant about "SettIiag the
Slavery question is the most preposteronsly
provoking. We have had it "settled" half
dozen times within the last dozen years, and
each settlement has proved the procurer OF
new and more violent agitation. The rustic
who, encountering a river in his first journey,
sat down to await its running itself dry, was
sage and scholar compared with him who.s
in view of our recent experience, talks of
"setthng the Slavery question" For this is
not only the main question-it is the fertile
source of agitations and collisions on points
remote from and apparently unrelated TO it.
and no settlement thereof can be permanent
or real which is not all-embracing. When
ever slavery shall have ceased to exist, or
shall have vanquished all shades of repug-
nance, all forms of opposition to its sway,
then, "the slavery question" will be settled
and not till then. If, meantime, every point
OF difference hitherto raised were fully de-
cided in favor of slavery, and no new ones
proposed or raised on our side, "the slavery
question" would be Immediately revived by
some fresh exaction or pretence Oh the other
side. 1t is with slavery as with the advano-
ing traveller
stills peep o'er hills, and Alps on APPS arise -
and the triumph of to-day only enlarges the
tlte Ior new cong quests to-m morrow.
The latest demand put forth on behalf of
the Slavery Propaganda is that for S}aoe-
Code for the Territories, to which we may
have already called attention. If the new
doctrines embodied in the bred Scott decis-
ion are to be accepted, instead of those which
vivihed the Jeftersonan Ordinance of 81,
then such Code becomes a necessary act of
justice to the Shareholders, which cannot be
warrantably refused Hear what leading
Pro Slavery organs have to say Oh the sub
ject:
From the Charleston Is. CT Mems
If the Constitution confers upon slavery the
right to go there, ito the Territories as ac-
cording to the Kanzas Nebraska bill and the
bred Scott decision it does, then it also i'm
poses the duty Of protecting that right and
this cannot be done aoithomt p9sitiUe Pro Slav-
cry legislation and A FEDERAL SLAVE CODE
FOR THE TERRITORIES.
From the Ne1o York Day Book.
Of course, the people of Territory, when
they frame their State Constitution, may
apopt or exclude "Slavery;" but aohjle then
are Territory, if they fail to protect proper
ty invested in the person or industrial capaci-
ty of the negro, they grossly violate equal
rights, and therefore are not authorized TO con-
slider themselves Democrats. The whole ques-
ton is resolved into this simple right or no
right to protection to STAGE proper IN the Fed
eral Territories, and. as the Charleston Neos
suggests, 1t must constitute the issue Of 1860.
From the Richmond (va.) Enquirer.
The right of property in slaves in the States
is now placed, practically as well as legally,
beyond the reach of Federal legislative en-
croachments. But in the Territories it is diff
is fEoinn ~ th, 4
of the Supreme Court prevents Congress and
all its delegates from the prohibition of slavery
in Territory. There mast be posttjre tegjS-
Iatjee enactment q cjUH md criminal code far
the protection Of sla0e properly IN the Terrato-
fjeS ought to be pr0Uided. 10 a limited extent
this is already provided. In every Territory
containing majority OF pro slavery men, the
power OF the Territorial Legislature is all suf.
fcient for the purpose. In other Territories
it is at least doubtful whether the Legisla-
lures will exercise this power, and there is no
power elsewhere to compel such exercise In
such case of omission, and under the pres
ent state of Federal legislation, much, if not
all, must depend upon the loyalty and eff
cheney of the President of the United States.
He it is who appoints the Territorial Execu-
tive and Judiciary 1t will be the duty of the
President to hold both functionaries to zeal.
we cordially unite with the Day Book, in the
assertion that the next Democratic nominee
for the Presidency should be pledged to the
protection of slave property in all the Terri
tories.
And we go further. 1t is very desirable
that Congress should pass additional laws for
the protection Of slave property in the Terri
tories. The present code of Federal legisla.
ton is insufficient tor this purpose
els thy servant dog that he should DO
this thing J. will be the indignant inquiry of
many Buchanan Democrats, when they hear
it first suggested that they will yet be req uired
to support the enactment of slave code for
the Territories. But they thought Just so
when it was first suggested that they would
be required to support the opening of the
Territories to slavery; again when they were
required to indorse the reputation of the
Missouri Compromise; again when they were
called to approve resistance to a Congressional
investigation of the Unprecedented frauds and
outrages in Kanzas; again when the bred
Scott decision was foreshadowed and still
again when the Lecompton fraud first dawned
on the gaze of an astonished people. How
can they reasonably hope that this will be the
lastl The very first note of triumph over
any supposed relaxation of Northern resist
ance to slavery aggression will be the signal
for new demands and exaelions like that glib
beted above. If only in the interest of con.
servatism, peace traternsl harmony, it be-
hooves every good citizen to resolve that
slavery shall never advance another inch un-
der our flag, and 10 act consistently with that
resolution.-Neao York Trtbwae.