New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-11-22

The n. Y. E1p'ss took occasion to say, the
other day, that it stood by the old doctrine Of Con-
sressional non.iuterference with Slavery in the
Territories: Whereupon we asked 1t to state die
tinctly ho,e old that doctrine was, and 70 deny, il
il could that Washington Jefferson and their Illus
trous contemporaries, affirmed and enforced the or'
posite doctrine of Congressional prohibition OF
Slavery in the Territories. Thus brought up al
standing Tie Express can do no better than
founder and bubble after this fashion:
SLAVERY IS A Local QCKSTIos-THR TRIBus is
disposed I, question The ETpes IS to the age OF the
doctrine Of non interference by Congress with Slavery
and calls us to account Tor saying tnaI s
We called this ".he old doctrine" atd IHt IRibrSE
e,ks: How old. neighbor7" Aid again 1t asks.
when was your old doctrine first prcpounded and
"ettnblshedi T. &,
Perhaps no. as far back as when Washington and
jefferson sere born-for that before the Const-
tuion wss aGeeicd-but as far back as the preamble
Of the Constitution: which say, III the oee,nnine,
| I've the People" &c. We klow very Wen that
Congress has egislaed upon Slavery, and both for
ana aga.us, the institution. Wa mean to say that the
spirit Of the Government is against interference by
Conoress 1,yo or con, upon the subject We mean to
saw too, that under the Constitution the people Of
Territory can better regulate their own permanent
Internal affairs than Congress car regulate them for
the people. The doctrine Of Popular sovereignty, IS
I
sbsurd, rs can the mis-statements or abuse OF any
other doctrine. Tbs source If al power Is with the
People uudcr the Constitution. Their will is the Su-
preme Law Of the lard. II makes Preeidents and
Goyernora, Representatives in Congress and State
LEGISLATURES. which, in turn, make Seustors 10 Con-
cIess To say that ths source Of power lie rot ut to
make local or State Constitutions, or to regulate their
own Institutions by establishing slavery II they de-
sire or excluding Slavery if they will is to lay down
! nropostipn at war with the fundamental principles
bc,k Of Self Government ard Of the Federal Consti-
| tuition.
Executive interference in the OF Kansas that rnE
TRsUSy and Express have been opposng for the last
year or moro. We have seen tho good effect OF our
Opposition and Il the docln is not as old il form as
some Others i, urderlies the Government Itself. II
has also honored age and responsibility. In lS1 ,
more than twenty years ago, Henry Clay introduced
in TIE United States Senate the following resolution,
which va. warmly uPpSs,tsa ana ana yS,fs icr 0y '0'h
IN T.,rtoI, Of the rri,ed s,sies which exit. would
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We are copten. to stand where M Clay stood some
years before TnE TRipvSE was usnerea inso eNs.
making Slavery the law of the State or ae local law
We have thus copied The EIYrssss article
entire though i did not and never does, treat ours
in this way. We wished our readers to be sure
that the advocates Of what is called Non-lnterven-
tion or Non-Interitrencs by Congress with Slavery
in the Territories, have not the hsrdihood to deny
p.st ours il the doctrine affirmed and acted on BY
WASHINGTON, Jefferson and their cOmpatriots, not
ue,e,v upder the Confederation. as The ErPrcSs
woulJ ;n,nnate, but under our present Federal
Co,.ti,ution as We'll The originsi Prohibition oil
s,,ey, i, the Territories, though drailod b! JEFF