New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-25

10 rgIt TO probibi, Sh very IN the Territories, aud
| tho 1eonIe Of the Territories have not the right.
wbence comes tie right OF the people to prohibit it
| when forming a State Constitution They cannot
derive the right from CoDgress because the Supreme
| Court denies the power in Congress nor can they
derive il from the people of the Territory who do
moi Themselves poesess IT, The srgan OF the Admin
variation. The Washington Union, has boldly put
forth tb;s doctrine, that State cannot abolish
Slavery. deriving il logically and legltimatey from
the decision of the Supreme Court and it has been
rewarded for It's boldness by the election of its
editor to be the Printer of the United States Senate
Mr. Blair could not see how any man who holds
TO the doctrine Of the Supreme Court that neither
Congress nor the people of Territory can prohibit
STAKEHOLDER from carry ing his property into any
Territory acquired by the cOnfederacy Of sovereign
States at their joint expense deny the right of
the yebolder to carry his property into any State
formed of territory thus acquired. In fact the
case is stronger against the State than agsnst the
Territory for the Constitution Of the United States
which s said to recognize the right Of property in
slayes is the supreme law Of all the States but does
rot by ts terms, apply to the Territories, and it
was held by Mr.. Webster and the most eminent
constitutional lawyers in the country not to extend
TO them at all
What" exclaimed Mr.. Blair. have the sdyo.
Gates of popular sovereignty to say to this decision
of the Supreme Court, which subverts the power OF
the people of Territory, the power Of the people
of State, the power of the people of the Union to
prohibit Slavery which invests the STAKEHOLDER
with absolute sovereignty, empowering him to walk
into State and carry with him his slaves, and by
his single will establish Slavery there until the next
day, or next week, next year. he sees fit TO walk
out again, and graciOusy leaves the people to re-
sumo their free institutions until another sovereign
Stakeholder comes along, pitches his tent among
them and re,stablisbes the patrarcha institution? ?"
The policy of President Buchanan, like the policy
Of President Pierce, is to dragon the people of
Kansas into submission, and drive out the white
man at the point Of the bay to make room for
the negro slave. But no matter what party sustains
the pOllcy-D0 matter how many Judicial decisions
may he got to sanction tho matter how many
regiments are called out to enforce it-they will all
prove impctent TO wrest from the ireemen of this
country their rights in the Territories for the pur.
pose of building up an oligarchy resting upon SER
vile institutiOnsan Oligarchy which seeks to monOp
oze all the snd of the nation IN order to strengthen
their political power and to enhance the profits of
their negro capital. In saying this" said Mr.
Blair, - do not speak for the freemen of the
North alone but for the freemen OF the whole
" country. This is no question of North against
South. 1t is question which addresses Itself
to the working men OF all sections Of the country,
" and if it is Of particular interest to any clsss OF
"men, il is 20 TO the free white laborers Of the
South, for it ia they who have received the
(which has almost literally excluded them from
ownership in the soil, and from all the employ
/" ments which elsewhere afford to the laborng
% man the means Of living in independence and COM
" fort"
The slaves are instructed in the mechanical trades,
and employed almost universally in farm labor, 80
that these great sources OF emp oyent closed to
the white workiDgman. If be is fortunate enough
to own small piece OF land, upon which 10 raise
food for his family, he has no market for his sur
plus the Slave States being purely agricultural,
with few large towns, and the planters and other
shareholders supplying themselves from their own
land and by the labor of their own slaves.
The sparse and scattered population OF those
States makes u system Of common schools lmpOs-
sible. Ii may BE- said, without metaphor that
negro Slavery robs the poor white of enjoyment,
of all interest in the soil of the means OF int
ectua improvement, and literally takes the bread
out of the mouths of his children. Shall he ais
be deprived of the new Territories opened by the
General Government, and thus lose his last chance
to better his condition!
Mr. Blair here drew striking parallel from RO-
man history in the decline of the Republic to chow
how the slaye-breeding patrcians had appropriated
to their use and that of their slaves the public land
to the exclusion of the non-saveholdng patrclans
Next he cited from high authority testimony to the
condition to which the free white working men o
the South have been reduced by the pressure OF
Slavery and its degrading competition. He quoted
the Hon. Clement c. Clay Of Alabama: Dir. William
Gregg of South Carolina; Gov. Hammond OF the
same State-all of them firm and able supporters OF
Slavery, yet forced 10 confess in the strongest
terms the low condition Of the non.saveholdlng
whites.
The National Democracy, continued Mr. Blair,
has become exceedingly tender of the rights OF
property OF the Shareholder 1t proposes to cede TO
him monopoly of the Territories for, as has been
shown, the presence of slave labor produces prac-
teal exclusion of the labor of freemen. But what
difference does that make to these Democratic
stcklers for the rights of property laboring
man has in nine out OF ten, no other property
than his labor Il not white mans right of prop.
erty in his own labor as sacred the stakeholder
right 10 the labor of his slave' Has he not the
same right to have it protected BY the Government
II is clearly demOnstrable that to permit slaves 10
be carried into the Territories would be to exclude
practically the white laborer. If we must either
exclude the white laborer or the slave, which horn
of the dilemma shall we take Shall we degrade
and diminish the value of the labor OF the treenen Of
our own race by surrendering our Territories
70 the neoro1 Or shall We exclude the negro
in favor of the white White laborers are
counted By millions, while the shareholders
amount only to few hundred thousand Shall we
90 for the few or for the many Shall We favor the
rich Shareholders the poor white lsborng men
The spurious Democracy OF the DAY worsolPs d. Tue
shrine Of the wealthy Shareholder IN total disregard
of the rights of the great OF the people IL Is
for giving privileges to a rich and powerful class IN
derogatiOn of the rights OF the great majority. Inc
right of the STAKEHOLDER To his property Is lar more
sacred in their eyes than the right of the tree Whe
man TO the enjoyment of his Own labor, which is his
only property. But if il sought to emPio!
negro property in any business which would bring
the slave into competition with the occupations o
the wealthy classes the case would be- changed.
Thara han tha