New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-21

ful existence in the Territories: Secondly, as 10
those Just acquired from Mexico that there was no
probabit, Of IL going thither. On TINS basi-. Il
wa- not difficult 20 assent 10 the policy Of nom
action or non-interventou By Congress. But the
Dred Scott decision has radically changed all tins,
BY establishing Il. a judicial doctrine Of our Gov
eminent. that al TerritOry Of the United STATES
from which slavery has not been legally excluded
j. Legally Slave Territcr-that any Shareholder
may carry Sla,er practically thither and require
the Government to protect him IN The lie and en-
oyment Of hi- human property. TN. novel ana
nonstrOus doctrine imposes on those Who would
save the Territories for Free Labor the duty Of
active and yigant resistance 10 the encr0achments
Of Slavery.
III. We find that Popular Sovereignty. with
respect to the Territories i rendered By THIS
decision a snare and delusion. Tie Supreme
Court decides expressly that the Territories can
do nothing in the way Of excluding or prohibiting
Ssvery. whateyer they may do in the way Of pro-
tecting IT, so that, while Messrs. Douglas. Forney
end other, are appealing 70 us 10 leave this whole
matter TO the People Of the Territories, the
Supreme Court ha. taken the whole ground from
under their feet by deciding that the People Of the
Territories shall have no power over il Whatever.
Uhen they stall hare eeassd to be people cfa Tenn
tory, and become people Of State, then they may
act in the premises, unless the supreme Court
should give the screw another turn, and decide
that the rights Of property acquired under the
Federal Constitution and laws are sacred and indie
structble. and that slaves already in the embryo
State must, with their posterfy remain slaves for
ever. No man who defer- 10 the bred Scott
decision a, law has any right to talk OF Popular
Sovereignty in the Territories, far As SLAYER! ls
concerned. Ii ha. clearly no existence; and those
who talk Of il use words without definite meaning
or use them for purposes Of deceit.
Ill When Territory throws of the Terrific
rial condition, forms State Constitution, aud
applies for admission into the Union, she of course
makes such a Constitution as she WILL aud Il
morally certain 10 BE- admitted with that Constitu-
ton. We MAJ favor or resist her admission, but
practically and historically We know that she viii
not be excluded because she is or is not slayehod-
ing. Everything depends, therefore, on he eharaf-
ter Impressed on her he she retains her Territord
condition. Just as the twig is bent the trees
s.incned:" or, as the wise king expressed the
idea, "Train up Il child in the way he should GO,
and when he i. old. he will not depart from it,"
The Slave Territory in fact becomes Slave State,
while the Free Territory natures into a Free
State. How vast the issues. how momentous the
consequences, depending on the Impress originally
stamped on a new Territory, \ few years Of ill.,
fame, decides its character for an indefinite term
perhaps for generations. Let us be- faithful to the
duties Of the day.
". The practical Interpretation given To the
Popular Sovereignty doctrine by it, votares is ia
digrcnce to the triumph Of Ere, or If Stare LabOr
in a Territory. Mr Douglas insists that Kansas
shall be- admitted as Free State because that is
her deliberate and Overwhelming choice, not be-
cause the choice ia intrinscally right and benef-
cent. Were she struggling TO come in as Slave
State. he would support her demand with equal
energy and emphasis. Indeed, he clearly init
mates that, while he considers Free Labor proba-
bly, best for her. he considers Slave Labor as
decidedly preferable for other and more tropical
regions There is nothing wrong, according 10
this view, in making one man work for snothers
profit all his life, leaving his children 10 follow in
the same drrary round; it i. only mistake To do
this where the mercury often sinks below zero.
We cannot assent 10 this view. Ii l. not that of
Washington. Jefferson and Madison, shareholders
though they were.
Y. If the Free States should consent 10 regard,
with Mr.. Douglas, the westward progress Of Free
and OF Slave Labor with equal favor or equal IN
difference the Slave States manliestly viii not and
do not. Their ruling classes have great pecuniary
and political interest in the Extension OF Slavery.
Every new Slave State increases AT once the value
of their human live stock and their political power.
The Annexation Of Texas instantly enhanced the
price of slaves throughout the breeding region, as
the Purchase Of Louisiana had previously done.
Gov Wise estimated that prime Virginia slaves
would have netted their owners 5000 esch, could
the, have been set 10 work in the California mines
which the admission Of Caliiornis as Free State
prccluded. A new California seems shout To open
in the DebatabIe Land on this side OF the Rocky
Mountains Arkansas will Vie with Kansas in cc-
cupyng is plaeers. l. this time 10 disarm The
Free-Labcr party
VI. We have proved in the glorious example Of
Kansas. tina, Free Labor backed by strong public
sentiment and active. self-sacrifciug exer,ions in
the Free States, can wrest Territory out of the
immediate grasp of the Slavery Propaganda.
though backed by the Federal Executive. Senate,
Judiciary and Army. We shall probably never
again have 10 fight the battle under grester dlsad
ysutages. Kansas lying along the western border
If Missouri. which Wa. occupied by the most
slsyeholding and the most vehemently Pro-Slavery
portion Of the Missouri people The spirit and the
devotion eyinced by the better portion Of the