Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-04-20
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( spec MAIN AND sECo n d GdIo-Ii
of IET bess leave 70 inform the the fF Q
the sOdmonh7snr 'rT rlg'1 s,Iss5 aaa 10 " =
Of their cid ground that Congress possesses ab
soluts power over the Territories, and thsil
readiness to agree never again to attempt ar
enforcement Of that power, "Or to interfere
with the right Of the people to establish and
regulate their domestic Institutions in their own
way"
But the TfmsF goes further, and says:
." It is also true that the Republicans have
voted 10 favor Of admitting Kansas as a slave
State, provided the people vote 10 have it so.
Ibis, however, is but conditional vote, and
the condition 10 one morally certain not to be
fulfilled: so that the cOmmitnsucpn pn this point
is theareticsl rather than PRACTICAL. But We
presume the oppo ition party viii not hereafter
stand upon the ground OF rssis ancs to the ad-
mission Of any more slave States. Individuals
in the Republican ranks have held this position
and will 90 so STILL The platform Of 1856
committed that party to 1t 50 far as territory
dedicated to freedom by the Missouri Compr0-
mise was concerned, aud 80 far as the action
OF the presidential campaign was involved.
But platforms are temporary stTuctuTes-al-
ways designed to serve purpose, and tolera-
BY certain to damage the purpose they intend
TO serve. They are generally taken down
when they have been used, and if this is not
done, they are certain TO tumble down them
selves. It is no. likely, therefore, that the
platform Of 1886 viii do duty again for the
party which formed It. No great party will
plant itself hereafter upon the position ths;
slave States seeking admission shall be eX-
Ctuded because thev are slave States, from the
Union. Both psrties-for there will Will b.
bat two for three or four years to come-will
agree that the people Of each new State shall
decide the question for themselves, and that
their decision shall be respected By Congress
and the cOuniIy."
From this Es are to understand that the Re
publieans, in view Of the new progrs mme, have
taken back all they have said against admit
ting new slave States into the Union; that they
'' will not hereafter stand upon the ground Of
resistance to the admission Of any more slave
Ststss;7 that they are willing to abandon the
platform upon which they stood in 1856,
and cOncede the great Democratic doctrine
" that people Of each new safe shall decide
the question Of slavery for themselves, and that
their decision shall be respected by Congress
and the country.D
The New York TItbEas, the great and ac-
kHowledged mouth piece Of the Republican or
gaDizatiOn, goes length further than the Times,
and insists that its party never did stand upon
the 50 'nO-more-sIsve-Ststss" 4" doctrine. In the
leading article Of its Fridays issue it holds the
following language:
SOme of the journals, including one OF two
That are tepidiy republican of and on are
cackliHg over an alleged abandonment Of prin-
ciple IN the Republican vote in Congress for
the Crittenden- Mont gomery substitute, because,
they say, 1t allows Kansas 10 come in as a slave
state II she shall prefer to do so. There are
two seVerally conclusive answers to this
chuckle: /. We know that Kansas does rot
sEd will not prefez to come in as a slave State /;
2. II she did, the Republicans would violate
none OF their cherished principles Of allowing
It. Turn to the Philadelphia platform, (see
ITibEae Almanac for '5S, p 80, scan 1t care
fully, and you will fad there no declaration. 10
protest, against the admission of a bona fde
slave State as such"
That these concessions are made mainly in
Difference to the wishes Of Judge DOUGLAS and
bis friends, and for the purpose Of enabling
them to eOslesee with the Republicans, must
be admitted; but, whilst this is 80, they fur
nish tribute to the wisdom, the honesty, and
the sound pelicy Of the Democratic l.arty that
cannot fail to be noted They vindieate, be-
cause, coming from its enemy, they fully ad-
nit, the correctness Of the great Democratic
doctrine Of popular supremacy in the Terrific
ries and States, and the iustness Of the repeal
Of that odious and arbitrary measure, which
excluded the citizens Of fifteen States Of the
Union from a share in its common domain. In
word, they demonstrate the power of right
over wrong; Of Democratic principles over
the political hsresies Of their opponents, and
furnish the world with another example Of the
correctness Of the great maxim that 4" truth is
mighty sRd must prevail"
If these men were honest there could be no
objection to this new plank in their platform F;
but when these papers have added to this, as
we expect sson to see them do, the Supreme
Court plank Of Mr.. SEWARD, and the Know
Nothing plank Of Mr.. CRrTTENDES, we shall
be compelled to differ from them, and 10 battle
with the same energy against the new as we
have done against the old scheme Of abolition
len. Of the two, we regard the former as far
the most insidious, and, therefore. Infinitely
the most dangerous. Having secured a pre-
pondeTance Of the free over the slave States
and supposing that this will give them the con-
troll Of the Executive and Of Congress, the only
remaining obstacle which the AbolitioHists re-
gard as standing between them and the final
accomplishment Of their purpose is the Sa-
preme Court. To effect a radical change in
this department, 20 as to give the free States a
controlling influence on the bench, they will, a.
has been intimsted by Mr.. SEwRAD, bend all
their energies and their efforts in the future
This done, the Constitution would be stripped
Of its last legal protection, and the minority
section placed wholly and absolutely within thI
control Of the majority section Of the Union
Then will the power Of Congress to regulate
the domestic affairs Of The Territories for thl
present so generously yielded, be re-asserte'
and attempted to be extended over the States
and then will the hour Of real danger to th'
Union have arrived, and the horrors Of dones
tic strife and civil war have cone upon Us il
all their dread reality.
fz% Ion, the Washington correspondent o.
the Baltimore SuH. after noticing the vote II
the House for a committee OF conference says
. Il may be takenfor granted that the SENATE
bill Is to pass, with some very uniuPoTtan
notifications, after some further delay. Non'
/ Of the ti-Lscompton South Americans have