The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-06-09
DNINTERVENTION AT HOME
PREVENTION ABROAD. (

The Washington States advocates a sort of
= lifed non-intervention by Congress in the
s.irs of the Territories, but it is decidedly in
> +, ,r of intervention abroad. 1t says:
As respects Mexico, it is assuredy high
/ ne for the United States to abandon the doc
lae Of non-interference. 1t is an admitted
( -uism, that private Individual has no priDtd
syIcie right to enter the house Of his neighbor
but it he ascertains that his neighbor has
quantity of gunpowder stored away in that
house, and is in the habit of casting Goals of
ERE among the kegs containing it, the duty de-
wolves upon him, upon the principle of selfse-
curity to interfere. As it is with individuals,
so it is with neighboring countries.
"The welI-being of the United States is Sc
riously endangered by the demOralized condi
ton of Mexico
The States denies to the Federal Govern
ment the right to interfere in the local affairs
of Utah and New Mexico which belong to the
United States, but it sees no constitutional i'm
Epediment to an interference with the independ-
ent country from which we acquired those Ter
rtories We are utterly at loss to reconcile
these two positions. The supposition of gun
powder plot is as practicable of our own as of
foreign territories; and we think that there is
i
at present far more likelihood of danger to the
welfare of this country from the establishment
of polygamy in Utah, than from the anarchy
which prevails in Mexico. Her anarchy may
occasion us the loss of some trade, but the es-
adjustment of polygamy in Utah, and the adj
mission of State into the Union with that i'm
moral, unchristian and detestable relic of bar
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rality in the whole Union.
We apprehend that the illogical position of
the States results from its great solicitude for
the extension of Slavery. Intervention by Con-
gress with the Territories is rendered superfu-
Gus, upon the theory recognised by that journal,
that the Constitution and the Supreme Court
permanently establish Slavery while in foreign
States no such theory holds good. Intervention
therefore becomes necessary, in order to bring
the foreign territory under the charmed nfu-
ence of the bred Scott decision.
SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE. The fol-
lowing resolution was proposed in the recent
Southern Convention, by Mr.. Spratt, of South
Carolina, and was adopted, either literally or
substantially, by that body:
/" Resolced, That Slavery is right, and that,
being right, there can be no wrong In the natu.
sal means to its formation"
The Charleston Ne,cs, we are grati6ed to
perceive, opposes the nelarious foreign traffic
but on grounds utterly illogical and untenable
It Says
4 "Here the question in dispute is coolly as
sumed as premise, and the first source OF the
errors of the slave trade agitators. Slavery al
she South is benefcent and useful industrial
institution and for this reason, and for none
connected with its origin, it is good and moi
I4n evil. 1t is IN itself valuable and ameliora
Ting to both races. On the other hand, the Arr
can slave trade is, IN ITSELF from its origin tt
its contamination, an outrage, a cruelty, de
!: moralization to all parties, robbery and murder
r, combined-a system, not of industry and kindl,
Improvement, but of horrors. 1t is only wher
IT is ended-the voyage closed-the dead buried
in the deep, and the remaining sufferers turneC
over, for tie first time, to Christian charitie
5 and masters protection, that either humanit,