The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-14
Mr.. senator Brown and HTS Revolutionary
IssneS Tor 1850.

Mr.. Senator Brown and Hts Revolutionary
Issues Tor 1850.
Mr.. Senator Brown, of Mississippi, in late
speech to bis constituents is reported as having
said that the main issues in the Presidential con-
test Of 1860 viii most probably be-
First mort important TO us The question o. slavery
in the Territories, with its conconitanis of popular
reignty-aqua.ter sovereigntyIhe rights Of the Ter
ritoral Legislature-the duties Of Congress to the
States-and finally, the rights Of the States when az
ereTed by the affirmative or negative action OF the fede-
rel government.
Of territorial expansion and incid snsally relations
with Mexico and Central America and bringing praci
oa for the frat time the Monroe doctrine under the 3D.
Third. The feopeuiDg Of the African slave fade. en-
bracrg the morality Of slavery and the slaye traao In
all there various phases and awakening the deepest and
most eearchpg inquiries into POLITICAL social and
nomcal Influences which the Of the proposition Ia
to have upon the Southern States.
Fourth The collection and dsburser1e nt OF the reve
nue. carrying with the whole question of protection and
fun and fair investigation Into all the charges OF ex.
ira pr0acy and corruption which the opposition
may oncose 10 bring against the party in power
This is, certainly, a formidable schedule, and
while it is highly probable that the several issues
grouped into these four parcels will enter into
the Presidential controversy, we must take the
liberty to say that the issue which Mr.. Brown
presents as "frst and most important" to the
South, to Wit the question Of slavery in the Ter
ritories, is an empty abstraction, a delusion and
snare. Mr.. Alexander Il. Stephens, Of Geor-
gia, is undoubtedly correct when he says
that the demand for slaves in our existing
cotton States go completely drains all their
| present sources Of supply, that before the
South can undertake to colonize new Terri
tories and make slave States Of them, she must
have "more Africans" Unquestionably, when
go first rate field hand" commands in Georgia
( Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, from twelve
to fifteen hundred dollars, be cannot very coz
veniently be spared for the doubtful and costly
experiment of Territorial occupation.
1t follows, therefore, that "the rights Of the
South and Of Southern. property" to Con
gresaional protection in the Territories against
the local authorities will practically amount IL
nothing so long as the Southern States have ne
slaves to Fpare for the Territories And, al
slavery can hardly be said to exist where there
are 20 slaves, the Territories, from the absenc,
Of such coloniets, will fall into the category o
free States Kansas upon this subject, affords
very instructive lesson. Under the doctrine @
free competition between free white labor an,
black slave labor, and from trial with regard t
which the South cannot justly complain, the
have lost Kansas. All the circumstances of th
case considered, Y may also be said that in
loss of Kansas determines the loss OF every otha
Territory seduced to the same trial Of strengt
between free white and black slave colonization
From the British provinces down to Texa
and from the Mississippi Valley to the Paci6|
no Territory can be organized which will CON
mand the advantages Of Kansas for Souther
occupation. Indeed, with the loss Of Kansas, W
may safely declare that usder the same law {
settlement the South have already lost ever
other Territory within the present limits Of III
Union, Our Territories whose destiny is no