New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-10

this pre.e need ir partially Of Mr. Does's' 'eousa
il may suffice WITH the csopfaiier nor'a"n
Democracy 70 give hin TIE character on oo'a'-
pjou and hero, AID msy sn,ois him to come ia'o
tire Charleston Coneeutioc win oil Ire N"'u''o
Delegates q, his back. is hardly oil caa'ac~''
wbe. careful, analysed, to in'pre the '''eno'''''
With SOY ssrius alarm. Perhaps ney may con
cj,Se. After sll-Sd sucs doubtless, d Nr Doug
las. c,,,ioo-tbat however loud ms! De LIS
bark there are no teeth il lis mouth. stc that taefe
/, small danger of bic biting. Heoce. rNeef 'nsn
run the ri.k Of losing the important superior "'
Douglas. and even perhaps en-ountering bis oPpo-
,i.iou. e ore or less osert, they may cocciuHe W
put I'D With Mr. Douglass heresies a. coopsra.
ti,ely harmless, and rather th,u rue the risk OIL
defeat to adopt him sc their Candidate Certain IL
is. at al events, itat. Notwithstanding tie pre-
ts,S,d ,noartisli,y of Mr. Douglas on the
Question Of Slavery ia the Territories, ~hue
giylcg or seeming to give the shells 70 Free
Labor. be does in fact leave all the milk IN tue
coco.nut TO be sucked up BY the slavehoioers'
Under cover Of leaving the people OF the Terrific
RES 10 settle the Slavery question for themselves
be styeuuously il sists on the Iigbt Of the Terri
toris Legislatures TO ensct lass for tie protection
Of avery as in the case of the recent slave code OF
New.Me1ico; denying also any risHt or power IN
Coupress 10 interfere for the repeal OF these laws
though that is power upquestionsbly possessed oy
Couere.s in the case If ordinary Territorial enact
ulerts. A. AZ Offset to this power ou the part OF
tse Territorial Legislatures TO encourage and foster
Slavery uhst does Mr. Douglas set up power
O, the pant Of the Territorial Legislatures to pro-
hibis or ab,lish Sltvery' Such would be the
logical esut Of the claim advanced By Mr. Douglas
for the Territories, Of power to settle the ques ~
of Slavery each in its own way But hr
DOUGLAS males 10 pretensOn fox the Terri
tor,a Legislatures sn the SIDE Of Free Labor All
be IL sists upon s that they have the right II they
choose, 10 abstain from enacting slave code,
ard tta. Congress cannot step in to sup
ply tie deficiency Bat however convenleat
70 the shareholders the cooperation OF the Ierrl-
tor,al Legislatures or of Congress might be, stu,
urd. the bred Scott decision--which Mr. Douglas
admit, to be good law, though in his Columbus
speech he is careful rot to make the remotest au-
sion to it tbe shareholders have a slave code al
ready euscted to their hands. That decision sets
up the right of all shareholders to carry their slaves
into any Territory and to hold them there even in
spite Of any Territorial legislation to the contrary.
From this principle of the right to hold slaves IN
the Territories followe the right of the Shareholders
to be protected therein, and as il other cases, 81
in this, 10 defect Of any express ensctments; the
Territorial Courts-compost as they would surely
be under Douglas Administration, Of Judges who
recognize the doctrine Of the bred Scott decision
sculd step in to supply BY their judgments that
which the Territorial legislatures might have left
unprosided.
Dir Douglass present game is to seem to claim a
sort ofeQuaty for Free Labor and in thst character
TO muster the Northern Democracy under bis ban.
ner, while at the same time he takes very good
care to leave the shareholders in actual possession
of the Territories.