The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-11-24

Squatter Sovereignty, has rendered the in
PRODUCTION of Slavery into Territories ispos-
@ble and the passage of that bin is the work
of National Democracy. Mr.. Bates merely
holds as a principle that which the Democ-
racy have established as a fact. The ques-
ton of slavery extension is no longer before
the people 1t is discussed now only as an
abstraction. s#.... -..- e.. r..'........
1 If Mr.. Bates does not believe Slavery to
be wise and a useful institution-if he is
\ ready free-he nevertheless just as firmly
adheres to the rights of property in Slaves
in all the States where slavery exists, and
will go just as far to protect the rights of
States in that species Of property, as long as
those States choose to keep it, as any man
living arr ..r .r...f a. .. ...
Mr.. Bates believes in the unqualified right
/ of the owner to recover his slaves if they es-
cape to a Free State; and if President, be
would execute the Fugitive Slave Law, if
the Army and Navy of the Government were
Cttit ~ tue tdSh. Anu III tuc u0illNc ESEtNe
Law should be repealed, or should be found
inadequate to the service of returning alb
sconding slaves to their masters. Mr.. Bates
would urgently recommend to Congress to
pass some law that would more certainly and
more acceptably carry out the Constitutional
guarantees of the rights of Southern Slave
holders. He would consider the Union a
broken compact, if these plain guarantees
were denied by the deliberate and persever-
ing action ofany part of the confe, 'eracy
If Congress, clearly representing the will
of the country. should pass laws legalizing
and protecting slave property, in Territories
/ previously Free, Mr. Bates would execute
those laws as promptly as any other laws of
the land. If Territory should organize
into State, with sufficient population to
Justify its admission, and present a constitu
ton tolerating slavery, Mr.. Bates would not
oppose the admission Of such State, because
it had pro slavery constitution .r
His creed is that every State has right
to say how much it wants of African slavery.
and how long it wants it. and how to get rid
of it when its people are tired Oft. He does
not regard It as perpetual Institution, but
as in its very nature, abnormal and evancs-
cent, changing rapidly under the influence
OF climate, commerce, civilization, religion
laws. He knows, (and is glad to know it,
/ that Missouri is rapidly becoming a Free
/ State; and he does not deplore the fact that
/ 1t is bN transportion and not by Emanclpa-
ton, that the State is so rapidly becoming
/ Free; for he knows that the Emancipation of
the slaves to remain in this country and mix
with the whites, is abhorrent and intolerable.
And to send them ,bl cad by sudden and to.
/ tai exodus, is beyond the means of any Gov
ernmept What is beyond his own wisdom,
he leaves the hfscrutahle ways and infinite
wisdom Of God. The rapid and peaceful ex-
tinction of slavery that is going OF in Mis-
souri,, without the aid of Emancipation Par
ties, and without the heat and acrfnorlv of
/ domestic disc0rd, is entirely in accordance
with the views and feelings of Mr. Bates
II, while Mr.. Bates is glad to see slavery de-
clining in Missouri, other strong Opposition
! lists are sorry to wituess the same. Mr.. Bates
/ finds no cause Of discord between himself
and that Pro-slavery neighbor on account of
this difference; for he knows that neither the
JOY of the one, nor the sorrow of the other
will quicken or delay the inevitable consmn.
nation that is ahead Mr. Bates regards the
fate of slavery rs out of the domain of dem.
agogues-utterly beyond their reacE--and
lmpeled by that Power that brings the Times
and Seasons in their appointed course, and
rolls up the Heavens as a scroll. when he has
done with the wondrous Panorama. Bv his
own example, he has shown that he prefers
to live by his OWL labor and not on the la
Dor of Slaves. Bot he claims to be, i'm this
particular, only "a law unto himself" ri
! lie would pever, under any circumstances,
countenance National organization having
in view the interference with Slavery in the
States. The entire function of the Federal
Government in regard to Slavery, in his opin-
ion, should be to protect it where it iS-not
to extend it where it is not-and, so far as
policy and ability may allow, to help those
States get clear of it that may wish to do So
by the procurement of Foreign Territory
suitable to the ready and cheap colonization
OF Free Blacks, already become grievous
nuisance to every State of the Union. both
Free and Slave. This is National nuisance
and should begin to find National remedy.
The policy already broached in some States
of selling again into Slavery the Free Blacks
whom humane or grateful masters have
en.ancipated, unless those freed persons
leave the State--when indeed, all the Slave
States and many of the Free, prohibit their
entrance within their limits under heavy
penalties, is, in the highest degree, cruel Ii
is barberous. And it would giSgrace the
| American Government in the face Of Chris
tendon, to permit such a policy to prevail,
| from the lack of its own intervention TO pro-
cure a suitable home for these sorelv hunted
and distressed freemen of a well worked and
| faithful servile race. .'-.--.