Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-05-02

BsflB we 40 nUt KuO" uuo,..y. ,.,v s,,,se-
meDts of the following article, from the New
York Herald of the 9th instant, are relia-
bic or not, We trust they are they ought
70 be. The propositions as to the slavery
question are the natural and the only ad-
instment possible, and we think them Just
and reasonable They embrace the doctrines
which We believe have been accepted here
for several years as sound, logical and con-
sttutonal The South will never surren.
der, we are persuaded, their right to free
and equal enjoyment of the common terri
tories while they are held jointly by the
States; and we know that neither the North
nor especially the West, will ever for one
moment yield assent to the odious PROPOSE
ton, full of bad faith, that Congress shall
"interyene" an taper Of slavery in the ter
ritories. Upon this we think the West may
be set down as inexorable We think the
Southern States are entitled TO exactly equal
right in the territories while such; but the
remedy, if the rights of property should be
there violated, is az tile courts-"by due
course of law" When the United States
cannot enforce the judgments of their courts
in a territory, it will be time enough to look
out for other remedies. As TO two Conyen,
tions," we think the Herald is quite at fault
The Convention was called by the Cincinnati
Convention in 1856, and the place named,
Charleston" The tin e, according to usage,
will he fixed by the Democratic National
Committee, which will meet, we presume, at
Washington, on the Sth of January, 1860.
The Next Presidenoy-New and Impor-
tant Democratic Movement.
A Washington despatch, which we lay be-
fore our readers this morning. discloses the
leading points of q new and most important
programme in behalf of the disjointed demo,
cratic party. Reduced to few words, this
programme comprehends party oo1Pro.
mise on the question of slavery in the terri.
tories, whereby the South is to drop the
demand for Congressional protection, and
Mr.. Douglas his hobby of squatter sovereign
ty, both sides agreeing to the doctrine of
non-intervention and to the exclusive super.
vision of the Supreme Court Secondly two
democratic National Conventions in 1850
the first to fix up the platform and the party
organization, and the second, some months
later, to nominate the democratic ticket
The simplicity, the novelty, the sagaeity
and the expediency of this plan of operations
must be conceded ON all hands. Ifnpon any
programme the disorganized; democracy can
be reunited, it is upon this. Southern dem
ocrats can never agree to the doctrine Of Mr.
Douglas, that while they have the right to
take their slaves into any Territory of the
Union, the safety Of that sort of property
must depend upon the local police regula'
tions of the squatters. Nor do we suppose
that Mr.. Douglas and his adherents will agree
in any event, to the extreme Southern doc
trine, that il is the duty of Congress to pass
a special code of laws for the protection of
slavery in the Territories.
The ingenuity and the simplicity, there's
fore, of this reported basis Of compromise
between the Douglas and tie aDti.Douglas
democracy, upon this subject cannot be sur.
passed. Its practical operation would be, to
leave slavery untouched in every Territory
until 1t shall enter into a State organization,
when the people, through their Constitution
al Convention, will have full authority to
make the State free State or a slave State
In party view, the two extremes upon this
subject can only agree upon this plan of
leaving slavery in the Territories untouched
by Congress