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porular Sovereignty-.-Kansas-Neb Act.
~ the recent debate in the Senate of the United
Gates on popular sovereignty and the Kansas-Ne-
hr,sla act it was insisted by Mr.. Brown of Missis-
,;nr; who opened the debate, that the 'naked Con-
.ot;on of the United States 'does not afford that
.1,ou,te protection which the nature and descrip-
;onr Of slave property in the Territories requires
h,t the supreme Court, having decided that We
h.rs the right to carry our slaves into the Terrific
s and necessarily to have them protected after We
~, them there, they virtually decided that We have
right to call upon somebody to give US that pro-
,sou. and to make it adequate, to suit the nature
character and description of the property to be pro-
,.,s1r lie insisted that if Territorial Lesisla-
,re should by action of an unfricndly character to-
wards the institution of slavery, or by nonaction,
;urio,slv affect the rights of Shareholders it would
s,eca act, protect the stakeholder.
Mr. Davis of Mississippi took substantially the
same ground He declared that Congress is bound
to see that the right to carry slaves into the
mon Territories and to hold them there, is fully
enjoyed"
Mr. Mason, Of Virginia, took substantially the
same view, insisting that Congress can grant no
power which it does not itself possess to the Ter
r;tories but he admitted that the Kansas Nebraska
act was framed upon the principle " of leaving this
oestion slavery in the Territories to the Judicial
~" He referred also in the course of his remarks
to the Clayton compromise of 1913, which had the
sanction among others of Mr.. Calhoun, and which
proposed to leave the question Of slavery in the Ter
rtores to the Supreme Court Mr.: Mason also de-
cared that he had found himself mistaken in the
hope that the kansasNebraska act would settle the
disturbing question Of slavery; and he repudiated
in strong terms the doctrine that Territorial Leg
stature had right, either by non-action or by Of.
fnsive action to exclude slavery from Territory.
He did not however, in so many words declare that
Congress was bound in any event to interfere to
protect slavery in the Territories.
Mr. Green, of Missouri, contended that the Terri
torial Legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska have no
right directly indirectly, to exclude slavery and
that slaves being property under the Constitution,
and so decided by the Supreme Court if these Leg
iatures by action or non-action, should attempt to
exclude or to njure the institution. and thereby
destroy the rights of citizens, it would be the duty
OfCongr, IS to intervene"
In the course Of the debate, and in reply to Mr.:
Brown, Mr.. Douglas said:
LET the Territorial Legislatures pass just such
laws IN regard to slavery they think they have q
right to enact under the Constitution of the United
States If do not like those laws; will not vot,
toepeal them; if you do not like them, you mus
not vote to repeal them; but anybody aggrievet
may appeal to the Supreme Court and if they arr
constitutional they mGst stand; if they are uncon
stlutional, they arc void That was the doctrine o
non-lnterventon, as it was understood at the tim
the kansas-Nebraska bill was passed That is tn
way it was explained and argued in the Senate an,
IN the House of Representatives and before tn
country. 1t was distinctly understood that Con
ess was never to intervene for against slavery,
any other institution in the Territories butleave tn
courts to decide all constitutional questions the
might arise and the President to carry the DEGREES
Inc court into effect and in of resistance to hi
authority in executing the judicial process let bin
Use, if necessary, the whole military force of tn
country as provided by existing laws"
Mr. Pugh, Democrat, of Ohio, occupied the sam
ground with Mr.. Douglas, and said in reply to Nj
DAVIS, Il will vote for code, no act Of Congress
interfere with the local legislation of the Territ,
res excluding or admitting slayery-none."
1t must be borne in mind, in considering this sui
eet that the leading object Of the South, from 1874
" 1911, when the so-called compromise measures
were passed, was to prevent Congress from applyu
we "'Imot Proviso to regions south Of the Nilsson
line, and thus monopolizing all the common Ter,
lures In 1850 it was provided that Utah and Ne
MEXICO should be admitted with or without slav
y as their Constitutions should prescribe; and
'''4 the kansas-Nebraska act was passed viii,
expressly abrogated the Missouri restriction.
''s declared in that act that its true intent al
meanns was mot to legislate slavery into any Sta
territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, but
N"'e Inc people thereof perfectly free to form n
''s"ate their domestic institutions in their OF
!' subject only to the Constitution Of the Unit
''aes 1t was also provided that an appeal mig
nAen BY any STAKEHOLDER from the Courts of t
e'''ory to the Supreme Court Of the United Stat
t a! 'ne title to slave property; and in additia
usuVe-save act was extended in its full for
N"e territories of Nebraska and Kansas T
s@' oody Of the Northern people opposed u
ss assure and the great body of the Southern peo,
,s'0'ed it Mr.. Douglas, the author Of the b
- denounced by the abolitionists and burnt in
os s' or his bold and able advocacy Of it; and it
a-. u no ordinary efforts to bring the entire Den
s" us party Of the free States to it's support I
South gained by it
r, :"'t The abrogation Of the Missouri restrict.
unas n was Justly regarded as badge Of degrsdat
"em, as it was denial Of their Consultation
O. and Of their equality in the Union.
fl. ''0'@' The right to carry their slaves into
r.t: .'mmon Territories, with some chance Of est
In. slavery permanently north Of the Aisso
s1. .A'o, The removal Of the disturbing question
from the halls of Congress-