The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-09-15

By THE Y. . W. LINE.
WAsHINGroN. Sent. Ia.

ARLINGTON, sept IA.
The correspondent OF the Philadelphia
Press, speaking of the reply to Douglas
article in Hdrpers Monthly, the doctrine of
the hate long article in the Constitution, from
the pen OF Judge Black, when briefly ex-
pressed amounts to this: --
"That inssmuch as the Constitution per-
mits slavery in the Territories, the common
law affords n sufficient protection for it. and
therefore, that its existence is secured until
the people, at the time of forming State
Constitution, acquire a right Ia exclude IT.
But this doctrine is contrary To the expert
ence of every slave holding community, for
they all possess and absolutely require q
variety of local statutes for the protection of
slaveproperty. Even Kansas affords proof
Of this for one of the first acts of the Legis-
lature, when it Was under the control of the
proslavery party, was to pass series OF
laws for the protection OF slave property.
Now, since the free-State party have become
dominant these laws have been repealed.
And although Kansas has not yet been ad-
mitted into the Union, the contest as TO her
future character is virtually decided, and no
slave holder has the slightest disposition to
remove there with his slaves. NOtwith-
standing the violence which at times dis
graced the history of Kansas, and the great
miseries which have been inflicted upon her
people from peculiar combination Of causes
which, in all human probability, will never
operate upon another Territory, the great
fact remains that the the people of Kansas,
during the continuance of her Territorial
condition, have virtually decided that she
shall be IL non-slave holding, political COM
muniiy. The people Of Nebraska have done
the same thing. The people of New Mexico
have chosen to declare, by the act;ea of
their Territorial Legislature, that local laws
for the complete protection of slave property
SHOULD exist among them, aud if pro-
slavery sentiment continues to prevail, she
will, doubtless, eventually become slave
State. rsr Il.
Thus the practical illustrations furnished
By our history, since the passage Of the Kan
sas-Nebraska act, clearly indicate not only
that Interpretation put upon il by its dis
tinguished author is the correct one, but
that the people of our Territories are carry
ing out precisely as he contemplated, and
making Territories free or slave, according
to their own good will and pleasure No
close observer of events can doubt that al
similar privilege will be exercised by the
people Of all our Territories, and thai, too,
without waiting for the moment when State
Constitutions are to be adopted While in
terventiOnists are warmly clustering, the
people OF the Territories will he acting as
their interests seem to require; and those
who clamOr for u Congressional slave code
or Wilmot Proviso, will find themselves
served like the lawyer, who, while arguing
before n court motion for new trial, for
rogue who had been convicted Of larceny,
accidentally discovered that his client was
at the very moment being whipped in the
jail-yard rs punishment for the offence"