New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-19
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HSsn Our Ovr cc-resporder,

Live OAK Swift and Edward Merrill, both of New
Bedford, are the bonored depositAres OF hsinport
ant TINS. In the Hid, Bradford L. Wales Of Ran
Solph and Ori,on Underwood Of Milford; 10 the
With, George b. Loriog Of Salem and DIR. VIII
hans Of NewburJport; in the XIth, Charles Heeo-
ser Of Lee and ID. n. Carpenter Of Greenfield. The
t~o last named are stated 10 be Douglas men, but
the msls are slow in the western part of the s'a'e
and Messrs. Heebner and Carpenter did not P'ooa
BY learn, in good season, that Mr. Douglass pros
poets are considered by the party generally 70 Dc
irretrievahy ruined Gen. Butler has evidently
found out this fact, for, in bis speech at Charles
tovp. On the 10th of October, be abandoned the
doctrine which be promulgated in his letter OF the
26th of September that the Legislature OF Tern
tory might abolish Slavery, leaving the master only
time To remove his slaves, and plated himself
upon the extreme Southern ground that the
Territory cannot do this until IL becomes
a STATE, and that its only power over Slavery
IN the meanwhile is 10 "regulSte H. lie Illus
trsted his position in way which 10 not generally
considered complimentary TO the people whom be
addresses (the deDizens Of what used to be famll-
nrly d. nominated "Pigtown }, but believe the
"6trce Democracy" of that precinct gruDted their
appreciation. He supposed the case OF three men
Excessively moving into unoccupled territory WIZ
Wild in the open forest and live upon acorns. BY
and By two Of the men take TO corn growing as be-
ing more pro6tsbe than hunting and pig.rais-
ing, and they vote that the third, who ad
heres to the pig business, shall shut up bis
pigs, so that they shall not devoar the corn.
Ii ia Hominy as. Hog, and Hominy prevails,
two TO one. BY this pretty little aLegory,
which is worthy Of place in the next
number Of The Little Pig" Magazine, Mr..
Butler illustrates bis theory of Popular Sever
eighty This sovereignty, he says " goes on step
"by step until the Territory becomes State, and
"theD II gets other and distinct rights as member
of this Confederacy. But up TO this time, it has
Z" that right, none other Not the right TO confs-
cite, not The right 10 take away the mans pigs;
"but simply the right to demand that he shall so use
them that they shall not interfere with bis neigh
"bOrs." All this nonsense comes fro n an acqules-
seDce IN the theory OF the save-drvers, that slave
il property in the same sense rs pg-a theory
which has 10 be coDtradcted at every step, because
il has no foundation, even IN the Ia y and customs
Of the slaveholdGg States. Mr.. Butler says, fur
tber along that the Democrats party holds to the
right of the people ola Territory to regulate their
Town domestic affairs, in their own way, by legis
"lation--nOt the right to take away property;
." that we have no right TO do until we get
"tO be sovereign State but right
"to regulate its use" j should like TO have Mr..
Butler carry out his pig illustration still further.
Suppose bis three pg-hOlders increase to ten thou
Sand, and bis corn growers to forty thousand Does
he mean 10 cay that when the people come to make
their Constitution they may deprive the ten thou
sADd Of their pigs, the ground that pg-rasing is
not profitable to the State He must take this
grou 3D. to be logical. 1t is curious IDEA of popu-
kr rights that the majority Of the people of a State
have right 10 cOnfscate all the property that they
zee fit to place under the ban of prescription If
this 10 So then the sooner States resolve them
selves into Territories the better, for written
Constitution, instead of being security tor popular
rights, is the surest method Of destroying them.
For if "a slave las Mr. Butler says is property
under the Constitution, in the same way as q pig
"is," then, of course, pig may be conhs-
Gated, as we'll as slave, by vote OF the
nsjority. And so of every other kind Of property.
The state may seize Mr.. Buffers law library and
burn il, on the pretense that litigation is null
sapce; or his saddle, holsters, spurs and epauettes
On the ground that military musters are nusances;
or bis meer schnum, the theory that tobacco is
nuisance. And this doctrine goes by the name OF
Democracy"
twill be seen that Mr. Butler fully indorses the
statement Of Mr. Buchanan that Kansas (or any
other Territory is as much sSlave State as South
Carolina. He agrees that man may carry HIS
slaves into Kansas, subject only to the right OF the
Territorial Legislature TO regulate them. inns
night 10 regulate Slavery is held and exercised
BY the Legislature OF every slavebOdng State.
A Georgia slave cannot run riot and waste the
cOIn-feld of one of his masters neighbors, any
more than Mr.. Buffers supposed Kansas or Ne
bratka pig. II he does he may be shut up, and his
mater made to pay the damage" So there IS really
no difference between Mr.. Butler and Mr.. Bu-
chsnan on this point Indeed, it being once adj
mtted that slave is property in the same sense as
piS, every demand of the shareholders must be
submitted 10, for Slavery then becomes not state
night but an iadiriduat right and one not to be
me ddled with either by Congress by the majority
of the people. The innumerable contradictions IN
which Douglas and his folio gers have involved
themselves will help TO bring back the people to
the true doctriDe that Slavery is strictly local III
stitution, existing not by law, but contrary to law,
dependent upon force where it does exist, and not
to be transferred out of the limits of the Slave
States except by the force which maintains 1t
in those States.
But l set out with statement of some of the
movements Of the Democrats, and did not intend
10 discuss Popular Sovereignty st length. The
Delegates already chosen 10 the Charleston Con
yenton ale mostly Anti-Douglas, unless, of course,
Douglas should come up again, which does not
seem likely. In the With District there was a
distinct issue made with the Douglas men, and they
were beaten. The caucus in New buryport decided
the question. Mr. i. s. Spodord, jr, was the
favorite Of the Douglas gartX He is young man
who has been chosen to The Legislature two years
in company with Mr. Gushing. lie was formerly
apro'.gt of Mr.. Cushing, but having made an Anti.
Lecompion speech in 1855 is supposed TO have fallen
into dist.y0r. BY some mesns or other, 1t hap
pened that when the Democrats of Newburypot
elected delegates 10 the State Convention, they
placed Mr.. Spoiiord at the head Of their list and
did not elect Mr.. Gushing at all. When the dele
gates were chosen to the District Convention, the
friends of Mr.. Gushing came to the rescue, aud
the Spohord ticket was whore the horses were