New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-13

haze been that. by means OF It. they had serar-1
hi, slectio,s. ard. in Congress. would be relied
uoon TO vote with the South. But, after AZ, they
were defeated OF the twent,-three Ncr'h-ro Dem
ocrsts abo yotrd for toe admission oil h'n'1
under the Lscompton Constitution. rot one secured
HI. realection: While Of the twenty two Northern
Administrstitn Democrats, BY book or ny crook
elected to The next House, The Mercury does not
b.leve that if brought TO rte test OF 'o's, more
,b,n one If would stand FIRE; and ever thry, st
the next election. would be- sure to be regulated
he their constituents, So bad been the case with
II ose " no voted for the LecomPtOn Constitution
Even the Senate, in the opinion OF The Mercury
is not to be implicitly trasied. VI The sixteen
Northern Democrats ia that body, Tue Senators
from Delaware ard Oregon included, Douglas,
Frederick, Jones, Shells aud Rice, are syOset
supporters Of the doctrine Of squ,tter Sovereignty
In the debate on the 23d o. February, Nr Bigcr
Of Pennsylvania took the ground that since the
Supreme Court Of the United Safes had decided
that slave holders had a right to take their slave.
into the Territories, Congress ought to lrgislate
if necessary, to enforce that right. Bat Of the
four Administration Senators who followed him,
Pugb and Stuart decidedly repudlasei any Coz
pres.obal protection to slave property, while oil
the rest remsned Silent, bept so probably b! fesr
OF tn cir coustitu-nts Even Bgler is repuhia'ed
at home, aud Is threatened with the loss Of his
sea. at the esrhes. opportunity. This e1-
IRENE weakness Of the Northern Democ
racy, both in Congress and in the States,
mskes it the more necessary-such seems to
be the argumen,--that the Charleston COnyen-
ton should come to the rescue, and that the
Northern members Of that body should be forced
to sanction the doctrine of Con gres-ions protection
TO slave property 10 the Territories, BY the threat
if they refuse, of Southern secession from the
party
While the old threat Of dissolution, a which not
pow the Union but the Democratic party is the
object thus comes from the South the people at
Washington respond as ususl by glOrifying the
party union by which those who have mansged it
haze profted 40 well. by insisting on the ruin
which must follow from its dissolution, and BY
irving 10 discover some compromise which IN
yielding the oyster 10 the South, may at least
save the shells for the North. The Con.
situation the organ of Dir Buchanan, even
more than confirms everything that The
Mfreury has said about the unreliabty OF the
Northern d democracy. it seems to admit that, IT
the friends of Mr. Douglas in the Charleston Con-
vention should Insist upon Incorporating sdc d 'c-
trine of Squatter Sovereignty into the Democratic
platform, they might very likely carry every North.
ern dele cation with them. 1t expressly declares
that. if an atteu pit be made to Incorporate into
that plstfo the doctrine of Congressional inter
venton for the protection of Slavery in the Teri
torres, OF a single Northern delegation would con-
cur in it, though how The Constitution, with all IFS
knowledge Of the capacity of Democrats to adapt
Themselves to crcumstances venture on so posi-
tive an assertion, is more than We are abe 10 tell.
The compromise which it proposes on the present
occasion is for the Convention not TO touch
dangerous a subject but quietly to drop back on
the Cincinnati platform. The slayehOders must
rett satisfied with the decision of the bred Scott
Gaze, and with the doctrine laid down IN 1t that
they have right to take their slaves into the
Territories and that neither Congress nor the
Territorial Legislatures have any right to prevent
them This doctrine is in itself reputation of
Squatier Sovereignty. On the other hand, the
Democratic party having set up-@ben il was pro-
posed TO prohibit Slavery in the Territories by act
of Congress-the doctrine of DO power in Congress
To leg slate on the subject, must be coatent to leave
slave property in the Territories to the protection
of the Courts merely. But there seems TO be an
obvious answer to this appeal to sayeholdiog for
bearance. When We agreed TO the doctrine OF nom
Intervention, we were lot aware of the extent Of
our own rights These rights have since been
declared BY the Supreme Court, and all We ask
now i, that Congress should enforce them.