Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-12-10

the whole OF the circle OF the science, ami sounu-
ed It's depths MS well as its shadows.
1t has also democratic sanction, and in n
form and under circumstances that no member
Of the party loyal to his faith, and no member
of the present administration, can consistently
repudiate. That party, by its National Con-
venton, held in Cincinnati, il 1856, by the
unanimous vote of the members from every
one of the States, declared;
"The American democracy recognize and
adopt the principles contained in the organic
laws establishing the Territories of Kansas and
Nebraska, as embodying the only sound and
safe solution of the slavery question: upon
which the great national idea of the neople Of
this whole country canreposein its determined
conservatism of the tinion-non- intervention
by Congress with slavery in State and Terrific
ry, or in the District of Columbia.
ssThat this was the basis of the Compromises
of 1850 confirmed BY both the Democratic and
Wing parties in National Convention-ratilcd
by the people in the election of ls52-and
rightly applied to the organization OF the Ter
ritories in 1854: That by the uniform applica-
ton of this Democratic principle to the organ
ization of Territories, aud to the admission of
new States, with or without domestic slavery,
MS they may elect, the equal rights of NIL will
he preserved intact-thc original compacts Of
the Constitution maintained inyiolated-and
the pcrpctuity and expansion of this Union in
sured to its utmost capacity of embracing in
peace and harmony any future American State
that may be constituted or annexed with u re-
publican form of government.
Can it be said, that they merely meant that
slavery might be introduced or excluded by
the people of a Territory, when assembled to
form State government, when no one ever
was to exist there by virtue of the Constitution
Of the United States not only entirely exempt
from their control, but with IN obligation, on
their part, to protect ii by legislation? Was
zation of Territories which they designed to
approve? Was that the only sound and safe
solution of the slavery question, upon which
the great national idea Of the whole country
can reposc in its determined conservation of
the Union, ''non-intervention by Congress
with slavery in State and Territory, or in the
District Of Columbia ?" Did the delegates
from the free States suppose that, that only
was the meaning of their declarations
slavery is 10 exist in each Territory, notwth-
standing the political or conscientious repug-
nance OF the peoplc2 Was that the feast to
which they had been invited, and to which
they invited their constituents Mas that in
the honest Judgment of the Convention, the
pannacea whose wisdom and result were at
tested not less by its "salutary and beneficial
effects in allaying sectional agitation, and re-
storing peace and harmony to an irritated and
distracted people, than by the cordial and al
most unanimous appreciation with which ii
has been received and sanctioncdby the whole
country 'tliat slavery exists in Kansas by
virtue of the Constitution of the United States
and that Kansas is, at this moment, as much
a slave State rs Georgia or South Carolina p
Imagine delegate craled enough 10 have pro-
posed, as an amendment to the approved doc
trine, ''non-interyention by Congress Will
slavery in State or Territory, or in the District
Of Columbia this proviso ms reason for non
intervention, athat Kansas and Nebraska, by
virtue of the Constitution of the United States
are now as much slave States as Georgia OF
South Carolina. How, think you, would il
have been treated, and how many votes, Soutl
or North, would it have commanded? Wonlt
not every corner of the Hall have resoundet
with an unanimous and indignant negative
And yet, by monstrous perversion, portion.
Of the party, and the Attorncy-General, now
endcavor to attribute 10 the Convention tha
very meaning Had this been then ayowed
how many votes in the free States would hav'
been cast for the nominee of the Convention
Is any man wild enough TO believe that hi
would have received the vote even Of the STATE
of his nativity, his evcr-constant admirer anl
supporter? As it was, the declaration Of con
gressional non-ntervention which he endorsed
though complied with the clear ayOwal of ii
in the sense contended for by Judge Douglas
of popular sovereignty nearly cost him he
support, and yet more endangered his success
in the other free States, where there prevailed
His hopes, and those of the democracy, as /
was, were nearly shipwrecked how utter I'M,
enduring would have been the disaster, hat
Ito ,,onyent;on mr. ma liz n bs latter of no
con,onco doclorod tbo, no tbo n,inc;nns .
~ n,,,, &C nus ou,hori,ot;yei,. announced
aslayo,y ov;stod IN Kansas ana MAI il y.s 4,
much n aloyc sta,o a. Gooro;o ar south C,ro
lima !" As ii was, comparatively mere youth
with No ,onu,otio, nc ! statesman Win !,
nn,l;c sery;co q hoyo ,n.hlod I'm Il hocom,
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