New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-15

efFroutery which persists in maintaining that "nen
they said white they actually meant black; that
when they acclaimed about Popular Sovereignty In
the Territories, what they meant was conshtu-
tona inability to exercise any authority at all over
the very question for the disposition Of which TINS
doctrine of Territorial Sovereignty was evoked.
The Kansas- Nebraska bill was by is advocates
recommended to popular favor on the express
ground that removed the Slavery question: so TAR
as the Territories were concerncd-and it was as
connected with the Territories that Slavery was
principally subject of national interest and dis
cusson-frum the arena Of Congress to that OF the
Territorial Legislatures. 1t was impossible to de-
wise any form of words which should give more
distinctly and expressly to the people of the Terri
tories the right to admit or exclude Slavery as
they nigh, see fit. The Cincinnati platform recog-
nized and adopted the principle of this act as -
" safe and sound solution of the Slavery question:
setting up the " uniform application of this Demo-
cato principle to the Organization Of Territories,
and to the admission of new States with or with
out domestic Slavery, as they may elect" as the
true panacea for preserving the harmony and perma-
nency of the Union Upon this platform the Dem
ocratic party went into the Presidential election and
upon this platform, and this platform only, they
obtained votes enough in the Northern States
10 carry Mr.. Buchanan into the Presidential
chair No sooner is he seated there than that gen.
tleman turns round and tells us that all that was
meant by this famous panacea for preserving the
Union was, that Territories, when they come to
frame a State Constitution, have the right to say
whether they will allow Slavery or not Was this
any new discovery to BIO put forth with such
flourish of trumpets " as the only safe and sound
"solution" of the Slavery question: Did anybody
ever doubt the existence of that right The only
question was and the only difficulty was, how to
deal with the subject of Slavery in the Territories
The Kansas Nebraska bill and the Cincinnati Plat
form handed it over TO be dealt with by the people
of the Territories Yet at the very time when II is
proposed TO reafirm the Cincinnati Platform as the
creed of the party, the doctrine is authoritatvey
laid down that the people of the Territories have
no right to touch the subject of Slavery at all IN
the way of prohibition or restriction, and that,
whether they wish it or not, Slavery goes, accord
ing to President Buchanan by virtue OF the
Federal Constitution, cc)rding to hir. Attorney
General Black by force of automatic principles Of
public law into the Territories, and stays there
till State Constitution be formed. Mr. Blu
chanan in his letter accepting the Cincinnati nomn-
alton spoke of the Kansas Nebraska bill as having
simply declared that the people of Territory,
"Hke those of a State shall decide for themselves
whether Slavery shall or shall not exist within
their limits" Shortly after his election he turns
about and declares that Kansas-and the same as
serton is applicable to every other Terriory-is as
much a Slave State as Georgia or South Carolina,
for the reason not that the inhabitants had so de-
cided but because Slavery exists in it by virtue of
the Constitution of the United States, and it is not
in the power of the people of the Territory to ex-
clude it.
With such specimen before them of the con-
sistency and veracity Of the Sham Democratic
leaders, how can any Northern State be expected
any longer to put any confidence in them7 Honest
men who believe in the honesty and truth Of others,
may be once deceived in this way. 1t would indi-
cate extreme folly to allow themselves to be taken
n q second time.