Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-09-23
Ai9gmon0 enquirer.
BY ElrcHlK, puSSAvANT, TYLER & WISE.
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23.
A Practical Application Of Mr.. Douglas Doctrine.
The '.ioint resolution approved March lst,
1855. adn,i,tiuS Texas. provided among other


lSl5. atmittiu. Texas. provided among other
thing
..YI,ci. New >ta'.s. o, coi.rcr.sn ,.:e, no, cN-
c,cius io,;r in number IL addition :" Nald STATE q:
T.,r, and having sufficient population, my hcreai-
ter, los the coI:.rnt o: -" >.",y 10 i3.e' o"t 9
the tcrr!,or; ;aor,ni, Hl.eh shall nc cE!le! 20 ad-
u!i-,on under tue provisions y! ne f~tF''i
/ institution. n.,l So State. 81. maj he form
G. ou % tia: ,"l;iu. oi laid Territory lying
south "f - drI'c'' 80 minutes .,of'h In'-
tui,. commonly known - tic Missouri compromise
lin. shall bc admitted irtp hV Cuon ";ii or WITH
ou slavery. the reor'. q; Zach State 'skihg "d
ms>uu may d, ..tc Aud III such state or States Us
,,,ll y. ;.rilrd u,.: al. "a; Territory North oi saI
Missouri Compromise. -hvgrv or involuntary -o''i-
tide .,.Ncer. for crmc' Sha!, he prohibited.
Thus WIS applied the Missouri Compromise
in 1915 to slaro territory. When the compro-
mise q 1850. ahch NJ Douglas says repealed
that of 500. vas passed the Texas bounda-
rv BILL aflc, laving 1T the State Of Texas by
'mctc, and bounds, aud providing that all ter
ritorv exterior TO tue prescribed limits shall nc
ccded To the United States, continues:
pl.:ir.l. t,.ui uoli.in. herein contained shall hc
construed 20 impair "r qualify any thill2 contaihcd ID
the .l..r article ~ the >vrYEi resolution Of .hc lo!nt
approved Mar.l! Isl, sij ,rh.' rs 'stpter H7 |Hw-
L;r o, S.n,s gt mGy hcrcaiic. r formed on; %! ne
State Of Texas, or o'tera'"e.
Certainly the Texas Boundary Bill, tone OF
the series in 1850 did not contemplate ITO i'm
pair or qualify" the Missouri Compromise, for
it expressly recognized its application to those
States into which Texas may hereafter be divi-
ded
This provision Of ,hc Texas Boundary Bill
remains to-day unrepcalcd by Congress.
The statute Books now provide that one oi
tr States, into which Texas may hereafter be
divided. .heN he free. What then becomes OF
NJ. Douglass Doctrine Of Popular Sovereignty,
as applied to this futrnc State?
So far, therefore, from the Compromise Of
1850 establishing this doctrine Of "ncn-inter-
vcn,iou, i, is rotcn; fact, that one Of these
mcusnr,s actually provided, by Congressional
intervention, Tor organizing free SfG!t ont
of .1,c, Tc,Y;iMy This provision Of the
Texas Boundary Bill, w, repeat is unrepealcd.
The Kansas Iiill lid not touch this portion OF
the Compromise Of 1850; and what then be-
coue, Of nouintcrYcntion nj popular sove-
rcignty:
Ey the resolution anncxius Texas, Congress
uroy;i,d for four States besides TeYas-thrce
State, ,hat ''may bc" slave, and one that shall
he" free. BY the compromise Of 1850 (the
Texr- boundary bill, this same division OF
three .',si MAY hc'' slave and one that shall
be Tree, is preserved nnimpaired. There is
no rroyi>ion for consulting this distinct po-
lit:csl community when It's domestic nstitu-
tons arr To be formed. Congress, with Dir.
Douglas assent, has "nt"rvcned' to say one Of
these States "eha!l be free. IT, in the progress
OF time, this portion Of the State OF Texas shall
ask By popular sovereignty admission as slave
State Mr. Douglas being pledged to the COM
nromisc Of leJol is bound 10 vote against its
admission, or violate ,ha; comiromise.
Hence. Mr. Douglas has presented to him the
dilemma Of maintaining his doctrine popular
sovereignty bv violating his pledges 10 the
compromise Of 1850.
VIII Mr. Douglas conscn. TO see the State
That NAV Lc formed ont of Texas North oil
&c deg. 80 min" made. by Territorial leglsla'
.on a sl,r. .>ttit' Il 40. for what wise pnr.
nose WAS Mr MaSon's Amendment to the Texas
boundary bill adopted, plcdg"S the faith OF
Congress tina, ii shall be free:
If non.intcrvcntlon. by Congress, was the
great "principlc" Of the legislation oil lsao'
what ''principle" vas it that provided that the
Stat. made Of the territory within Texas
North Of 81 deg. 81 min" si"N be free:
Universally is fundamental requisite to
every "principlc," hut lcrc ehavc within the
1ody Of the compromise an exception which
negatives this ''p:inciplc;" and to which this
principle" cannot be applied without destroy
;np the faith, which Mr.. Douglas contends was
pledged in the passage Of these measures
Will the North consent 10 see this free STATE
made slave State by popular sovereignty!
The South was robbed by the compromise
measure Of $1,000 square miles Of slave Terri
tory made free; the principle being mon
intervention ard now by popular sovereign
tv" the North may be robbed OF free State
and the same made slave State. Thus the
measures of pence, beginning by robbinS the
South, nnv Inc continued 10y robbinS the
North, and end in dcsolatins both by war the
principle being 'non.intrrycntion.