Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-11-24

regards emigration into Free States, we
have thus shown, has always existed aud
never by the South been thought a hard
ship. And why? Because, perhaps the
citizens OF the Slave States felt that in the
to cote on their sldyes, that species
of property had obtained peculiar and
trancendant advantage over all other prop
erty in the Union, that more than COM
pensated for its one restriction. towit:-
that it should not enter into and establish
itself in Free States.
Ifthe South is tired ofthis discrimination
against slave property, which has existed
since the Government was established, and
desires it abandoned, then the South should
propose to abandon, also. the privileges
that such property enjoys. Surely it is on
ly fair that property should, in point of
fact. become equal before it claim to go as
equal into the common territory Of the
Union. If the South decline the one, how
can it fairly claim tho other?
Mr.. Bates does not. therefore, regard
the non admission of slavery into the terri
tories Of the Union as establishing dis
tinction between property; but simply as
maintaining distinction already establish
ell, willingly assented to by the South at
the formation of the Government, and ever
since. 1t is only at the instance of mis-
chievous demagogues that the South is
now tempted to change its position, and
abandon the literal and traditional COM
promises Of the Constitution. As true
and upright citizen who loves his coun-
try's we'll kept faith. as he does his own
private honor, Mr.. Bates opposes the at
tempt of Southern fanatics to make Slave
ry ovcrleap its original rights. limitations,
and relations to'other property Of tine u
Mon.
Inasmuch as the entire Democratic par
ty of the Free States are as decidedly op-
posed as even the Republican party. to the
extension of Slavery over territory previ-
ously free, it is quite evident that Congress
will never interfere to protect Slave prop
erty in the Territories. Such being the
fact. those Southern men who object to Mr.
Bates as Slavery restrictionist, might
well ask themselves whether more honor
or advantage is gaine,l by asking what can
not be had. and submitting to the fatal ne
ccSsity Of denial and defeat; or asking only
that the present limits. privileges and guar
antces of Slavery be maintained. and Oh
tanning it with the cheerful and hearty con-
currcnce of nine-tenths Of all parties in the
Union.
If the National Democracy offer more
to the South, we know they offer what
they cannot give. and do not mean to try
to give. The history Of Kansas is too re-
. cent and too instructive, in which we saw
the most violent Pro-slavery Democrats,
as they professed themselves, after getting
men AMI money from the South. by hun
drcds and by thousands, to save Kansas to
tho South. su lJenly became free Demo
Gratis, when they found success doubtful
under the Pro-slavery banner, and sought
Office as Free Democrats, unblushingly de-
claring chat Slavery never had been an issue
in Kansas! The principle of the Kansas
Nebraska bill. in the shape of Squattcr Soy
creiynty. has rendered the introduction of
Slavery into Territories impossible, and the
passage of that bill is the work of the Ma
tional Democracy. Mr.. Bates merely holds
as a principle that which the Democracy
have established as a fat. The question OF
slavery extension is no longer before the
people. 1t is discussed now only as an alb
straction.
If Mr.. Bates does not believe slavery to
be wise and useful institution--if hc is
opposed to its extension into Territories al
really free-he nevertheless Just as firmly
adheres to the rights Of property in slaves
in all the States where slavery exists, and
will go just as far to protect the rights of
States in that..species of property. as long
as those States choose to keep it, as any
man living
Mr.. Bates believes in the unqualified
right of the owner to recover his slaves il
they escape to Free State; and if Presi-
dent, he would execute the Fugitive Slave
Law, if the army and navy of the Govern.
mcnt were equal to the task. And il the
Fugitive Slave Law should b. repealed OF
should be found inadequate to the serricc
returning slaves to their masters, Mr.
Bates would urgently recommend to Con.
gress to pass some law that would moro
certainly and more acceptaJiy carry out the
constitutional guarantee of the rights oi
Southern shareholders. He would consid.
er the Union broken compact, if these
plain guarantees were denied by the delib.
crate and perscvering action Of one part oi
the Confederacy.
If Congress clearly representing the will
of the country. should pass laws legalizing
and protecting slave property in Terrific.
ries previously free. Mr. Bates would exc
cute those laws as promptly as any other
laws of the la,ld If territory should or
ganizc into State, with sufficient popu-
lation to jnstify its admission, and present a
constitution tolerating slavery, Mr.. Bates
would not oppose the admission of such
State because it had a pro-slavery consti-
tuition. a $40 .-
! EEJoICEs THAT MISSOURI is BEcOEIyG A FREE
His creed is. that every State has right
to say how much it wants of African Slave
ry, and how long it wants it, and how to
get rid Of it when its people are tired of
il. lie does not regard it as perpetual
institution. but as in its very nature, ab-
normal and evancsccnt, changing rapidly
un'ler the influence of climate, commerce,
civilization. religion, laws. He knows,
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