The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-01-25
To The Point.

The following closing extract of the Message
of Gov. Morgan Of New York, is 10 the point
Hardly ever, is language found put together With
better purpose to present the sentiment, or the
sentiment more sound.
The State Of New York mas consistently main.
tanned conservative attitude with regard 70
those of her sister States which cherish systems
of labor differing from her own. DisclaiuiinR 81
right or wish 10 interfere with the domestic COZ.
Germs of ahy community outside OF our own lin
it,, -he insists her night 20 maintain whereev-
er the issue shall bee legitmately presented, the
1 superiority Of Liberty over Slavery whether asa
! condition OF personal enjoyment. 90 intellectual
and moral Development, or Of social and genera
well-b.inc.
/ While herself slave. holding, che voted to pro
hibit by act of Congress the extension o. Slave
~ ihso Federal territory thirty wears later she
voted 10 exclude il from Missouri and from the
Federal territory stretching northward and west.
ward from that State
Nearly twenty years later, the question REQUIRED
with reference to Territories then about To be &C.
CURED from Mexico, and again her voice vas
raised distinctly aud emphsticay the side q
civilization aud humanity Throughout the struc-
! gle which preceded aud attended the orgaDiIs
/ ton and settlement Of Kansas her devotion 10
1 the cause 81 free labor was never doubtful nor
! lusc1arIn. No sOph-try has sufiiced 10 blind
her 10 the fact, that the establishment Of Slavery
upon territory hitherto free, would be a calamity
and a wrong, for which, not only the handful Of
settlers who bad ALREADY driited upon the soil a
such Territory, but the whole American people
Who had permitted such establishment would Be
justly held responsible. To contrayebe the ct
tied policy Of our Revolutionary statesmen, and
! emil he. If in
! Territory TO The unchecked yotion Of a majority
Of the first hundred or thousand persons Who
might happen 20 halt upon ia soil, is 10 conceds
: the fundamental assumption of those who enter.
tam different opinions upon the subject, that no
national, or moral considerations are involved IN
/ the issue between free and slave laDor but that
! 'he preference Of one, a. the other s 10 be &C.
terminea By climate, adaptation 10 tropical o.
non-tropicai products or Nv some other purely
/ physical condition. r. j. to refer grave CUES
! ton, vitality affecting the reputation and welfare
oi twenty-five millions q people, Join, owners Of
a v,st national domain, ary 81 whom may be.
and some oi whom, with the descendants Of near
ly al, Ia the nature oi thinc- must be- among the
future Inhabitants Of that domain, to the dccis-
ions Of le<7 than thOn.andth part Of their nun-
Der.
Til. !, not genuine Popular Sovereignty. bu:
ness in reaching and deIterity OF appropristnE
the Territory in questionable sovereignty ofs
few pers over the destinies aud happiness o!
millions. New York has never assenied and cGs
lot now assent 10 a theory which thus dirests
her q all control over the common heritage 0.
her sons Nth those d her sister States Which
declares he an alien and an intruder on the pat
rimony acquired by tho common blood and treas.
gre Of the whole Amer ican People and xhich
virtually prOcl..im- 20 the world that she cares
lot whether her children who migrate westward,
shall henceforiu I've where mutual labor is re-
spectcf aud tOlOred. or where IT j. regarded a
the fl employment ouly Of the ensIaved aud de-
graded. Such Indifference j. not f,lt and ought
no - be ieiarleG.
livery American must in heart, desire either
that Slavery should. or that il should not be eI-
tended into our Federal Territories, and each ba
night to proclaim and act upon bis choice. II
the deliberate sentiment Of the people, constl'u'
tons expressed, shall favor Slavery Extension,
Ne' )rk ril submit. "a she has a.sys sub
mitte;, TO decisions fairly made. which contra
we've her convictions or her interests however
disappointed By any lawful action o. the constItu'
IL authorities 81 the United States She wages
10 var upon the institutions nor the Interests o;
her sister Stats While frankly avowing that
should the legal exclusion Of Slavery from the
Federal Territories conduce 10 the dirninution Of
It's infence, and the limitation Of its existence
throughout our country and the world that fact,
so far from constituting an objection, would a.
ford an additional reason for her emphatic adher'
ence TO the policy Of restriction.