, 1859-07-13

# ths road. He il, in all rsspect& sne of ~ |
most abs and etaficnt managers III the CON. |
~: and the capital order in which tho track |
and the rolling stock Of the road il kept, and
ths punctualisy and clock-work accuracy with
which the trains run, gixe The best possible
assurance Of hin entire devotion to the inter
asts Of the Company and the comfort ;and the
ssde.5 Of tho travelling public
This article is prompted purely by DESIRE
to dojustice to the faithfil Officers who MN
age the Michigan Southern mud Northern In
diann Railroad. No one il moro ready Or
more free to censurc severely where blame
can justly, be charged; but indiscriminate de-
nunciation cannot contribute to the future safe-
ty: e the public, o., bind up tho broken hearts
Of those whom II is calamity .hasc cbereaved. l.
May we never sec It's like ngain will be the
ardent desire ofeven the hardest hearts,
Douglas and tho aTa1ing Proeess.''
Senator Douglas late letter 70 J. B. Dorr,
Esq, Of Dubuque: Iowa, says:-"N it shall
"become the policy Of tho Democratic party
" to interpolatc into its creed the doc
"trine that the Constitution Of the United
Estates ever established or prohibited slavery
"in the territories beyond the power Of the
"peop:e legally 10 control it as property-it is
"due to candoE, ETC."
Lest this letter should prore too strong for
the stomachs Of the cotton-growing and Blave-
breeding delegates at:: Charleston. iin: simply
denying that the Constitution ever established
or prohibited slavery beyond the power Of
the people legally 10 contrpl ia power cs-
sentih to its existence whether in
States OF Ter1itorics-Mr. Douglas must
needs add the words "as property" In
doing SO, he not only begs the question at issue
between the Democracy and tho Republicans,
but he comedies the very point in dispute be-
tween himself and the Democratic gang led By
Buchanan, Wise SlideN l. Co. In his Free
port speech and the subsequent debates held
In this State last year, Douglas argued that
Territorial Legislature could exclude slaves as
eftectua1ly and as legally BY "unfriendly le-
eislation" az it could exclude whisky BY the
provisions Of Maine Liquor Inv. And
when it was suggested to him that the Su-
preme Court had declared slaves to be prop
erty under the Constitution Of the Unitcd States,
but had never declared whiskcy to be prop
erty, he found it convenient to ignore that
branch Of the case altogether. When be re-
turned to Congress, and Mr. JEFF Davis or some
other fire eater Of his i1k, pressed the fact upon
the attention Of the gentleman he found 4
cscyioe to escape in Inserting The power Of a
Territorial Legislature to ta1 one class Of prop
crty higher than another class; as for Instance,
to levy an excessive tax on tho inferior breeds
of cattle, allowing the thorough-brcds to go
free He doubtless had in mind the "little
bull law" Of Illinois, When pressed further
by Mr. Davis as to the right Of the first ono
thousand or ten thousand settlers Of Territory
to make n severe discrimination against the
particular sort Of horned cattle, mules or swine
which the next hundred Thousand might wis1,
to Introduce, Mr.. Douglas went to the absurd
ity Of declaring TINT they (the first ten thous-
and could so tar any species Of property, re-
cosnized as legitimate By the laws Of all
the States Of the Union, and By
custom universal, as to absolutely exclude
it If we recoIect rightly, he selected
"mules" as nh example, and held that a Ter
ritorial Legislature could forbid the introduc-
ton or proparation of those animals by leyyinr