The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1860-02-01

I " 49, 'eNptfSNtSaAlFCs.Dt TIE ECU.
pie y the lower House VI Congress is most
offensive symptom Of the pablo health under
that treatment.
! The question: Of slavery in the Territories,
practically developed as that question: was in
the case Of Kansas, has probably had greater
influence than any other, both upon the ore !.
sent condition Of political parties and in
bringing the public mind to its present agi-
tated state, The issue to which the question
in its abstract form and ia the Democratic
party has been brought is this. that on one
snle lie people af the South very generally
believe and claim that the Supreme Court
had decided that every stakeholder has the
constitutional right to take slaves into every
Territory, and neither Congress nor the PEG.
pie Of the Territory have any po YER to pre-
vent this; in other words. that every Terri.
tory Is, by the Constitution Of the United
States, slave Territory. Ca the other side,
the Democratic party at the North yery zen
orally and decidedly reputliate these state,
ments as untrue and these claim, as mon !.
'tfous; and assert for the people of each Ter.
Iriory constitutional powers to determine
and regulate for themselves the question Of
slavery. In the mean time the Republican
party, perhaps unanimously, assert that Con.
gress has complete power to exclude slavery
from all The Territories, and desire this pnw-
er TO be exercised in every case as It has
been IN several. Almost the entire North
Is therefore directly arrsyei against bah The
Tact and the right Of what the greater part of
the South ASSERTS is the law Of the land up.
der the decision Of the Supreme Court. In
the South itself, however. there il farther
and singular development Of opinion. Ii has
been attempted in Kentucky an,l other $ luth.
ern States To make II part 1t the political
creed Ut the Opposition to demand of Con.
gress slave code for the Territories while
IN the sane region non-n,ervention by Con.
gross, except ~ extremity. il at all, has aD-
Peare,i 10 be The doctrine OF the Democratic
parts. The result IS that the entire North
regulates, md under existing Circumstances
will continue TO repudiatp, the idea thai The
Federal Constitution, Or the Supreme Court.
makes All the national Territories slave, while
almost the entire South believes and claims
that sll the national Territories are slave 81
the Constitution. The dispute is enlarged,
nat settled, not even transferred. This i 4
mnst ealamitons result OF attemating TO turn
over questions pre-eminentiy political to tri.
olnals wholly judicial; az If public men
were warranted in slpPosins that great M
tons, m The highest state af political excite
ment, believed any more in the infaIlibility
Of Judges than they did il the infallibility or
senators. Kings, or Popes. Even if the de.
cisIon Of the supreme Court lad been so
clear that no man could doubt wha. vas de-
cldei. and 50 cngent th4tnp man could gain. 4
sac rs justice as between the parties I, The l
particular cause then heard. II would have
been miracle il the decision had settled
any palltieal question. LIS main effect was nb /
lIg"d % be--let the decision be what ii might
Ito eSasperate all parties, and to render
any peaceful adjustment IL any aspect or the .
slave question far more difficult than before.
In truth, the constitutional right which the
South sappnses she has secured can ~ If
no particular value. even If it were uniyer.
,a,iY conceded. For il She remains in The
uuign, she Cannot carry m tie foreign slave
irane; and unless she can do that she canant
send slaves enough intn any Ter 4
rit9ry We pus.ess, nor masters enough with
hose she may send ID prevent their emanci
PATTON as som as the Territory becomes
-Ass' - tfAtAk lEFNl III AlA&lsaS Is SurRtN
leei-lEe. u, on the other hand. any portion
\ t1e S"aih may deem, il ! sufficient reason
p serssle, that more slices NAV Be imported
rom Africa. aud new slave Territories form.
u cither. half the slave States will nnt se-
,et!e Tor mat reason. or il all secede and
s"ntrdrfacy ri All tie States Is formed, that
nnieleracy cannot Be expected 10 allow tie
African slave trade 10 De renewed. With
rgar'l % slavery 10 tie Territories and tie !
'oWer # the Grnsral Government over the
ubgsc', there never could be ans subject I
oneerning which wise, Just, moderate, and !
nroearing conduct was more inpera,iyely ,
emaHded--ngne with regard 10 which The $
ppasins interests nf the two great divisions !
I tie nation ought 70 BE treated with more {
cruplloas iaifness. II ever such a tcmper !
~ such 4 spirit shall return ID tiie counsel. Z
{ the Republic, the temporary and disputed {
over over the subject cannot gail 10 be ex. I
ried 10 some manner satisfactory to oppos. a
y claimants. Tut 20 long al parties, on q
ne side 81 HE other. seek Nv every mean. I
2 assert extreme claims, irrespective OF b
gIallY egseme claims IN others. nu,binv D
enains bit 20 tight the question out in each b
'erfit"fy, ~. shat i worse. 10 fight il out z
YER Tie ruins II the Republic, Or. ahat !. 1
.T.t n al, break NJ the Union and ii.ht !, =
lt afterwards. Il, Southern man / de. T.
lofed ani It'll ieplore the repeal of the 5
iissguri eomprnmi,e - great political Or. i
'r, pre.emiueniIy injprieu. 10 the South q
= ah American citizen ! deplore tie fear. :
. iY undue imp9rtdnre which the control by j
ahZress over slavery 10 Tie Territories has a
cen made u assume III nar national D,Il. a
g.. II
Il 'nast Be- barne ii Mind ttat IRE present p
'pecl # plfiie. ~ tbs country is yery far 4
nH revealing ihs real state NJ public 5pin. Il
. upon any new and exciting question which u
III suddenly afisp. We have sera ,nn Y
eat national parties the OLD Wing and lie II
meFicaa parties completely disnrgarizsd Il
ite4n a ita years. Tie enormous mas. II
tiers VII. acted with one or the other of te
90 parties--and ibe greater par, III whom e
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