The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-09-28
Neutrality-suspicious.,
The only way to Give Peace to the
Country.

OF hon. STEPHEN a. DOUGLAS, 0eilVereu IL
Baltimore on the 9Th inst, in which be
elucidates the doctrine of Non. Intervention.
We have published many of Judge DoUG-
LAS speeches, but none in which he presents
the question in light so clear:
Iregard this Union as the greatest polit.
ical blessing that was ever transmitted to
free people, and in my opinion there is but
one mode in which we can preserve it and
transmit it to our posterity unimpaired and
strengthened by each year of our history.
That mo lie is to maintain inviOlate each and
every provision of the constitution as our
fathers made it. 1t matters not whether
that instrument in all of its provisions be
precisely as you would wish it to be.
Enough for me that our fathers made it
that every man born under it rests under
hereditary obligation to maintain it, and
that every man holding Office is bound by
an oath to preserve it. So long as we live
under a constitution which is common to
all the States of this Union, it must be con.
strued and enforced in such manner as to
protect the rights of all of the citizens of all
of the States alike. Cries of "good."]
Equality of rights in all the States of the
Union is fundamental principle of this
Confederacy. That equality of rights not
only exists in all the States, but extends to
the Territories, and everywhere else where
the American flag waves over American
soil. Cheers.
l am aware that attempts have been
made to impress the Southern people with
the belief that the regular Democratic party
is not willing to give equal rights to the
citizens of all the States in the Territories.
desire to say to you, as citizens of one of
the original States, that will never claim
nor accept for the people of my own State,
any right, any privilege, or any immunity
which l will not grant and guarantee to the
people of every one of the States. Cheers.
While we of the Northwest, we citizens
of the new States, concede to you of the
original thirteen the largest share in the
glories of the Revolution while we admit
the patriotic and eminent services you rem
dered the cause of Constitutional liberty in
the formation of this government; while we
feel pride in those great deeds which rem
der the Monumental city the pride of all
America, -deeds, the memory Of which are
commemorated by this (pointiDg to the Bat;
tie MonumeDt), and that others monument;
still, when you come to consider the rights
of sovereign States under the Constitution,
we claim that we are your equals. APP.
plause. Equality of rights under the Con-
stitution is fundamental principle of our
Government will accept no less, and
we will claim no more. Cries Of "good,"
and applause. -:
With reference to the territorial question
which has occupied so large portion of the
public mind, have only to say that the
northern man with bis property emigrates
to the Territories on terms OF precise equal
ity with the southern man. Good AGAR"
and cheers].. You have the same right to
60 to territory and carry your negroprop-
erty with you that have to go there with
my horses, my cattle, my merchandise, or
any other description of property. A
voice, That's the idea."] You carry
your property and hold it subject to the
same limitations and restrictions that the
northern man goes into the territories under
with bis property. BE goes there subject
to the local law, whatever it may be. Ii
we take our horses and cattle to territory,
we do so subject to the same local law.
If man is a peddler and the local law i'm
poses high and onerous terms as the condi-
lions of bis trade, he had better, when he
moves to a territory, select one in which the
laws are more favorable to his occupation.
If be has engaged in the manufacture and
sale of brandies, whiskeys and other ardent
spirits, and concludes to move to territory
it would be wise for him to inquire whether
or not the Maine liquor law is in force in
the territory to which he purposes going.
CheersI. And if be should find that it is
in force in that territory, be had better 60
to another, where that law does not prevail
Laughter and applause. So if you are
going to immigrate into Territory with
your slave property, it would be prudent to
ascertain what the laws are in that Terrific
ry before you take your slaves there.
I"Good."l
If you will tell me what the climate, the
soil, and the productions of the Territory
are, 1 will tell you whether its laws will
favor slavery or not. Voices-"That's it'll
Wherever the climate and soil are favora-
BILE to the production of tobanco, and rice,
and sugar, and cotton, there slave labor
will be in demand, there the interests and
necessities of the people will require it, and
there the laws will necessarily favor it.
Wherever the climate is so cold and so rig
orous that no Southern staple can be pro.
duced, where the negro cannot enjoy either
health or comfort, and the white man is in
his natural element, there will be no slavery
for the reason that the interests of the PEG.
pie will be opposed toit. Cheels.
Slavery is question of political economy
founded upon climate, soil and productions,
and not upon laws. Voices-"that's so.
Slavery will 60 where it is profitable and
necessary, and will never 60 where it is not
profitable and where it is unnecessary. You
might just as well attempt to force cotton tt
grow upon the top of the Rocky Mountains
by an act of Congress, as to compel slavery
to exist where the climate is not favorable
toit. Applause.
never saw people yet who had moi
sense enough to know that it was their in
terest to buy their supplies where they coult
get them cheapest, and sell the products o
their labor where they could obtain thu
highest prices. In like manner, when maj
comes to the employment of labor, he viii
employ that which is the cheapest and mos
profitable. Wherever negro labor is mos
profitable and rendered essential by climate
then it will supersede all other kinds
wherever white labor can he maintained