Worcester daily spy., 1860-10-31


/ imported slaves enough as they thought to
answer her purposes, proposed TO nterdict the
trade, and parliament declined to sanction the
| prohibition, leaving to the younger colonies
the same privilege las Mr.. Thayer calls it)
which Virginia had exercised, to introduce
slaves or not as they pleased. Undoubtedly,
from Queen Elizabeth down to the wretch who
stole the negro from Africa, nearly all classes
FROM motives of cupidity or bigotry, en-
couraged the traffic but the people Of the
colonies were left to do as they pleased; and
in every colony they introduced and establish
ed slavery. This was the fruit Of non-nter-
yenton.
Now, suppose that before the landing of the
first twenty slaves on the banks OF James
river, the British parliament had passed this
| simple act :-.SidUTy or tRCOtuRtdJy SerCitude,
except for crime IS Jorecer prohibited IN the Anler
icdn colonies. Is there a man on this continent
outside of a lunatic asylum, who does not
KNOW that that would have settled the matter,
and that this fair republic of ours would today
have been nation of untold millions OF free
men, instead of one with four millions of
slaves7 Had that act prohibiting slavery been
proposed in the British parliament, at any time
between 1920 and 1775 Eli Thayer, if he had
been a member, would have voted, NAY.
I'd EveyY free state, added to the Union
since the adoption of the constitution, acaS
formed out Of territory from achich Slaray had
been excluded By la0 Of congress. Prohibition
has given us all our new free states; non-inter-
vention, not one.
California, it may be suggested, is an excep-
ton Not so. Slavery was excluded from
California by the federal law Of Mexico. We
| =, L,,+ IL, (Huo1ulonna Hi1nl.
90, Feb. 9, 1S4S. The state constitution was
adopted Oct. 13, 1S49, and California was ad-
mited as a state Sept g. 1850. During this
brief transitory period it was held under mill
| tary government without territorial organlZa-
ton, and the Mexican law, prohibiting slavery
was considered in force until the state govern
ment took effect. 1t was this federal prohibi-
ton, together with the exceptional mode of
settlement growing out OF the gold discover
les and the immense Chinese immigration, that
saved California from slavery
Sd. EUerg Stare state, added to the Union
since the adoption of the constitution, cds
formed out Of territory from Chich SLAVERY had NOT
been excluded by federal lar, but @hich had been
left to popular sovereignty or non Intervention.
"Look first on this picture" Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Min
nesota, Oregon, California-all, thanks to in
tervention, FREE "and then on this" Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi Lou"
isiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Florida, Texas
all, under non-intervention, SLAVE.
4th. The staUe pOper has neUer asked anything
but non-interuention Jy congress, and under that has
acquired oil its additional power. The South has
never asked congress TO establish slavery in
the territories, only not to prohibit ito leave
the people perfectly free to vote itup or down,
as they pleased. This was all they asked and
all they got by the Missouri ompromise-that
the territory south of $50 should be left open
to become free or slave states, as the people
chose /; and under the operation of oninter-
vention, eUery foot OF it oCdS coUered Nth Sidoey.
And then they denounced that. What? that
slavery should not be established north of 36
80 No. but only that the prohibition should be
removed-'fonly this, and nothing more"
And nothing saved the territories north of
$3.50 from slavery, but WAR; and war, too,
waged by Intervention for freedom by the free
states, against intervention for slavery by the
slave states.
Look at our territories. Read what Mr..
Douglas says of New Mexico -
''n is part of the history of the country that ander
this doctrine Of non-intrreatioH, this doctrine thai
you delight to call sqWaer sovereignty, the people Of
NelU Merco hare introduced and protected Sdrery in
the 1chote Of that territory Under this doctrine they
hare concerted tract Of free territory into stare territory,
more than re times the size Of the state Of NeC York
RIO Grande to the Gulf Of California, and from the line
Of the republic of leco, only up SO deg. 80 min,
out up to 80 deg.-GIvING YOU DEGREE AND A
HALF MORE SLAVE TERRITORY THAN YOU EVER
CLAIMED In 1S4S and 1S49 and 1850 you only
asked to have the line of SO degrees 30
minutes. The Nashville Convention fixed that
as its ultimatum. l offered it in the senate in
August, lS48 and it adopted here but rejected
in the house of representatives. You asked only
up to 36 deg 30 min and noR-nterUentiOH has giCen
you Stare territory up to 80 degrees DEGREE AND
HALF MORE THAN YOU ASKEDn
Look at Utah; all above sc deg. Bonn, and
all free from slavery but for the repeal of the
Missouri compromise; or in other words, but
for the application to it of non-intervention
and now, under Mr.. Thayer's beautiful doc
trne being steadily and surely blighted by
those twin relics of barbarism, slavery and
polygamy"
Look at the Indian territory, lying between
Kansas and Arkansas-the very garden of the
continent and yet doomed inevitably to
slavery under the most perfect system of non,
Intervention. The Indians are carrying out
genuine popular sovereignty-no federal gov
ernors, judges, or officers OF any kind and yet
there are some thousands of slaves in the ter
rltory, and within a year a slave code was
passed by the council, rivalling in atrocity
that of New Mexico. Fortunately it was We
toed by the chief, Ross. But the check is on
ly temporary. The irrepressible conflict there
is about over; the advocates of slavery are
steadily gaining upon its opponents, and that
beautiful region, nearly one hundred thousand
square miles, follows the universal law Of non
intervention, and, unless saved by the active
Intervention of q republican administration, is
inevitably doomed to slavery.
ITO be COntin edl