The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-07-26

Not content with this he presented the
following truthful argument in favor OF Con-
gressional Interference, the doctrine Of the
Republican party:
Bat you say that we propose TO prohibit by
Law your enig.asing 20 the Territories with your
property. We propose such thing We re-
cogn.ze your right IN common with oGr own. to
e.nigrate 10 the Territories with your property.
and there hold and enjoy Il in snbcrdination to
the laws you may find in some respects different
rom cur own, as the laws OF the various States
OF this Union vary % some points from 'hs
laws OF each other Some species Of property
are eretuded by taw in mos! Of The States as
peu TerrIories, az being unuiss immoral
OR CONTRARY 70 THE PRINCIPLES
OF PUBLIC POLICY. For instance. the
banker. is prohibited from emgratipg 10 Min
nesota, Oregon, and California, with bis bank
that may be property by the laws of New ork
but ceases TO be SO when tsken into State or
Territory, where baking is prohibited OF the
local law. So ardent spirits, whisky brady, all
the intoxicating drinks recognized as PROF.
erty IN most OF the States, IL cot all Of them;
bat no citizen, whether from the North or the
South. caG take this property with HIN and hold
Sell, or use it at his pleasure. in all the Terrific.
ries, because it is prohibited by the local law
10 Oregon by The statutes of the Territory, snd
in the Indian country by the acts Of Congress.
NOR CAN A MAN GO THERE AND
TAKE AND HOLD HIS SLAVE FOR
THE SAME REASON. There are laws against
the introduction, sale and use of specific kinds
OF properly. whether brought from the North
or the South from foreign countries"
He had no sympathy then with the bred
Scott decision. He said further:
The Territories belong to the United States
as one people, one nation, and are to be disposed
OF for the benefit OF all according to the princi
pies of the Constitution. Each State as mem
Der OF the confederacy. has rig ht to a voice III
forming the rules and eguations Of the govern-
n1ent OF the Territories Int different sections
North, South, East, aid West-have no such
night. Ii is no violence Of Southern gbts 10
proLi5i: Slavery"
When instructed by the Democratic Leg
islatuIe of Illinois, to vote for the Wllmot
Proviso. he says:
=" have no desire to break loose. My opin-
IONS are my own. and | express them freely -
Ny votes belong TO those who sent me here aud
to whom an fesponsible. l have never differed
with my constituency during seven years service
n Congress, except on one solitary question and
even on that have CONSTITUTIONS al difficulties
ard have previously twice given the same ote,
under peculiar circumstances, which is Cow re-
qured at my hands. have no desire thereto re,
TO break loose from the instruction"
Slavery then, is PROHIBITED in all the
country acquired from Mexico, by fundamental
lava constitutional provision adopted by the
Inhabitants Of the couatry. aud which must con.
tiGue in force FOREVER, un,ess repealed by
competent authority. This doctrine is 20. ne v
to ne. Lor is it now advanced By me for the frs.
tine"
How much more emphatic has any man
ever been in favor of prohibition But
Mr.. Douglas no: disposed to confine his
jealous labor to the territories was anxious
to have slavery abolished in the States. He
said;
"a have already had occasion to remark that
at the time o! the adoption of the Constitution
there we're twelve (slave States) and six of them
have since abolished slavery. This fact shows
that the cause Of freedom has ste ady and
hrmly advanced while slavery has receaed in
the same ratio. We look forward with con-
hdence TO the time when Delaware, MARYLAND
Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri aed probably
North Carolina aud Tennessee will adopt one
gradual system of emancipation, under the oper-
alton OF which those States must, IN process of
time become Free"
> Then. sir the position of the Senator from
South CarolIna ia entirely inpracticabie 1t is
also inadmissibie If practicable. It would revo
aiioaze the fundamental principles Of The Gov
ernment. 1t would destroy the great principles
Of popular equality mot popular sovereignty
which must necessarily form the basis of all iu-
'titntions. II would be retrogade movement
n an age of progress that would asso pish the
World TO 80 amend the Constitution as 20 pre-
erve an equilibrium between the slave and free !
'tates) r
This was in 1850. less than ten years c
ince. On the 4,h day of January, 1854.
Ir. Douglas as Charm ~ Of the COMMITTEES t
N Territories. reported a bill for the organ. e
cation of Nebraska, and in his written re- q
,ort vi ich he submitted with the bill /.
aid
" our Committee do not feel themselves called
,poD to enter iuto the discussion of these cor q
reverted questions. They Involve the same a
grave issues which produced the agitation the :,
ecsional strife and the fearful struggle of 1850
As Congress deemed it wise ard prnden, TO o
e'rain from deciding the matters in controversy =
hen, either by affirming repeating the Mex
AN laws, or BY act deelaratory OF the tree Z
Q 'eut OF the Constitution and the extent Of the i
protection afforded by 1t TO Save property Ia the
territories, so YOUR COMMITTEES ARE
<Or PREPARED TO RECOMMEND A q
DEPARTURE from toe course pursued on that +
lemorabie occasion. EITHER BY AFFIRV-
Nc OR REPEATING TUE EIGHTH SEC i
ION OF THE MISSOURI ACT or by any v
Acr decla-a.orJ OF the meaning of the Cousti-
a'ion in respect to the legal points of dispute"
During the tendency Of this bill reported v
y Mr.. Douglas, Mr.. Dixon, Of kentucky, G
'troduced an amendment repeating the T
'issouri Compromise. Now comes the {
nange. and the history as TO how it was p
rought about ha, been given to the coun.
y by Democratic authority. In Sep,em- :,
or, 1854. Senator Atchison delivered a
beech in which he says: ?
"For myself am entirely devoted to the in
rests OF the South aud would sacrifc. every- p
lsg but my hope of Heaven 10 advance Der "
e.tsre- He thought that the Missouri Comp.o. Is
ise ocgh: to be repealed; he hal pledged him ).
If in his pahc addresses to vote for 60 terri 10
rial organization that would rot virtually an P
Il it; and w'th this feeling in bis heart, be de-
-ad to be Chairman of the Senate Committee