New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-18

nj, 10 territory acquired BY the present fedea
by treaty or conquest, from foreign rAhoD
The United States under the present oons'i'u'n'
H., ,.,,,o,, 10 be held colooy TO be governed " !"
Va, u I.snn, But Il may acquire territory which, al 'ne
dr. hos NO, popustiob that 6ts Ii to beoom" state ana may
,.,ntas Territory until has PoPu1tion winch VI lno
Of Congress entities to be admitted 'a'e O ~
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the scope Of IT, constitutional powers In relation 70 c
Of the United States and may establish Territorial GOV
suus Mt and the form Of this local government must s
Ltd by the discretion Of Congress but win powers nov
those which Congress itself by the Coui'uton 10 au
bzed to exercise the United States In respect
10 their rights Of persons or rights Of property
The territory thus aeqnied acquired by the people o. the
United States for their and equal benefit through their
sr and trustee-the Federal Government Congress cen OK
ese no power the rights OF persons or property G
,n In the Territory which proitited BY the Constitution
TIE Government snd the citizen, whenever the Territory
omen 10 settlement both enter with their respective Sh ae
hr ed and imtsd by the Constitution
has no tight prohibit the citizens Of sny prtcu
Lar sste or States from ng up their ZONES there while
permits citizens Of other States to do so Nor mas su'
Give py, s TO one class citizens which refuses to another
The trtory Is acquired their equal and common benefit
ard II open 10 any, ust b. open TO all upon equal and the
ssme terms
Ere,, citizen has yghto take nth him into he Territory
any drfiois Of property ohieh the Con"h"''o" me CH'sa
Sfofes Teoognfses az property
The CoHsiufion Of the Jisd States recosses 'tdre' az
pyot eytv and dg Me Federal Government 10 proteet And
Congress eIerce any more authority ever property Oh
that scpon than Il may constuoray exercise over prop
trty Of any other kiDd
1.-THE act of Congress therefore, prohbngs citizen Of the
United States from taking with him his slaves when he removes
to the Territory question TO reside is an exercise authority
over private property warranted By the Cousttu
ton the Of the plaintiff by bis owner TO that ef
ritory, gave BIN no title to freedom"
The Court decides, you see, that Congress has
DO authority to prohibit slaveholding in Terri
tLok n Tarritor;al ao;slatura heinp n
crestuTe OF Congress, has no power exceeding that
of its creator-n other words no power to abolish
Slavery. Mr. Douglas declares, at New-Oreans
ard elseu here, that he accepts that decision as
Gan authoritative Interpretation of the Constltu-
I" ton" and then tells his Clifton audience that he
has always held and often asserted the right of
Territory to prohibit Slavery, and that everybody
knows it
Now see what the Cincinnati Platform-which
Mr. Douglas has 80 often accepted and eulOgized
as his confession Of Pathways touching tnls p0iot
Rred That recognize the rht othe people OF all the
Territories including and Nebraska acting through the
legally fairly expressed viii Of the majority Of the actual resi-
dents and ph.nerty number If their hGbitant' jTte' a. to
form Constitution with without domestic Slavery ana De
UIion upon Of perfect equality with the
other States
"Whentrer The number Of their inhabitants JUST
"fes IT," you see, they may form State Constr
tuition, and therein establish or exclude Slavery.
But until the Territory has reached the point
where it ceases to be Territory aud becomes
State, Mr. Douglass platform has no hint, no sug
geston, of right in the people to exclude Slavery
Ard when Gov. Chase moved to add to Me-. Doug
las declaration that his bill was intended to
"leaye the people thereof perfectly free to form
"and regulate their domestic institutions in their
Gown way, subject only to the Constitution"-the
foIlowipg
Unde, which ne people Of me Territory, through hsr apprO-
ryiate yepye,enfare may 0ey IT, prohibit he existence
ef Sar0y mereiH'-
il was pOted do,cn-Yeas 10 (Free-Soilers);
Nays 80, including John Bel and STEPHEN A.
DOUGLAS
Wemight go 3D. showing how Douglas has at least
forty times taken ground utterly inconsistent with
that he now assumes; but let us quote only the last
plank in Mr.. Douglass plato m that on which be
all ne stands "a a candidate for Presidebt-adOpted
by his Convention at Baltimore last JUICE, after it
had been fully considered between himself and
Pierre Soue the day before at Washington This
plank was moved by Lieut. Gov Wickliffe of La,
seconded by H. b. Payne of Ohio, and unan-
mously adopted by the Dougas National Conyen-
tton. Here il is:
Rssord Il IN accordance with the Interpretation Of
Cincinnati Platform that during the existence Of the Terri
toral Governments of yestvoH, choterey
be- imposed BY the Federal Consio| the poDe Of the Ter
yoriol Legaaiurs the subject Of me domec reiaton'
the BEEN shall hereafter be- finally determined by
the Supreme Of the United States should be respected by
good citizens and enforced with promptness and fidelity by
every branch of the General Government"
Can any man fail to understand this Is it not
directly in the teeth of Mr.. Douglass Clifton po-
stion2 Was there ever before candidate for
President who, in the desperation of bis canvass,
publicly repuoiated and secuted the very platform
on which be was nOminatedl What but defeat
and not defeat merely, but wreck and utter ruin
can await party go recklessy led, candid ,te so
regardless Of his own public committals and pro-
LESSONS