The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-12

have witnessed in Kansas Therefore there is
nothing-no power possibe-that could be so in.
furious to the peace and prosperity this doctrine
which has been denominated "squatter sover-
eighty" [Laughter.l
Now let me place it before you in another point
OF view L am very much gratfed that you have
listened to plain speech from an old man with so
much attention. ['Go on % and applause The
Southern States can never give up their principle
of equality in the Union ''never never" and ap-
plause, because if they did, they would be self
degraded in the eyes of the world. They would
stand before their cOuntrymen as inferior to the
people of their sister States. They never can sur.
render it. But how is it with the Northern peo-
pie? 1t is with them comparatively a mere alb.
straction. With the South it is of infinite import
ance that they should preserve their equal sover-
eighty in the Union. What has the South to do ?
Merely to say that good and honest citizens they
will yield obedience to the Supreme Court, and
thus admit the right of a Southern man to take
his property into the Territories just as a Northern
man may do. And it is to me a most eXtraordiua-
ry thing that this country should now be distract
ed and divided because certain persons of the
North will not agree that their brethren in the
South shall have the same rights in all the Terri
tories which they of the North enjoy.
What could a Pennsylvania saw or do. il
some one were to contend that the Territorial
Legislature of any Territory should exclude nv
cattle from that Territory? The principle is ex-
actly the same, and the Supreme Court of the Uni.
ted States decided-what was known to us all to be
the existing state of affairs for so yearshat slaves
are property. Admit that fact and you admit
everything. Then that property in the Territories
must be protected in precisely the same manner as
any other property would be. If it be not protect
ed in the Territories in the manner, the own
ers are degraded before the world. [Applause.l
But we have "non-intervention." Non -interven-
ton, it is said, is the true policy. That is the let
lone" policy-let things go their own way. What
is this non-intervention Perfectly right. We all
admit that the Congress of the United States has no
authority whatever to establish, to impair, or to
abolish the right of master slaves in the Terri
tories, or the right of owner of any other prop
erty. All very well. But that is one sided non
intervention. Carry the Intervention out as the
Constitution does, to the territorial legislature and
admit that they have right, no power no au-
shority, to abolish, or establish, impair slavery
within their limits Bat that would not do.
That is all at present that anybody need want
''hands OFF, by Congress, ''hands OFF, by the ter
ritorial legislature. [Applause.l Suffer the Con-
sutulon and the laws to be executed by the Federal
Judiciary in the Territory without interference from
Congress, and without interference from the terri
torial legislature That is all that is necessary at
present No one has asked for more. But, if non
Intervention did not extend to the territorial legs-