Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1860-12-22

unless we may possibly except the Mssou'
Compromise. impalring in the slighle.
degree, The right of the South TO their pre-
perty il slaves. And i, may also be oh
served judging from the present iudica
'ion.. that no probability exists in tn
passage of such no act oy ma jority q
both Houses, either in the present or th
next Congress. Surely, under these cir
cums,ances we ought to be restrsne,
from the present action by the precept o
Him who spake rs man never soake. tina
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
The day Of evil may never come, unles
we shall rash'y bring it upon ourselves
1t is alleged as one cause for immed,a',
secession. that the Southern States ar
denied equal rights with the other State
in the common territories.
But by What authority are these denied
Not hy Congress, which has never "a >sed
and ! believe never will pass. any act I,
exclude slavery from the territories, aut
ccrtain Y not by Ii" SUPREME Court vhicl
has solemnv decided that slaves are prop
erty, and ike all o',r property thpi
owuers have = right to sa,' 'han into tn
common territories and bAid them ,herr
under the Constitution 81 far then a,
Congress is concerned, the olfsctinn !,
not t, anything they have srendv done
but to waat they may do hereafter.
will surelY he admitted that this appre
hersion of the future danger is no good
reason for an Immediate dissolution of the
Union.
!, l. true that the Territorial Le.js'a-
ture Of Kansas, on he 23i nf February
leG9, passed III great haste an act over
ihc vo.a Of the G vernon. declaring tia,
slavery is, and Shall be iurevcc prohibited
IN the Territory. Such An AZ however
plninir violating the rights oi property
secured by the Constitution. will surely bt
declared void by the Judiciary whenever
it shall be presented in legal form Only
thce, days after ny inaugnrs ion. the Su
prome Court sJ,emn y aiiud-ed that this
power did not exist in Territorial i.asis
iature. Yet such has been the faction.
temper o: the umas. that the correctness
OF this decision has beea extensively i'm
pusnsd before the people, aud the ones.
ton has given rise t. aE!ry p"IItica
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pu'ar assemblies, would. If they co I'D, in
vest Territorial Legislature with power to
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