New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-12

on the employment of his pow, rs in some IN ,lner
Inconsistent with the public weal; but Is right
10 use bis own God.givcn powers for his own
benefit aud that of those dependent on and dear to
hun is natural, primary, intrinsic, self-evident,
and Only to be yitiated or suspended by some cul-
pahle snd maevolent action on his part whereby
the public veal is assalcd or endangered. Such
is the Republican conception Of Equal Rights il
80 the Territories"
H. The Douglas Democratic idea is that Of me
Equol Right " Sfarery nih Frte Labor in any and
ertry Territory. This idea denies that Slavery is
j natural or moral wrOng-denies that Mao mas q
| natural moral right to the direction of his own
energies, the products of his own industry, and
maintains that the ownership OF his own limbs and
faculties by the laborer or by masier Is queS'
ton Of political economy aud social ezpedienry to
be determined by considerations of climate, SOIL
products, &c. In temperate, mainly Gram
growing region, DUuglaSism lLtimatcs that Slavery
viii Mt usuaIly be found profitable, therefore II
lot be established or not be maintained; while IN
tropical or sem-tropical Cotton, Rice and Sug ar
grUwi ing district, euslavcd negro labor vii usually
be found most profitable, if not indispensable;
therefore will be preferred. Bat in any and eyer!
case the PeOpic-that is, the resident white maze
adults-must of right decide to have or not have
slavery. and the votes of majority of their num-
Der must determine the issue If territory
when il comes to form u state Constitution Shaii
have FIVE thousand male adults, OF whom four
thousand are negroes and but one thousand whites,
the whites alone are I" have voice N determining
the future cor diiiJn Of Labor in that community;
and if five hundred aud fifty Of these vote to have
Sl-very TO four hundred and fity against II, the
vote. Of these five hundred and fifty oyerbear those
of the four hundred and fifty opposed, with the
uuexpresged but notorious choice ct tee tour thou
sand Rlacks, making that Slave state And
this, accord ny to Mr. Douglas, IS Popular
Sovereignty"
So much is clear; but when we ask Mr. Douglas
ard his supporters, What shall be the S'ot"S OF
Territory with regard to avery prior to such
decision of the question by its people - the an
swtr elected is vague or equyocal. AT hrst, The
Douglas cauyassrls malut1iued with us that there
can BE- no iegal Slassry IA any country or district
until IL has been established or authorized there by
s0y,e posture iau-hrncc that every man residing
in Territory must own himself until some valid
law of that Territory or of Congress shall have
constituted him the properly Of another. Under
this view, it was stoutly and lot unpisusibly
argued that the Kans 1sNebraska bill ws5 an
A uti slavery p1easure-at least, not Pro-Slavery
one. But MIR. Douglas and bis disciples have been
GRADUALLY driven from this ground, and now say
that tie status OF the negro in ANY Territory lie
question to be settled BY the Federal Courts
ultimately by the United States supreme Court. In
other words, the mainly slayeholding Judges who
made the bred Scott Decision are to decide all
questions respecting Slavery in the Territories.
How they will decide this one, need 20 no
further than to the bred Scott care to learn.
Practically, tbcreE re, though Indirectly and aIn-
biguouey, Dir. Douglass platform corcedes the
Territories en- maSSt to Slavery.
Ill. Nj. BreckiI ridges erred attains the same
end BY for simpler a'd director method. His
dOctrii sffirms the Eqaat Rgh's Of the Stats and
their citizens IN the Terr1tOriestuat is, the equal
right of any aud every STAKEHOLDER to migrate
tnither with his humab chatt-ls ano demand oi tue
Federal AID local authorities 10 protect him IN |
theIr use and enjoyment "iuh that OF any Northern
ritjzeu 10 remove thlther with his horses, OGeh,
hocs blows aud " aeons, aud demaOd protection 10
then usr and EMO, ment. Mr.. Breckinrdge wants
no special law for the protection OF operfy IN
slaves; but be demands protection Tor that pr p
ert, under the general laws which secure to every
man biz own; aud, If the Territorial authorities
shouln neglect or refuse 10 afford this be looks t.
the Federal Government to supply the deficiency.
Such, according to our understanding Of the
mauesioes Of the rival parties and candidates, are
their relative positions; aud they seem to uS to
preclude the idea Of coalition electoral tickets sup
ported by any Two of them. The breckenridge
and Douglas parties are clearly 4 not ~ "i,cy
antagonist as the Douglas and Lincoln; and the
triumph of either s the defeat Of both the others.
Ultimately, tho Douglas position must be aban-
do,.ed for that Of enc of the other parties,
"Sotts" have receded rom the position stOutly
naintalned by ,hem in 1913 to the present Douglas
pl-tf I'm. Their leading organs-1hf Albany
atlas, fer examplr--weIe just positive then that
the, would never surrender heir "cOrne stone
plutfoIm as they now are that they will DeSer take
their Dtxt plunge into the abyss OF Slavery Protec
ticn. Tteis preseut halfway house, however, will
tot outlast the pending strugg aud. long prior to
l164. we shall rec them siOuty maintaining the
doc,rine now epuuciated by Bfccki ridge AZ Siuon
Pure uuadulterated, aU;i.sectioDai Democracy.