Nebraska advertiser., 1860-02-02

TENDER, 1856, used the following hns
guage: N
81 would not plant slavery % any por-
ton of Gods earth, against the will Of
the people. The Government Of the
United States should not force Slavery on
the people Of either the Territries or the
States, against the will Of the people
TIE majority Of the people BY the action
Of the Territorial Legislature will decide
the question and all must abide the de-
cision when made"
Governor BLACK, IN speech before the
Pennsylvania Democratic Stale CONVEX
ton in 1856, used the following very
plain and not to be misunderstood larl-
guage;
Il say, that the great question Of slaY-
cry is now TO be met, because the issue
is andtiondI one, and whenever it comes
the Democratic Party is not afraid to
meet it. And on what grounds will they
meet IL? On the grounds of Popular
Sovereignty in the Territories as well as
in the States-on the ground that the
people have the right to establish what
ever sort of domestic government they
please within their own borders, whether
they exist as a republic independent, as
republic connected, or as a Territory es-
tablished under our system by an act of
general government in Congress assem-
bled. Now, sir, we go into this Conven-
ton, asserting that the people of every
Territory in this Union have the right to
establish whatever form of domestic gov
ernmentthey please, provided that they
keep within the limits of the Constitu-
ton. If they choose to prohibit slavery,
they can do it. If they choose to tolerate
and establish it, they can do it. The
general government can take nc notice of
it, as l contend, either at the time it ex-
lists in a Territory, or when that Terri
tory knocks at the door of the Union for
admission as a State. [Applause.P u
Even last fall, when the Executive took
part in the Delegate campaign in this
Territory, in a public speech in this city,
he advanced the same doctrine, in sub
stance. as follows:
"The bred Scott decision does not
bring slavery into Nebraska; it does not
extend slavery anywhere. 1t gives the
people Of the States the right to 60 to the
Territories with their property. The ci-
tizen of Iowa may bring his property, and
the citizen of Missouri his slaves. Bot
whether their sroperty will be protected
here depends upon the local law. The
doctrine hat slavery is extended over the
Territories, by virtue of that decisioni is
not in the bred Scott decision; and any
person who asserts the contrary, does so
either through gross Ignorance or willful
misrepresentation
But there is no use quoting further to
prove what was the Interpretation of the
Kansas Nebraska Act by its friends at
time of its passage, and upto the presen-
tation of the Kansas Lecompton Constitu-
ton; they all agreed that it was the poll
cy to transfer the slavery question from
the Halls of Congress to the people of
the Territories to be formed into new
States, and that at ~dnyperiOd in their ex-
istence they had a perfect right to dojust
as they pleased in regard to it, through
their Territorial Legislature-either pro-
hibit or establish. Mr.. Buchanan knows
this to be the fact. Gov. Black knows it,
and so does every other intelligent man
in the country. It was by and Of this in
depreciation and construction hat Mr..
Buchanan, and those under him, now hold
the position they do. Any other con-
struction would have overwhelmingly de-
feated the Democratic party at the last
Presidential campaign.
Senator Iverson, of Georgia, the other
day, in the United States Senate, "let the
cat out of the bag.'' Hear him:
"But, sir, the history Of emigration in
to the Territories for the last ten or
twelve years, has taught the southern
people a severe and salutary lesson. II
has opened their eyes to the inevitable
effects and fatal results of the 'squatter
sovereignty doctrine of General Cass
and his northern friends. The settlement
and fate of California satisfied me and
the whole South, that under that doctrine
as the established policy of the govern
ment, the southern people, with their
slave property, would be as efectnally
excluded from all the public Territories
as they could possibly be by the Wilmot
proviso. The emigration to California
was under the general impression and
; understanding that Congress would moi
, interfere to change the local Mexican
law which prohibited slavery, but would
leave the people to establish and regu'
!, late their domestic Institutions in their
own way. Congress, in fact, refused and
neglected TO establish any territorial gov
? eFhment, but left the people, who swarm
ed into that country from the grear
northern free-soil hive, to set up a gov.
eminent of their own, and admitted hel
into the Union with an anti-slavery con,
~stimioD."
"This accounts for the milk in the CO
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