Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-11-23

alike will unhesitatingly bow 10 the decision
from timo to time Of that august tribunal i
# the Judges of that Court were intended t
ovsrrulc the madatss Of tie people, anu not Il
Iecide points Of ian. Who does not know
tLot those who now sit on the bench OF tina
Court are men, resembling all other men, II
flat they have some political jiaS, and in tia
,bcv must die in their proper times and DC sue
crcded by other men who may have 2Hite
d;tsrent political bias, because they vii! haV'
hcen appointed under quite different polltica
onsnices Another maintains, that the doc
trine of Popular Sovereignty in the Terrltorle"
must ultimately prevail; as if children IN
stote of t%utilage and maintained at the charg'
Of n trust.estate were competent 10 proscrib'
and exclude the personal property and effect:
If nearly onc.half Of the guardians and leGa
trustees of that very industrial farm on whIcf
those children are undergoing an expensive
training for selfgovernment, which IS TO DeS''
only when they shall have reached the state o
manhood; or, as if the necessary consc
ouencc Of that doctrine were not, as we unhesi
t~atiugly affirm it to be, that the poIysainy o
Mornonism is proper and lawful in Utah, be
ccause it is an institution which Popular Sove
reicnty has there established, and which tho
| letter Oh lUp LUIS llllItIDi VI lilc IlIlcu .Nlltts
in no wise i0rbids. No, no, good people Of the
procrastinating, temporizing style Of mind,
such expedients for putting off the day Of de-
cision are Too late. You may cry peace, peace,
but there is no peace. The doctrine Of Popu
lar Sovereignty in the territories Is simply
the device Of an agitutor. 1t makes every or
ganized territory Z sectional battle ground, :
soil from which a root Of bitterness shall spring
up to trouble us. We are weary Of emigration
societies which undertake to supply Bibles AM
Sharpe's Revolvers, and which produce John
Browns as the children of such unblcsScd anal
galnation. We are weary Of hearing o! the
Duchess Of Sltherland's interest in bleeding
Kansas. and OF the contributions Of the late
Lady Byron to the good cause in that terrific
~. Time was, within our brief memory, when
the great Andrew Jackson objected strcnuously
TO the peaceful Bank Of the United States, that
it was L political corporation IN which .j"'ttgn'
erS nere simple shareholders. Have we not
greatly aegencrated from his times and his
temper, if wc permit longer continuance OF i
sectional controversy which enlISts the int
rest and commands the pccuniary aid OF noble
foreigners, male and female, who really have
scope enough for charity at home:
Some distinguished lawyers seem TO be much
exercised in mind as 10 the kind Of law by
which slave property shall be governed in L
territory which may not have already passed
laws for the regulation Of the same rs rccog-
niZed property within its borders. " must
confess that we have never before heard OF
lawyers who dcplorcd the wide range which
litigation Of my kind might take. Let no one
however he disturbed in mind On this account.
The great lawyers will do llmo'I>iy on cases o!
appeal to Washington from the territories, IN.
less those territories snail speedily cut oil this
source Of profit by passing simple and sensible
provisions, securing TO the master Of the slave
all possible benefit from his ScrvitudaS, and to
the slave, all comfort and advantage not IN
consistent with his obligation 10 that scrvitudc.
The obvious duty Of each aE'l every territory,
To which shareholders may 1t any time eln:.
crate, is to secure the happiness OF It's whole
population by such legislation rs shall make
the relation Of the slave to his master approxi'
mate as closely rs possible to the relation Of a
child to its parent.
This necessary sanction Of slavery by terri
tories, is, however, the very issue which has
been raised between New England and the
South; and We are, therefore, thrown back upon
the simple question Of relative strength hc-
tween the two sections which mhappilr arc at
open variance in our day. Mr.. Seward himself
is with US, that is 10 say, Of our mind, as IN tho
lopclesSncss Of all attempts to Sa!vc over our
difficulties, for he says: " lnvc reached 4
point where, amid confusion, bcw!lderment
and mutual rccrimirations. it seems alike i'm
possible TO 90 toward or 10 return
In discussing the question Of Tic '~'rclativc
strength" Of the respective parties to the "ir'
r.nrcssible conflict the author furnishes Il
tionS:
If New England is dissatisfied with that
Constitution, and If she must for conscience
sake have violence doac to its plain meaning,
let her seccde. But where will she go: 10.
wards what greater body will she g~ravitatc If
ter she shall have discovered herself from our
great Confederacy? She is not L sclfsupport.
ing country like old England. She does not,
she cannot raise her own bread. She has no
coal except in Rhode Island; and the pccnliari-
t. of Rhode Island coal is that It will not burn.
She needs wool and she needs cotton, day by
day, to keep her population employed in pro-
ductivc industry; and in respect to the produc-
ton Of wool, she does not at all compare with
| that great kingdom Whose Chancellor sits on Il
wool.snck, whilst she resembles that kingdom
in her necessity OF haring Slave-grown cotton.
IF her prcjudices against the peculiar iRstliu-
ton arc so strong that s1e must depart from
| the Confederation which sanctions that instltu-
ton. let her prepare herself 10 follow tho cx-
ample of Tyre and SidOn IN the days @! King
| Herod, viz: to make her peace with the female
| successor of George the Third, and to secure
some female Blastus. solne lady Of the bed
chanbcr-the Duchess Of Sutherland, for ca
! amnlc-as her friend ut court, in order that The
land of the Pilgrim Fathers may he annexed
to a land Of bread and fuel, and be nouriShcd
BY the Queens country, that il to say. by
Canada, and the British Provinces.
Gentle reader, we have no prcjudices against
New England. nor against her people. We
spend some weeks Of every summer in Idle,
l~stlcss ruulination upon the wonderful develop
ments which New Englandars have made out
of no other resources than their w ~ceaScIcSs
industry and indonlitablc energy. We stick
our umbrella into the ground there, and at the
| drnth of about an inch 1t comes upon solid
rock. There is no soil. and rs for the sub soil,
it is what biologists term a primary formation.
| We uet into Il railway car and are borne at
thirty miles an hour amidst houiders which
cover great tracts Of land, and which GrecIan
mythology would have pointed ont as evidence
of n vast amount Of stone.lhrowing amongst
the giants and men of renown which were of
old, We wonder WHO could have have con-
ccivcd the iden, and above all, who could have
subscribed 10 the stock of the railroads which
traverse the interior Of sucha country. WepaSs
from the tracks ofthe roads Thus constructed for
local accommodation, to the main seabnard line,
from Boston 10 Portland. We See lots Of grass,
n COOL many potatoes, but no grain, except
b~tckwheat We inquire what becomes Of the
grass, and are told that few Of the inhabitants
oi the land require n servant, but that every
man above the grade Of a common laborer,
must have Il horse In drict. We inquire how
the land pays for the bread and flesh which It's
inhabitants require from States that have been
more highly favored in respect to soil and eli:
mate; how it pays for its iucI, domestic ana
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