Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-06
slavery In the Territories.

Slaves are held we believe, in every organ
lied territory of the United States. Mr.. Doug
las boasts to his southern friends that his sort of
squatter sovereignty has established slavery
i'll New Mexico "Under this doctrine" he
says, "they have converted a tract of
free territory into slave territory, more
than five times the size of New York.
We have quoted, several times, letters
from responsible sources, which show that
slaves are held and sold in Kansas, and that
this state of things is likely to prevail, even
in that territory, until it is admitted into the
Union as a state. A letter from Nebraska
City, dated July 18th, after stating that Ne
braska is sin truth, a slave territory" proceeds
as follows
"The fact that the people of this territory,
| in the exercise of what they understood to be
popular sovereignty, have twice attempted to
prohibit slavery, and have been twice defeated,
once by a democratic legislature, and again by
the interpostion of the veto of democratic
governor, and that both the member OF the
! legislature and the governor are active sup
porters of Douglas, is practical illustration Of
the consistency of the northern wing OF that
party and an evidence of what they would
probably do had they the power in the terrific
ries. The fact that during the last eighteen
months seven slaves have escaped from their
masters, in this city, and that the power OF the
federal courts has been eXerted TO punish those
who were supposed to have aided them, should
occasion serious reflections, as the freemen of
the states are called to decide which party
1.-THE democratic or the republican, shall have
the future guardianship of this great territory.
In t,1x- tbpso 4an apd 0tharq
which might be mentioned, had time exhib-
iting the misrule, corruption, and lawlessneSs
of the democracy in the administration of
our territorial government, in their effort
| to make Nebraska, for political purposes, II
nothing else, slave state, would, If submitted
| to the people of the states, arrest their atten-
ton, and show pointedly the necessity OF In
augurating a change in our territorial pollcy;
this can be done either by stump speeches or
by publications, as the committee may deem
best. The last issue of our democratic news
paper for this city contained a notice Offering
$1,000 reward, for the return OF runaway
slaves"
The whole policy of the democratic party
in the territories has been directed to secure
the establishment of slavery. The first gov
erner sent to Nebraska took slaves with him,
and the letter we have quoted shows that eff
forts to establish the institution in that region
have been unceasing. The honor, as well as
the peace and welfare of the country, demands
a change; but the present atrocious policy of
the government, in the territories, cannot be
changed, until control of the federal authority
passes into the hands of the republicans
And be it remembered, that what we now
have in the territories is the Douglas policy
of mon intervention" and popular sovereign
ty." He framed the territorial bills, and the
governors who have vetoed the action of the
territorial legislatures against slavery, both in
Kansas and Nebraska are Douglas men. In
the face of these territorial arrangements,
made after his own direction, and in the face
of his own declaration that his policy has been
successful in spreading slavery, it must require
nerves of unusual steadiness, to repeat so of |
ten, that he proposes to have the people frame
their own institutions and manage their own |
affairs"