Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-08-11
CIuApTER OF BRECKENRIDGE.
EpFrKINRIpGI on THE KANSAS BILL.

"Did not the non slaveholaing States generally
insist that the true policy was the prohibition OF
slavery in the Territories of the Union by act OF ION
gress, and by consequence, insist upon applying this
principle to Utah and New Mexico Did not the
slaytholding States, on the contrary, planting them
selves on the ground IF FEDERAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., re-
sist this policy, and. by consequence, its adoption
and application to those Territories? And, alter a
long and fearful struggle, did not thu LATTER Doc
TElNE PREVAIL land was it not carried into law Ill
the Utah and New Mexico acts2 Did not the public,
the press, conventions, ard States, han the result as
a FINAL SETTLEMENT IN PR1NG1PLE AND SUBSTANCE, OF THE
SUBJECT OF SLAVERY ?''-tong. Club, rol. 20, p. 14l.
Who, then, by aid locating Intervention, is VIOLA
ting the compact of 1882 Who is violating the com
pact of 1854? WHO are the disturbers OF this final
settlement? Who are the agitators? Who are IN
faithful to the compromises Of 1850 and the acts of
1852 John C. Breckinri1ge and his Disunion party.
BRECKENRIDGE on SLAVERY ~ KANSAS.
"Among the many misrepresentation of the Kan
.as-Nebraska bill. perhaps none is more fragrant than
Nebraska and Kansas. Sir, if the bill contained
such a feature, IT COULD NOT RECEIVE MY VOTE The
| right to establish involves the right to prohibit, and
DENYING both ! would vote for neither. ] go further,
and express the opinion that a clause legIslating sla-
very INTO those Territories could not command one
Southern vote in this House.-ConJ. Globe, rol. 80, p.
All.
BRECKENRIDGE on TERRITORIAL POWERS.
- III IS ctntenIet on ONT manu-, upon tHt AoE VI
THE EQUALITY or THE STATES under the Constitution and
their common property in the Territories, that the
citizens of the slaveholding States may remove to
them with their slaves. (and that the local legisla-
ture cannot ~rjehtfulIy exclude slavery while in the
territorial condition but it is conceded that the
people may establish or prohibit it when they come
to exercise the power Of a sovereign state) On the
other hand, it is said that slavery being in dcroga.
ton of common right, can exist orly by force Of
positive law ; and it is denied that the Constitution
furnishes this law for the Territories and II IS fur
Their claimed that the local Legislature NAV establish
or exclude It any time after government Is orSinized.
As BOTH appeal to the Constitution and lase then
arguments on opposite constructions OF
that Instrument, THE BILL WISELY refuses To make a
question for judicial construction tie subject of leg
~islative conflict, and PROPERLY REFERS ) it to the
created by the Constitution itself for the
VERY PURPOSE OF DECIDING ALL CASES IN LAW AND EQUAL
lrr ARISING UNDER Ir."-Coag. Globe, rol. 29, p. AL.
There ia the uSMIsrAKABIE, rspEsIABIE, NcoNTRo-
evidence that, IN 1854, John c. Breckenridge
referred the power of the Territorial legislature over
slavery to the Supreme Court Precisely where
Judge Douglas has left it. He says the. CoNST1TU-
TON ITSELF WISELY and PROPERLY left all the
of law aud equity to the Judiciary. And,
in 1860, he accepts the nomination of a party pledged
70 CONGRESSIONAL IsTERvEN11oN-thereby violating his
serious, solemn construction of the Constitution in
1854.
sRECKINRIDGR's IrEA OF TIE OBJECT OF THE KANSAS BILL
"Then sir, neither tie purpose nor effect of the
oill is to leg islate slavery into Nebraska and Kansas;
out its effect is to sweep away this yestige of Con
;REss1oNAL DIcTarloy on this subject to allow the free
.itizens of this Union to erter the common Territory
With the Constitution ana the bill alone in their
lands, and TO REMIT TIE DECISION OF THEIR
UNDER BOTH To THE COURTS OF THE corSTRy.';-
7ong. Cube. rol. 20, "A.
Can language be more e~xplicit9 To remit the de.
ision of their right. USoER BOTH to the Courts
.eaying the question purely to the judiciary, and
ct as the nominee of 4 party claiming Congressional
Intervention, he accepts. Was there ever grosser in
npS,Stapcy ~