Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-09-11
Mr.. Bells Position on slavery Exton-
sion.
LFom tho Missouri Democrat.

ERcpnblshed and endorsed by the Richmond Whig.1
The result of theSkentucky election and
the impulse thereby given to the Bell and
Everett movement, render it proper that
the opinions OF Bell on the slavery oucs-
ton should he fully and correctly made
known TO the publie. Nor is this II diff
cult task. lie has served in Congress and
Cablnetsi he participated in the great con-
troversies of '50-54. His record is there
fore extensive. and, judging from letter
OF his, recently written and published, he
refers to it with pride, and confidently in
vitesits inspection. We think it will be
found, on examination, that he is decid-
ed pro-slavcry man; that his opinions on
the slavery question are identical with
those professcd by the Breckenridge De-
mocracy, and not Mt all with those which
were held by Clay and the Wing party -
True, lie is not an agitator of that ques-
ton, and thnt is the sole difference be-
tween him and the Southern Democracy.
Neither does he countcnance Clisunion nor
treason of any kind. His policy is to pro-.
tect and extend slavery within the Union,
without contemplating the alternative of
secession in the event of that policy being
frustrated.
The protection and extension of slavery
within the Union is the platform on which
great debate on the compromise measures
of 1850, he argued that slavery is right in
itself and bencfccnt in it's operations aud
results; that the powers and resources of
the Confederacy would not be half what
they are, except for slave labor; and
that the institution is in harmony with the
laws of nature, and has prevailed in all
ages and countries. This is sufficiently
explicit. Indeed the force of language
can no farther go in pancgyrizing the in
stitution. But we have also an emphatic
avownl of the Calhoun theory, (now the
speciality OF the Southern or Breckenridge
Democracy On the "Constitutionul rights"
of slavery in the Territories. In tue same
speech, Mr.. Bell affirms that the "sound-
ness of the doctrine that the Constitution
carries slavery PRoPRlo vIGoRE into the
Territories; that the flag of the Union pro-
tocts the citizen in the enjoyment Of his
rights of property of every description,
recognized as such in any of the States,
on every sea, and in every Territory Of
the Union," cannot be successfully i'm
peached.
"That the foregoing is no inadvertent
assertion, no rhetorical flourish, but ma
tured opinion is shown 10y tue Senator's
vote on the Kansas Nebraska bill four
| years later.
Con the 18th of February, 1854, that
bill being before the Senate, Mr.. Douglas
moved by way of amendment, to insert
the following, containing the very virus
and deadly tangs of The disastrous mens-
ure: which (the Missouri Compromise)
being inconsistent with the principles of
non-intervcntion by Congress with slavery
in the States and Territories, as recognized
BY the legislation of 1850 Commonly
called the Compromise measures) is hereby
declared inopcrdtire and roid'
These are the words in which the Mis- J..
souri, Compromise was abolished, and
John Bell, of Tennessee. voted for their
adoption and their incorporation in the
bill, rs well ns Atcheson, Gcyer and Doug
las. As Bell has never accepted squatter
sovereignty, his vote on thnt occasion was
necessarily cast in conformity with the
Southern Interpretation of the principle of
the Kansas-Ncbrask@ bill; in other words,
i'll conformity with the declaration quoted
above which he had made four years pre-
viously.
These facts speak for themselves. We
have no comment to make on them farther
than to presume the utter impossibility of
any Republican or Benton Democrat
voting for the man who himself voted for
the abrogation of the Missouri Compro-
mise, and who declares that the Constitu-
tion establishes slavery in all the Terrific
ries. We grant that Bell voted against the
Kansas-Ncbraska bill on its passage, but
lie did so because it gave aliens the same
privileges as natives in the New Terrific
ries-o circumstance whtsh has no sort of
relation to his position on the slavery,
question. f@l. e.Ess'
INcnEAsE OF THE PRuss1AN ROYAL. FAM
IIIY.-F5AFOn |Vnn (Iar0lts N. Il prtJ1 f0t
Minister, had formal audience of the
Prnsident TODAY: nj ,rhirh he nnnnmncnd