New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-16

time against the BILL Thus it will be seen the Sena-
tor from Mississippi objected to the bill because it
did not contain prohibition In tne Territory
against their leeislating adversely TO Slavery. He
wished the Territorial Legislature to have power to
protect but not to prohibit. That was his position,
and he Mr. Dougas gave him credit for consistency
lie (Mr. Dougas) wished to give the :, ierron u.
Legislature power TO leglsate leaving an KINGS o,
property on an equal footing; but the Senator from
Mississippi desired exception az to Slavery 10 tne
effect that they might protect, but should mol ADOPT
unfriendly legislation. Mr.. Pugh then read Mr.;
Gys reply to Mr. Davis There Mt via Cav De end the
Senator from Mississippi the latter claiming that Con-
gress should provide for the shareholders to go into the
Territory, and hold his property in defiance OF the
local law. Mr.. Clay said he would never agree to
against the repeal of the Mexican laws against slav-
cry and was against any act that would deprive the
people of the Territory of the right of deciding for
themselves whether they would have Slavery or not
In other words Mr.. Clay supported and sustained
every act which the Senator from Mississippi
brings in judgment against me now except one vote
which gave under Instructions tbs debate shows
clearly that the Compromise measures Of 1850 were
intended to assert the doctrine of n0n-intervention
leaving the people to do they pleased, so they did
not violate the Constitution.
Mr.. PUGII read further from the debates.
Mr.. DOUGLAS proceeded: These extracts will show
that the issue precisely as have stated. Mr. Clay
answered the objection about there being two consruc
tons to this doctrine of noninteryention. He was for
non-nterventon by Congress, and no restriction
upon the Territorial Legislature, then leaving to
the Court to decide whether the Territorial enact
Inents were constitutional or not. That the posi-
ton of Mr.. Clay, the champion of those measures.
The Senator from Mississippi asserted hsrght to go, in
violation of the local law. The Senator modified his
amendment but did not change the principle, and it
was rejected. Then Mr. Chase offered the counter
part that while the Territories might prohibit they
could not protect or tolerate. That was rejected by
precisely the number of votes as the proposition
Of the Senator from Mississippi am compelled to do
In this connection something / dislike to quote from
my own speech to show held the same position then
now.
MI PUGH read extracts from the speeches of Mr..
Douglas also extracts from the speech OF Gen. Cass
in opposition TO the amendments Of Messrs. Davis and
Chase.
Mr. DOUGLAS resumed. Having thus rejected the
two propositions that record shows that Mr.. Douglas
moved to strike out all in the bill concerning Slavery,
go the, people Of the Territory might 40 as they
subsequently, at the suggestion of Mr.. Clay by MIR.
Norris of New Hampshire was carried BY vote OF
80 to 10, thus rejecting the doctrine of the Senator
from 1 Ws a we DO
sustained Il then, as do now; and he fought 1t gal
lanty but he defeated and my proposition became
the 6asis of these measures Congress adjourned lm-
mediately after the passage of those measures, in
the midst Of terrific excitement, North and South.
Northern editors iniamed the passions of the people
by making them believe these measures were for the
extension of Slavery, and Southern men nfianed the
passions of the people there, making them think they
State to make my vindlcation to my people The coun'
try knows that history as recorded, and the mode in
which was received The City Council OF Chicago,
which was filed with Aboitionsts, had passed resolu
tons annulng the Fugitive Slave Law. The standard
of rebellion raised public passion was iniamed
and civil war was anticipated by every man.
1t was not a peasant task for me to 60 INTO
public meeting thus infamed, ana tell
a. tlo had hoe ya1
the character of these measures TO tell them
that the Fugitive Slave Law was rght-requred by
the Constitution and ought to be supported that the
Compromise measures were founded upon correct
principles History records the fact that met that in.
furated populace Of honest and intelligent but msled
and misguided men, and / defended each and every
one of these beforethat people, and procured
from them resolution that the Fugitive Slave Jaw
should be executed, and the Compromise measures
stand This was done under circumstances when my
best friends warned me that my life would pay the
forfeit.
Mr. PUGH read from. Mr.. Douglass Chicago
speech
Mr.. DOUGLAS-I submit that ihat speech, made
under those circumstances, half ntilioneeopies of
which Were circulated and which received a wider
circulation than any speech made in my whole life-l
submit whether il is right TO charge me with having
asserted for the first time at Freeport, in 1885 that
tie people of Territory ought to decide this ques-
ion for Themselves. told the people of Chicago
then that every people ought to possess the right to
manage their own domestic concerns, in their own
way. The people Of the State possessed the
power, and the people of the Territory ought to
have it. The Legislature of Illinois was elected
few weeks afterward, and when they assembled
they passed resolutions approving these Compromise
measures of 1880 Thus, sir, was sustained in my
appeal to my own people, in justification OF my
sipp. How was it with his appeal to his people!
The country has not forgotten, and will not forget,
with what anxiety all Americans looked TO Mis-
sirpi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, to
know whether or not these submissions were to
be sustainep aud the Union caved, or whether the
idea then proclaimed and now held by the Senator
from Mississippi would become the rule of action in
the Southern States. knew not what he meant,
but the country believed that the fate of the Union
depended on the result in those States. | do not
doubt the attachment of the Senator to the Union,
or his devotion to his country, but L believe
had he been sustained in his appeal to the
people, the Union could not have been preserved.
Gen. Foot the standard-bearer of the friends of
the Compromise measures, and the world knows the
result. Mississippi decided against the Senator She
rebuked this doctrine, and placed her foot upon
ed by the same body of men who so lately
attempted to break up the Charleston Conven-
ton and Alabama ike Mississippi told Mr.. Yates to
obey the laws and acquesce in their great principles
In Georgia the battle ragged fercey, and the Senator
from that State Mr.. Toombs) viii bear testimony
he had to form union of Union men against the
opponents of these measures, and when the cleo
ton came, Georgia decided in favor of the COM
promise measures by about 2l,OOO minority. The
opponents themselves became submissioniss
in turn but they submitted by eompulsion of their
people. SO in South Carolina the Rhetts led the
forces against these measures, and the gallant and
patriotic Butler, although he opposed the measures
here fell il his duty to sustain the authorities, and
South Carolina decided against these men who are
going to break parties and Unions on this ques-
ton of intervention. Here you have the verdict
of the American people North and South in favor of
this doctrine of non-interyention and the Southern in.
10 bod ataI
came to the conclusion they would submit. We said
TO them " Although You have erred on this question.