Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-02-01

In our issue Of last Friday We published
the following extract which we clipped
from the Terre Haute Journal:
Judge Law said that all persons had
a right to take their ayes, az other prop
srty, into the territories and hold them
there until Territorial Legislature was
organized and laws passed by it to prohibit
slavery"
In referring TO this extract on that occa
sion We asked Mr.. Cookery to tell us
From whence do those persons get the RreBT
10 take their sleres, as other property, into the
Territories 2" The editor refuses TO re.
spond TO the interrogatory. and We now
proceed to examine further the Article in
Fridays Journal, from which the above rx
tract is taken. One part Of that article
reads follows:
JUDGE Lam took the same position in Ytla
fion to Slavery in the territories. that Douglas
fakrs He stated his position clearly and eu-
eTy bqdy rho heard him. understood him die
timely.
The JUDGE said that ell persons had q
RIGHT 10 take fk,iS siaces. as other property. in
TO The TERRITORIES and hold them there until a
Terr,tsrrai Legislature rcss organized, and
iars passed By It TO prohibit slaoery.
"he confended that The people, through their
kgqliy elected representatives. in Ihe L.oisia-
fare. had righf TO prohibit IFS intyoduc ion
iafo the Territories.
This va his position, and the doctrine
is recognized everywhere by the Deme-
cratic party"
We ask the careful attention Of the read.
er to this admission of the editor of the
Journal. He SAYS it is the docrine recog.
nised every where ty tie Democratic par
w. that The STAKEHOLDER has the right tc
take his slaves. as other property, into tbt
Territories OF course, in the absence o
all legislation on the subject. he gels tha
fright" solely and entirely from the Fed
eral Constitution. The editor must admit
this, although be now maintains digni
fed silence on the subject. Then it is
right" according to the editor of the Jour
nal, given to every STAKEHOLDER, by tn,
Constitution of the United States, to tax,
his slaves into the Territories belonging L
the General Government. This, so far, il
the pure doctrine of James Buchanan. Ii
his recent message be says:
1.-THE right has been established by ev
cry citizen to take his properly of any kind
including slaves, into the common Terri
tories, snd have it protected there, unde
the Federal Constitution"
That is, the Federal Constitution per 81
carries slavery ywbere--into all the Ter
ritories-a doctrine which the editor of tn
Journal. until last Friday, has fought witt
ali his zeal and determination. A doctrine
which, il adopted by the Democratic par
sty, John G.. Davis said. would lose it ev
cry township in the State OF Indiana
How this great great and fundamenta
change has been wrought in the mind of G
, F. Cookery at this time, we will not pre-
tend to say The editor, however. to extr
cate himsel from the consequences of thi
ner position of his. says:
"Ihe STAKEHOLDER has this right, until
Territorial Legislature pass laws to pre-
hIbit slavery therein--and the Territoris
Legislature has the right to TINS pyohib
slavery"
Was there ever two positions more i
conflict with each other! Was ther
ever so much clap-trap given to a credit
lous public.
} We now ask Mr.. Cookery. since he hs
become the advocate of the constitution;
| right Of the STAKEHOLDER to take bis slave
. into the Territories, to be good enough /
point to US, where he he finds the pows
2 in Territorial Legislature to contraven
, that right. IL Territorial Legislator
superior to the Federal Constitution 2
Can the plain provision of the Constitr
ton Of the United States be rendered null
imperative. void by any Legislative er
, sctmentf If the Stakeholder has this COT
stitutional right. is there any power ths
can take il from him Possessing thi
right under the Federal Constitution "
cannot understand how, even a Sta.s L,
gislatrre could take isaway.
IL the editor Of tho Journal will look .
the second paragraph Of the sixth articl
, of the Constitution Of the United State,
he will find that it reads as follows:
This Constitution, and the Laws Of IN
United States which shall be made IN pur
susnee thereof; and all Treaties made, Q
which shall be made. under the authorit
. OF the United States, shall be the suprem
law of the land and the Judges in ever
State shall be bound thereby, any thing i
the Constitution or laws OF any State I
the contrary discriminating"
With this clause staring US in the fac,
we ask Mr.. Cookery if . Territorial Legi.
! lsturc can contrsvene the Federal ConstItu
tionf-or. il a slave holder has the Consti
tutional right TO take his slaves into th
Territories, can be be Invested of that righl
either by Territorial or State Legislature