Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-02

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1859, the territorial legislature Of New Mexico
passed IAN act to provide for the protection
of property in slaves" which is as atrocous
and Internal slave code as Alabama or
Texas ever had BY this act, a colored man
found in New Mexico is TO be at once arrested,
imprisoned, and advertised for six months if
anowner appears within that term, proves prop
erty and pays charges, he may take away his
chattel if not, he is to be sold to pay the
costs so he is bound TO be slave hereafter
if he never was before. This is but a sample
OF long act, which concludes
"Sec 25 The emancipation of slaves within this
territory is totally prohibited"
This act the republicans tried to repeal last
winter, and succeeded, so far as the house was
concerned-yeas 81, (all republicans nays
| 80, IA democrats Americans, anti-Le-
| compton democrats, and Eli Thayer). The SEN
ate fcourse refused to act thereon, and let the
bill die on the table. 1t was then Mr.. Doug
las boastfully said defending the theory of
intervention to the pro slavery senatel =
"Now what has been the result? My views were
incorporated into the compromise measures of 1850,
and his Senator Dayis0 were rejected. Has the
south been excluded from all the territory acquired
from Mexico? What says the bill from the house of
| representatives now on your table, repeating the
| slave code in New Mexico, established by the peo-
pie themselves! is partof the history Of the country
that under this doctrine Of non-interUenti0n, ttS doctrine
that you delight 10 call SqUder Sovereignty, the people Of
Nelu lereO hare introduced and protected Sarery m
the irh0e of that territory. Under this doctrine they
haze concerted tract of free territory into sare territory,
than fire the size OF the state Of Nec York.
Under this doctrine Sary has been extended from the
Rio Grande to the GNfot California; and from the line
Of the republic Of 1erlco, not only up 10 80 deg ~ nm,
bta up to IS deg.-GIvING you DEGREE AND A
| HALE MORE SLAVE TERRITORY THAN YOU EVER
| CLAIMED. In 1S48 and 1919, and 1850 you only
aaked TO have the line of 36 degrees 10
| minutes The Nashville Convention fixed that
as its ultimatum. | offered ii in the senate in
] Ifulist t1V1S
/ in the house of representatives. on asked only
up to 36 deg. 30 mn and noH-interreHtion has gren
yoH Stare territory up to IS Degrees DEGREE AND
HALE MORE THAN YOU ASKED; and yet you say that
this is a sacrifice OF southern rights! These the
fruits of this principle which the senator from Mis-
sisspp regards as hostile TO the rights of the south
Where did you ever get any other fruits that were
more palatable to your taste refreshing to
your strength? What other inch Of free territory
has been converted into slave territory the Amer
| lean continent since the Revolution, except in New
Mexico and Arizona, under the principle of non in
| teryention affirmed at Charleston? If it be true
that this principle OF non-interVention has gwen to
| slavery all New Mexico, which was surrounded on
nearly every side by free territory Will not The same
principle protect you in the northern states OF Mex
leo when they acquired, since they are now sur
! rounded by slave territory; are several hundred
miles further south; have many degrees OF greater
heat: and have a climate and soil adapted TO south
products?n &c. SC, sc
With this ample testimony concerning the
practical working of squatter sovereignty, and
non-intervention where they both have been
faithfully applied, it is difficult to see how any
lieves its measures and its policy to be right,
can give his encouragement and support to the
man 1cho Uoted against annuHing that slave code,
and rho has the hdrdihood to justify that cote be-
fore the anti-slarey people Of the district ohose
confidence he has abused and outraged The Fri
bune closes its article with the following state
ment of republican doctrine :
What we republicans are resisting is the
extension Of the area wherein slaves may le-
gally be held. We ought to understand by
this time-for we have been told often enough,
that 1t makes no essential difference whether
slavery be legalized throughout our country
or only in one corner Of it; but we know
great deal better. Had slavery, as Mr. Jetfer-
son designed, never passed the limits of the
original slave states, it would have died out
ere this. Give it every ten years a new
stretch of country like Texas or New Mexico,
and 1t may last thousand years, and grow
stronger for centuries. Both sides I'M
derstands this and neither the wing nor the
party was broken up for nothing.
1t New Mexico were to come in as a state
under existing auspices, she would almost Ger
tainly be a slave state-"five times as large as
New York" Mr.. Douglas says and so
would remain for many years. She might not
have a thousand slaves, and yet be as thorough
a satrapy of the slave power as Texas or Ar
kansas. But give us tour years republican
ascendancy in Washington, and we will have
slavery out of her (tor it was put in by federal
influence and PATRONAGE and probably have
her in the Union as a free sta,e, along with
Kansas and Nebraska, before the end of MIR.
I1incoln's term. Champions Of free labor
the stakes of this contest are empires! Woe
TO you, ii through apathy or lethargy you lose
them