Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-10-20

court ia favor of the right The agreement was,
that Congress should n9t legislste slavery into or
out of the territories, but leave the people free to
do in regard to it whatever they pleased and could,
subject 10 the COnsttEtion Of the United States No one
proposes to ask Congress to LegisIats SLAVERY into
territory What as claimed is wholly another thing
that, when Congress not having legislated the
Supreme Court shall have held that We haUs the
tight, under The Constitution, and without or even
sgaiast legislation, to carry slaves there and
keep dispose of them there without let or hind
rance, then Congress shall protect and enforce that
right neeessary, by proper legislation. If it does
not do that, it ought to abdicate.
The court can not enforce the right except in the
single case or The cases before it It may decide that
the right exists. in case where the consequences ia
simple recovery of money. The suit though the
matter occurred in Kansas, may be brought in Ken
lucky. Wherever whenever, or however il arises
so soon as the Supreme Court. having jurisdiction,
and possessed lawfully of the question, finally and
authoritativey decides IT, the right Of all States
is complete insist that The right, settled, shall
be protected
Il ia said that the Supreme Court has not settled
that territorial legislature cannot interfere with
slavery. Mr.. REvERDY JOHNSON. nomeH nlGgnHm
ct eLdrum says that that question not argued il
the bred Scott case Clearly it was not, as a dis
tiuct question, since the exercise of no such power
had intervened to affect that BUTT does not
need that one should be great lawyer TO know that
paris. Mr., Douglas well understood that, when be
said 10 the South, ''f you HAVE the CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHT yoa claim no poesr court take It from
yOu." That vas simple logical propagation.
Find that the right claimed is right, aad CoHsti-
tuttonol one, and no power on earth can take 1t
away.
The Supreme Court found and decided exactly
that; and so found all it's consequences The only
one Of these consequences applicable TO the case
then before il was that Congress could not diTesi
the right; and so the court determined that, and
stopped Reducing its decision to a formula, it
was this: " The right exists, and Is constitution
al right. Therefore and without need of any other
reason it cannot be Invested By GAy power. From
which major impossbiity Of diVesture by any power
on earth results this minor, included in il, that
Congress cannot digest it; which is the precise
question in this case" That's the bred Scott de-
oison, it seems to me. Is Is not the other minor
e4ualiy ircluded-tbat territorial Legislature can
not?
1t is very evident, that to authorize an accidental
majority of legislature elected BY the residents Of
territory, to abolish slavery by ordinary legis-
Gtive act, would operate its almost total exelu-
sion The struggle to obtain or annnl that majority
would be iucessant during every moment Of the ex-
sleuce Of the territory; and no holder of many
slaves would, if he were sane, embark in p anting,
where his property and the fruis Of his labor were
TINS to be always in jeopardy
If the theory Of squatter sovereignty should be es-
tabished IS accurate exposition Of the Conetiu-
tiou and the settled policy of the Country, it will
be idle for the south TO expect any future addition
to the number of slave States Let this be the settled
policy aud II will needs have great and often con-
,rolling influence upon the action of the South in
regard 10 many matters Of national coucSrn-Will
greatly sway il in the decision to peace and war,
and perhaps mperil the national honor; as to the
acquisition of territory, the creation Of terri
torisl governn ents expenditures for the territories
exnguiShment Of Indian titles, the authorizing ter
riores to take steps to become States Continually
the slavery question will Obtrude itsefino Congress-
and i. will be fouud-as in like it always has
been found-Ghst men cannot avoid blinking it, nor
get lion out Of their path by shutting their eyes
and trying 10 couyince Themselves that he is no
longer there. There can be 10 nOH-inttrUcntiOI by
Congress without tervenlcn by the territorial
legislatures The South asks FOR bread and squster
sovereignty offers it 8 stone Agitation in the ter
ritories will create agitation in Congress- and the
doctrine NJ popular sovereignty aid the principle Of
non-interVentiOn cannot exist together.
Then another step will be taken. The principle
of popular sovereignty viii be applied to the District
Of COumbis. Whj not All Mr. DOUGLAS glitter
ing generaIies will apply quite well there they
did to Kansas; snd it will be go easy, with little
aid from the treasury, TO send down thither. out Of
the sWarmiug northern hive voters enough settle
The question a Republican Congress desires.
Then, cn the same principle that the Constitution
does not carry slavery any where and that the laws
of State from which a man emigrates de not follow
him, protect his rights beyond the limits Of tho
State, it will bye and bye be concluded that no
compensation shall be demanded for slaves taken BY
foreign nption II Congress is poWerless to pra-
vent the abolition Of the lawful tenure which holds
the slave to labor, WhCn he is in the common ter
TitOry, how it assert the validity Of that tenure
against foreign enemy who sets free the slave on
he high seas
Then it will come to be held that slave escaping
into territory where slavery longer exists, eau
not be reclaimed but Is frte-the Constitution TT
quiring Sat,s only to give up such fug'ives II The
PeoPie Of teTTOry abolish SlGrery, Stare taking
refuge there Is free and sefs he UOWIG be in Eng
land; and so q territory or province effect tEa!
which a sovereign State cannot Why will southern
men, blinded by their Admiration of man, net le-
fleet On the logical consequences If his doctrine?
These are my opinions; and compelled by them,
regard it sacred duty to vote for no candidates
who do not, at least in the main, them their
creed. -.-
should have preferred 10 postpone the considera
tiOn of this question vnil the Republican party had
been broken up; and would have been disihclined
to see it stirred at Charleston But it has been
raised, and being raised nothing remains for Us
but to meet and settle it | cannot cay it VS. not
tcselv raise3 cannot say il was cot nec,stqry to
RMS 1t II Is very possible thst II had been tEeTa.
and had en1eavOred to postpone it, should have
committed an error. let that all pass, as poS Of
no importance. Great questiOUs for the most psyt
f3rce Themselves upward aRd compel present consider
alton
At any rate, this question ia not an abstraction.
In he time Of Dir Polk, The NortS refused TO ex-
tend the Missouri line to The Pacific, and prohibited
slavery in tina; territory by avowed and ostenta-
tlous e1ercIs, OF the power claimed uuder he Con-
siiutiOn 10 do 50. Then be question Of nr rights
in the territories ceased TO be abstraction and be-
came Ire question Kansas has by an act of her
Hat n IN
slavery there. Is it an abs Isctian whether those
laws shall standR The House Of Representatives
lately passed bill TO aGnul the acts of the New
Mexican legislature which gives protection to sla-
very. L. that abstraction?
= Declaration Of Rights, or amendments, ap-
pended 10 the Federal Constitution were in large
m Assure distractions; and yet the States insisted
upon them as the condition Of their adoption Of the
Constitution. Parties and churches divide upon ab-
strsctions, die for them and States set armieI
in the field for them; and If these doctrines we're
distractions, still it would be most wise for the
southern States to halt here and demand that they
be distinctly settled nog, that they may know what
measures to adopt in order TO make it sure that the
common veal hall take no Geriment Therefore
look, and | think tho South ought to look to see
what candidates it has, volta for whom she will
for her creed
find those candidates in JOHN C. BREDxINRIpGE
and JOSEPH LANE; and in them onyi and 30 | can
not choose but vote for them l. wound not be true
TO say that would ag readily vote for MIR. LINCOLN
as for Mr.. DOUGLAS. Passion, which alone could
produce such remark, is its only Qualification But
am ready to say that, between the two doctrines
would rather vote for the rover Of Congress to pro-
hbt, than for the power Of territorial legislature
10 do 60. Yet many true southern men think the
doctrine Of Hr. DOUGLAS sound and wise and sufi
cient fer the South. We shall, bye and bye | hope
convince them Of their error; but 10 the mean time
let US not be so unjust to ceusure or reproach
them, impeaching their motives, or charging them |
9th diSlOyalty.
My eyes rest next with affection and regard on
The candidates presented by that ,itica org.ni.-
alton, which inscrbes its banners these words |
' The C0HstutroH The UGiOR and the enforesmsnf of |
he La~8 That Is The mJuO thank God OF all |
parties ard of almost all men, in this great Republic
Maintain the CONSTITUTION uniu paired aud who |
$ there that wishes TO see The JNIoN di,salreJ
Whist hoseH man is there that is not Wilin, to .es
he laws enacted in conformity 10 the Constitution
enforced and obeyed? All doctrines, Of al shades
hat have made themselves heard in our country
rave claimed to spring from the Constitution and
I'll Iartles may swear allegiance to the flag that
otaTs this motto, So Catholics and Pro.es,nnts Of
very sect night to hspner inscribed with the
leVice; " The Bible, Christianity, aud the observ
Lnce Of the Moral Law"
John Bell and Edward Everett az names we'll wor-
by TO be honored every Fhtre in this Republic Illus
rious alike by pqthc SERVICES and private worth.
10Th have served their country well and faithfully
md honestly, and the latter more nobfy than has