The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-07-25

! resident white male adults--inIist OF right
decide to have or not have Slavery, aud
! the votes Of q majority OF their nuiIher
must determine the issue. lfa Territory,
when it comes to form State Consttu-
ton, shall have five thousand nalc adults,
of whom four tholisard are negroes and
but one thousand whites, the Writes alone
arc to have voice in determining the
future condition of Labor in that coinmu-
nifty; and if FIVE hundred and fifty oft. csc
vote to have Slavery to four hundred and
fifty against it, the votes of these five
hundred and fifty overbear those of the
four hundred aud fifty opposed, with the
unexpressed but notorious choice of the
four thousand Blacks, making that Slave
State. And this, according 10 MIR. Doug
las, in popular Sovereignty.
So much is clear; hut when we ask Mr.
Douglas and his supporters. "What
shall be the status of a Territory with
regard to Slavery prior to such decision
of the question by its people" The an
swer elected is vague or eqpivocai. Al
first the Douglas canvassers maintained
with US that there en- be no iegaI Sla-
very an any country or district untt az
has been established or authorized there
| by some positive law-hence that every
man residing in Territory must own
| himself until some val law of that Ter
ritory Or Of Congress shall have constitu-
ted him the property Of another Under
this view, it was stoutiy and not unpaus-
bly, argued that the Kansas Nebraska
bill was an Anti Slavery ,"o"o''o ct
| Ieasr, not a Pro Slavery one. But Mr..
Douglas and his d sciples have been grad
ually. driven from this ground, and now
say that the status of the negro in any
Territory is question to be settled by
| the Federal ultimately by the
United States Supreme Court. In other
words, the mainly slavchoIding Judges
who made the Dfed Scott Decision are to
decide all questions respecting Slavery in
the Territories. How they will decide
this one, we need 90 no further than to
the bred Scott case to learn. Practical.
", therefore, though indirectly and am
biguousIy, Mr.. Douglass platform con-
ccd>s the Territories en- naaSse to Sa-
very.
III. Mr. Breckinridge's creed attains
the same end by far simpler and dir"c'
ter method. His doctrine affirms the
Equa! Rights ofthe State and their citi-
gems in the Ierritories-that is, the equal
right Of any and every STAKEHOLDER to
migrate thither with his human chattels
and demand of the Federal and local au,
thorities to protect him in their use and
enjoyment with that of any Northern cit
izen to remove tbithor with his horses, OK
en-, hogs, plows, aud wagons, and de-
maud protection in their use and enjoy
ment. Mr.. Breckenridge wants no special
law for the protection of property in
slaves; but he demands protection for
that property under the general laws
which secure to every man his own; and,
! if the Territorial authorities should neg
lect or refuse to afford this, be looks TO
the Federal Government to supply the de
ficiency.
If any one still doubts that Dong las
grant ali that is contained in the Brock
inridge creed, let him read the follow
ing
"Epery citizen has RIGHT to take
witb him into the Territory any article
Of property sohich the Constitution Of
| the United States recognizes as proper
ty.
site Constitution ofthe Uni.ea States
a \
PLEDGES The FEDERAL GOV
EMINENT 10 PROTECT IT.
| (Dred Scott Decision.)
~, in common with the Demo- racy o
Hin is, ACCEPT THE DECISION
IOF THE SUPREME COURT OF
THE UNITED STATES IN THE
DRIED SCOTT CASE. AS AN AU
THORITATIVE EXPOSITION OF
THE CONSTITUTIONS
(Stephen A. Douglas in 1858.
Douglas hero, unequivocally, gives al
the territories to slavery, and the only
Popular Sovereignty left, is the power
of territory, when IL becomes a State
to allow or prohibit slavery as it shall de
termine-a power which 10 one disputes
and concerning which there is no diviso,
Of option.
Practically there arc but two sides tt
this questionable Republican side, which
claims that Freedom is national, and TIM
slavery cannot exist in the territories I'm
, ii! established there by local law; and th'
Democratic side, advocated equally BY
Douglas and Breckenridge. which claim
that the Constitution ofitS own force, car
ries slavery into all the territories. anc
} Freedom can be established only hy spec
ial legislation. On one side or the othe
of this question every man must be ar
ranged. Is it difficult to choose?
Ew The Saltwater Democrat come
out for Breckenridge and Lane. In it
leader it says
,, tits therefore to Douglas and his friend
: that we have to ascribe the unfortunate
! o,,r ronEs Tho iIrnr1 inn