The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-08-09

"hV Suco'oheA"iiy Siuu'uiOt III tHc
compromise measures of that year.
This was effected by excluding the
Willnot Proviso from the acts organi-
zing the Territories of New Mexico
and Utah; substituting provision that
each when admitted as State, should
be received into the Union with or
without Slavery as its Constitution
should prescribe" (thus leaving them
free to establish slavery in the mean
time, as they have established it, and
further providing for appeals to that
same Federal Supreme Court, from the
Territorial Courts, of " all cases in
volving title to slaves;" a provision
never before foisted into any act for the
organization or government of Terri
tory, and without which, as we shall
by and by see, that Court can haze
no Jurisdiction Of any question
Of the legality or Constitutionality
Of Territorial Slavery.
Those portions of the apostate " de-
mocracy" which had voted for Van
Buren, and Taylor in ls48, were Sc
duced by their lust for "spois," or
frightened by pro-slavery threats of
"dis,nion," back into the ranks of the
party in the canvass of 1852, and with
the aid of large bodies of apostate
Wings, secured the election of Pierce
over Scott by the votes of all the States
Of the Union except four.
Emboldened by this result thus OBJ
tanned, Douglas determined to become
himself the nominee of his party for
the election of 1856, and believing
himself sufficiently strong in the free,
resolved to secure the slave States by
substantial adoption in full of the
ultra pro-slavery dogmas that the Con
stitution carries slavery into every
Territory, that Congress has no Con-
stitutional power to prohibit it in any,
and that the Supreme Court has by the
Constitution exclusive jurisdiction OF
all questions relating to its establish
ment in Territory and, of course,
that the people of a Territory cannot
Constitutionally exclude it therefrom
He had partially already adopted these
heresies, in the unprecedented provis
ions of the New Mexico and Utah
Territorial acts giving the Federal Su
preme Court appellate jurisdiction ot
all cases arising in the Courts of those
Territories involving titles to Slaves
as heretofore mentioned; thus conced
ing the Constitutional existence o
slavery in Territories and the Consti
tutional power of the Federal Supreme
Court to decide in favor of such slavery
in all cases in which it should be denied
In order not to weaken himself and
party in the Free States, it wa:
necessary that the full adoption of the
heresies by himself and adherents
should be eouert and under cfrcum
stances to enable them to interpose
III Free States the plausible denials o
the adoption, and Reputation of th'
heresies, in case his political necessitie:
required.
1t was therefore determined that thu
adoption should be in the form of al
incorporation into the Kansas and Ne
braska acts, of that proslavery pro
vision of the New Mexico and Utal
acts above noticed, along with Con
gressional declaration of the nulity o
the Congressional prohibition of Terri
torial slavery embraced in the =" Mis-
souri, COMPROMISED and that this
adoption should be coated over ant
concealed from the Northern eye will
another provision which could be plau
sibly claimed to give to the people o
Kansas and Nebraska respectively tn
right of determining for themselve
whether Territorial slavery should b.
admitted or excluded. Douglas a
Chairman of the Territorial Committee
accordingly embodied in each of tn
Kansas and Nebraska acts (Which ar
exactly alike except in Territorial nam
and boundaries) the provision givin!
the Federal Supreme Court, suprem
power for protecting and SUSTAINING
slavery in both Territories (; and"
declaration that the prohibition G
Territorial slavery in the Missoul
, Compromise act, els imperative an
void;'' and in connection with thi
another declaration in the followin
language of the stump demagogue:
cit being the true intent and NEAR
: ing of this act not to legislate SLAYER
. into any Territory or State nor to e,
clude it therefrom, but to leave tt
people thereof perfectly free TO for,
and regulate their domestic institution