The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1861-02-20

latitude $3.50, outside the Stats Of Missouri
The same was done under Mr.. Folks admins
tration, as to the territory of Oregon; and again
in 1850, Texas was dismembered, and part of
her territory, and Of that acquitted from Mexico
consccrated to free-soil, and the citizens of the
Southern States forbidden to enter them with
their property. We have been told that these
enactments were unconstitutional, and therefore
null and void, as decided III the Dred Scott case ;
and hence we should not complain. But think
we have so much the greater reason for COM
plant for slavery is species of property that
will not encounter hostile Legislation, even when
unconstitutional; and therefore We have been
deprived of our rights by the bad faith Of our
confederates, through violated compact.
Again, we are told that slavery is the creature
of local law. and that II cannot exist for day or
an hour. where il is not established by the Ter
loci So it is not property, and therefore enti-
tied to no protection in the territories. This is
the specious argument Of Mr.. Douglas, whereby
he gave much 'aid and comfort to the Black
Republicans in the last Presidential canvass.
And know that there are some loose dieta of
Judges that squint that way, and some Northern
courts have in effect so decided; but undertake
boldly to assert here, in the face Of so great
man as Mr.. Douglas, that there is no respectable
authority for such doctrine and that II is ut
terly contrary to the facts of history. And
now offer premium Of a Perter button to any
body that viii produce a statute in any one of
the slave States of this Union establishing
slavery The statutes of all those States recog-
nize and regulate it as an existing institution,
just as they recognize and regulate property in
horses, cattle, or anything else So far from
this doctrine being true, may safely assert that
slavery exists by the universal common law of
all nations and all ages, Gf Imay so express iD
and that IL will go, If climate and soil permit,
wherever il is not expressly prohibited by law.
If il were otherwise, how does it happen that in
all those countries and States, both in Europe
and America, which have fallen prey to negro
philism, it has been found necessary to have ex-
press statutory or constitutional prohibitions Of
the peculiar institution Are they not afraid
that the common law would afford some remedy
for infringing Shareholders rights ! doubt if
statute can be found in the world, expressly
establishing slavery; while thousands can be
found dealing with it as a fact-as an existing
institution.
But It is said IL will rerish withoutlocal police
regulations to protect it. Admit it. Neither
can any other species Of property exist without
the protection of law. Suppose, for instance,
Mississippi should repeal all her laws for the
protection of gold, and expose it to the depre-
dations of the thief the robber, the swindler,
and the dishonest debtor; how long would that
peculiar species Of property remain in the State
Or suppose her people were to be seized with a
fanaticsm against mules, and should place all
property in them beyond the pale of legal pro-
tection-how long would it require to clear the
State of this animal,-th negTo's help-mate
There would not be one left at the end Of forty
days.
This idea, that slavery alone needed local reg
ulations, was another of Mr.. Douglas hobbies,
to bolster up his heresy of squatter sovereignty,
and has been advanced by the Black Republ-
cans as justifable cause for excluding us from
the territories. But they go further than all
this, and deny that property in slaves can exist
anywhere, because they allege that no govern
mcnt can authorize one man to hold his fellow
being in bondage, as being contrary to that
'highcr law" which they profess to have discov-
cred, but which has no existence except in their
own diseased brains. And in pursuance of this
"higher law" policy, the abolition fanatics have
waged perpetual war upon our rights, and in the
last forty years have succeeded in excluding us
from five-sixths of all the public territories
thus defraudng us of our just rights, and de-
grading ms into position Of inferiority and in
equality in the Union. And at length this party
gained strength, until it was enabled to seize the
executive department Of the government and
was grasping after all the other departments
with certainty Of soon getting them into its
polluted hands, with the expressed and deter
mined purpose of driving us from every foot of
the common territory now owned, or hereafter
to be acquired. And when we complain Of
these deliberate, persistent and monstrous out
RACES, and determine to withdraw from Union
and dissolve partnership in which such injus-
tice has been done us in the past, and is premcd-
itated in the future, we are coolly told,-"Nol !
you, Alabama, Mississippi, &C., shall not secede
you shall remain in the Union at the point Of
the bayOnet If necessary yon shall contribute
your full share Of money to purchase foreign
| territory; you shall bear your part Of the bur
dens, and pour out your full share of blood, to
carry on wars Of conquest, in order to extend
the public domain but when it is all acquired,
not one foot of it shall you poSsess-we intend
to appropriate all these acquisitions, for which
you spent your blood and your treasure, to our
own purposes, and you shall be confined to what
you have You shall labor and toll, but not
enjOyi'' E. sl-aa'a
If these States had not seeded promptly, at
every hazard, would they not have deserved the
scorn and contempt Of all nstionsi And will
the other slave States remain in the Union. to be
''hewers Of wood and drawers Of watery' We
shall see. SIGMA.
ARxAeEDDox AT HAND.-The Rev Mr. Baxter.
an English divine, lectused in Washington, on
the 23d ult, on '-the awful national ealamities
prOphesied to be impending and the coming Of