The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1861-04-19

1861, they have at last by a unanimous
vote in both Houses been able to organ
ize every foot Of territory the United
States now possess, on the principle of
no,.- intervention as affirme,. IN the cons
promise measures of 1850, and the Kan
sas-Nebr aska bill of 1854 | know it will
be a proud day when the Ser ater from
Kentucky is enabled to say that to the
people of Kentucky. Being one of those
who distinguished himself SO much by
his eloquence in defense of the Kansas.
Nebraska bill as embodying the true
principle, he cannot fail to rejoice when
he finds Colorado, Nevada, and Dakota,
incluping every foot of unorganized terri
tory we now possess. organized on the
inentical principle, and in the identical
language, SO far as the power of the ter
ritotial legislature is concerned. There
may be a question as TO the construction
of this bill, as there was in regard to the
construction cf the Nebraska bill, for the
courts to decide; but those new territo>
ries have been organized in the identical
language of the bill that Kentucky, and
Virginia, and Tennessee and North Caro-
lima, and every Southern State have re-
peatedIy indorsed So far, therefore, as
these States are concerned, they cannot
complain. They have got all they claims
ed, and, AS to the explanation our Re
publican friends will give to the North
ern people, | shall wait to see. If they
acknowledge the truth frankly, shall say
they have proved themselves good patriots
by preterling truth to policy, preferring
right to political expediency; that SO far
as this question is concerned bygones are
bygones; ana | will stand ty them as
long as they stand by the doctrines of the
Neb raska bill.
Then, sir according to law, the slave
holding States have got equality in the
territories. How is i: in fact? The Sen
ator from Kentucky tells US that the
Southern States must have one of two
things: either the right to take into the
territories their slaves on terms Of equal
ity with other property, or in lieu Of that,
an equitabe partition Of the territories
! have shown that they haYe got the right
in all the territories. Now, propose to
show that they have got the actual equita-
bic partition, giving them more than they
u sre disposed TO demand.
The Senator from Kentucky, now no
longer h,rs-I f0ean the ilustrions Sen
stor, Or. Cri;tandal1 whose eioaaent
voice closed his public Ite by "a exhibition
of patriotism lh=t Hi!l cause eycry Amari
can nea,t TO ihrnD as .onr rs oar pos.eliiy
may read his bistory~- senator from Ky +,
Mr. Crittenden, made a proposition for an
equitable partition. That proposition was,
that north OF $3.50 slavery should be pro
hbi.ed, and South of it should be pro
tected by territorial Law. keu1ucky in,
dorsed that proposition Virginia North
Carolina, Tennessee,-l believe every one
of the slave States now remaining in the
Union, except Mary land-indorsed the
Crittepden proposition; and MARYLAND
would have endorsed it, unquestionahIy ov
unanimous vote, if she had not been in
that unfortunate predicament which the
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Breckenridge
called yoiceless." But, sir, she was moi
voiceless. Her silence in Yielding obedi
ence to the constitution and laws withou,
| a muImur of dissatisfaction or di>Iovaty
spoke trumpet tongued. Mary land, if hel
voice could be heard, would endorse the
CIittenden proposition. That proposed
the equitable partition Of the tsrritor, on
the line Of 363O-ProhIoitng slavery
North, and protecting it South, by the 10
cal legislature. What is now the case
1t is true that Crittendeu's proposition ha.
not yet become part o. the constitution
but it is also true that an equitable par,i
| ton has been made by the vote of the peo
pie themselves establishing. maintaining
aud protecting slavery in every inch o
territory south Of the thirty seventh par
a!leI, giving the south half degree more
than the Critrenden proposition There
stands your slave code III New Mexico
protecting slavery up to the thirty seventh
degree a. etfectualy as laws can be made
to protect it. There it stands, the law o.
the land. Therefore, the South has ali be
low the thirty seventh parallel, while Con
gress has not prohibited slavery even Nor,t
of it.
Then, sir, l repeat, if these Southern
States, Kentucky included, are satisfied
with an equitable partition on the line o
36 80, protecting slavery south of it, they
have got it, and more, too. If they AT,
satisfied with a right to 90 into ali til,
territories, and take slaves on an equa
footing with other properly, they have
that. Instead, therefore, of not having
either OF the terms prescribed by the Sen
atop from Kentucky, (Mr. Brecknridge
the Southern States have them both
What cause Of complaint is there! II
view of these facts, | shall expect the Sen
alto, from Kentucky to go back to bis pa
tive State, and in that brilliant language 0
oratory, which cannot repeat, from every
hilltop and in every valley, and upor
every smiling plain, rejoice that old Ken
lucky has at last got Justice and equality
in the Territories of the Union
So far as legislation is concerned, th,
Southern States have got all they eve
asked. The Republicans have granted it
| will not say that it has been extor.ed fo
| think they made the concession for the
sake of peace and Of union. If they did
they should be sustained by their consti
| tuents for so doing.
What more, then, is demanded Simpl,
] that a constitutional ameudman, sb,U l.,