New-York daily tribune., 1861-01-05

a settlement Of our Federal troubles:
Whereas. The government ohe Territories has long beens
disturbing National councils and has Of late given
and g threaten the integrity the UnonOns party n4:as %
@ h S Ra pS t. ad M snohsf HATH
shall not interfere way or the otheri 49,
agree that each Sse has the sole and exclusive Of deter
mining its domestic institutions:
Therefore to the end that this impeachment TO our National
R.OI1ed Of the Senate cOncu Ths. Senator. and Rep
Of Kapss. ber present application to
sds a. a. 81 sss Of L s there
Of shall adopt State Constitutions Republican In fora
the vote Of th. thereon be forthwith transmitted to
the Governor Of this State to Senators and Reyre.entiyes
Union 'N- " ~
We propose TO consider this project on it's
merits, as dispasSionately as though no Chicago
or other Platform had ever existed.
If all the remaining territory of the United
States, after the admission Of Kansas, is to be
formed into two States it is morally certain that
the line drawn by Congress separating these two
States viii be run due east and west and either
exactly, or very nearly, on the parallel of 36'
80. In other words, the present Territory OF
New.Mexico Substantially will constitute one OF
the States contemplated by Mr.. Robinson, while
Territory Of Kansas as is excluded from the
State, with Nebraska and that portion of the late
Territory of Minnesota which was excluded from
the State of like name in its formation and is
known to its white inhabitants as Dakotah, will
| form the other.
Now, the Territory of New Mexico, including
the long stretch of arid, sandy but auriferous
1 Arix haa
| for at least eight years been in training for a
Slave State. Its civil officers have been mainly
taken from Slave States for their known devotion
| to the Slavery Propaganda its military officers
have taken slaves thither personal servants and
now hold them there in Slavery; and its Territo.
rial Legislature has been induced by these Federal
end Military officers, with their contractor
and other satellites, to pass one OF the most
atrocious Slave laws ever known. New-Mexico,
| under Pro.Savery Federal influences, has been
transformed from Free into Slave Territory;
and the People who elected Mr. Lincoln Pres
ident have fondly hoped that those influences
were 10 be hereafter exerted TO win her back
TO Freedom. Let Mr.. Rencher be replaced at
Santa Fe as Governor by an able and wise
Free-State man; let "Sherif Jones" of Kansas
be superseded as collector of customs at Tucson
by another Free State man; and so on through
out; and we shall very probably be in condition,
| two or three years hence, TO appeal to Popular
Sovereignty in New-Mexico on the great National
issue. But to do 80 at this time seems TO US
very unfair and unfaithful. The People Of New
| Mexico and Arizona have never heard our side
of the question; they have no single Republican
| press and never had one; We do not know that
| q single decided Republican resides within their
borders; they have never heard us; they do not
know US; they have heard Of us only from our
bitter, INSCRIPTIONS enemies. We plead for at
least fair hearing before Republicans shall vote
that the tremendous issue of Freedom or Slavery
for the future tillers and miners Of that vast re-
| gion shall be submitted 10 tho decision Of that
intensely ignorant, degraded, and now Bit
terly prejudiced population. Grant that
the popular srbtrament is the true one, and
we still insist that we ought to be allowed 10
argue the question before it shall be irrevocably
decided against US. For Slavery, once estab.
ished. allows no discussion of it's own character
or merits, even the present Territorial law, in
the hands of Pro-Slsvery judges, would suppress
and punish Anti-Slsvey speeches under the head
Of " melting slaves to rebellion or insurrecton."
We ask candid men who are not Republicans to
say whether it would be fair to force this great
issue TO an immediate and irrevocable decision
for our adversaries win take care that it be
both prompt and irreversble-just when our side
is reaching position from which we may hope
for liberty and opportunity to argue it. We
shall certainly try to save New.Msxico from