Year: 1860

| that prevents sMve owner going l'1o leE'
ritory to settle with his property. than ter'
ritora law that robs him Of his property As soon
rs he las incurred the risk and expense 0l
removing there.


What, tncn. is the practical difference between
the two doctrines! The Republicans Insist upon
congressional prohibition. The "squatter sove-
reignty" sets up territorial prohibition One
puts the Wilmot proviso in Congress, and the
other puts it in the territorial Legislature. There
is the whole of the argument.
Now let Democrats Of the North be honest and
square with the South on this point. The North,
by spinning cotton, has immensely enhanced the
value of slave labor to the South. They want to
know what their rights with that labor are to be
if they 20 with it into the Territories adopted to
it. We cannot deny equal rights to all citizens
to settle whit cir property in the common terri
tory. We must repudiate principle and repudi-
ate the decisions Of the Supreme Court, to deny
it. Neither can we deny that slave labor 10 pro-
perty, and if property it must have equal rights
to protection with ull property. And what then.
will you do with it in the Territories before they
assume State sovereignty! You must either give
it protection like all other property or you must
assume the power to destroy it. Having driven
the Wilnot provso out of Congress- shall we set
it up against the South in the Territories!


The Democratic doctrine which NIL have agreed
to is mon intervention" That is n fundamental
principle in the Democratic creed which is to be
maintain as firmly now as before the Dred Scott
decision. Nay, the Court af1irm', and does not
deny that principle. mon INrERFEREACE WITH
SLAVERY BY CONGRESS- IN STATE OR TERRITORY AND
IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA That is our creed
Shall we turn it round. and put Intervention In
the hands of u reckless territorial Legislature!
No. II we nre consistent we must extend non-
intervention from Congress- to the territorial leg
islature. Neither shall destroy or impair the
rights of property. And here, 1ellOw-cltizens.
the National Democracy hold two distinct posi-
o; Zoe a1n nf fhn
to repose on.


First. Opposition to the Wilmot proviso In
Congress- and like opposition to it in Terrific
rial Legislature.


Second. .N0n-inteyrent,on by Conpr' IS and
non -interrenfion by Territory until ii begins
to form n constitution.


Any other doctrine carries with il anti slavery
into the territorial legislature rs n substitute fer
ant-slavery in Congress. The negro Is in it, and
that apprehend is the whole source OF its vague
popularity in the North and Of the tenucity with
which it has been adhered to in the recent Con-
vention; and the Northern people will be amazed
when they find TINT the Convention has by sort
OF disclaimer abandoned this very doctrine. or ut
least left it to double and doubtful construction
Nor h and South


True. it is very little negro which portion
of the Northern Democracy propose to use in the
elections. by cans of the territorial Wilmot
prOvsO; and tIey assure us it is not the full-



hict" which they lnean to adopt And, therefore.
they tell the Democracy that it will really do no
harm to take this little negro in their arms and
nurse him. and present him to the people In those
districts he may help get enough abolition votes
to bring about plurality md infect some district
und State elections


But will this be fair to the Democracy or fair
even to the Republicans? for if it is right to cx
cule slavery by territorial prohibition it must be
right to do it by congressional prohibition; and
the Supreme Court has decided thnt both are
equally violntive of the Constitution. And hence
If there is right in this doctrine o barring out
of the South from the Territories. the Republi-
cans are surely the mo-t right in claiming sove-
reignty in Congress to be exercised to entire md
utter exclusion. Therefore soy let them have
the large negro of congressional prohibition "nd
the little negro Of territorial prohibition and the
whole negro in this cOntest and let Democrats
an conservative Un on men uphold the equal
rights and the constitutional government of white
men who made it. We will not have the negro
as an element Of political power in Congress or
in Territory, and that is the only clean national
platform the Democracy can stand upon, and pro-
claim as it hitherto has DONE the same universal
ity of doctrine for all sections of the land East,
West North. and SOuth-viZ: the equality OF
rights of all property in the Territories to MI the
citizeLs of all the States settling there!


And how is that equality to be preserved, when,
by this process of coonzing and aboltionizing
Territoric and you put it in the power of u sim
gle State to send out its trained emigrants to
every Territory as fast MS it is organized and by
seizing on the elections of the Legislature and re
curing two-ihrtls of the members, exclude from
every Territory the citizens OF fifteen Stntes!


II is this element OF forced abolition cOlOnza-
fion which has changed the entire aspect OF the
question rs to a Territory regulating or restrict
ing the institution Of slavery before il becomes
State.


yvLo, ,,o ,,uost on uoa fret of tod tho Novth
and South both agreed to non Intervention, either
to establish slavery or to prohibit slavery in the
Territories That WAS Democratic mon interven-
ton" then, and it is Democratic "non-lnterven-
tion" now. And rs to protection OF property in
the Territories. all agreed that the Court should
decide, and in the meantime the people were 10
TO, m and regulate their domestic institutions in
their own way, SUBJECT ONLY TO THE CONSTITUTION
or THE UNITED STATES. And there all were will
ling to leave the settlement of the Territories in
good faith to the adaptation OF soil ana climate,
to dem md and supply. and TO the natural laws OF
emigration and the great law OF self-interest.
Rut instead of this, there arose this forced and
hired political emigration Of armed bands OF abol-
itonsts TO seize upon territorial legislatures and
faslen their doctrines upon them; anu out OF this
came conflict and civil war and the threatened
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the Union. And moreover she
Supreme Court has decided that territorial leg
i,l,.ure has no power to prohibit slavery until 1t
hecomes a State And now, to save the country
from these terrible sectional conflicts, there is no
safe remedy. no tair play in the settlement Of new
Territories. no law of the land but nOn-'nfer-
pention by the Territory, and the equal protec-
ton of ali the rights of property Of all the
citizens settling therein, until the sorereigmty Of
the people begins in the act Of forming Con-
stitution for the State.


This is our popular sovereignsy"- sovc-
reignty of all the people against the sqn"seer
sovereignty Of Aid Emigration Abolition Socie.
ties-and who can say il is not right and just and
constitutional, and peaceful and conservative In
| all it's elements?


1t is this protection of law against violence IN
the settlement of Territories which the peace ana