Year: 1859

rtoral government Congress cannot endow
the Legislature thus organized with any func.
tion which it did not itself possess. Hence any
law made by the Legislature of an organized
Territory which if enforced would defeat or
impair the right Of q Shareholder to his prop.
crty or any legislation otherwise hostile to
slavery would he nullty from the beginning


Federal courts would at once take cognizancc
Of a questions arising under such laws, set


them aside and punish those VIII might attempt
to carry them into execution. 1t is fortunate
therefore that the safety of slave property in
territories cannot rest upon the capriccs Of n
hostile majority nor suffer damage from the
ignorance and Injustice of partisan territorial
legislation. The utmost that can be appre.
hcndcd is that such II body will neglect or re


fuse 10 enact such police regulations as are
adopted i'll all slave holding States: but we are
Inclined to hink that slavery in the territories
like slavery every where else is better when
l"t alone by all others except the SHAREHOLDERS
themselves. They have the fixed provisions of
the Constitution and The broad principles of
the Common Law 9or their protection and need
ask no sanction nor assistance from squad of
territorial Legislators. Such legislature right
fully has no more to do with the relations be-


tween master and slave than it has with those
bctwecn husband and wife, parent and child


guardian and ward, or the land aud its owners


Even nnfriendly taxation is beyond their power


Shall we of the South then, in behalf of
those who cmigratc hence to the territories
with their slaves appeal to Congress for slave
code Congress which contains now large
proportion and which is likely soon to contain
majority OF members hostile to us and our in
stltutloaS! Are we TO snllrr the Stewards. Will
sons, llalcs, DoclitlcS, Burlingamcs. Grows.
GddngScs, and Mattisons of Congress to poke
their abolition noses into the private domestic
relations between masters and slaves in the
territoricsy Are they TO become practically
the ovcrSrcrS of plantations in Kansas. New
Mexico, Arlzona Sonora Lower California.
or whatever other Southern territories we may
aacqnrey What can we in reason expect, from
any legislation in which such men must needs
have voice, that will place the owners of slaves
III territories in better position than they now
occupy! Is there not reason to apprehend
that by soliciting Congressional action precc.
dent may be established which sectional
majority will pcrvcrt to our positive damage
At some future time? Is the bowling of fac.
tiDuS dcmagogucs in Congress on slavery so
grateful to our ear that we must reopen its
hideous clamor? In our opinion it is better to
let the pcr'nrbcd spirit of fanaticsm look to
lis own fertile invention for nourishmcnt -
better to convince abolitonists that all we
require Of Congress is that they shall let slavery
alonc-that we trust to the Constitution and
the common Law for its protection outside of
organized StatcS,--that we deny their power
to interfere between the slave and his owner
anywhcre-that we will appeal from the fanat
ical prcjndiccs of Northern members to the
enduring charter of federal rights made by
their honest grandfathcrS before aboltionism
was dreamed of. 1t seems better to trust to
the perpetual guarantees of the rights of slave
holders with becoming PRIDE than to ask for
Legislative favors from the hands Of n body
consisting in part of our enemies. Southern
cmigranfsto TO territories pcoplcd by Northern
minority may suffer Inconvenience for a time,
but il is not necessary to add 10 other annoy.
ances the humiliation Of begging protection
from the Abolition Congrcss.-N o. Courier.


EsSy" Senator Toombs. in his late speech on
the revenue question, thus spoke of the waste
Of the national appropriations


F." Your appropriations for navy yards have
gone to the building Of houses for officers and
the making Of ilowcrpots and all that sort of
thing, at the cost of $4,000, 900; and it will
be no less ms lone ms you nav II but will Go nm