The Demand

We mus', Mr. Editor, insit ihat tlip 'erilorv of'lho nation, whetiier ncqcire ' hy treaiv. purchise or conque!, H and s'a'l le. f H" the common l'enefit, open tu tl.fl sfaveHlder nnd l.is pro)p-iy; & thai we ?í;7eiiyverv man, fwe clisóse to gi u it, fh splle oí Federal lcgi'atiou to tlie contrary. We denyfhai C.'iign-ss Iris nny jurisdÍL-tiori asto slnvery.eitlier in Sale oí' Territories, or District of Columhia, or the slave trade brttveen tliem ; and we will not permit any atlemp'ed evprcise of it. B'it we asseit iliat the jurisdii tion l)p]ongs to slaveIiuIíIts, ns forruing States or occupying Tenitoiie-i, and lo them otily. We otij-i-t to the extensión of tlie O-'dinancn of nö7,or thi' further ip)licaü;n of the Mii■OLiri C'inipmini'-e. They were umvise concession-.linving referente only to llieir sjir-citil objecis, and niustnot be permitted any forco of precedent orfuriher exleti-ion. We must concede nri'lcoruproin se no more. H' e cl irr., nad will hnve, b righta exïsting lef'rc, as wcil as by tlir Constiui ion, llic wlwle limits and exlc.nl nj lis Federal empire, whcrcin lo asert. every man, lus riglu lo kis slape,in!ieíhír in fitnte or Terrtory, and to kis labor, tis weil as pi'rson, in alt territory wit now emhraccd ander thal ordiname and conipromiee. We niut air.1 w.il insisi ïhnl any territory ncquireJ fiom . í c x i - c.o, whitterer be mode or tirns, becomes at once riif'ii t slaveholdcs nnd slrivcs, icithmit the p.-nnission or in deftance ui' any ]■ gVlation ot'Congress; and : liat the VVilmoi Proyiso is a nul.it y aogiinsl tlie jurNdiction of tlifi pe , lt? of lile torri nry over tlie in.ilter. This laller is of course subject to the provisiónnnd guar.-in.ees of the Consiit-ilinn. We deny that tlie Constilulion is subject tn nny iimeiidinen! [ntertering witb .-lnvery, even by three-iüurlhs ofCongres or the Staies.