Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1859 — Congressional Non Intervention. [ARTICLE]

Congressional Non Intervention.

Forney’s Press 'ms urj article on the •■Reputijlican Platform of 1800,” in which it is i strongly urged t hat the Wi lino! Proviso doc- 4 trine ought to he abandoned, and genuine! Popular Sovereignty accepted as more practicable, and more in accordance, with the ! sentiment ot the countryvat large. The Press says: “We see no reason why the people of the North shold complain otl the practical operation of the doctrine o! Popular Sovereignty. It made California a tree State, and it has settled,, beyond all doubt, that Kansas and Nebraska can never be slave States. It abolished slavery in seven of the thirteen original colonies, and it will prevent the establishment of slavery in all the unsettled Territories of the Unionj except those which may be occupied almost exclusively by slavehold ng emigrants, and which are peculiarly adapted to slave labor. It is founded upon the eternal principles of j. stice, and it will prevail in the future, as it has prevailed in the past, in spi'e of all the machinations of 'politicians against it, an 4 the quibbles, subteriuges, hair-splitting abstractions and frivo]ou pretexts upon whichjthey assail it. Respectably sanctioned by the American people, it will a ain and again be sanctioned by them, until no party shall dare to rise up in opposition to it, and until, zealots of all sections will be forced to acknowledge the futility if all efforts to undermine it.” This doctrine is the one virtually adopted by Gen. Taylor, in his “plan” for disposing of the question of slavery! in the Territories, and commended in liis first message. The tendenev of popular opinion is undoubtedly in favor of this policy. e' periments recently made at Grenoble, it has been found practicable to inclose a dispatch of fifty-two -words in a hollow' conical ball, the orifice being filled with wa\, arjd to fire it into thick planks, at a distance of one hundred and fifty metres, without injury to the writing. Thus a communication could be opened between one part of on army and another, where the use of messenger* would be dangerous or impossible.