Queries For Northern Dough Faces

If 'lie orJinnncc ndojitvd by the 1 gress of 1787 wns s'ifficient lo pro-erve t!ie tcrrilory norlh of tJie Ohio, from the parnlyzing nfluence of slavery and consécrate it to free labor, wil! not a similar ordinance, adopte J in refeience to lonj h',rcafleT to Ie acquired, bo atiendcd by the saine boneíicent effect ? SECOND. If the ant'slavery proviso is au " absiraction," and ' inoperative," (as you would fain havo people believe,) will you explain why tho slaveholding Ktates regard it with such abhnrrence as to ihreaten to resist it with force of arms'? TH1RD. If t is an infringement of the n'ghts of slaveholder3 to prohibit them from carrying slavcry into new terrilory, was it not equally so in relation to the terrilory norlh oflhe Ohh? and why is it that we have this pleaof injustic, for the first time set up in referente to territory alreadyfree ? FOURTH. If t is in violationof the rights of slaveholders that they " cannot remove their {humanj property to free territorios," was it not equally a violation ol that right to prohibit slavery in the North ern States, as in New York and New England ? FIFTH. Does & principie depend for its character upon the persons who advocate or oppose it f If it was democratie in Thomas Jefferson nnd the fathers of the republic to prohibit the introduction of slavery nto the Northwestern Territory, is it any less democratie to extend that prohibition to territory hereafter to be