Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-11-06

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let them know our common sense Is not tt
be thus insulteh If we are for Freedom
as | believe we are ZONE AND ALL, then lei
us vote the Republican, or Ticket of Free
dom. and secure Gods blessing, and the
blessing, not the curse, of posterity.
CoRNwALL.
Something for every Voter to Re-
member. roaa aa
Remember, that, before the introduc
ton of the Nebraska Bill, by Senator Doug
las, the whole country was at peace
and no Slavery Agitation existed either
North or South. ~ 1850
Remember that no necessity was known
for the introduction of that bill-that few
or no white Inhabitants were living in either
Kansas or Nebraska at the time the Ter
ritories was organized.
Remember that Mr.. Atchinson of Mo-,
says that the bill was introduced upon his
threat to Senator Douglas, that if he re-
fused to accedc to the Southern demand,
he would resign his place as President Of
the Senate, and become candidate, in
caucus, for Mr.. Douglas position as Chair
man of the Committee on Territories.
Remember that the clause in the bill re-
pealing the Missouri Compromise was
brought forward by Mr.. Dixon, Wing
Senator from Kentucky, and that it was
denounced by the Washington Union as a
Wing scheme to divide and distract the
Democratic Party.
Remember that the Compromise had
been the law Of the country for more than
thirty four years, and that Senator Douglas
declared it to be 'canonized in the hearts
Of the people, and that no ruthless hand
would disturb itp'
Remember that the South had, under
that compact, gained all the advantages it
had to confer-that Missouri and Arkansas
were both admitted into the Union under
it; and that, except Iowa, no Free State
has ever been for.ned out of the soil which
that Compromise covered.
Remember that the principle of 'sPopu-
lar Sovereignty does not exist in the Ne
braska bill, at all; and that pretence that
it can be found therein, is pretence, on
ly, for catching votes.
Remember that the people of Kansas
and Nebraska are denied by express vote
of all the Nebraska men in the Senate
and House the right to vote for and elect
their own Governor, their own Secre-
tary of State, their own Judges of their
courts
Remember that they cannot dismiss a.
ny one of their officers, no matter for what
offence soever.
Remember that the Governor of either
territory is creature of the President re-
movable at his will.
Remember that the Courts are constitu-
ted by the President, through his power to
appoint the Judges thereof, and that the
administration of the laws are in the Pres
ident's hands.
Remember that the Governor has the
veto power upon any act of the Legisla-
ture, and that, as the President has the ye-
to upon him, all the power is vested in the
President
Remember that the order of things des-
cribed in the five preceding paragraphs, is
called popular sovereignty and that up
on : th:t kind of popular sovereignty
the sole merit Of the Nebraska bill
is based!
Remember that in the passage of that
bill an honored Compromise by which hui
man slavery in the larger part of the Lou
isianh purchase tract Of country large
enough for ten States-was broken down,
and that slavery now may go, without let
or hindrance, upon soil long ago consecra-
ted to Freedom!
Remember that when the Nebraska bill
was under discussion, proposition to give
the people the power to establish or pRoH1-
BIT slavery was voted down in both Hou-
ses OF Congress, and that Stephen A.
douglas voted against it.
Remember that this measure, now set
up as test of Democratic orthodoxy, was
concocted at the South, for the sole pur-
pose Of giving the whole power of this go
vefnment over to the hands of slavery pro-
pagandists.
Remember that it is but one of a series
of aggressons on the part of the Slave
nower-that Cuba will come next-that
Messilla has already been illegally purcha-
sed-that Dominica is sought for, and the
subjugation of Mexico, at no distant day,
Is freely avowed.
Remember that the policy of the faith
ers Of the Republic and of the Democratic
Party has been widely departed from, and
that they favored, by word and deed, the
confinement of slavery within it's original
limits.
Remember, that return must be made
to that policy and that the established rule
OF action for all men in the North and
South who love their country, must be to
prevent the extension of the peculiar in
stitution."
Remember that when that policy is es-
tabllshed the country will enjoy that inter-
nal tranquility that has been SO long de-
MED.
Remember that no sane man in the
North, or elsewhere, proposes to interfere
with Slavery in the States where it exists
by virtue of local law.
Remember that slavery is not Democra-
cy, and that its extension is not the extern
sion OF the area of freedom.
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