The daily union., 1854-12-29
BuRLisaruS, November 10, 1854.

BURLINGTON, November TO- 1854.
GENTLEMEN have received your kind and welcome let
Of the 2sth Of September last inviting to visit and
address the democracy of Pottawatome county, and
expected time before the meeting OF Congress to be
able to do but owing to the long and dangerous i'll
ness of OF children find shall be prevented from
visiting your section of the State had hoped to do
thank you for your letter, and cannot withhold
preston of the qualification derived from its perusal
fully with You to the Of the recent partial de
feat sustained by the democracy OF Iowa. and cordially
prove of the suggest to guard like result
in the future thorough organization of the demo-
cratic party of State is needed and among the
attain ii "unon harmony, concesson-everything
for the and nothing for and until some other
system Of bringing out candidates be adopted strict ad
herence to county State and national conventions with
less strife and ascerby of feeling nj those conventions
where the contest among ourselves and zeal and
effort in the canvass and ut the polls.
The right the people Of all the States and Territories
of this republic regulate their domestic institutions for
themselves within their limits, set forth in the Ne
brask Kansas BILL is purely republican that have
found but few who prepared to deny it. Those
who do cannot but regard ederalias monarcists
at heart and arlesy to ngra upon our creed this right
OF the people IL but to proclaim ourselves democrats and
Americans.
1t in defence of this sacred principle that the blood
and of the revolution expended What boots
to the frecmen settled in the Territories whether it be
King Congress or King George ILL., who has the right
to bind them in all whatsoeverT To this monstrous
assumption of despoc power the democracy Of the present
day reply only with substitution of the word Territories
for colonies did the Continental Congress in I774
and say: aThe Territories Of the United Suites are ent-
lied to free and exclusive power OF legislation in their
several territorial legislatures where their right of repre-
sentaton alone be preserved in a OF taxation
and INTERNAL POLICY Yes, we say to the distant,
central, and ccnralizng government at Washington,
as did ancestors to the British Parliament: We
admit your supremacy the Territories and
your right to establish their governments; but when
you undertake to regulate their internal concerns you
pass the bounds of just authority and will resist it.
Never there question which revived thorough
ly the distinctive differences between federalism and democ
racy State rights and consolidation than does the Ne
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people of oil power and to concentrate in the
1t wanted President for life and he to have the power of
appointing the the sovereign States of this
Union The alien and sedtion7 laws and other
of the administration of the elder Adams disclosed by
teal legislation that that party would cease TO at
tempt accomplish by its construction Of the constitution
what it had failed to do in the convention which framed
that glorious instrument Jefferson Madison, and their dem
ocratc compeers of that day. resstedboh in the
ton and in Congesshe exercise Of these high powers pre-
ferrng leave them with the States and the people The
ever-gorious and immortal Virginia and Kentucky reso
lutions of 1898 and lT99 ppany rdiculed by fa-
nacs and demagogues by their sound exposition of the
rights powers and duties of the general government the
State governments and the people, became the textbooks
Of the republicans and these with the overthrow OF fed
easm by Mr. Jesons election to the presidency served
to check the tide of consolidation which then,
recent times threatened overtop athe barriers erected
by the people for the protection OF their liberties
In the history of government brief il is to how
many instances readily point of the abuse of
and its improper exercise by Congress compared with
the people7 The showing vastly in favor OF the lat
ter neither 10 aunllt ot
time when Congress would not ntrus the people OF
The Territories with legislsurethe powers and
duty making all laws being vested in the and
Judges Subsequently, and great boon they were
granted legislature which consisted OF house. and but
thirteen members In those days there not wanting
men and parties who afraid ntrust the people OF
the Territories with the right of making any laws for hen
selves Now they have progressed so far as to be willing
allow them to legislae upon all the rights OF the
white establish the relation of husband and wife,
parent and child, master and ward to define what
shall constitute murder, and provide whether hui
life shall pay the penalty therefor, &C. &c But the
rights of the negro and the relation ia which he shall
stand TO the society," something too sacred the SEN
tentasts Of the day, for western squatters to pass
upon. They that domestic servtude as 1t exists
in fifteen States of this Union is crime and their reason
ing is that unless you tie the hands of the people they
will commit crime Who does not regard murder as a
crime The apprentice system, 1t exists even in the
New England States esteemed serious evilconsgn-
ing thousands of white boys and girls to premature
stated with their lungs filed with the cotton and dirt
of the manuactory inemperanoe and gambling we all
know horrid evils and yet has proposed when
Congress was about establish territorial governments
to prohibit in their organic acts any of these evils
crimes s.r HUlH
Two houses of general assembly given to the peo-
Pile with powers extending TO all rightu subjects of legs
ation and in the OF Nebraska and Kansas the right
Of voting upon the question of slavery slavery is
erred upon ali such foreigners may have settled within
those Territories and simply gni6ed their intention be
citizens. of those who srove by my voice
and vote to confer the privilege upon foreigners believing
do that the who left his mother country,
erng the dangers of and land OF starvation and hs
Indian tomahawk paid his taxes worked roads and
ready to assist in fighting battles should be ent
tied to voice in framing the laws under which himself