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his acts what simple and sublime" spec
tacle of Popular Sovereignty
Again: The bill prescribes the salaries to
be paid the Governor, Secretary, Judges, At
torney, Marshal, also the eompensation and
mileage Of members of tho Legislative Assem-
bly and Council, the Sovereign People"
being entirely ignored in this important mat
ter it does not ALLOW them even the privilege
of paving for the services thus rendered, but
treating them as minors, without even the
ability to pay their own way, it provides for
an appropriation from the Treasury of the
United States g to be expended by the Secre-
tory Of the Territory, upon an estimate to be
made by the Secretary of the Treasury Of the
United States to defray the expenses OF the
Legislative Assembly, the printing Of the laws,
and other incidental expenses" and the Gov
ornor and Secretary Of the Territory, in the
disbursement Of all moneys intrusted 70 them,
"shall be governed solely by the instructions
Of tho Secretary of the Treasury Of the United
States;n and no expenditure shall DO made
by said Legislative Assembly for objects not
specially authorized by the acts Of Congress
making the appropriation" Sc.
Can any one doubt that the only Issue pre-
sented by the bill is, the simple and Sublime"
question, "whether the People are to enjoy
the rights of self-government in our Terrific
riess Z" or, that "tho principle of Popular
Sovereignty il the gist Of the measured II
he can, then is he guilty Of the heinous offence
Of trusting too much TO the evidence of his
senses, and too little to tho assertions Of the
Washington Union and it's fellow declaimers
in favor Of Popular Sovereignty.
We need hardly shy, that the author Of the
Bill, with its supporters in Congress and out
Of it, knows that the People Of a Territory
have no sovereign power, that the only Gov
ereignty over Territories of the Union resides
in the Federal Government that the Bill itself
proceeds, from it's cnacting clause to its last
provision, upon this assumption; that only on
this assumption, can any Bill for the organiza-
ton Of Territorial Government be justified; ;
that to assume that the inhabitants of Terri
tory have the right of sovereignty IS to deny
and claim for the latter the same rights and
rank that belong to the former.
Into what then does this specious declama.
ton about Popular Sovereignty in Territories,
resolve itselfa Simply into this--a claim that
any number Of settlers therein, indisposed to
earn their bread by the sweat of their brow,
shall be alo,red to lipe upon the labor Of slapes;
and to secure this great and precious privilege,
Congress is called upon to repeal the Missouri
Compromise in Nebraska, under which the
Laborer is deemed worthy of his hire, and en-
titled to the full enjoyment Of the fruits OF his
own work. This is q the simple and sublime"
issue presented by the Nebraska Bill--nothing
more, nothing less.
In maintaining the act Of 1920, and resist
ing the attempt to repeal it, we stand upon
the true doctrine of Popular Sovereignty. By
the votes OF majority Of the Representatives
and Senators in Congress, and by the sanction Of
the President, representing and exercising the
Sovereignty of the People and States of tho
Union, over United States Territory, that act
became Law; q Law it has continued for the
last thirty-three years, the People and States
Of the Union acquiescing in it, no attempt in
oil that time having been made for its repeal.
If any Law is invested with the sanction Of
Popular Sovereignty, that Law is.
On the other hand, the Bill to repeal it, is
sustained, not by any demonstrations Of Popu-
lar Sovereignty, but simply by the pride and
self interest of small class OF slaveholders who
have no respect for the rights or interests Of
the People, when opposed to their policy No
Press no primary meeting Of the People, no
State Convention, no Legislature, North, South,
Fast, or West, had minated any dssatisfac-
ton with the Act Of 1920, or desire for it's
repeal; 80 that the Bill is nothing but an at
tempt Of would be. Sovereign Class, to annul
a great measure, enacted by the real Sovereign
People, sustained by them for tho third Of a
century, and still resting on tho sanctions Of
their will
Tho Act bears the stamp of Popular Sow
ereignty; the Bill to repeal it bears the stamp
Of Glass Interest, which cares no more for
the political rights Of the free People Of the
United States, than it does for the natural
rights Of the three millions of slaves, on whose
unpaid labor il has grown fat and arrogant
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