Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-03-09
THREE PICTURES.

n'BHS Ftpuututeu-dWu iIOuBtuS, " me
North, elected Captain Of oar .tfre-edicrs.
"The right 10 prohibit slavery in any Territory
belongs ercusipeiy to the people thereof, and can
only be exercised BY them in forming their conStitu-
ton for State government, or in their sovereign
capacity as an independent State.'-1he Jackson
Resolutions, No. d.
at is the intention Of this act not 10 legislate
slavery into any Territory, TO exclude it there
from--but TO leave the People thereof perfectly
free to form and manage their domestic institu-
tions in their own way-subjcct only 10 The Con-
stitution of the United States. Part of section
Ia Of DOpgics' Nebraska Bill
eve hail with warm appreciation the Nebraska
Bill introduced into the Senate by Senator Doug
las, OF Illinois Part of 10Th resolution adopi-
ed by The .Qaties Of Ho,card, february, 1884.
We put these three extracts together that
oil who run may read, and all that read
may see what q precious set OF fellows our
Howard county Antics are. There is
screw loose somewhere, Mr.. Editor; they
may have selected new leaders that don't
understand the principles of the party; or it
may be that great party in Howard has gone
beside itself on account of last summers
defeat of Jackson by little Jim Lindley; or
it may be-what do not assert, and should
be 10th to believe--that the Antics, in
honest truth never had any principles, but
have always been moved exclusively by a
love Of the loaves and fishes, and proper
hatred of their old and somewhat hard mas
ter, Benton. .eta
Mr.. Calhoun's doctrine was, that slavery
is recognized by the federal constitution, and
goes of right under that instrument wherev-
er the federal government rules--and that
it is not within the power Of Congress, or
any Territorial Government organised by
Congress, or the people of any federal ter
ritory to exclude the Shareholder. Mr..
Calhoun did not acknowledge what his old
organ, the Charleston Mercury, calls, by
way OF derision, the "squatter influence"
any more than he acknowledged the sove-
reignty of Congress in this matter.
The right of the people of territory
when assembled in convention for the pur-
pose of forming State Government, to pro-
hibit or allow slavery in their new State, he
never questioned; but their right as inhabi-
tnnts of federal territory, TO exclude a
STAKEHOLDER so long as it remained subject &c
federal jurisdiction, he utterly repudiated as
altogether inconsistent with southern rights
under the federal constitution. This doc.
trine is still promulgated in Congress by mer
f, ON the extreme south, and short extract
from recent number Of the Charleston
Mercury will show that paper to be now
on this question where it was in the days
Of Mr.. Calhoun. ..
Speaking of the Nebraska bill, it says
, SIT would indeed be the climax of speciou
justice to proclaim non-intervention on TIT
part of Congress as the principle of fairness
and the constitution "pass law con
ferrirg on tcntful of hunters and outlaws
t the right 10 intervene On this matter) il
the most absolute and sovereign manner.
This, too, is the very doctrine taught us b.
the Jackson resolutions, which contain th
late political creed of our Antics, and wer
written, as Col. Benton assures us, by Cal
houn himself, and placed in the hands @
his peculiar friends here TO be passe
|, through Missouri Legislature. The rourt
in this famous series of political truths, as
e sures us that 'the right 10 prohibit SLAYER
= in any territory belongs erclusirely to til
f people thereof,"-(this Of course cuts O
r the power Of Congress- "and can only b
y exercised by them in forming their consti
$ tuition as q State government, or i'll thei
n sovereign capacity as an Independent State,
/. and this cuts of all power in the people {
5 the Territory to exclude slavery while tn
!. country remains under territorial govern
ment, subject to federal rule. Mr.. Doug
las, however, teaches different doctrne;-
he tells us that the people of a territory ma
:, lawfully keep the STAKEHOLDER out, if the
please to do so---not merely when Assem-
bled TO form State constitution, but frol
:, the beginning and during the whole perio
=. OF territorial suolection. lie, no uoub
" thinks Congress can do this itself, and
g course may lawfully confer the power upo
- any territorial government it may create
. But however this may be, whether the pow
= y, er be derived from the federal govcrnmen
as most folks suppose, or be inherent in Il
people of the Territory, as Gen. Cass nr
- some others whose head is about as nude
. as his own seem to think, is quite immat
- rial--for the southern doctrine, the Slate
right doctrine, the Jackson resolution do
trine, all agree in this MATERIAL concur
- assuring lis there is no power, any wher
to exclude the slave holder from FEEDER
lr territory.
ry Why, Mr.. Editor, you reoollect how il
lie portant this doctrine was considered in Ii