Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1854-05-25

given up. though test of political or
thodoxy as long as it stood and some-
thing else put in its place Thereupon
supersession was itself superseded by s-iE-
consistent Out of the frying pan into
the fire La,fghter
Inconsistent signifies inability to stand
together-two things which cannot stand
together-fron con and siSto Now, what
Is the fact with respect to the compromise
of 1890 and lS502 Can they not stand
/ together And if not, why knock the
one down that is already down2 1t is
now four years since this inability to stand
together took effect and how do the two
sets of measures make out together at the
end of this time 2-Perfectly we'll They
/ are both on their feet-standing bolt up
right-and will stand so for ever, unless
Congress knocks one or the other of them
down. This is fact, known to eyeryb BODY,
and admitted by the bill itself, for if the
/ first is inconsistent with the second and
unable to stand. why all the trouble to
put it down Why trip up the heels of
the man already fat on his back on the
ground Then comes another reason
that tLis compromise of 1890 is inopera-
tive and void Ifso, those who are against
its operation should be content. 1t is in
the very condition they wish it-useless,
inactive, dead-and 40 bar to the progress
of slavery to the North. 1t is void, va
cant, empty, nothing OF it. Now, if the
line of SO deg so min. is imperative and
void, it is in the condition of fence
pulled down, and the rails carried away,
and the field left open for the stock to
enter. Bat the fence is not pulled down
yet The line Is not yet imperative and
void. 1t Is an existing substantive line,
alive and operating efectually to bas the
progress of slavery to the North and
will so continue to operate until Congress
shall stop It's operation.
Then comes the final reason that there
never was any such line in the world
that 1t was unconstitutional and void
that it had not existence from the begin
nlng and that it must not be repealed
by direct act, for that would be to
acknowledge its previous existence. and
to nullify the constitutional agreement
and, what is more terrible Involve the
authors of the doctrine in an inconsistent
cy of their own and thereby make them
selves imperative and void. And this is
the analysis of the reason for the Nebras-
Ea bill-that part of it which is to get
!
contradictory, suicidal and prcpostcrous
And why such farrago Of nulnties, in
congruities and inconsistencies
Purely and simply to throw upon 9TH
ers-upon the Congress of 1850 and the
innocent con5citution--the blame of what
the bill itself is doing; the blame of de-
lstroying the compromise of 1920 and
with It destroying all confidence between
the North and the South, and arraying
one balf ths Union against the other ia
deadly hostility 1t to be able to throw
the blame upon the innocent that this far
rago is served up to Us.
Territorial Sovereignty, Nonsense.
And what is all this hodge podge for2
1t IS to establish a principle, they say
the principle of uon-ntervention : of
squatter sovereignty Sir, there is no
such principle. The Territories are the
children of the States They are minors,
under twenty-oue years Of age and it is
the business Of the states, through their
delegations in Congress, to take care OF
these minors until they are Of age-until
they are ripe for state government-shen
give them that government, and admit
them to an equality with their fathers
That is the law and the sense of the case
and has been so acknowledged, since the
first ordinance in 1884, by all authorities,
federal aud state, legislative, judicial aud
executive
The states in Congress are tho guar
dams Of the territories, and are bound to
exercise the guardianship; and cannot
abdicate it without breach of trust aud
dereliction OF duty. Territorial sover-
eighty is monstrosity, born of timidity
and ambition, hatched iuto existence in
the hot incubation OF presidential can
vass, and revolving to the beholders VIXEN
first presented Well do | remember
that day when it was first shown In the
Senate Mark Antony did not better re-
member the day when Caesar first put on
that mantle through which lie was after
wards pierced with three and twenty eli
vious stabs" 1t was in the Senate in
l84S, and was received as nonsense--as
the essence Of nonsence-as the uuintes-
/ scpce Of nonsence-as the fve-times dis
titled essence Of political nouscusicality.
The Stump Speech in the 8n.
Why, sir the territory Itself is the
property OF the states, and they do az
they please with it-permit it to be set
lied or not; cut it up by lines as they
{
please; chase white people from it. as
they please After this farrago-this oH-
EoIrtt!u comes little stump speech,
injected in the body Of tie bill, and must
have prodiaious effect when reeited in
the prairies. aud out toward the frontiers,
and up toward the heads Of the creeks.
LH2glttcr and seasct50n.) | will read
it, and [ hope without fatiguing the
House; for 1t is both brief and beautiful,
and runs thus
& II being the true intent and meaning
Of this act not to legislate slavery into
any state or territory, nor to exclude it
therefrom but 70 leave the people there
of perfectly free to form and regulate
their domestic institutions III their own
way, subject only to tie constitution CT
the United States"
This is the speech. and a pretty little