New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-22

Efforts ard all their Efforts are directed h. break dovs
the only guard that that popular sovereis,
Bullet Ms 20 further and scatter eTen the reno,,.,
Of this hinc subterfuge We will put entirely ont !,
the question the broad end vital idea OF the eqq.l,
noliticsl rights among mon-we viii lay aside all en-,
sider,tious touching Slavery, colored men. ..l
foreign men. and come directly to tie Ns5ras.,
b itself and see il that recognizes or is desiynsd
10 permit the exercise OF popular sovereignty
even bv the free white American citizen, At
Nebraska and Kansas. and we begin by syio,
that every supporter Of the bill in the South sai
the whole South, repudste aud scout the idea that
even the free white citizens Of those territories my
establish their own institutions They deny that IL
inhabitants have any such right. The rienls Of tie
Nebraska bill are not aiming to organize those terrs&
res with tie view to the exercise of any such right
but, on TIE contrary they expressly and on all oca
sions through the prolonged debate in the Sens.
and in ell the discussions in the House. hare L.
oare1 in every form Of expressions tkas the rgk.h
establish their domestic Institutions does not exist IN
the people Of the Territories and especially that those
reope cannot IL they would exclude the institution Of
slavery tserefrom. For the southern men all cldn
that with the Missouri restriction removed, Slavery
gees into all the territory protected by It, aud essh
lisled and upheld there by the Federal Constitution.
And that the Supreme Court, majority Of whom arc
Slavery men will so decide whenever the question 10
submitted to them. they have no doubt This iswhd
the South and the whole South think and declare.m
regard 10 the right of the free white American citizens
of the Territories 20 establish thee own institutions
And these are the men who alone have any practical
interest in the repeal OF the Missouri compromise;
whose votes are to repeal it, if repealed and whose
construction oftie much abused term popular soyeN
eicuty isaoue TO lie needed If the Nebraska bill shs
pass
put the friends of the bill in the Senate denied in
toto this very doctrine of popular sovereignty AMI the
right of the people to establish their own institutions
They did it openly, Intentionally, and with the most
deliberate purpose. Win the bill was on its passage
through the Senate, Nj Chase of Ohio offered series
of amendments all going to confer the right of popular
control over the domestic institutions OF the Terrific
rice, and they were all voted down @ridti'n, every
friend of the bill voting against them Thus he pro
posed to allow the people TO prohibit Slavery bys
nopular vote The friends Of the bill said No, they
should not and voted down the proposition. He pro
posed to allow the people to elect their own Governor
and other officers that they might thus control the entire
Iawmakirg power, and establish their institutions
The friends of the bill sadN they should not aud the
proposition was voted down And so every other pro-
position of the series, all tending to the end was
regularly voted down and utterly rejected in terms and
in principle And in lieu OF establishing the doctrine
of popular sovereignty aud popular control the bill de-
liberately takes away all such rights and vests the
sovereign power in the hands Of one man; that man
being the President of the United States The much
yaunted right of the people to establish their own in
stitutions on which the Tammany Hall orators and
letter-wIiters all lay such stress, is thus utterly repu
dated.
Now let US see how the people entirely shorn Of
political power by the terms of the bill The Pres-
dent appoints the Governors of the Territories and
these Governors have the power to veto the acts Of the
people actr through the Territorial Legislatures The
majority of the people may desire to exclude Slavery
The Governor may step in with bis veto aud say they
shall rot Aud the Governor IL beyond the reach OF
the people for he s not amenable to them, does not
derive bis authority from item, but ia the appolnee
and creature of the regning power at Washington and
must DO lis bidding lie foreign officer, appointed
by foreign authority, and may exercise an independ
ont and supreme power ia tbWsrtiDg the will and defy
ing the action of the people and the Legislature on
every subject which he chooses to do it, with per
feet mpunity. And this, according TO TsmmaDy dction
aries ard modern Democratic Interpretation, is popu-
lar sovereignty, and the right of the people to estab
lifh their own institutions And on this baseless and
rotten fabric Of imposition and deluson it is proposed
to aintan the Nebraska bill before the people Of the
North Well, we know that Douglas Pierce Il Co.
believe in the Infinite gullibity of the Northern
people. But that eminent firm will find before this
Nebraska business is through with that they arc not
such fools those gentlemen assuming them to be-
But we are not quite through yet The bill not
only takes TO have Governors sent 10 take charge
of and control the acts Of the people, but it provides
for the appointment of Judges for the same purpose.
These Judges, deriving their commissions from the
bands Of the President, and strictly amenable to hs
authority by being removable at his pleasure are 10
vested with just perfect, aud more perfect,
control the legislation Of the territories than the
Governor himself. These judges may just as COM
petely prevent the people from establishing their own
institutions the Governor At the nmations Of the
President his legal adviser, the genial Gushing,
whose selfapponted mission il Is TO crush out free
dom, these Judges may arrest the operation Of any
law end bring ii up for ultimate decision before the
Slavery tribunal. And wha. sort Of a chance woulds
law prohibiting Slavery in those Territories either
Of them, have before such tribunal Ii would be
but new illustration of the old fable of the lamb
judged by the wolf
Thus do we demolish aud dissipate the enormous
pretension that the object Of the Nebraska bill
is to establish the doctrine of popular sovereignty
in the Territories and to give to the people thereof