Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-09-19

SENATOR BRoDuEAD on NEW Horny
Hon. Richard Brodhead made speech at
Easton on Monday, having gone there to pre-
vent an explosion agtinst the administration in
favor of Gov. Recder. He spoke OF everything
but the great question Of the day, and was
careful to assert the most ultra proslavery
doctrines; and, indeed, went little further
than any other doughface yet in his servility.
One part of his speech deserves particular no.
tice, and is thus reported in the Tribune;
.'Now you will all agree to one proposition
Are not all the States of this Union coeQual,
and they not equal partners7 Undoubted-
!y. Then comes the great question of power
in the Territories The y orthcIn people claim
the right 10 go into the Territories with their
property. The Southern people claim the
same right. Now will you accord it to them
] say the Constitution gires those tcho o,c pr.p-
eriu in The Southern STATES the same ro1cr we
hare. l would not deny man the same right
tnat / ask for myself ! claim the righ: 10 go
into the Territories with my property, and
accord to any man from any other State the
same right
Thus we see how the South takes advantage
of the treachery of \ orthern men to the cause
of freedom, TO proceed, step by step, to con-
vert this Republic from the home of liberty to
the baSest purposes OF slavery extension. The
position of Mr.. Brodhead, as shown in his
speech, is thus defined by the Tribune:
Here the whole doctrine of 'sSquatter Sow
ereignty" is pitched over board. That doc
triae Us originally promulgated by Gen. CasS,
iffrnIs the right Of each Territory, as an in
ternalIy independent politicrl community, 10
establish or exclude Slavery, as a majority of
the ptople may prefer. II is in vain that we
have repeatedly pressed upon the advocates OF
this doctrine the ITestiOns-''Who are the
people of Kansas or y Nebraska, who have the
right to determine that certain Of their fellow
inhabitants shall be doom ID to eternal bondage !
Are they the citizens of the L nitrd States or
are the resident emi2rants from Europe also
entitled to . voice in deciding this momentoUs
question; vitally affecting them well as
otherSi And however these questions may
be answered, what is the state OF the law re-
specting Slavery prior to- any decisive action
OF the people on the subject! Let these ques-
tions be frankly answered, and then we shall
know what is meant by s'Popular Sovereignty y
in the Territories.
But Mr. Broadhead adopting the ultra posi-
tions of Calhoun, Soule. and Jefferson Davis,
ignores Popular Sovereignty in the premi-
ses altogether. He holds that any single en-
igrant into Kansas from Slave State, may
take his slaves with him and hold them in the
Territory slaves, in defiance of any act or
inhibition which the residue of the settlers
may have adopted. All other settlers may be
conscienciously and determinedly hostile TO
Slavery but this one STAKEHOLDER steps in with
his black servitors and over rules them. Pop
ular Sovereignty condemns Slavery but one
STAKEHOLDER weighs down thousands offreemen-
and decides that Kansas shal be slave territory.
For the Shareholder, says Brodhead, has an
indefeasible constitutional right to migrate to
Kansas, to take his slaves with him, and hold
them there in bondage ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
they are his property, and have it respected
and secured to him as property, in any terri.
tory of the Union.
We propose at this time merely to state
this doctrine not 10 refute it. The rum-Seller,
the faro-dealer, the counterfeiter, will find it
as convenient and seryiceable as the Slavehol-
der-for all these have property which the
ject it TO confScation. If Mr.. Brodhead is
right, then all the remaining territory of the
Union is destined 10 form new Slave States,
and nothing can prevent that consummation.