Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-18
ANOTHER PECULIAR INSTITUTION.

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ANOTHER PECULIAR INSTITUTION.
The great idea Of Young America evident
" is to 20 ahead Itself and drag after it what
remnants of the old party Or new parties 1t can !
find, into present issues Madiy rushing on
with eyes closed to the ultimate practical re-
suits OF some unsafe principle, they put their
trust that all will come out well, in chimera
as visionary as that which fables tell yielded
to the trust OF .Belorophou. The idea of
Squatter Sovereignty, is proposed as the elm
boliment of Democratic principle The man
who processes to believe that the passage Of
the Nebraska Bill will be source Of good to
the people; who advocates popular sover-
eighty" as it is therein understood, is either
wifully blind or else his mouth is stopped by
executive examining. He is determined not TO
speak his sentime ITS and is fool, Or he is
paid not to speak them, and is knave.-
''hat chance for popular sovereignty where
the Governors and Judges and the leading
minds are the creatures OF corrupt Execu-
tive! Where Offices and honors are made to
d3pc d Ii ION the way man votes upon the
greet question OF human liberty Where
the immense and increasing influence of Exc
cutiyc patronage is at work like some pom
dcrous machine hammering the popular mind
| to the shape that best suits its own ends ?
Such this fancy about popular sovereignty"
The great mass OF men, be the general di-
fusion of knowledge ever SO great, never looks
beyoni immediate results. They do not wait
to balance he tlousand other questio ions yet to
sc settled, that may depend upon some princi-
pic laid down to-day. They have other cares
upon their minds, other schemes to follow out
for their own advantage, and unless some
great and all absorbing question rises up, they
think or care but little about the measures
Tat any party may adopt Thus it happens
that ii u step is polite it is generally taken
it it looks likely to be immed lately popular
t!e leaders rusa on, blind to the future.
Il the doctrine advocated by the suppor-
CTS OF tao Nebraska Act extended merely to
tic Question of slavery, We might hope that
the Friends Of Freedom would rush forward
to to rescue and secure the soil to freedom.
There is hope that it may be done even though
the ruians whom the Chiyalry have dclega-
led to prepare the way for this patriarchal
institution make their boast in one OF the lead
ing papers OF st. Louis.that they will tar and
feather, maim or expose to drowning any man
wlo is Anown even to think against slavery.
ropu!ar sovereignty and complete anarchy
hive become for the time identical. Even
against all odds we may succeed. But in the
l t.,.o md of
forward another Gorgon Staring US in the face
Another Peculiar Institution is to ask the
protection of the Constitution. Is there aught
unconstitutional in Polgamy9 Has the Con-
: stjtu'ioa clause which by strict Or other con-
stIuction can be urged against it. The Terri
tory OF Utah will soon step forward to be adj
lifted as a sovereign State into the Union.
Are Douglasitcs read y to carry out the great
principal to its ultimate resuits9 Did DR.. Eddy
=, member Of Congress from Indiana speak with
- authority when IN recent speech ne said
~ will vote for the admission OF Utah.
:, Even though know that she recognizes, and
sanctions polgamy as part of her ecclesiastical
y code" DIR. Eddy evidently used the word
: "e3csiastical" Intentionally. But who does not
, seethat clause legalizing poigamy will have
= an stluence upon all the laws of inheritance.
:, Must our Judges acknowledge the validity of
, a law that SCOTS in the face Of Christianity
- and modern civilization Popular sovereign.
', ~ must soon be called upon to legalize prosti.
tuition, to add another star to our banner, .or
a state that the keeper Of the harem upon
: the Bosphorous can hail, as Frightening anew
. with the promise Of Turkish Civilization in
! tae New World. Lcgalzed debauchery, must
= soon have its advocates yea its Representatives
q in Washington, and Brigham Young at the
bidding of opular sovereignty shall convey
- his two score Of wives to the city of Mag.
II niicant distances" and open his harem even
" within hail Of the Capitol. Are We prepare !
= for these results? 1t is one step beyond Say.
y cry even, which has never yet dared to legal.
izc the horid immortalities which are its nat.
y ural fruits. 1t has never asked it, probably
because it would be of disadvantage. This
7 brazen faced demon comes clothed in the form
: OF religion, and finds an advocate even in the
. State Of Indiana. Such is the Popular SOW.
p" egeignty OF Pierce and Douglas. Such the
. other Domestic Institution, which the new
y lights will be called upon to cherish which
= tho people OF the Sister States will be called
+. upon to keep silence about, which the civil.
J lied world will point the finger at with the hiss
. OF contempt and dotcstation.- Era.