Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-12-31

Gems Of the United States, aatsrs or natural
ized, from voting at any election or upon any
political question in the Territories, and fur
Their restricting the right Of suffrage to such
citizens above described, as have been sir
months continued residents Of the Territory ia
which they offer their votes.
Such law being first enacted, If II shah be
found that neither Of the claimants TO seat as
delegate from Kansas, has been properly
elected, Gas It is alleged) lot them be sent back
to the Territory and d new election be held
under the proposed law We hazard thcopin-
ion, that il such a law be passed, and its proyi-
sions enforced, the country will readily acqui-
esce in the decision OF tho rightful voters Of
Kansas, both as to their delegates in Congress,
and their constitution, framed by her repre-
sentatives thus elected by the bona tide citi-
zens Of the Territory @
We have hitherto had two formal compro-
misses made in Congress on the slave question,
the first in 1920 by the Missouri Compromise
act and the latter in 1850 by the Compromise
to be what they were supposed to be, to wit,
tinalities. Both have been disregarded 1t is
now insisted that the Kansas and Nebraska
bill Of 1854 shall be another Jsnality. Be it
SO, IL such be the pleasure Of the people, but
We may be permitted to suggest to all those
who profess TO be I. Americans" according to
party designation, thatif americans ought to
rule America,' and II Kansas Do a p0rt Of
An,erica, the Territorial laws should DO amended
as before suggested, because, under that squat
ter sovereignty" act the natives Of the South
Sea Islands, the Japanese, Siamcse, yea, the in
mates Of the prisons, poor-houses and pcni-
tcntiarics Of the Old World, "yearly shipped
off to America" are placed upon perfect
equality with our own native sons! Shame
upon such demagoguisinl
If the "squatter sovereignty" doctrine is to
take the place Of, and supersede all other COM
promises on the slave question, let the doctrine
at least be SO far Americanized that under its
operation, American citizens, natire and natu-
rallied unfted, will have the right to lay the
ground work upon which the political super
structure of republican State government is
finally to be erected in the Territories.
The present and past condition of Kansas
illustrates the consequences of "squattcr soy
ereignty" doctrines, under which, pistols, bowie
knives, and rifles, are tho arguments addressed
to human beings to influence their political
action, and where military troops, called out
to enforce obedience u the laws, are compH-
nae,sted for their "forbearance" in not demolish-
ing "ten such towns as Lawrence" in revenge
u i
for political party grievances, injuries and
wrongs!" God forbid that this "squattcr-
sovereignty" doctrine, alias mo5ocraey, should
ever be tolerated in a land protesting civiiza-
ton and enjoying constitutional government
Hon. Thomas l.. CIingman- Bun
combe Statesman, and Squatter Soyer-
eighty. III
This honorable gentleman is of the trio of
Southern Hotspufs, who have arrogated to
themselves the exclusive management of the
institutions Of the South. We have under
taken to show their utter incapacity of manae-
ing anything for the good of the country, and
especially of their respective constituency, be-
cause of their want OF consistency and >re-
liability as Legislators; their politics are as
changeablc, unstable, and unsettled, as the
weather-cock, which is turned upon its pivot
with every breeze
During the Thirticth Congress, the gentle
man made speech, from which we make the |
following extracts;
Congress, In lcgislatng for the Territories, is
controlled only by the Constitution of the United
States. IL is equally true, however, that the poo
pie OF the several States likewise controlled by
this constitution; whether acting in convention or
through their ordinary legislative governments
they can do nothing contrary TO II. Congress has |
then over the Territory just snch powers as its |
Legislature would have after IL became a State |
Both are controlled by the Constitution of the !
United States as the supreme law of the land.
To enable the government, therefore, so 70 |
dispose Of the Territories as to promote the COM
mon benefit and thereby carry out the plain in |
tention of the constitution, IL obviously becomes
necessary and proper for il to divide them; SO as
70 permit one section 10 be exclusively occupied |
by freemeu, and the other by those who may hold |
slaves. BY such course only can II promote the |
general benefit Of the whole Union, for which il |
was created"
The honorable gentleman thinks the only
way in which Congress can "carry out the
plain intention Of tho constitution,n is to es-
tablish geographical line, such an one as the
Missouri Compromise line was He claimed
then that Congress had the same power over
the Territories as a State Legislature has over
the States; now, he by his action, assumes that
Congress has no control whatever over tho
question Of slavery in the Territories. Rather
singular position for statesman to be in. In
1854, in his speech in favor Of the Kansas Ne
braska bill he says;
"This, in my Judgment IL the best species of non