Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-08-15
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eecuS hoax npon popular creduli,y. than this
observation-disclosures of-Squa,ter Sovereign
ty!" The Territories are the property o: the
people Of the United States The political
Sovereignty of the Territories is in the people.
the ownership Of the soil is in the people and
the peoples Representatives in Congress are
plainly required 10 exercise the said political
Sovereignty, and to manage the said property
according TO the wishes and the true interests
of their constituents,
Now has Congress the right to abdicate the
Sovereign power of the people in to and over
vast region like Kansas to the few emf
grants who NAV chance TO re first on the SPOT,
How many people does it require. gentleman.
10 exercise your glorious prerogative of Soua,.
ter Sovereignty Can three men do it : Can
three dozen do ii J Can three hundred DO it
Or, does it take three thousand, Doe, no,
everybody see that 10 leave mighty question
like Slavery or Freedom TO he determined nv
the first few settlers in Territory large enough
Tor a great En- pire, is Piece Of sheer folly
The whole peop'e of the United States have
an interest in this great question. and the
whole people of the United States have right,
through their Representatives, 10 take par, in
its determination. True, Mr.. Kent MCay
tod US ip his speech that we the people Of
..Oid Tarstuwn" had no right 10 meddle in the
matter. But even Mr.. Ken, M'Cay was too
well informed Ia believe his own assertion
1-,aAr hosra ,i,,, .laI r 4
few spoony Democrats of Pennsylvania. The
doctrine Of Squater Sovereignty was first In
vented by Gen. Cass in 1918. The only use
that faSs wished 10 make Of it. was 10 enable
him 10 dodge the mighty question Of Slavery
extension, and thus se, votes for the Preslden-
cy, both in the N"r'I and in the South. Squat
ter Sovereignty vs. u very Young and very
feeble hobby at that time, and /, broke down
with the great Michisanaer on its back. The
old General took sucn bad cold that ne has
never seen well day lpoIllcaiiy)from thattime
10 this. But though Squs;ier Sovereignty had
failed TO answer the purpose OF ten. Ca-s,yet
Il was his own Invention, and he loved II with
a very constant love. He stabbed il, and fed
Ia the street to show II 10 the public. And
what siehI. Lean, consumpiive, spawned
ringboned, blind, and wind-broken. WHY
with such carcase, even our keenest jockey
couldn't have cheated the mos, un ophistica cated
city clergyman. Squauer Sovereignty was
carefully avoided by all political jockeys. and
laughed at by all sensible people. until very
brilliant thought found lis way into the head
OF Stephen Arnold Douglas. Kansas hes close
upon Missouri. and Douglas and his fellow
conspiratorS, conceived the plan Of organizing
Territorial Government. leaving the ques-
ton Of Freedom or Slavery os,enslbly for the
people 10 decide hut thea part of the plan
was, 10 throw into Kansas a sufficient number
of MisSourans to make the establishment of
slavery absolutely certain.
But how was this holy enterprise defeated
by the perverseness Of the children of men !!
The people Of the North. and of The East,
anu g! tnS ~ c,,
that they preferred Freedom to Slavery. By
individual energy and enterprise, and by the
help of the awiully wicked "Aid SocIelies, ~
be chosen. there was in the territory of Kan
sas clear majority of the actual settlers
who were IN favor of making il a Free State.
Wha, now was 10 be done, Pierce, Douglas.
Sirinsfellnw and Atchison, were not long in
deciding. Their great paramount aim had
been from the beginning to introduce slavery
into the territory. So noble and pure was
this d"ed IN their eyes, that they concluded
that the "end jusfifies the means" The Blue
! Lodges were organized. Men were sworn 10
AID IN the propagation of Slavery, and on
the day of election. the polls were overrun
by armed Missouri bullies, and Legislature
was chosen by this Missouri mob, who were
men afte. A,chison's own heart.
The laws which were PASSED by this mob
Legislature, were worthy of such paterni-
,y. None so infamous, that ! know OF, have
been enacted IN this age Of the world. They
would disgrace even The Despotism Of Aus
, ina; and their enforcement BY Pierce and
/ his satellites, would disgrace that Haynau,
who for his teasily cruelties was beaten half
10 death by the laboreIs in a London brew
: cry And, fellow citizens, the sustaining of
these laws, and Of the Legislature which
! passed them, is part and parcel Of rhe Gin
I cinnatI rla,form-rhat platform into which
James Buchanan has merged his moral DO
it'cai and personal identity. Any opponent
ol PIerce's Administration, is also the oppo.
neat Of Squartr Sovereignty, as explained
I by the great II gh Priests of the Sham Dem.
ecIacv. Squatter Sovereignty being inter-
| preted by nigh, infaliibie Dem mocra,ic author.
/ ity, simply means SLAVERY Propagandism.
! OLD DEMOCRAT.
! MoSIorR.-V. BEST, editor Of the
Danville hts'ltyepcsr, will be candidate
for the pcmocratla nomination to Congress
/ Hon. JOHN g. MONTGOMERY will also b.
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