Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-04-30

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,.,sne c,r.,.oss =, h.ya ,rarsfa.red Mic cover.
a =, re- ,,snnls &c tho Tarr;torv u;,bon,
ya,;on-,r;,io,, 1be r;obt az rsr;s,o ami -.
nso1 RI, - th;s r;ob, - y,sts ali local laws
reonlatinO The relations Of husband and wife. mn.
rent and child guardian and ward. master and
dave az we'll az the rights ef person and prop-
ertv was transferred absolutely and ;rreyocabiv
vested IN the necnle of the Territories of Kansas
and NoI,raska hv the law of lahA C,,,oress -
thaf act created t,co States. Something less than
a sovereign might interpret and apply lar.
something less tpan sovereign might enforce
its provisions; but nothing less than .sthc SUI
preme power in State" can make a law. If,
then, the people of Kansas have power, under
the Constitution of the United States, to cgislate
on all fit Subjects OF legislation, as perfectly as
Virginia, or Iowa, or New York. independent
of Congress, SHE is NOW a SrATE!-and she be.
came State the moment this Sup emeipower to
make all needful laws was conferred.
1t ma, br said however, that these organic
laws do not confer power on the Territorial Leg
islatures that they are merely declaratory OF
great principles of government !" that the
right to govern is inherent in the people: that
it is not the subject of transfer; that it is an in
alienable right; that it follows American cti-
zens wherever they may 90 within the iurisdic-
ton of the United States that the right of self
government, held as citizens of State, is car
ricd by the people to the Territories that il is
never lost that to take it away is an act of des.
potism.
But this does not change the conclusion. 1t
matters not atenct the rover is deriyed-wheth-
err from Congress or from nature: whether from
the Government of the United States or from
JEHOVAH! Does the power to make all needful
laws exist in the Territory? Is it absolutely YES.
ted in the people Of Kansas Yon sav in the Kan.
sas-Nebraska act that Il is thus vested and he.
ing so vested, that Congress is released from all
responsibility growing out of the character ri
these laws. But il the people of Kansas have
the absolute right to make all needful laws for
heir own government thew may create offices
and fill tbem thew NAV estabjish conrts nm.
point Judges and executive officers. The mower
10 make laws. without the power to internret
and apply them. is worthless The mower to
make and adiudicate laws. without the mower to
execute. is perfectly nuratorv. It is n mere
pretence-a shadow name-a mockerr.
The appointment ola Temporary Governor.
and Judges. and marshals IN mt the machinery
of State in motion may have heen wnll. h,,,
when these utterly fail to effect the object Of
their appointment and brinp about anarchy
NTH the supreu,e Doscer of STATE. the mower 10
make all needful iaws-would be unworthy the
honor of the American name. should they neg.
lect to provide for themselves. And it mar.
vellous that the authors Of the Kansas-Ne, raska
act--the authors of the doctrine ofsouatter sov
ereignty in Kansns-shonld eomnlain that her
neonle have organ;zad a Ssa,a Goyarn,nont Az
might the old heather deity. whose nrolifc
brain gave brit, to a Minerva when confronted
by his own offspring. comnlain that he had Great
ed god,
But If Kansas is mt a ,Stote--;f she does mn,
possess the power to make laws. which is defined
to be 1.-THE supreme power in State,-if this
right Of selfoovernment mao NOT carried nv the
speOple from the States ~ this Territorv-apd II
Congress- did NOT confer or. rho noonla ne Kansas
the right 70 enact MI neeltnl laws and ~ raen.
late the r own domestic institutions in tbe;r own
way-ifthe snuatters are ,,ot hen ,b;s
supreme mower must be vested IN the Government
Of lin, United States Har will Ioc;t;ma,aJv ex.
pressed. Is the law She has the fnll and com.
plete mower II - bsr Torr;tor.s ..,o
command what Is ryht and IN nrob;b;t wb,, i
wrnno y r 's =
The nower of Conoress n aro,,do q, xor,. ron,
all the Tarr;for;es &c tho Trn;,ad 9, ,as ~. o,,
braced within the ,;mits of anv s,ato ha;na a.
tablished or concaded / ;nou;re seaondlr ,sbots.
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sire to nroha the snb;ec. 10 ,ba op po,a nnata,
TO brush awnv Tho snrfaoo r,,h,.ish and e' -
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