Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-01-04
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY.


We understand that on Saturday last, a
Democratic meeting was held at the Court
House, at which about fifty persons endorsed
this Administration and its doings, in the
name ofthe Democracy of sandusky county.
The same men during the pending of the
Kansas Nebraska bill, got up letter 10 the
Hon. Mr.. Green, then our Representative,
endorsing his course in voting for that bill,
and representing that the people of this
county would sustain him.. But at the next
ensuing choice of Representative the people
of the district repudiated Mr.. Green and his
party, by a majority of about 5000, toward
which Sandusky county contributed fair
proportion. We doubt not that the people
ofSandusky county, will repeat this renun-
citation of the Administration and its policy,
as soon as they have an opportunity. The
fifty who assembled at the Court House on
Saturday, do not speak the voice of the
Democracy, much less of the people, of this
county. If however, the fifty choose to
stake their hopes of Offices of honor and prof
it, on the policy of this Administration, we
are content. They may rest assured that
when they shall pray that this action Of
theirs may be forgotten the people will re-
member it.
We care very little, however, what thii
fifty choose to call democracy. We COM
meneed this article rather with view to say
few words on that blasphemous doctrine
called Popular Sovereignty" understood
in the sense in which the fifty have declar-
ed it to be Gospel, The sense of their en-
dOrsement of Pierce and his policy is this
let the squatter sovereigns of the new terri
tory decide whether they will have slavery
or not. And this is modern democracy! =
The people of a State or territory may
enslave part of their own population at
will. 1t is no answer to say that the person
enslaved is black; or that they are already
slaves, and will only have their habitation:
changed from the old States to new ones
In what part of the democratic creed or o
any creed that even the fifty will profess, i.
it taught that man may be enslaved be.
cause he is black9 And remember that i
slavery is established in these new terrific
ries, it makes slaves of thousands, perhaps
millions, yet unborn. Reduced to its es
sence, the doctrine of squatter sovereignty
as held by the fifty, amounts to this, tha
the majority may introduce slavery into any
state or territory if they will; and if they
have right TO make slaves of any human
being, then they have an equal right tc
make slaves ofa part Of their own number
that is the majority can, in the exercise
of popular sovereignty, reduce the minority
to slavery,-if they are black at any rate
and it seems to us that the right is equal
ly good if they are white. We sincerely
wish that this right to reduce minority tc
slavery, might bc exercised on the ffty-til
they repent.
We called the doctrine of popular sover
eighty, as understood by the fifty, blasphe
nous, because it makes majority greate
than God himself. Can a majority rightly
introduce slavery into Kansas and Nebras
ka?-slavery as it exists in the Southern
States, where all protection is deliberately
taken away from the chastity of woman anC
the life of man ?-where the evidence of
negro is inadmissable against white ?
where the most sacred ties of the family ar
as little accounted Of, as relationship among
beastsl Can popular sovereignty rightfull..
introduce such slavery as this into our nev
territories? Then, God and his laws are oh
solete, and the majority is the only God tn
American people know. That the majorit
can rightfully do what God and righteous
ness allow, We admit,-that they can d
: what these forbid, we deny. Let the fift
, ponder these things, and we hope they ma
amend their ways and their doings.
H Mr.. Richardson, of H., is evidentl
dead in the House of Representatives, bu