Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1856-10-03


A Republic 10 government which
derives all it, powers directly or indi-
rcctly from the great body Of the peo-
pie, and is administered BY persons
holding their Offices during limited
period, or during good behavior. The
will Of the people is sscertained and
expressed BY . majority Of the votes
cast by those entitled to the elective
franchise.
This method Of determining the will
Of the people, is the only safe and true
rule in . Republic. It 10 true that
very often . majority Of the votes do
not constitute q majority Of the peo-
pie, for as is the case in our Republic,
women, minors, negroes, and some few
others, such as idiots and lunatics, do
not vote, but only the FREE WHITE
MALE CITIZEN, and majority Of these
govern the State in the manner de-
fined in the Constitution.
When this majority makes laws,
they are absolutely binding upon all,
If they are constitutional-until their
repeal by the will Of majority Of the
people. An admirable Judicial system
has been erected as bulwark Of de-
Tense to the citizen against unconstitu
tionsl laws, and to this great power all
can freely resort for protection against
the tyrannical acts Of an usurpiug Leg
stature. We are filed with wonder
at the sublime and beautiful system of
government which has been presented
to us in our unparalleled National Con
stitution. How nicely each part fits
and harmonizes with the whole in
guaIding the inalienable rights Of the
citizen from the hands Of tyranny. =
What a comprehensive policy runs
through the whole system, celebrating
its symmetry into perfection, and leay-
ing nothing to supply, and nothing to
eliminate.
And yet this magnificent ARK Of hu-
man liberty made practical, which is
the admiration of the world, is sought
to be torn and lacerated, its parts dis
Jointed, its power and symmetry des-
troyed by sectional, geographical
party, which denies the right Of ma.
jority to rule, and promulgates the an
archical and INDUSTRIOUS doctrine that
no law is obligatory upon a citizen
whose conscience tells him, is wrong.
Such anti-Rcpublican doctrines are
proclaimed by party calling itself
Republican and this party has sent
forward lis hireling into Kansas to do
its behssts, that by carnage and nulif-
cation, material for political excite
ment against the South might be crea-
ted, as electioneering capital for the
election of their candidate.
When party are compelled to re.
sort TO doctrines in deadly hostility to
the very bssework Of our republican
system, by denying the right Of the
majority to rule, and by openly and
boldly avowing their determination to
resist the operation Of that portion Of
our National Constitution and the ma.
tional laws which are obnoxious to
them, then indeed is there fearful dan
ger lurking in our midst. The Fugi-
tive Slave Law, for instance, is stencil
in the nostrils Of this party, and they,
one and all, avow the right to resist it,
and the officers who seek to enforce it,
and they have gone so far in Mas.s-
chusetts by legislative enactment, as to
disqualify any lawyer from practice,
who will dare assist the United States
in enforcing the law.
This Black Republican Party repu-
dates the cardinal doctrine that the
majority shall rule, and make the laws
for the whole, and comfortable to the
personal predictions Of its leaders, it
seeks to elevate the will Of the minori-
ty above the majority, and thus create
an oligarchy in which the few only
hold the power Of government. The
leaders OF this party are purse proud
aristocrats, who hate and despise the
people, and deem that only them
selves, the minority Of the people, are
entitled to the law making power. =
They loathe the levelling doctrines Of
genuine Republicanism as embodied in
the National Constitution, and enunci-
ated in the Nebraska Bill, and they
prefer anarchy and civil war a. tend
ing to destruction of this wise Re-
publican system.
POnAe ~ . Maseac husOsss P0lck.
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