Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-04-15

"Fair words" says very old proverb, shut
ter no parsnips;" but unhappy, human beings
are more plant to the oleaginous anointment,
especially when they want to be buttered. For
three years past, our Democratic politicians have
from day to day proclaimed their invincible
determination to protect the people of Kansas
in their right to frame their own Constitution
and establish or exclude Slavery as they may
choose; and, throughout all those weary
months the acts of those politicians, have given
the lie to these fair professions. The Nebraska
bid was introduced and commended, in an elab.
crate report by Senator Douglas expressly as
measure calculated and intended to allow the
people of Kansas and Nebraska to admit or ex-
clude Slavery as they should see fit; but when
Gov. Chase March 2, 1854 } moved to insert in
the bill a clause giving those people expressly
the right to prohibit Slavery, the proposition
was voted down--36 to l0-Douglas and every
other supporter of his bill voting against it, ex-
cept Gen. Cass, who lodged. Again, when Gov.
Territories respectively to choose Governors for
themselves, this development of the principle of
Popular Sovereignty" was likewise voted down
yeas, ~; nays, 30-Douglas again among the
noes, Cass silent or absent. So when Judge
Trumbull (July 9, 1860 moved that the Kan
sas-Nebraska bill "does confer upon or leave to
the people of Kansas full power, at any time,
through the Territorial Legislature, to exclude
Slavery from said Territory, or organize and
regulate it therein"-he was voted down by "a
to ll-Cass, Douglas, Toucey, and every adyo.
cate of the Nebraska bill, except Allen of 4. l.,
voting in the majority against the Republicans.
Yet, in the face of these facts, and thousands
equally pertinent and notorious, we hear every
day that the principle contended for by the De-
mocracy, and affirmed in the election of Blu
chanan, was that of the right of the people of
Territory to establish or exclude Slavery at will!
Men who swallow such brazen falsehoods are
only deceived because they love to be, and SO
far as they choose to be.
The latest version of the Pro.Slavery Demo-
cratic creed aftirms the right of the people of
Territory to enact or reject Slavery only uhen
they come to frame and adopt a State Constit,t-
hon-that is, when they cease to be people Of
Territory. This doctrine is obliquely resolved
in the Cincinnati Platform, more plainly asserted
in Mr.. Buchanan's Inaugural, and squarely af-
frmed by the Supreme Court in the bred Scott
decision; so that, while the Republicans labor
ed all through the late canvass under the i'm
putation of denying to the people of the Terri
tories rights common to those of the States, it
now appears that this is precisely the position Of
those who have been charging it as an offence
upon us. They deny to the people of Terrific
r. any right to shut out Slavery SO long as they
remain in the Territorial condition. They prac,
tically affirm the right of any one STAKEHOLDER
to plant Slavery in any Territory, in defiance of
the wishes and circumstances of all the residue
of its citizens. This is the goal which 'tSquat-
| ter Sovereignty" has already attained: We
have no belief that 1t will stop here. Whenev-
er such q decision shall be demanded, We shall
have q judgment from the slayeholding majority
Of the Supreme Court affirming an infeasable
right in every STAKEHOLDER, who in good faith has
migrated with his slaves to Territory, TO have
his property" respected and protected when
that Territory comes to frame for itself q
State Constisution.--IN. 7. Tribune