The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-12-19

SATURDAY, =: DECEMBER 10, 1857.
KepsSaieanisn ". sausster Sovereignty.
In March, 1854, the grand captivating alb
sssaetion Of sSquatter Sovereignty resolved
life At the hands Of . Democratic Congress.
In giving vitality to the so-called principle
cf "Squattsr Sovereignty" solemn COM
pact, which had remained inviOlate for more
than athird Of century, was abrogAted and
rendered nusatory. This ruthless and un-
called for act, met with the just and usqual-
fled indignation and condemnation Of ali
freemen in Tic Free States. To this act of
perfdy on the part of tho Democracy, the
organization Of the Republican party is
traceable. The people Of the North had
long seen, and as frsemen sickened at the
sight-the fatal spread Of human bondage
1.-The undying efforts of the Slave power
for political supremacy--its thirst for en-
croachment and power, az Unsuitable as the
grave. With painful approximations, they
had watched the continuous aggressions Of
the Slave power over these United States,
and read in its bold acts and ayowals, deep
rooted determination 10 seize upon every oc-
casion and exigencyto swell its already infat-
ed power. Il was not surprising then, that
in 1854, when the Slave power, emboldened
BY success, threw of the mask, and ruthless
y disrcgarded plighted faith, and impiously
srampled upon ancient and sacred compacts,
that the freedom loving people of the North,
sought by party organization to exercise
every constitutional right to check the en-
croachment Of Slavery, and to spread broad
cast the blessings Of humanity and freedom.
The Republican party, therefore dates its
organized cx;atencc from the very day upon
which the Nebraska bill received vitality
1t has steadily, manfully and consistently
opposed the principle of "squatter Sover.
eignty"-denying the authority Of Congress,
Of Territorial Legislature, of any individ-
uai' o. association Of individuals, to give
'sssi existence to Slavery in any territory
'ae United States, while the present Con-
ess''on e.stf be maintained. 1t has ever
ct9Imed the inviolability Of the Missouri
Compromise, and has been lavish in its de-
nunciatiops of the party who perpetrated
that wanton and uncalled for net Of abroga-
ton. 1t has never in the least, seemed to
give aid and comfort to the principle of
"Squatter Sovereignty" 1t has ever pro-
tested against this usurpation on the part Of
tho General Government. Now, what have
been tho practical workings of "Squatter
Sovereignty ?" ... ..-u-
From the passage of the act, down to the
present time, tho Government of Kansas has
been q series of violations of every princi-
ple of equity and justice. The dearest con-
stitutional rights have been taken from the
people Of that territory, tyrannical and I'M
constitutional laws havo been enacted and
enforced-by and with the advice of the
General OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of the press
and of speech has been abridged, and when
these things have been denounced by the
Republican press, they have been ridlculed
BY the organs of the Government as sShrieks
for Freedom" Instead Of the people of
Kansas enjoying the right Of self-goyern-
ment, they have been OF the mercy of n
Slave propagating Administration. They
have had imposed upon them by the General
Government, tyrannical executive and judi
cial officers, whose usurped authority, has
been sustained by the strong arm of the
military power of the Government. All the
infringcments and outrages upon freedom
and the rights Of self-government, from the
organization of Kansas to the present time,
have been defended and upheld by the Dem
ocratic party and its organs.
The Republican press has demonstrated
with the "powers that be-" at~every stage
Of these unjust and outrageous acts, bu:
their remonstrances have ever been met with
renewed sneers at "Bleeding Kansas"
While protesting against the principle of
"Squatter Sovereignty" as uncalled for by
my exigency, and an interference with vested
rights, the Republican party has not sought
by overt acts to vitiate and overthrow it.
At the same time they have ever proclaimed
their adherence to the principle, that the
Constitution confers upon Congress sover-
eign power over the territories of the United
States for their government, and that in the
exercise of this power, it is both the right
and the duty Of Congress to prohibit Slavery
in the Territories.
But, says the Democratic organs, if you
hold to this belief, and consider the Kansas
act as great "fraud and iniquity," why do
you now insist upon its being carried out in
letter and in spirit, without interference
from the General Government The reason
Is obvious. The Republican party insist
upon Kansas being admitted into the Union
a. Free State. It knows that this cannot
DO done, if the Democratic party is now al
lowed to desert tho Popular Sovereignty
dogma and insist upon the application Of the
principle involved in the bred Scott decision.
The Administration has shown willingness
to resort to this dodge to defeat the will of
the people Of Kansas, and force Slavery up
on that embryo State. To prevent that
consummation, SO devoutly wished, by a
great portion Of the Democratic party, ths
Republican party insists upon faithful ad-
herence to the iniquitous Nebraska act, as
preferable to allowing the Administration
to assume the Supreme Dictatorship. In
this the Republican party, net entirely on
the defensive. There is no inconsistency in
their action-they are but acting ON the
principle of "between two evils choose the
least" The law of preservation would
seem to dictate this course. The South has
secured its share of the contract-all tho
territory Of the United States has been
thrown open to the blighting curse of slave
ry, subject only to the competition Of free
labor. On the question Of the extension Of
Slavery the South stands unit-ready at
any moment to make any sacrifices for the
extension and perpetaasion Of the "peculiar
To-, oe ~. r.