Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-03-12
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THURSDAY, MARCH IL 1887.
Popular Sovereignty Disowned.

BtOAcosSA
doctrine of the national Democracy having been
sdisowned and expressly disavowed by the new
President in his inaugural, in accordance with
the recent decision Of the Supreme Court 1t
seems the national Democracy OF Kanzas Chat
is, the border ruffians, who have now taken fnat
namel have commenced already to practice, IN
special illustration Of the new theory OF GEM
ocratic" faith. The bogus Legislature when rep
resents the border ruan interest, recently passed
( bin ostensibly providing for the calling OF
convention, to frame State constitution, but
emitting from the bill any provision for the submits
sion Of the constitution the people of the terri
tory, for their approval
That bogus body, which acts in utter defiance
of the popular viii which it Processes to repre-
sent, imagines that by this means pro-slavers
constitution may be frsmrd, BY its own adher-
ents, and be forced upon the people there, vast
majority OF whom are free State men, by refusing
60 let them have voice in its adoptoni we'll
knowing, as these ruffians do, that should such
bogus constitution be submitted to the people for
approval, it woold be Indignantly rejected by
them.
To the honor of Gov. Geary, he refused to give
his official sanction to such an unprecedented
act Of legislation The reasons he gives for his
veto. are such as would suggest themselves to
any one who possessed any appreciative regard
for the application of the once Wanted doctrine
of " popular sovereignty to the territories. At
ter showing that the bill was in that respect in
direct conflict with all principle and precedent,
In refusing the people of Kanzas voice in the
I'D ption Of constitution framed proiessedly for
aaer own.g government. Gov Geary quotes from
he nf
D. in she Senate, to sustain his position follows;
:. Senator Toombs, in his report on his bill for
calling Of convention in Kanzas, thus logically
enumerates the various steps in the formation of
constitution :-t The preliminary meetings. the
calling Of the convention, the appointment OF
delegates, the assembly Of the convention, the
formation Of the constitution, the voting on its
ratification, the election Of officers under it..
In the same report the Georgia Senator most |
justly remarks - Whenever a constitution shall |
be formed in any territory, preparatory to its adj
mission into the Union as a State, justice, the |
genius Of our institutions, the whole theory of |
republican system, imperatiyely demand that |
the voice Of the people shall be fairly expressed,
and their will embodied in that fundamental I
law, without fraud. or violence, or intimidation,
or any other improper or unlawful influence, and |
subject to no other restrictions than those inn
posed BY the Constitution Of the United States
g Thus terrifying himself by showing that the bo-
gus Legislature of Kanzas has outraged all pIin-
ciple and propriety, even in the estimation Of de-
cent shareholders, Gov. Geary coneludes:-
. The voice of the people fairly expressed ana |
its embodiment in the fundamental law, should |
lie.
But how can the voice of the people be fairly |
expressed, and their will be embodied in the-or- |
ganic Iav, unless that law, when made, be sub |
mitted to them to determine whether it is their |
will which the convention has proclaimed" /
There is nm dnnht that for Tins himself !
against the last pet scheme Of the Atchison and
stringfellow national Democracy (" to ensiaye
Kanzas, GOp. Geary will soon lose his efRce. AL.
ready powerful influences are at work on Mr. Blu
chanan to induce him to accede to the demands
of his national Democratic" allies, the border
ruffans. If popular sovereignty" can. be
spurned to the extent of refusing to let the peo
pie of territory have voice in the adoption Of
Constitution for their own government as State, |
why will not Mr.. Buchanan go the full figure, and |
remove Geary for standing in the way of the per-
feet accomplishment of all the schemes of the
border rufians. and put in his place some plant
8 tool who viii decline in nothing to do their bid
dings
-aA To be sure, the bogus Legislature Immediately
passed the bill in question by anearly unanimous
vote, over the head Of the Governor and it is now
law, and viii be defended as such by every sup
porter Of the administration. Yet it is not pleas.
ant thus to have an important branch of the s'na-
tional Democracy" insulted by an officer Of
the administration, who thus fails to adapt him.
self, practically and squarely, in everything, to
the new doctrines in reputation of popular
sovereignty" which have been advanced by the
President, in his inaugural, and defined by the
Supreme Court in the bred Scott case. There
fore, Geary must be removed, for such occasional
acts Of adherence to old Democratic policy as
vetoing unjust and tyrannical legislation, though
In ssher matters he may favor the slavery policy.
+ CANr.-President Buchanan says in his inaug-
ural -
:" The political subjects which, but few years
ago, excited and exasperated the public mind,
have passed away. and are nearly forgotten but
this question Of domestic slavery is of far greater
Importance than any mere political question, be-
cause, should the agitation continue, it may
eventually endanger the personal safety of a
large portion of our countfYmen, where the insti.