The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1857-12-31

fundamental as it is, in regard to the OBJ
icct Of the Nebraska bill and the prin-
ciplc asserted in it.
HOW DOUGLAS had TALKED.
Now, sir whatw the principloenun-
ciatad by the authors and supporters of
that bill when it was brought forward2
Did we not como before the country
and say thatwo repealed The Missouri
restriction for the purpose Of substitu-
ting and carrying out as n general
rule the great principle Of sclf-govorn-
meut, which left the people Of each
State and each Territory free to form
and regulate their domestic institu-
tions in their own way, subject only
to the Constitution of the United
Statcs2 Tn support Of that PROPOSE
ton, it was argued here, and [ have
argued it wherever I have spoken, in
various States of the Union, pc home
and abroad, everywhere I have endeav-
ored to prove that there was no rea-
son why an exception should be made
in regard TO the slavery question 1
have appealed to the people if we did
not agree, men of all parties, that all
other local and domestic questions,
should be submitted to the people. /
said to them, 1--WE agree that The people
shall decide for themselves what kind
of a school system they will establish;
we agree that the people shall determine
for themselves what kind of banking
system they will have or whether they
will have any banks at all; we agree
that the people may decide for them
selves what shall be the elective fran
chiso in their respective States; they
shall decide for themselves What shall
be the rule of taxation and the princi-
Piles upon which their finance shall bo
regulated; we agree that they may de-
eide for themselves the relations be-
tween husband and wife, parent and
child, guardian and ward; and why
should we not then allow them to de-
eide for themselves the relation between
master and servant? Why make an ex-
ception of the slavery question by tax
ing it out Of that great rule of sclf-gov-
ernment which applies to all the other
relations Of lifc?' The very first pro-
position in the Nebraska bill was to show
that the Missouri restriction, prohibiting
the people from deciding the slavery
question for themselves, constituted an
exception to a general rule, in violation
Of the principle Of sclf-goycrnmcnt, and
hence that exception should be repealed,
and the slavery question, like all other
questions, submitted to the people to be
decided for themselves.
WHY THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE WAS
ABOLISHED
Sir, that was the principle on which
the Nebraska bill was defended by its
friends Instead of making the slavery
question an exception, it removed an
odious exception which before existed.
Its whole obiectwas to abolishthatodious
exception, and make the rule general,
univcral, in its application to all mat
tcrs which we're local and domestic, and
not national or FEDERAL. For this reason
was the language cmG loycd which the
President has quoted; that the eighth
section of the Missouri act, commonly
called the Missouri Compromise, was re.
pcalod because it was rcpugnant to the
principle Of non-intcrvcnton established
by the compromise measures of 1850
sit being the true intent and meaning
Of this act not to lcgisIate slavery into
any Territory or State, nor tC
exclude it thcrcfrom. but to leave tho
people thereof perfectly free to form
and regulate their domestic institutions
in their own way, subject only to tht
constitution Of the United States. -
We repealed the Missouri restriction
because that was confined to slavery
That was the only exception there was
to the general principle Of self-goycrn
ment. That exception was taken away
for the ayowod and express purpose OF
making the rule of sclfgoycrumen
general and universal, so that the peo
pie should form and regulate all thei
domestic institutions in their own way
DOUGLAS HAS SPENT STRENGTH, BREATH
CAsH-HE WARNS IN THE HARNEs
AND TELLS THE PRESIDENT on III
RADICAL ERRORS.
Sir, what would this boasted princi
pie of popular sovereignty have becl
worth, if it applied only to the negro
and did not extend to the white MANI
DO you think we could have aroused
the sympathies and the patriotism Of
this broad Republic, and have carrio
/ the Presidential election last year il
/ the face Of a tremendous opposition
on the principle Of extending the righ
of solf.govornmont to the negro qucs
ton, but denying it as to all the rela
tions affecting white men? No, sir
We aroused the patriotism Of the coun
| try and carried the election in defens
Of that great principle, which allowe
all white men to form and regulat
their domestic institutions 10 sui
/ Observation-Disclosures applicable t
white men as we'll as to black men
institutions applicable to freemen q
well as to Observation-Disclosures ooncerr
ling all the relations Of life, and nC
tho mere paltry exception of the slay,
Try question. Sir, i have spont to
much strength and breath, and none
too, to establish this great principle i
the popular heart now to see it fri
tered away by bringing it down TO a
exception that applies to the negr
aud does not extend to tho benefit c
the white man. AS l said before,
can we'll imagine how Che distinguish
D. land eminent patriot aud statesman no
at the head Of the Government fell in
|tI,c orror C,r orror a. ig radical I'm.