Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-05-09
Utah and Kan sas.

1squatter sovereignty, which was FOR some
time the great plank in the platform o
Douglas and the doughfaces who repeaIe,
the, Missouri compromise. When squattel
sovereignty ceased to be sufficient for the
purpose Of driving the white men out Of
| Kansas, in order to make room for negroes
Judge fancy and his associates promuga
ted another doctrine for the democracy, and
Douglas and all the doughfaces adopted it.
The doctrine now is, that shareholders are
privileged to take their negroes INTO either
of the states or territories, and hold them
There in spite of all laws that can he pass
ed by "a state. But whilst the doctrine OF
Isqlatter sovereignty has been abandoned
lin its application to the negro question, for
THE reason that it was not found quite
strong enough to give Kansas to the ne
Egroes, to the exclusion of the working men
Iof our own race, it seems to have been pre-
served in allit integrity in Utah, where
fthe polygamous Mormons have possessed
themselves of the entire territorial govern,
ment, and Brigham Young wields despotic
power. The border rufians, bad as they
have been, must hide their diminished
heads, when they attempt TO compare theil
Ioutrages IN behalf of slavery, with the
idamning atrocities prepetrated by Brigham
and his saints, in defence of the peculiar in
stitution which has converted Utah into one
great brothel. ye.s- .H
The border rufians did commit a num-
y nov cc numbers ~ -, fLoso tbn,r to1 .ha
assistance Of the United States my,whilst
Brigham has probably committed as many,
not ouly without the assistance of the arlliy,
but with the army against him; which,
with Col. Stepote al its head, he caused to
march out Of the territory in double quick
time. The border ruffians have also had
the judges on their side, and have done
nothing too atrocious for Lecompte and
Cato to uphold. The Mormons, on the
contrary, have been opposed by their iu5lg
es, and have driven them out of Utah. for
daring to enforce the laws. Brigham and
his peculiar institution have proven too
strong for the aws-teo strong for Col
Steptoe and the arny-too strong for the
Genti.es; and therefore, this peculiar spe-
cies of squatter sovereignty is considered
quite able to take care of itself. Mr.. Pierce,
therefore, did no. intefere with it, and the
supreme court have not thoughtit worth
while to declare that man has the right
to marry as many wives as he pleases, a
gainst the laws of the states and territories,
for Brigham has sufficiently established
that proposition. In Kansas the thing Is
different. So many white men have gone
into that territory tina: it was getting to be
very doubtful Whistler it would be posi-
bic to drive them out,as was done last sum
mer, IN order To make room for negroes. =
Hence, it became necessary to abandon
the squatter sovereignty doctrine, SO far as
it applied to the right of the people to ex-
clude negroes, and the supreme court hare,
therefore, taken the bull by the horns, and
declared that men who own negroes can
take them into the territories and states,
and hold them in spite of the laws st.
Louis Democrat. NkN er.
RAILROADS IN THE SLAVE STATES
Long after the Free States had thousands
of miles of railroads, some of the Slave
States, procured sufficient foreign capital
Ito build few railroads there. But rail
roads, it should be remembered, are mere
channels to commerce, and therefore, where
there is nothing produced, and no free pop
Iulation to travel, railroads cannot be made
Ito pay running expenses.
/ Tile Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad
Eone of the best situated in the Virginia
Railroad system-found on examination o.
its last years business that its expenses a
mounted to more than its income by $685.
1000. There are several others much less
useful and promising. Yet this railway,
which is the only one passing from Nor
folk and Portsmouth into the interior, must
carry much heavier trade than it now
does, or it will prove an annual loss TO the
State. between seventeen and eighteen
thousand dollars of the notes of the compa-
ny have deem issued and discounted 10 the
last year. All the money they obtained
has been swallowed up by the expenses Of
keeping up theroad. The prospects of the
general railway system of Virginia is how
ever gloomy, when one of It's best lines
presents SO unsatisfactory a comparison OF
the expenses with the income.
MARRIAGE OF SLAVES. "A committee
of FIVE clergymen of the Charleston, s. G.,
Baptist Association, submitted a labored
report upon the marriage Of slaves, at the
last meeting of the Association. Their
general conclusion is that the condition
|ofthe slaves being peculiar, they cannot
be held strictly to the Christian rule in re-
specific marriage; if taken from one PLAN
tation to another, they may forsake one
wife and take new one lin fact, they may
take new wife at each removal. This
has long been the Southern practice, but
we believe it has never before received The
open sanctions of any branch Of Christian
church. These clergymen argue that the
lslave must, and may rightfully obey the
wishes of his owner in this matter-eyen to
the extent of premiscuous intercourse
though they hesitate to say that distinctly
where that would be for the masters in
|terest by increasing the number Of bis
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