Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-07-30

will be conclusive that their pretensiJns
this respect, as in many others, do not tall
with their acts, and that as party they ar
for Slaevry. 1t will then be apparent tha
if Freedom is to be maintained anywhere
the country must rely upon Republicans t
do it.
Some suppose that if Slavery Constitu
tion is framed. in Kansas. it will have 10 b
submitted to the people for adoption, anc
| that it will then be in their power to vote
! down. Such people seem to suppose tha
| the election upon the adoption of the Con
|itntien. viii be Conducted than was that
for the election of delegates; but wha
reason have we for believing that sucl
will be the case! The same party will have
the fixing of the qualification of voters ant
the control of the whole working of the elec
tion, and if they submit the Constitution
when framed TO vote it will most probably
be uuder such circumstances as will be sure
to keep the control in their own hands. Sc
difficult is it to get rid OF a usurpation wher
once established, and when the usurpers
that l can see no way of escape while til
people submit. to give expression to their
sentiments only in the way which their usur-
pers point out.
hope the people in Kansas lies iE them
selves, and though will not undertake to
point out the mode by which they are to find
relief from the despotism which has been
established over them, but to which they
have never, further than compe lied by Fed.
era power, submitted, trust they will find
some way of escape. Had the numbers and
strength of their invaders not been SO great
as to render the strange utterly hopeless,
they would have been justif in resisting
at the outset by all the powers which God
had given them the invasion by which the
first election was carried. Then the forms
of law, as well as justice and right were all
on their side, and President Pierce would
not have had even the sem5lance Of usurped
legislation behind which to shelter himself
in sending United States troops to tramplc
upon their rights. Now, Mr.. Buchanan
makes use of the same bogus Legislature
by which 10 tyrinnize over the maiori,y of
the people. Following in the footsteps of
Pierce, he has appointed to the most impor-
tant Offices in the Territory many of the per-
sons who were instrumental in driving the
settlers from the polls and foremost in the
outrages which have desolated Kansas for
the last three years, and now sshe has the ef-
irontery. through his recently appointed
Governor, while confirming this usurped
legislation, known and proven to be such,to
invite the people under it as free and fair.
tC talk to them of the sound principle of
sell government, and Of the importance of
srcuring.to every people full and free ex-
preesioh of their opinions at the ballot-bOx.
What is this but adding insult to injury! To
What evils has the repeal of the Missouri
not led!
1t opened Kansas to Slavery. under the
plea that it was an infringement upon the
right of self-government no. to allow the
people of the Territory to act upon the sub
iect of Slavery and introduce or exclude it,
as they should think proper. Next, fearing
that the Free State men, in the exercise of
this right, might exclude the institution, it
led to the tr mping under foot of the prin-
c iple of self-government, and a complete
subiugation of the people of Kansas to
foreign despotism. Not satisfied even then.
but fearing tha, the people might at some
time throw off this despDtism, and, acting
for themselves, expel Slavery. it has a: last
led to the total abandonment and repudia-
ton of the doctrine of popular sovereignty
and self government, and TO the establish
me mt of Slavery in all the Territories, with
out the ability on the part OF either Con-
yress or the people of the Territories, or
both combined, to exclude it. Beginning
in the assertion of the great principles of
and popular sovereignty, in
allowing the people to settle the question
Of negro Slavery for themselves, it. has, in
less than three wears, ended in not only
denying them this right. but in subjuga'ing
The whites themselves to foreign usurpa-
ion ;ahd we now hear those who were ever
oudest in proclamation the sovereignt right
Of the people of a Territory toregulate their
,epeal of the ac: organizing one, of our Ter
.itories, placing its inhabitants under the
sole and exclusive Jurisdiction of the United
States, and subjecting them to trial for Of
lenses, not to jurt tof the vicinage, but to
be transported to foreign jurisdiction for
rial as England once did the inhabitants Of
ler colonies in North America, and what is
stranger tEan all, the advocate Of this mea-
sure still prates Of his devotion to The great
principle of popular sovereignty and self
government! In the face of plain consti-
utiona. provision that every person accused
Of criminal offense shall enjoy the right
% speedy and public trial BY an impartial
ury Of the State and district wherein the
,rime shall have been committed, which
districts shall have been previously asccr-
aimed by law the advocate of this measure
IN regard to one of the Territories has the
efirontery, while protesting peculiar regard
or the Constitution to recommend that the
people of Utah be placed under the sole and
exclusive ju isdiction of The United States,
md lis inhabitants taken hundreds Of miles
% Iowa for trial. For more than sixty years
he country had gone on prosperously, and
t. Territories been peaceabIy settled, Con
gress retaining its authority over them; but
he principle Of Territorial self-governmen:
md popular sovereignty inaugurated in 1884
could not stand the test of three years before
Is authors practically abandon the sub
stance, though still protesting to hug the
phantom.
To show the working ofthis great princi-
Die of popular sovereignty, ! beg leave to
cad an extract from proclamation Of the
President and rulers of the Mormon Church
n which, after finding fault with the Re-
publican party for including their sacred in
'titution in the phrase of 'the twin relics of
'ar rbarism,' they declare that:
The Democratic Convention in..Cincin-
lati, which nominated James Buchanan for
President, passed the following resolution:
'Resolred, Thai Congress has no power
lnder the Constitution to interfere with or
'ontrol the domestic institutions of the sew
,ral states. and that all such States are the
l.. al.