Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-11-18
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aEDNEsDAY, NOVRM'R is. 1857.


The present national administration, having
come into power on the strength of its profes.
sons in favor of the doctrine of the entire sover-
eighty OF the people of the Territories over their
own local affairs, and of giving the people there
the full right to regulate their own domestic
institutions in their own mode, and uncontrolled
by the general government" President Buchanan
now finds il not so easy matter to int erfere with
the win Of the popular soVereigns" Of Utah,
who think they best understand what g institu'
tons" are most desirable for their welfare, and
who is best qualified to administer the executive
affairs of tbs Territory.
It will be recollected that, previous to the cleo
tion last year, the Mormons met in convention,
election Of Nj. Buchanan, because they under
TODD the policy foreshadowed in the Cincinnati
platform, and by the orators and presses Of the
party, to be favorable to letting them have their
own way in the mansg .ment Of their own "pecu-
iarinssitution." and also they hoped and infer
red as to whom would be entrusted with the
government Of their Territory; and when they
eontrasted the position of the Democracy with
that assumed in the Philadelphia platform.
which pledged the supporters of Fremont to ia
vor the exclusion by the power of the general
government, Of those twin relics of barbarism,
slavery and polygamy, from an the national Ter
ritories," they were doubly confirmed in their
adherence to the irrational Democratic" creed.
and in their sympathy for the success Of Mr.. Blu
ohananli ia that eontest.oe 7seas es.fa3
1t has ever seemed to us that the great cause Of
lee, ,v;fn ~ q IEah hoe haan
this very profession Of advocacy Of the popular
sovereignty doctrine, the assumed right of the
squatters in the Territories to have everything
their own way, uncontrolled by the power of Con-
gress or the general government Had it not
been forsthis cause, the Moru1ons could have
been reduced to subsection long since, and the
control Of the general government over the Ter
ritory would have been supreme and undoubted.
The predcament in which the national executive
is now placed, in its non-suecess in the attempt
to carry into execution the laws of Congress or
ganizing Utah, is but a. jnst retfibution for the
folly of The leaders of the party in power, in
vaunting forth SO much nonsense about "squatter
sovereignty" in order to legalize slavery in the
Territories, and then backing out of their own
doctrine, when they found its application was
going to- work against them, and Illustrate their
original object,
If the Shareholder from South Carolina with
his three hundred slaves, may hold them in the
trrtory by virtue of the Constitution Of the Uni
ted States, may not Brigham Young and
A.s followers claim the protection of the same
Constitution,n the right to enjoy their peculiar
Institution" by having as many wives as they
please, in spite ofany interference whatever from
without And, il the people of Utah are guaran.
t.ed, by the principles Of the Nebraska bill, the
power to regulate their own affairs in their own
mode, Unrestricted BY Congress, and Subject
only to the Constitutions Of the United states,"
which gives the people there entire Sovereignty
over the territory" as the Democracy aver, how
can the President expect the Mormons willingly
TO surrender up their claimed right to choice as
70 their own GoyeInori
Since writing the above, the important intelli.
gence came By telegraph, last evening, as seen in
smother column, that Brigham Young has issued
proclamation to the United States troops now
in the territory for the sake of reducing the Nor
mons into subsection, in which he de6es the gen.
eral government, and counsels hostilites on the
ner, and orders the United States troops to leave
the territory This is an assertion Of popular
sovereignty" on the part of the ''people" of
Utah, with vengeancel Let President Buchau-
an hurry on his troopsto 'ssubjugate7 the rebel
lions Mormons, if he has any backbone,