Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-03-19

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form its political sentiments and practices, /
and bring them into harmony with the .
Constitution and with the laws of nature [
In doing SO we shall not only reassume
our own just authority, but We shall re-
store that high tribunal itself TO the posi-
tion il ought to maintain, since so many /
inalienable rights of citizens, and even |
Of the States themselves, depend upon |
IFS impartiali;y and IFS wisdom.
THE SOUTH WILL NOT RESIST.
Do you tell me that the Slave States
viii not acquiesce, but will agitate p
Think first whether the Free States viii
acquiesce in decision that shall not only
be unjust, but fraudulent. True, they
will not menace the Republic. They
have an easy and simple remedy, name
ly, to take Government out Of unjust
and unsaithiul hands, and commit it to
those which will be just and faithful
They are ready to do this now, They
want only little more harmony of pur-
g pose and little more completeness of
organization. These will result from
only the least addition to the pressure OF
slavery upon them. You are lending
all that is necessary, and even more in
this very act. But viii the Slave States
agits.te? WhvI Because they have
lost AT last a battle they could not win,
: unwisely provoked, fought with all the
advantages Of strategy and Intervention,
and on field chosen by themselves
What would they gain? Can they COM
pc! Kansas to ado i slavery against her
will? Would it be reasonable or just
to DO it if they could? Was negro SER
gitude ever forced by the sword on any
people that inherited the blood which cir
culates in onr veins, and the sentiments
which makes US free people II they
will agitate on such ground as this, then
how, or when, by what concession we
can make, will they ever be satisfied ?
i To what end would they agitate : 1t can
now only be to divide the Union. Will
they not need some fairer and more
plausible excuse for proposition so des-
perate? How would they improve their
condition by drawing down certain ruin
: upon themselves ? Would they gain
2 any new security for slavery: Would
: they not hazard securities that are IN
: valuable? Sir, they who talk 50 idly,
talk what they DO not know themselves.
No man when cool, can promise what he
I will do when he shall become infamed ;
: no man infamed can speak for his ac-
tions when time and necessity shall bring
reflection. Mach less can any one speak
:. for States in such emergencies.
y POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY TIE oSLY RE
E! NEEDY NEEDED.
y But shall not insist now on so radical
1, a measure as the restoration Of the Mis-
d souri, prohibition. I know how difficult
to it is for power to relinquish even per
= uicious and suicidal policy all at once
= We may attain the same result in thi,
- particular case Of Kansas without going
u bacl: 50 far. Go back only to the ground
e assumed in 1354-the ground Of popular
l. sovereignty. Happily for the aathor:
IN of that measure, the jealous and ener
ii getic resistance Of abuses practiced un.
+ der il has so far been effected that popu
D; lar sovereignty in Kansas may now b,
=. made fact, and liberty there may b,
& rescued from danger through its free ex
e ercise. Popular sovereignty Is an epi'
as Of TWO parts. Part the first present
It freedom in Kansas lost Part the second
m if you will so consent to write il, shall b,
le freedom in Kansas regaiued. l! is o!
re this ground that | hail the eminent Sen
e. ator' from Illinois, (Mr. Douglass ant
III his associates, the distinguished Senate
ID from Michigan, (Nr. Stuari,) and th
Of youthful, bat most brave Senator fron
~ California, CMr. Broderick.) The lat
Q, Mr. Clay told Us that Providence ha
70 many WAYS for saving nations. God for
is lid that ] should consent TO see freedom
o. wounded, because my own lead or eve
my own agency in saving 1t should b
~ rejected. / will cheerfuIly co-opcrat
-. with these new defenders Of this sacre
n cause in Kansas, and will awald then
a. all due praise, when We shall have bee
nd successful, for their lsse share Of mer
>. in its deligerance.
is VIII you tell ne that it is difficult {
80 induce the Senate and the House Of Z,
- representatives. to take thar short back war
be step On the contrary, ;he hardest ias
h. that an Executive dictator ever set, q
he parliamentary manager ever undeHool
.er IS 10 prevent this very step from bein