The Kanzas news., 1858-08-14

slrnfss sasz tbs extension Of slsyery into
= al the territory north Of that COMPROMISE
line. Mr. Charles Walker, who gave i've
! hubdFsd dollars in Nay, 1856, % sssist in
repelling the pFo-slaYery raid which lfr
4 Douglas eountenanced; may. possibly. il
his reception speech, explain 70 those who
viii be there to hear. wherein Hr. Douglas,
in his treatment of Kansas affairs, has en-
titled himself to the support and gratitude
of the people of Illinois.
Il III. In the summer of 1857, hr. Doug
las being invited By partisan Grand Jury
4 of tbs q. S. District Court, made char
acteristic harangue at Springfield. the Cap.
lital OF the State. In that speech he plsinly,
fatty. and unequivocally endorsed and af-
frmed the decision-05iter dieta and ALL
of the Supreme Court of the United States.
/ in the case of Drsd Scott. What he so sf-
| fFmed onr readers know; bat We recapit-
ulate.
lst. That negro has no rights which a
white man is bound to respect.
! ed. That the Missouri Compromise,
which Mr. Douglas has again and again en-
dorsed IS one of the highest evidences of
political wisdom, is unconstitutional.
Sd. That no Territorial Legislature has
the power 70 prohibit slavery in the Terri
tory for which it acts.
| 4th. That the people of q Territory,
though unanimous in their action. have no
right TO prohibit slavery therein.
9th. That Congress has no power over
slavery in the Territories. -zHe
9Th That slavery exists in ali the Terri
tories by virtue of the Constitution alone.
The decision and the obitsr dieta accom-
paBying utterly demolished the Squatter
Sovereignty humbug in which Mr.. Doug
las pretended to believe, and at once reduc-
ed the creed of the Democracy, in reference
to the slavery question, to formula like
this: .tSlayery is a sacred thing; let it alone.
Neither the people, or Congress can touch
it; it exists by virtue of the Constitution;
let it alone i'' This construction of the
Dred Scott iniquity is to-day the basis of
Mr.. Douglas political action. It is the
foundation upon which his theory rests;
and though be generously permits the peo-
pie, when they form State Constitution.
to regulate their institutions in their own
way" he grants them only the exercise of
right which no politician, no political par
ty has ever denied To this is the doctrine
of Popular Sovereignty reduced 1t is a
fitting termination of that campaign of fraud
which Mr.. Douglas inaugurated in 1861
We charge that this Dred Scott decision
was the consummation at which the Demo
cratic party aimed-that the Squatter Sow
ereignty humbug preached by our Senator
and re-echoed by his journals all over Iii
nois and the North, was the lure by which
the people were led to the support of that
series of monstrous propositions which We
have enumerated above. Mr. Douglas set
ont in life a believer in the sovereign power
of Congress over the Territories, and he
assisted in exercising it times without LIN I'm
ber. He descended from that to Squatter
Sovereignty, which denied that power in
toto, but conferred it upon the squatters of
each Territory; and, at last, he brings up
an advocate of the dogmas of Calhoun,
which, when first broached, were secuted
by the whole country, and by none more
loudly than our Senator himself. He has
assisted in revolutionizing the Government
in the line of its most important policy, in
amending the Constitution without the con
sent of the people; and as the result OF his
labor, slavery is declared to exist in every
Territory in the Republic. MIR. Douglas
afirmations on these points remain uncoE--
tradieted by any subsequent action. They
are to be taken as his opinions to-day. He
believes that slavery everywhere exists in
the common territory, and that it can be
expelled only when the people thereof form
their State Constitutions. This he digui-
fes by the name of Popular Sovereignty.
or the right of tEe people to govern them
selves! A right which comedies every
thing to slavery, except that one thing
which no party has ever had the hsrdlhood
to deny-the right of people 10 make a
Constitution to suit themselves. In al TINS
where do we discover single point witch
any consistent opponent of slavery, or any
man who mildly deprecates slavery extern
sion. can endorse, or which entities Mr..
Douglas to Republican support?
" The jeaiousies and rivairies which
have long existed in the bogus Democratic
party--some of which originated in the
Cincinnati Convention, and others of sub
sequent origin-broke out into fierce blaze
soon after the opening of the late session OF
Congress. Alleged intrigues for the sue
cession--not want of harmony on points of
doctrine--in which it is said that Bright,
Buchanan, Cobb, Slidell, and Douglas were
opposing parties, were the origin, while 3
question of fact touching the submission
of the Lecompton Constitution, was the os-
tensible cause of the war. The Republi-
cans said that any State Constitution ought
to be submitted to the people. at an election
for that purpose, and TO this general propo-
sition, Mr.. Buchanan and Mr.. Douglas as
sented But the President declared that
the Lecompton swindle had been so sub
1 mitted, and the Senator aFerred that it had
not; and thus the war began. The contest
that followed is fresh in the memory of our
readers. They know that the Republicans
/ in either House-difering radically with
both the principal combatants-entirely re-
pudiating the legality and legitimacy of all
] parts of Kansas history, from the time Of