The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-11-26

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One Of the great merits Of the Dred
Scott decision is the total cx cxtinguishment
IL gives TO tha dogma Of eouatter ecver-
eighty ia the territories ltu;terly mega
tives the idea that there IS rny original
jurisdiction or legislative suthority in the
Territory, and ssserts that al authority
therein is der5VotiuV, coming from .sitiott
and not Inherent in its inhabitants or t.i-
bunals. LIS whole theory in regard to
authority in So Territories :s, .hs. wha;
Congress cannot do with respect to them,
therefore their own tribunals, which are
the mere agepts aud creatures Of Congress,
cannot DO; shst the supreme ul,ima;e au.
thesity Of the Territories reside outside oi
them, and not within. Thus the Supreme
Court takes direct issue with the advocate
of the s9rattcr sovereignty doctrine, that
the prime ultimate souree cf authority IN
the Territories is in its people piti,H, and
not with the United States ~tthosa
Those who entertain the later view Of
the .riein Of the authority in ,hs.TelTito
rias, derive il from q sct of very vicioxs
netions in regard to personal freedom and
personal sovereignty, which are very prev
alent among radical politicians. There are
very sound, philosophic and just doctrines
concerning popular sovereignty, md also
very absurd, uusound snd incendiary doc
trines. The sovereignty which belongs to
the people of an entire community or na.
IN he aggregate, he's two opposite
extremes, which arc equally in conflict
with the true conservative idea of popular
sovereignty. On one hand it is maintain
cd that, because nation possesses the a.
tribute Of sovereignty in the aggregate,
usage may, for convenience sake, htve
concentrated all the sovereign functions in
q single individual of specific lineage. IS
king, monarch or the like. On the Oft ar
extren ., It's contcpded that, because the
people are sovereign in the aggregate, each
particular individual member of the ma
tionality is individually and ssverally
sovereign in his own person aud right az
an integer man and not as member Of
the community Each OF those extreme
a3Ggmas is alike hostile 70 the true idea,
he nation and not Of the individual, and
ths, each individual person is an integral
participant of that sovereignty only as a
member Of tie notwithstanding no
right on the one hand TO usurp the entire
sovereignty 10 himself, nor, on the other,
10 seize to himself his integral microscopic
fraction Of sovereignty and march of with
it; but that, in the latter case, BY his ex-
he loses his integral individual
share of sovereignty and becomes wan
derer, an adventurer, pirate, or colon
ist, az the case may be, until be joins him
self II some nationality with its consent,
The radical, red republican, squattsr
sovereign idea, prevalent among radical
politicians, is very different from the ono
last stated II is. tbst I, Gs the people Of
each nationality are sovereign, the iudi-
yidual merhcrs of the nationality afs each
absolute soyercigus n thc'r oryp persons,
in all things affecting mere individuality,
and many romain in the nationality in
which they are born in full absolute poss-
ession Of this individual sovereignty, OF
if fexpa,riatiug themselves from il, carry
along with them in indefcasiblc right this
inherent sovereignty wherever they 60
TIE corollory Of this doctrine Is, that if no
more than one single man 20 out from n
State into uncccupied domain, he carries
this inherent sovereignty bis back, and
stamps itIon his new territorial abode
much more, tha; if two or three of such
sovereign ome.outcrs gather together in
any unoccupied domain, or two or three
thousand, or twenty or thirty thousand of
them, they stamp their aggregate sover-
eighty on that territory. This then is
equatter sovereignty, and its source is
found in the rcd republican doctrine of
absolute indiyidualsovereiguty,i inherent in
;he intcger individual and not derlvative
from bis nationality. 1t has its origin in
the same ect Of doctrines which give the
Negro slave the right Of running away,
married women the right TO obey the al
lurements Of passioual attraction, and make
all governments tho mere creature and
bubble Of the mob q he dogma Of squat
ter sovereignty derive, he supreme au.
thority in new Territories from the few
scattering adventures therein, good and
bad, including the vsgsbonds and outlaws
who have fed there from fear OF punish.
ment, quilted organized government from
restiy euess under its conservative restraints
or sought that fortune beyond the limits
OF society, which their imprude nee, want
of thrift or want Of honesty had lost them
within it. Thus the dogma IL not only
derived from vicious source, but rests
on vicious popular basis.
We might enlarge at great length upon
the baletul results of erecting new States
and governments in the donains Of the
Union on such vicious basis, upon princi-
ples derived from so radical an origin aud