The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-05-28
The late Douglas Press i'm Michigan.

The Douglas papers in this State have
for the past five months, devoted all tho
time they could spare from their labor Of
libeing our State officers, to the gloriou,
task of clarifying popular Sovereignty.
1t has been the only political principle with
them, worth contending about. For il
they had rebclled against their party, and
for it they have sworn by all the devils in
the border rullian calender, they would
live and die The salvation of the coun-
try-and what was thousand times mere
important, the salvation Of their party
depended upon it, Their declarations of
devotion to the principle were as plenty
as lovers oaths and that devotion APP
pearcd rs expansive as fashionable lady )
skirts. Who would have believed that
such frmness could ever yield? Alas
we guessed that some ray of sunshine from
Washington would dissolve the bubble,
some fair morning, and their devotion
would disappear quicker than the early
dew.
The English bill was passed by the
men of their party against whom they had
arrayed themselves, with II few desertcrs
from their own ranks-but the bill is just
the thing they wantcd-thcy are perfectly
satisfied.
Now what become of their little joker,
popular sovereignty? Unless Kansas
consents to slave constitution, she shall
not have any for years to come; and in
the mean time slavery is to be. protected
in the territory 10y their President, in spite
of all the popular sovereignty in the world.
And even the vote which they are per-
mitfcd to take, whether they will yield to
Lecompton or to the alternative, is a mere
mockcry since their enemies will canvass
the votes, with Cincinnati Directories,
Calhouns candle boxes, and Oxford pre-
cincts, all ready to appear again upon the
stage. What miserable hypocritcs =
What arch apostates What contemplate
These editors know, as well as they
know the way to their Office, that the only
design of the English bill was for one
more desperate effort to force slavery upon
Kansas as State; and failing i'll that, to
keep it out of the Union, a Stare territory
as Buchanan declares it to be- Is not this
popular sovereignty? Heads, | win
tails, you lose :" But they are satisfied
-" it's all far !"
On the It'll of January the people Of
Kansas voted by 10000 majority, that
they would never accept Lecompton.-I
What farce then, to ask them to vote
again upon it Does not this fact prove
that the design is not to get
the sentiment Of Kansas, but to force
slavery upon her by more unblushing
fraud than ever before attempted? If
those who passed EngliSh's bill did not
intend to prepare the way for successful
frauds, why did they add fifth leg to the
committee, 80 that Buchanan's
minions should have a majority, and can
accept whatever fraudulent returns they
please
Such is the " fairness of English's
ill as passed. 1t is like the robbcr who
PRESENTS his pistol at your breast and says
-" Don't give me your watch, unless
'ou arc willing-but you see this pistol! -
And these late Douglas editors say
: that's fair, as we understand it ~
Poor pitiablc creatures They have
unk themselves below the contempt Of
ho blindest idiot that had any faith in
heir loud prctenccs. Advocates of popu-
ar sovereignty and they throw up their
lats and huzza for a measure designed not
,nly to onslavc Kansas, but to do it under
he prctcncc that Kansas consented to it . !
That is their popular sovereignty. dc
cN Rarcry as state or submit 10 II as a
crrjto,yw Such is the simple plain pur-
,ort of English's bill. "That is perfectly .
a;r"-says the Free Press. Every |
Democrat can heartily support it'-says /
he Lansing Jounal-and one half of
heir followers will cry CHATS it,
Nhorah for Buchanan, Democracy and
popular sovereignty, and slavery in Kan
as, with her consent.-Lo"st"g ReP"6H-
on.