The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-10-19

- = - 49, O.1 HOYt9A0S SOV0rGEX9tY
some Losotoco newspapers have expresse
J their concurrence with Tom Corwin in his vie :
. On popular sovereignty. He made grea
> speech at Cincinnati Thursday night last from
which We extract the following and comrnen,
! lt to their careful perusal:-
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY.
In lS46, new light broke in on the anxiou,
mind OF candidate for the Presidency. Gen
eral Cass-" be thought from Heaven said
the Governor, :" thought it came from the
ether place and he discovered that this was
all wrong, and wrote his Nicholson letter.
hoping 70 get votes BY it, from the North and
the South.
The doctrine Of that letter was that the neo-
pie Of the Territories had the right to form
she'r own institutions. The doctrine was that
hundred men might 60 on to the plains Of
| Kansas and form q Government to suit them
selves, and make the expenses whatever theyy
chose and the General Government would have
to pay them.
in 1854 this doctrine was applied to Kansas
| and Nebraska.
The Northern Democrats didn't want this
doctrine, but it was q law of the Democratic
party that whatever the majority wanted, the
minority must assent to- and our Northern
democrats 60 about clankng their chains and
nurrahng for Jeffersonan Democracy, Aiu't
that so? I"Yes, sr!"l
I'm willing, said the Governor, to say nothing
about the niggers to the Democratic party. All
l ask OF EN- is to emancpate their white slaves
lIremendoss cheering So long as this law
OF control prevails in the Democratic party, |
snail We see men hungry for ofice-the sons Of |
sires who made the land red with the blood |
they shed for liberty, willing to sell that liberty |
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governor Corwin alluded to the persecution
the Anti tI-Lecompton Democrats received from
the Administration. When Ohio was first SET
tied, bounty of s. so was paid for every VOLTS
scalp. and 40 the pioneers bad little money
every wolf was hunted with remorseless peril
nac!ty; but never was wolf hunted with such
remorseless pertinacity as we're Douglas and
forney, because they could not change az fast
as the President did
He next showed how the bravery and love
OF liberty Of few Ohio, and YANKEE and Wis
consln boys had in Kansas whipped the whole
army OF the United States, overcome the whole
treasury OF the United States, and SO far as the
people were concerned made Kansas a Free !
state when the Democrats saw that the doc !
tr'ne OF Popular Sovereignty would make Kan
'as iree IN spite OF their efforts, they got or pre-.
'ended they had got, decision from the Su- {
prsme Court BY which the right Of the people
the Territories to prohibit Slavery was denied.
until State Constitution was made. In this l
way they hoped to innoculate the Territory
vith the virus of Slavery. @
his ground Of opposition to Slavery was that
was better that the labor 10 country should .
'e done by the free men who voted. He drew !,
n eloquent picture of what free labor had done
or the North Western Territory; how it had
overed the surface of these States with acade- !,
MES and churches, whose +" straight spires !, :,
ointed to Heaven like lightning rods, to draw y
It the wrath OF God from sinful world" and :
eciared it to be his wish that everywhere the =
ame blessings might be found, and that the :. =
1oorins man might have sufficient recon- .
ense for his work to enable him to educate - "
is children, and instruct them in morality and ~ ~
eligion. re
When the Democrats found that Titus could :.
OF make Kansas Slave State by his armed -
len, but that there were young men who =. :.
ould die as their fathers had done, for Ii ~ ~
erty-then they got the Dred Scott decision =, -
Ihe Court that made it forgot two things ~
hey forgot that there was a Court above which =,
'vewed all decisions, and did not send its man. y,
anus, but summons before it the judges of thi. p p
lrth after they died. :"
The Supreme Court forgot, too, that the - :.
sople could make them and unmake them.- "a "a
e pointed out the way in which by electng - -
pposi.ion Representatives and Opposition Sem y,
ors the number of the Supreme Judges could M
} increased, and SO right men appointed to ,''' ''
7errule this iniquitous decision. ~.
The Governor concluded with thrilling and =,
Tenn appeal to the voters, to exercise the - -
yht OF suffrage conscientiously and seriously, -.
ID with deep sense OF their responsibility. -
Barenness famine, or pestilence were better - -
an lethargy in this matter Agitation would e. e;
It burt US. Speak, reason argue-and if these ~
ed-fght! ~
SO should we do our duty, and remove the "a.
buds, that lowered round u.s. ss