The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-01-14

that popular sovereignty wss half-hum
bug, and the manner in which Kan,a a,
affairs have been managed, fully con firm,
US in the belief that its original design
however innocent some Of IFS advocate.
may have been, was to extend slavery
and indeed, quite bumtug.
It's practical effect has been the sub
stitution of Presidential Intervention for
slavery. instead Of Congressional inter
vention against slavery. In proof G.
which glance at the list of beheaded Go
vernors Of that Territory. We held thai
Congress was not the proper party to de-
termine whether slavery should 20 into
any territory that was free at the time il
came into the possession Of the United
States; and the workings of the popular
sovereignty theory in Kansas, fully con
firms Us in the belief that we were right.
Had Congress decided whether slavery
should or should not exist in Kansas, in.
stead of this great turmoil and agitation,
which is shaking the Union from centre
to circumference, peace and contentment
would smile propitiously upon the coun
try.
The Democracy to overcome our OBJ
jections to the Kansas Nebraska bill. or
popular sovereignty, pledged themselves
to support faithfully their favorite theory
That theory is now the law of the land,
and the Democracy stands pledged by all
the sacredDess of honor and justice, to car
ry out tha. principle faithfully and impair
italy. When that theory became the eS-
tatlished law, by which the Territories
are to be governed, We bowed to it, yet
We did not approve Of it, and We called,
and now call upon the Dem ocracy to re-
deem the pledges which they have made
to US and the country. Messrs. Douglass,
Walker. Foruey and hot of other prom
inept Democrats advocate the propriety
of redeeming the pledges which they have
made to the people of the United States {;
and we, therefore, give Dir. Douglass, in
common with all other Democrats, who
go with him, credit for honesty and con-
sistency. This 10 the extent of our lau-
iaton of Mr.. Douglass and Co.
But, Notwithstanding the pledges N ade
BY the Democracy. before one year has
rolled around, We find the man, whom the
Democracy elevated to the Chief Magis,
racy of the Union, on the strength of
hose pledges, in his first annual message
o Congress, utterly repudiating the letter
md spirit of the Kansas Nebraska bill,
'opular sovereignty, and boldly advoca-
ing policy despotic and tyranical in na-
urc; and you, you impressible dough
ace, not having back bone enough to re-
el the mutiny and treachery in your
wn ranks, cowardly and weakly acqui
see in the mutiny and treachery, for the
axe of the few loaves and fishes which
epend upon your doing the bidding Of
our master, at Washington. Indeed
ruly is it said in holy writ, that, "The
x knoweth bis master, and the ASS knoa0.
u hts masters crib."
The sage IN an of the Democrat has so
tile respect for the intelligence of this
emocratic community, as to state that
according to Douglass's own showing, be :
nd the President in all essentials agree 9
5 to the bet policy to be pursued for e
,ausas." This glariug blunder can only
8 accounted for by the thickness of that
Iges head, and for the sake Of Saving him !;
e pain Of falling into that error again, b
e will state substantially what the diff
renee is: Mr.. Buchanan is in favor OF u
e Lecompton Constitution. without hav. :
6 it submitted to the people for their
tiication, because, as be asserts, the
ansas-Nebraska bill does not require it
bile Mr.. Douglass and Co. are bitterly tt
posed to the Lecompton Constitution. OF
cause it was not submitted to the peo
e, and will continue to oppose it. unless
be submitted to the people of Kansas
fair election, for their ratification,
ID that when it Is so submitted, major
! of the people of that Territory vote in h.
vor of it. In that event Mr.. Douglass o
common with all Congress, will vote for
Mr.. Douglass's course is truly Der,- ~
ratio and Republican, While Buchanan 5 ia
grossly despotic and tyrannical. That p
the difference which you try to make II
lightly of: "don't you perceive" u
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