The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-03-31
WHOLE NO. II.

through his being an officer Of the Fed
eral Government,
When California applied for admis-
sion into the Union, Senators, Mason
and Hunter, of Virginia Butler and
Barnwell, Of South Carolina Turney,
of Tennessee Soule, of Louisiana ;
Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; Atchi-
son, Of Missouri; and Morton and
Yulee, of Florida-all Democrats
signed protest, which was entered up.
on the Journals of the Senate, obiecting
to the passage Of the bill admitting her
as State into the Uuion, for the follow.
ing reasons:
81. That it gave the sanction Of law, and
thus impaired validity, to an unauthorized &C.
ton by portion Of the inhabitants Of Cali.
fornia.
q. Without any legal census, or other evi.
dcnce Of their possessing the number of citizens
necessary to authorize the representation they
may claim.
g. Without any of those safeguards about
the ballot box, which can only be provided by
law and 'o'ch are necessary to ascertain the true
sense Of people.
-. As mot having euficient evidence of ts
the consti'ution) having the assent of a
majority Of the people for whom it was sign.
ed"
This is exactly what Wise, Walker,
and Douglas are now saying about the
admission Of Kansas and yet the Sen.
ators who set the example on California
now propose to read them out of the party
for following the text too closely.
Mr.. Chairman, the doctrine of the
sovereignty of the people is too dear to
me, to forsake its just application here,
to crafty those who dispense patron
age. In speaking Of it. De Tocqueville
says:
"Whencver the political laws of the United
States to be discussed it is with the doctrine
of the sovereignty Of The people that we must
begin. In America the principle of the sover.
eighty of the people is not either barren, or con.
cealed; it is recognized by the customs, and
proclaimed by the laws it spreads freely, and
| ar ives without impediment ut its most remote
! cOnscu uences" "From their
ign the sovereign.5sof the people was the
fundamental p inciple of the greater number Of
the British colonies in America.
Montesquieu. in his Esprit Of the
Laws" says:
There is no great share of probity necessary
to sup rolt monarchical or despotic govern.
ment. The force Of laws in one, and the princes
arm in the other, are sufficient to direct and
maintain the whole. BIT in a popular State
one s. ring more is necessary, namely, oirtue-
In,
hearts of those who are disposed to receive it,
and avarice possesses the whole community
The desires now ch .nge their objects; what
they were proud OF before, now becomes indif-
ferent they were free while under the restraint
Of law they will now be free to act against
law and as every citizen is like slave escaped
from his master 8 house, what was a maxim of
equity they call risor, what was a rule of action
they call constr aint and 10 precaution they give
the name of fear. Frugalily. and not the thirst
Of gain, now passes for avaiicc. Formerly. the
wealth of individuals constituted the public
treasure (; but now the p@blic treasure has be-
come the pat,imony Of private persons. The
members Of the commonwealth riot on the public
spoils, and its strength is only the power Of some
citizens, and the licentiousness Of the whole
community"
have thus quoted from the philoso-
phical Montesquieu, because what he
SO ably wrote in the last century, is ap-
plicable to the present state of affairs
in our Republic. Corruption stalks
abroad throughout the land. 1t is to
be discovered in the municipal, in the
State, and in the Federal Governments,
and few objects other than amassing
fortunes. right or wrong, now actuate
those who seek and obtain positions Of
power, r and patronage. ?
The Administration has erected test
of Democratic orthodoxy by insisting
that all who desire its smiles or favor
must ignore the principle upon which
it lives, and stultify and disgrace them
selves, under penalty of being called
Republicans" 1t has erected, too,
the standard of patronage against prin-
ciple, and with revengeful hand strips of
the former, all Democrats who have in
dependence and character, in order to
confer it upon more servile tools. l
fear that this Administration is doomed
to the fate of DR.. Guillotine. who fell
by an instrument which he had invented
to cut off the heads Of others. .
Mr.. Chairman, I really regret the
position of the Administration in it's
Federal attempt to force Kansas into the
Union under the usurped Lecompton
constitution. thus creating State out
Of population of about fifty thousand
people, not half so large, intelligent, or
wealthy. as that of the congressional
district have the honor to represent
and thus forcing two Senators into the
Senate OF the United States, and one
Representative in this House. This
latter fact would alone induce me to
hesitate before voting for her admission
if she we're not, as she is under the LIE.
compton constitution, covered all over
with damning frauds.
A TAR's IDEA soyA LOCOMOTIVE
'Why,' SAYS he, "ther's nothing manly