St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-02
of clinging to distractions. Such

Indeed it expressly declares that,
The Congress shall have power to
dispose of and make all needful rules
and regulations respecting the terrific
ry belonging to the United States"
But our Democratic friends claim to
be the advocates Of what they term
popular sovereignty" They make
very fair declarations, but let US try
them by their acts. After the great
adjustment measures Of 1850, they
had pledged themselves to discourage
the agitation Of the slavery question,
both in Congress and out of it. Among
their distinguished leaders none were
more Jealous in urging the support of
the finality" than Stephen 4. Doug
las. And yet he it was who reopen
ed the agitating question of the exten-
sion of slavery with ten.fold bitterness
by the introduction in Congress of the
Kansas Nebraska bill, which finally
passed and became a law. This act
provided that the inhabitants Of the
territories should be left perfectly
free to form and regulate their domes-
tic Institutions in their own way and
many of them believed that its authors
were sincere-that they should not be
interfered with in establishing such
institutions as they saw fit. But not
so. They found "squatter sovereign
ty" to be subterfuge mere ignis
fatuus a tabled apple, beautiful to the
eye. but ashes to the lips. (Chcers.)
The repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise was wholly uncalled for by the
people. 1t was compromise Of more
than thirty years standing, in which
all parties had acquiesccd, and for
which none contended more strongly
than Democrats. Douglas started the
repeal as bid to the South for the
Presidency The act was one Of bad
faith to the whole country, and es-
pecially to the North. While the
South took the treason they loathingly
spurned the traitor, and his trcachcry
is destined to sink him in an ignominy
so deep that no resurrectivc hand can
preserve his memory from the scorn OF
once confding but now exasperated
people. (Cheers.)
Previous to that time Iowa had
been a Democratic State. But this
bad faith on the part of the Democratic
party led our people to repudiate the
Democracy, and they, in common Will
the free and intelligent masses through
out most Of the Northern States, hav'
2 instituted and placed III power, i
c their respective States, u party {
/. freedom known as the Republica
y MT. r5lSttunr.ta1 Choers go
y sovereignty was a question of tim
c That is, the period when the people {
: a territory would have the right to c.
= ercise it must be settled by the -
. prcme Court. This Of course is il
tended to apply in cases where tn
e people of territory are inclined
u prohibit slavery. There would be n
/. doubt about their sovereign" right
= suppose, if it We're certain that the
g would establish slavery-for who doe
u not know that the great scheme, II
G augurated within the last few yea
If by Southern Democrats, to national,
N the peculiar Institution" is und'
A., the fostering care and has received II
most vigilant attention OF the prese'
n and late administrations
y Well, the decision Of tho Supren
p Court has finally been had, and it
I'd found by it that popular sovereignt
r. assumes a tangible form only wh'
=. the people of territory adopt Sta
50 constitution. Then, and not till the
to can slavery be excluded from ter
We tory! This was not always the op
n ion of our chief Executive. When
by was simply James Buchanan he W
at in favor-aye, so much did he love 1t
m that he was in favor, in common WI
- his Southern Democratic friends, OF
en- tending the Missouri compromise II
ov' to the Pacific Ocean! But at Cine
lst natl his friends built a platform
rn- placed him upon it, and he very Gra
the fully declared to them that he "
it's; now no longer plain James Buch
md an. but James Buchanan Plattor
be (Cheers.) After undergoing this mt
his morphosis he could plainly see t
wa the Missouri Compromise line was :.
constitutional, and therefore voi'
IS of What change was there after /
ate, ting our bachelor statesman upol
, by Gf platform! Cheers
king lhls P'aIioi III o'"'e II.
ate, ed to the Presidency, and IN tax
his oath to support the constitut
the we suppose there must have pee
hall mental reservation, that he would
, of mort il in accordance with the dc
,rn. cratic views as set forth in the Clr
ices natl platform. ,.r
ion But there appears to be diifer'
heir of opinion among our modern p'
snts Gratis. Some of them endorse
bred Scott decision and the Lecom
oder constitution, while others repu.
this both. My friend Leifingwell All
, 70 to be antiLecompton, and yet he
be. not deny that he stands On the
heep form made for him at Iowa CITY
rod the oath Of June, the first resoll
nroe of which reads as follows:
e is Resolved, That we adopt, abide by.
will cherish and defend the platform OF
.ho ciples, promulged by the representati'
'"e the Democracy of the nation, when asse
ion in National convention at Cincinnati in
c un- 1856, believing as we do, that the Pi.
vern- there laid down Is oroau .nousm ,.n -,
inter- enough " R!,h uRh srch orIw do we desire
, lin n.n;onship' ,sU, M
. the o.h.- than a
ing . ms Con as &c ,ha m nrsd scott de,
,s"em Is nr and the "promulged" scheme
,ars - tionalizing slavery. But, as II ali
'c's'' of tho hazardous game they are
rency a' .''e aAa ndo,.aka IN their
prom my, s,'..;:,, .. ~ annlv the oae as 70
untry. feso''''''' " "pp'
lily of Resolved That the AGITATION ,S Sanas Si .hs
-, az. Union, by destroying that confidence
Demo- should exist between the different sta
atten- begettiug sectional animosities and