Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-09-25
THE DOUGLAS SCHEME NO SETTLE
MENT OF THE NEGRO QUESTION.

Many people, and not few editors, affect to be
naus Gated with this continual agitation and tur
mod about slavery. They are tined and sick OF
seeing this everlasting ''nigger in the woodpe."
rbey want the attention of newspapers and the
pubic turned towards some other topic-anything
will do for the sake Of q change Various schemes
are proposed to get rid of tho present agitation,
and bring about the desired change.
Tie Cincinnati Commercial of tLe Sd inst, in
the course Of long winded leader, arrives though
rather misSily, and with some evident miFgivinCs,
at The conclusion that the plan of Senator Douglas
of leaving to the people Of each territory to admit
or exclude slavery, as they shall ft, would, if
generally accedcd to, lay the uneasy ghost Of mur,
dered liberty, that is stalking through the land,
ard leave Uncle Sans family leisure to look after
other portions Of their domestic concerns.
This principle has been tried The experiment
has been made, and, instead of quieting the ngita
ton il has increased it tenfold. 1t was made un-
der the eye Of its foster father, Senator Douglas
himself it had general aequiescence in its favor
if a majority in Congress, the Administration, and
the domnaGt party in the country, can constitute
such acquescence and yet it failed, most signal,
failed, to give either peace to the territory wher
Iityfs sought to be applied, rest to the Union,-
It ended in bleeding Kansas" and freedom
shrieking" The experiment was aba ndoned b.
the political doctors who made it, and an attem
was IN qde TO heal up the wounds with Lecumptor
plaster, and hush the shrekiug with land brihe
freedom shriekes again.
Itis manifest thar should the present politica
parties agree, or q combination be formed out o
Ihem, aud a President, and Congress be, in con
sequence, elected in 1860, who should apply the
POPULAR sovereignty doctrine as Douglas expound'
IT, to all the Territories, the Kansas tragedy woulc
be re.euacted from time to time the excitement
could rise higher and higher at each successive
representation, and the safety of theunicn be mor
and more endangered. 1t requires no prophet
son to roresec this Slavery is naturally aggress
i've and naturally reckess-Whet it cannot 0otalI
by fair means it must by foul-and liberty Just a
naturally rcsists its encroacments, and il driver
10 the WALL will fight in sell'de!enCe, and Decon
in its turn the aggressor
The Douglas doctrine will not answer ms basl
on which to found new States and quiet the sla
very agitation, because it is founded on tallacy
The iaacy is that it is right for people or rath
err, the majority Of a people, if they see proper I
convert human beings into chattel property, to b
bought sold and used as beasts of the h2ld. u
assert that any community has or can have thl
right, is a monstrous lulsehood-and any socia
structure built upon it necessarily contains the e.
ements of its own destruction.
There are some things that no people have
right to do. There are certain rights that exi'
inherent in mans nature independently OF all cor
stitutions and laws and among these is the rgh
ito life and liberty-to be the owner OF cne,s oW
person and The master Of ones own time No cor
stituion no government can deprive man VIII
has committed no crime OF this right, without sal
ping the foundation upon which ali civil authori'
rests. Its true and only safe basis is the recogn
ton and guardianship of such rights: NO consei
of a majority can take away these rights Tor IL
great end and purpose of government is their s
, curity TO every individual in the community an
, when any form of government becomes destructi'
of these rights, it is the right of the people who
liberty is thus trampled upon, to alter Or aboll'
| it by rebellion or evolution.-Ne~pot (hyo) fr
South.