Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-23
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rights Of popular sovereignty, we would save our
property from the guard ansbip.of such folly, and
rely as property and protection must always most
safely rely, rather upon law and order, and the
rule of justice and fair dcaliug--to ask nothing
but what is right and to submit to nothing which
is wrong On the ground of policy, then, rs we'll
dc jare the whole Constitution ought to havs been
submitted to nll the legal voters, without fear.
favor fraud or force. So much for the case Do
IJure
I'D The convention saw ct to submit the Con,
stitution to the one voter alone, and not to all
three Of the voters, and the Convection was leqii-
mate 1t was legitimate de fucto. Congress could
not 20 behind the return it cannot intervene, We
are told. except to that law has authorized the
net, and that the form is republican.
"The law authorized to act, aud we grant the
form Of the Constitution itself to be republican.
We don't agree with Mr.. Senator Douglass THAI
his own Kansas Nebraska uct uas not m .enab-
ling statute and don't agree, either, with she
President, Mr.. Buchanan, that Slavery was the
only domestic institution to be submitted, a
such, to the people. The Kansas bill enabled the
people to govern themselves that was its srss
essence and it's chief excellence, and every muni-
cipal institution of State Government 10 . de-
mestc ins,itutions' The President is bachelor.
and must, therefore, be excused Tor net com pre-
bending a domestic institution as we'll as wts
have houses tul of children. lie had better
reasons for his recommendation than he assigned
lie was bound to look the feet that this vas the
work itself was in form republican, and that tbsss
were subjects for Kansas alone TO judge of. BaE
whether Kansas had been allowed to judge
whether her people had been allowed to choose.
to adopt or reject the Constitution OF govennment
proposed for them-whether they had been allow.
ed to govern themselves, another fact which
had also to be looked to-de .facto, whether the
schedule was republican, De tdcto, whether
there were not other domestic institutions besidsA
Slavery which ought to have been submittsd to.
the sovereign legal voters 2
. 1T is the very gladness and glory Of our Stats
Governments, when organized, that they guard
and govern the hearhstones and homes of the
United States. The State Governments are tho
municipalities of sovereignty which embrace
especially the individual persose the families, the
households, the altars, and the homes of our
people. 1t is that which makes States rigbta,
State laws. State organization, State action. 60
preeiou,, because so domestic, in cur cenfederaoy.
The Federal Government eubraces rather national
and foreign subjects of jurisdiction, and therefore,
it ought to leave all domestic questions to the
States and the people. What then? Why, thens
if the schedule of submission was anti-republicsn
it it was partial If it did not acknowledge and
allow the sovereign right of the people To judge
for themselves on the Gueatisns of highest dignity.
the organic law of their government and disorius-
mated uneoualy bstwse the subjects Of property,
the Congress Of the United States ought nvs to
rel ect the legitimate and republican Constitution,
but ought to adopt it, subject to o fair and legal
vote OF the people OF Kansas, according TO q Law
TO be prescribed by their Territorial Legislatures.
and to admit the State under the Constitution
whenever the Territory shall pnoslaim its approval
and adoption by the Peopls II they a5opt it, to
admit her into the Union ipso facto and if they
reject it, to leave the people OF Kansas in their
own way to organize another Convention, and 80
submit another Constitution to Congress for ap-.
proyal.
This would be plain and easy solution. aad
would take all the the bridge Of
shrieks.' And for any difference of opinion as to-
the mere mode of submitting OF eolving this euss.
tion, protest that true, hoaest, earnest Demo-
orat shall be prescribed. No Gortherner ought
to denounce the President for recognizing the fact
of the legitimacy of the Lecemptea Convention.
and no Southerner ought to denoanse Senator.
Douglas for contending maDfully fer tho right OF
the sovereign people to adopt or ject their own
form of set-governmeut There is DO conflict, in
truth, between the two principles de jure and de
tacto-thcy, combined, rule the case, and rule il
rightly. ltmay be very desirable to have Kansas
admitted Us State early practicable, bul
nothing will bs gained by admitting her nto the
Union in mode offensive to large majority Of
her voters. Wisdom should teach minority 10
insist upon nothing but what is sustained by per-
feet fairness and justice. A majority can take
care of itself and minority should be the last V
to either fraud or force. Nothing less than
the highest tone Of morality protect u minority
in its rights, Will restrain a majority ron
wrong,