The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-08-17

hsUThsss = 40 ess, ~ believe. o. At any
saas shsrs b - party o. rsspscsabls number Of
indiviasAls hat - nov o. ever did dispats the
eight Of The sovereign States Of this Union, or
Of he people Of the territories - make, alter
q ansnd thsie Ceastisstjoa = thsy. In their
sovereign espssisy nay cstsrnins, provided il
b RspsbIiean In form. II this 10 popular sov-
eesIeasy," & b old - our Government, 70 not
u invention Of Douglas. bat grew out o. our
Revolutionary struggle and was embodied in
the Dssiarasisa q IsAspsadsass. he Articles o.
osessdssssies end ~ Ceastissajoa Of IL Uni-
~ osasso, aaA ssnains sndispussd 70 this day.
In 1854 rev dogma vas pat forth, the i'm
nasulats eeacspsisa Of Cas- and Douglas, The
ebjsss Of which vas 70 give popular direction
70 the thea effort which was made to extend
slavery over free territory. This was frst chris
tened equator sovsnignsy," and We were told
In The very takisg language Of the Kansas Ne
braska oct shas the object was not to legislate
slavery into or out Of the territories, but TO
leave the people perfectly Tree" TO regulate
their domestic institutions in their own way,
sabjscs only 70 the Constitution Of the United
States. ~
But the conspirators, whose tool Franklin
Pierce was, had NO sooner broken down the
barriers between slavery and freedom, erected
BY Congrsss, the right TO make which vas un-
disputed, up to that time, then the Supreme
Court declared that the compromise line was
nconstitutional-that not only had the squat.
tsrs In the territories no right to exclude sla-
very, but even Congress itself had not this
sight-that negroes we're property, Recognised
- such in The organie law Of the nation, and
the owners Of this property had the right TO
take Il into the common territories in spite OF
squatters and squatter sovereignty.
To make the overthrow Of this new doctrine
full aad eemplsts, which, after it had BEEN kill.
Cd BY the Court, was christsnsd popular SOW
srsignty," to mean something or nothing -
might suit the convenience of those who still
desired 70 cheat the people with il, Douglas
and those Who act with him, gave their unqual'
lied appreciation to this decision Of the Court,
and thus drove the last nail in the coffin Of their
new ana short lived cheat.
Now ws should like to know how Douglas and
bic friends can honestly continue to harp upon
this hunbug, putting it forward a. an important
popular axiom, and asking Office and power for
themselves a it, inventors and snunciators,
when, n the very next breath they admit the
justice Of lie taking Of, by bowling to the bred
Scott desisionl why continrs thus to exhibit
over the country a. living and vital principle,
maxim which was conceived in sin AID brought
fstA In iniquity and which has been dead two
yearsi Ho~ s~a Ne, Douglas, while playing
this baretaced ball and safe game before the
people II Illinois. ask Republicans to vote for
hims In our opinion there is no act, in the
whole catalogue Of despicable tricks and expe-
dents which have marked his career from his
6rst entry upon public life to the present time,
more bare-faced than this effort to sanctify
conspiracy of slavery propagandists to spread
their accurssd institution over oil the terrific
siss through spacious and pretended devotion
to popular rights II was the Trcjsn horse
which, BY the strategy Of this man and his as
sociates, was brought within our lines. to stir
up war Of the sections and Get the advocates
of slavery and free labor at war for supremacy
within territory which had already been sa-
credly reserved to white men and white free
labss, IN erdee chat eesphsn A. Deoglss might
attain TO the Presidency. Had he not the I'M
bluahing impudence Of the Devil himself, Mr..
Douglas would mot sull continue to mouth
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY"