Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-10-28
Amendment, indorsed Popular Sovereignty.


not all advocate the Crittenden and Mont
gomery amendment which inculcated that
doctrine and voted for it,"
The Republican members, after laboring
Increasingly to bring in Kansas as a Free
State, after having persistenty resisted
every attempt to force Slavery upon its
virgin soil, finding that the great crime
was about to be consummated. and could
only be frustrated by giving to the settlers
in Kansas the power to do what they could
not accomplishment down SIavery-gave
their consent. Now this devotee at the
shrine of Popular Sovereignty" must
forsooth arraign them as endorsing "Popu-
lar Sovereignty! If the gentleman can
derive any comfort from it, we are willing
he shall enjoy it.
Further on in his diatribe, we find the
following:
"Again you claim that the triumph of
the Republican party in 1856 in Is of the
northern States endorsed the doctrine of
interve ntion, you are mistaken, il was Just
to the reverse, the people felt outraged that
the doctrine of non-intervention, establish
ed in the session of Congress for 1850 and
1851, was violated as well as the Missouri
compromise, ard they were determined if
possible to rebuke the Pierce administra-
tion for creating the excitement on the sub
Ject of slavery; as well might you claim
that the recent triumphs of the opposition
! is an endorsement of the doctrine of inter-
vention-whsn every candid mind must ac-
knowledge that it is full endorsement of
the doctrine of popular sovereignty"
Oh, most fallacious ressoner! The grand
triumph of the Republican party, in 1856,
in fifteen of the Northern States was q
triumph of Popular Sovereignty! Let us
see. Here are the Anti-Slavery resolves
of the convention that nominated Col
FREMONT, said to have been framed BY
Hon. DAVID WILMor, of Pennsylvania, Of
Wilmot Proviso memory:
/, "Resolred, That the maintenance Of the
! principles promul gated in the Declaration
of independence, and embodied in the Fed
eral Constitution, are essential to the pre-
: seryation of our Republican Institutions
! and that the Federal Constitution, the
5 rights of the States, and the union of the
5 States, must and shall be preserved.
5 RESOLVED, That with our Republican
f fathers we hold it to be a self evident truth
' that all men are endowed with the inalien
$ able right to life, liberty, and the pursu
r of happiness, and that the primary objec
e and ulterior design OF our Federal Govern
S ment were to secure these rights to al
o persons under its exclusive jurisdiction
o that as our Republican fathers when thel
=; had abolished Slavery in all our Nationa
Y Territory. ordained that no person shall b.
II deprived of life, liberty, or property, with
out due process of law, it becomes our dut,
: to maintain this provision Of the Constitu
e tion against all attempts to violate it 70
the purpose OF establishing S avery in tn
Territories of the United States by posi-
: ttiv e legislation, prohibiting its existenc
= therein. That we deny the auiho rity @
If Congress, of Territorial Legislature, @
;. any individual, or association o individuals
If to give legal existence to Slavery in IN
Is Territory of the ULited States while tn
l. present Constitution shall be maintained
l. "ResolUed, That the Cons ti;utiQn confer
II upon Congress sovereign power over th
: Territories Of the United States, for thei
d government; ard that, in fhe exercise {
n this power, it is both the right and the i'm
d perative duty Of Congress to prohibit i
:" the Territories those twin relics Of barbai
e ism, Polygamy and Slavery"
These were the principles the Repubiica
! party advocated in 1856--advocated BY tn
!. press, and proclaimed from the hustings a
over the North. These were the princ
II Piles that carried the Republican banner j
/: triumph from Maine to Iowa. How absurd
= then, to assert that the sweeping major
IS ties with which the Republican party pre-
j. vailed in the most Free, Enlightened, an
a Thrifty portions of the Union, was tr
e umph of popular Sovereignty!
!; In closing up his lengthy and lahore
c article, "An American" talks 2atheticall
of the "ge llorious" Union, sectional flags,
d 'stars and stripes,'' &c. Indeed, it almos
l. brings the brine to eue's eyes to read hi
}: tearlui appeals in behalf of Squathsr Sow
ereign,y. Hear him:
"Lastly, | am under a compliment Mt fo
. the sympathy extended, that cannot b
welcomed into the party that is destined t
:, rule the destnies of the country. me think
that | would rather decline embarking un
der sectional flag unfolding only / 5 star
of the union; and abandon the flag OF tn
- union,--which has not one stripe or sta
= effaced from its folds, but which is broa
). enough for every section, and it's ampl
;, folds wave in every part of our gloriou
union. The mission Of the American part
is to curb the extremes. North and South
: and bring them back to the support OF th'
constitution, and we have been singularl,
=. successful! in forcing the Democratic party
on the platform of popular sovereignty. !
is true that their feet have been little to-
J. slippery to stand on il square,"
II We don't know whether the Republican
D party claims any such laudabe purpose a
!, to "curb the extremes North and South
J, or not; but we do know its chief aim is {
p restore the Government to the principle