The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-09-23
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Popusar Snveyefenfy--wha, did
douglas Really lnventf

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PopusAr soyeyefensy--wha, did
BOugsas Really Invent
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The following extract from Mr.. Lin.
coins speech at Paris, Illinois, gives a
very accurate statement OF the merits Of
Douglass contribution to popular soyef.
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Let us inqhire, (said Mr.Iincoln, ,)what
Douglas really invented when he intro.
duced, and drosethrough Congrcss.the
Nebrasksebill.s He called it Popular
Sovereignty.n Whtd doss Popular Sow.
erelgntyii : Essss9f ssf rssNIFjjgqx and lferahy
IL means the Sovereignty Of The People
over their own affairs-4in h other words.
the Right Of the. People Of evry nstit All !,
and community to govern themselves.
Did Mr. Douglas invent thisp Not
quite. The idea Of Popular Sovereignty ,isn
was floating about the world several sew
ages before the author: Of the .Nebraka
bill saw daylight indeed before Colnm-
bus set fopt on the American continent
In the year l77e ittdok tangible form
in the noble words which You are all
familiar f mill with: eve hold these truths
to be self.evident: That all, men are
createdpequab That they are endowed
by their Creator,withrcertain inalien.
able rights; That among these are life
liberty and the pursuit Of happiness: spi
That That to O. secure, these rights, govern
'ments,were instituted among men, de-
irving their just powers ffetn, the DON
sent Of the governed. snotthis the
g origin rls Of Popular soysreiig 49, as sp.
Piled 70 the American people2 .,,.s,
Here We are told thatrgosernmsnt
gre instituted among men 70 secure
certain tsip rights "A, Ana Instituted slsa among
men 70 secure certain. rights, and that
they derive their jut.powers from the
consent ofSthe governed. 1fthat is not
not Popular Sovereignty, then + have
n no conception fthe meaning Of words.
q Then if Mr.. Douglas did not invent
this kind Of Sovereignty, letsus pursue
the enquiry andffinds out what the IN,
vention really was. w it the right of
,emlgrants in Kansas, and Nebraska to
govern themselves and, a gangof mig
gers too, if they wanted them? ) Clearly
this was no invention Of his, because
Zen. Cass could have taken out a
patent for the idea, if he had chosen
70 DO 80, and have prevented his Illinois
rival from reaping particle of benefit
from it. Then what was it, I ask seain
! that this "Little Giant inventedP ? TT
never occurred to Gen. Cass to cali his
discovery blythe odd name of.sPopular
Sovereignty" ohadnot. the. impu.
dence to say that theiight Of the peo-
pie to govern niggers was the right Of
people TO govern themselves. His no.
tions Of the fitness Of things were not
moaided to therbrazen degree Of call
ing the right to put a hundred niggers
through under the lash in Nebraska, 4
sacred right Of self.goyerment.n-
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And here, l submit to this intelligent
audience and the whole world, was
Judge Douglas discovery, and the
whole oft. He invented d name for
Gen, Cass, old Nicholson letter dogma.
~ He discovered that the. right Of the
white man to breed and fog niggers in
Nebraska was POPULAR SOVFR-
ElIGNTY!l Great applause and laugh.
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