Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-11-18
sovsrei gnty of Congress in the Terrific
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bHo1 may "iSiIf PiNNAuSN NOh5i%So ho
sovereign power, and not the people ?
This question has been answered
. practically a great many times. Tht
doctrine of the sovereignty of Congress
over the territories, has been maintain
ed from the time of Jefferson, by sue
cessive administrations, until quite re
cent period yet the people IN no IN
, stance have failed to obtain such instl
tutions as they desired from the true
application of the doctrine. Take foi
instance our own State. The act estab
fishing the Territorial government OF
Wisconsin, no5 only re affirmed the Or
dinancc prohibiting slavery, but resery.
Ell the right Of disappearing the acts Of
the Territorial Legislature. This act
was passed during the administration
Gen. Jackson and approved by him.
1t is true, Gen. Jackson has ceased to
be regarded rs authority by the modern
democracy. \ subsequent amendment
to the territorial organic law of Wis.
consin, had an express reservation oil
the right of Congress, to disapprove OF
any act passed by the Territorial Leg
islature. This avowal of the sovereign.
ty of Congress over the Territories, Was
made during the administration of Mr.,
Van Baren. The Territorial history oil
all other new States, prior to the last
two administrations, is similar to that
Of Wisconsin, in the matter of Csngres-
sional sovereignty. Yet it does not APP
pear that i'll any case, the sovereignty
of Congress has nterfered with the PEG
Pile in the exercise of their just rights,
and in framing such institutions as the
majority desired.
All the Democratic clamor, therefore,
respecting the Republican doctrine OF
the sovereignty of Congress over the
Territories, has nothing in the past his
tory of the country to justify it. 1t has
been applied heretofore to all new ter
ritory, yet none have been deprived OF
ony right in consequence of it. 1t has
been doctrine recognized by all Dem.
ocratic general administrations until
within a few years. The only abuses
which have arisen from the exercise OF
Congressional sovereignty over the Ter
ritories, have been such as were attempt
ed by the tangled Democracy, du-
the last session of Congress, in enforc-
ing upon a Territory laws which the
people thereof had no agency in enact
ing.
1t is, then, the AMERICAN-REPUBL
party in Massachusetts over which tbs Free
Democrat and the Telegraph rejoice.-Kenosho
TimsS.
If the Times will publish the figures
giving the result of the Massachusetts
election, the cause for Republican rejoic
ing will not be mistaken. Any attempt
to make it appear that the election o.
Banks as Governor is a triumph of Re
publicans and Americans combined
cannot deceive any but the ignorant
The vote of the respective candi
dates for Governor in Massachusetts
stands, with the exception OF a few
small towns to hear from) as follows
Banks, republican, go, 7O7 Beach, dem
E ocrat, 81 100; Gardner, American, 81,
600.
From the foregoing it will be seen
that the American candidate received
nearly 5000 more votes than the demo
cratic candidate; yet the Times would
endeavor to make it's precocious readers
believe, that the election Of Banks is ;
Know Nothing triumph
The papers in the interest of thu
American party in Massachusetts, OPP
posed Banks with as much bitterness
as did the democratic presses. There
is no evidence that Gov. Banks, ha!
ever been recognized or identified with
the Americans. At the previous CUB
ernatorial election in Massachusetts
Lawrence was run as distinct Know
Nothing candidate in opposition tc
Banks.
Take another fact. During the long
contest for Speaker in Congress in 1856
the Know Nothings persistently refused
to support Banks on the final ballot fol-
Speaker, Banks received only one Know
Nothing vote, while Akin, the demo
cratic candidate received tventy-secen.
Yet with all these facts standing on the
record, the Times strives to impose the
belief on its readers, that Gov. Banks
triumphant election, is owing to the
union of Americans with Republicans
AS it respects the vote on Members
Of Congress in Massachusetts, it is true
that many Americans with anti-slavery
proclivities, supported the republican
nominees while it is equally true, that
many Americans with pro-slavery pre-
delictions supported the democratic can
didates. What is true of Massachusetts
in these respects is also true of New
Y ork.
The Result in Wisconsin.
While the result of the election il
Wisconsin is not all that Republican:
desired, it furnishes no cause for reioic
ing on the part of the democracy. The
Republicans have lost one member o