Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1858-09-02

They Avow respect i0r state Rights, yet
under the Topeka constitution they would
prevent Kansas from changing her consti.
tuition for nine years subsequent to her
admission. They profess high and patri-
otto motives. yet foment prejudices between
different sections of the Union institute
odious comparisons between the relative
resources and the social condition of the
North and the South, and taunt the slave.
holding States with receiving most of the
patronage and defraying but 1.-THE of the
expenses of the federal government. They
profess unremitting zeal in the public wei.
fare, yet brief ascendancy made New
York bankrupt, multiplied her taxes, aud
Glove down the plainest rights of her citi-
zens while to-day Iowa groans under the
weight of her infrmities. @a- f-as
The moment they taste the lotus weed
of power, like the companions of Ulysses,
they forget their country. Their tergiver-
sation, and masked pretensions, and dis
respect for the highest constituted author
tiles Of the land may we'll excite fearful
apprehensions. II not then their actions,
like the face Of one Of Dickens characters,
might be sued for libel and exemplary
damages recovered.
How nobly contrasting is the Democrat.
ic party. Re-adopting the Baltimore plat
form at Cincinnati, and adding thereto
enough to meet boldly the issues that had
subsequently, arisen, they adhere to that
chart in spirit and letter, recognizing the
right of the people Of all the Territories,
whenever the number of their inhabitants
justifies it, to form Constitution with or
without slavery. s...r d
A temporary division arose, touching
the application of this principle. But it
was question of policy merely. None
gainsay the principle. That is the same
whether the people delegate their power or
exercise it in person. Precedent strongly
sanctions either method. The doctrine
promulgated by the Democracy in 1856 is
the same that they practice to-day. We
have nothing to do with slavery in the
abstract; whether it is right or wrong
whether its influence is beneficial or cor
rupting. We find it existing under the
Constitution, and so long as that instru,
ment remains unchanged, and our rela.
tons under that instrument exist, SO long
must we treat it wholly as constitutional
question. Did we now contemplate es
tablishng it in our midst for the first time,
then the question of its merit in the ab.
stract would be legitimate and pertinent,
and our feelings and sympathies might
rightfully be exercised. But this is not
the way our fathers found it or that we
/ ind it, and hence other considerations of
justice are binding upon us. The slave.
holder has an undoubted right to enter the
Territory with his property: a right
arising from the common dangers and
expenses Of the Revolution from the com.
mon purchase and ownership of the terri
tory, and from a common main,ainance of
! our Government in peace and in war -
And we, cooperating with him in the de
v"ioPment aud perpetuatIvn of our Gov
eminent, owe duties tn him as well as he
to US. And our reciprocal duties are the
granting to each other our respective
rights under the Constitution. SO if the
people of Territory, forming constitu-
ton, wish slavery, they have a perfect
right to it; if they do not wish it, no pouer
on earth shaH force it upon them. We
thus understood the Democratic doctrine
in 1s56-we so understand it now.
Here are the two parties claiming the
| support of the freemen Of Iowa. The De.
mocratie, identified with all the leading
measures Of the past, steadily pursuing its
object-the happiess development of our
system under the Constitu ion The 9th f..
er-Republican-, selfish and dsintepra.ing
in its policy, the political anomaly of the
day, " nndistinguishable in member, joint
or limb