Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1858-09-28
Popular Sovereignty.

70 learn from their own staBdartbeaIeE j udee
DUSs, that popular sovereignty IA the terri
torres - which has constituted tie capital stock
of the National Pro-Slavery Democratic party
for the last four wears = has been considerably
laid aside by their party al inpraeticable
doctrine. Having failed TO achieve all they de-
sired from it. ti.ev make lot haste TO repudate
a d5-triac that gives The people any rights con-
fleeing witbthe notifying designs Of their party
Wien the Slave olgarehy wished TO plant
slavery in Kansas, AIR DouGIAs, the great
leader 81 spurious Democracy and a. their ia
Gle tod harpcd On the doctrine that the people
of Territory have the right to prohibit or e.
tabIsh tie institution Of Slavery in such Terri
tory, at their pleasure, and that Congress has no
right tn interfere IN the matter Republicans,
Is well a. Democrats tot infatuated by the
sweet incense Of Slavery. or the spoils of ofce,
denounced the doctrine as a cheat and hum
bug and the short space Of four years has
demonstrated the truth OF their declarations
Finding that the pracrieal application Of their
dogma would exclude Slavery from those very
territories where they sought TO implant that
curse. they immediately % about the destruc-
ton OF their own hcbby, and procure tie adju-
dicatIon Of n case in tie Supreme Court ef the
United States for tie express purpose Of allow
ing that Court % eugncafe certain diela sup
posed to have been previously agreed upon -
upeettiug The doctrine Of popular severe gnty IN
the territories, and inaUgEratiug the novel doc
trlue that neither Congress nor the people Of a
Territory have any right 10 exclude Slavery
thercfsom because, majority Of the Court
decided (eztra-i udicially. it i true,) the Con-
Stitutiou Of tile United States carries The iusti-
tuition ct Slavery iato all territory belonging 10
tie United States, and protects it therein, by
virtue Of It's own provisions This new doc
;li4c, So totally at variance with the acts and
teachings Of all the great men who founded this
Republic, aud who for seventy years admiuis-
tered the Government Of the same. Is eagerly
adopted by the modern Democracy, who seem
ever ready TO swallow at one gulp anything Ia
. beIled Democratic
+ IN all earncstaess We may ask, how long viii
r such gullab.lity continue ? In tie history Of
he so-call-d Democratic party, even for So
br.ef q perlod as the last ten years What absurd
itics aud contradictions 10 we not see During
that time nearly al .le leaders Of the Dcnocra-
. q have expressed ,ieir uneqaiyocal approval
. Of the 3i=sour. Compromise, and have a. une-
: quieocally repudiatcd the same. They have os-
teutatiously placed themselves or the broad
comm,a law doctrine that Slavery can only ex-
is. bv virtue Of municipal lam. and as sneakiug-
+ u abandoacl their position DIZZY have lau,>~d
popular sovereignty to tile skies, until told by
the powers that be that popular sovereignty Is
uo longer good Democratic doctrine, and they
make tLeir usual haste to rcctify their posi-
...4 u IL.
ing the bred Scott decision, and tamelv recog-
nizius feaity 20 that as the great test Of party
fidelity. II seems to matter little how often
tLeir I.adiag deuaeosues change their pIiuci-
pies, 50 they but hold fast the name of Demo-
Graf the 90 rsu}, and file - of Democracy blind
y follow them apparently A. well or better
satisfied with the aeale than with The principles
IF Democracy.
p II what Judge DCsy argued and admitted to
he lie present doctrine 81 lis party be true, to
a-it: that tha Constitution of the United States
establishes Slavery As an Institution in the ter
reries, by virtue Gifts own provisions, and that
uo power Inherent either in Congress or the
people IF 4 Territory can prohibit 1t, we ask,
what binders ,be establishment of the corolarv
tia. there is no power IN amy State to prohibit
Slavery within us own limits: If-as Is ad-
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