The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-07-24
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Popular Sovereignty eys rlaAtiDg Pop.
ular Sovereignty Ia1ghtH and cheers
Let rs fora mpAent enquire into the vast
Aaatter az Popular Sovereignty. What
4 Popular Sovereignty We reccllect
that AZ an earlier period in the history 81
this struggle there was another name for
this same thing-N4satte Sovereignty.
Il was not exactly Popular Sovereignty,
but Squatter Sovereignty What do
these terms mean? What do they mean
when used now? And vast credit is Ia
ken BY our friend, the Judge, in regard
10 his support Of it, when he declares the
last years Of, his life, have been, and all OF
the future years Of his life shall be devo-
ed 10 this matter Of Popular Sovereignty.
What il it! Why, II Is the sovereignty
n M people. What Is Squatter Sove-
rcignty! | suppose If It had any signif-
canoe at all, it was the right Of the peo-
pie to govern themselves, to be sovereign
over their own affairs. while they are squat
ted down in country not their own, while
they had squattcd on . territory that did
not belong to them, in the sense that q
State belongs to the people who inhabit
it.-when it belonged to tho nation
such right TO govern themselves was call
ed "Squatter Sovereignty -.
Now ! wieht you TO mark. What has
become Of that Sqpatier Sovereignty 7
What has become Of it? Can you get
/ anybody to tell you now that the people
of territory have any authority 70 gov
ern themselves, in regard to this ,nooted
/ question Of Slavery, before they form a
State Constitution No such thing, at
al, although there is a general running
ere, and although there has been hur-
rah made in every speech on that side,
assuming tina. that policy had given the
people Of . territory the right to govern
themselves upon the question: yet Tho
point is lodged. To-Day it has been de-
cidcd by the Supreme Court Of the Uni
ted States, and is insisted upon to-day,
that the people Of territory have no
right to exclude Slavery from q territory;
that if any one man chooses to take slaves
/ into territory, all the rest Of the people
have no right to keep them out. This
being SO, and this decision being made
one Of the points that the Judge APPROX
ed, and one in the approval Of which he
says he means to put me down-put me
down should net Say, for | have never
| been up. He says he is in favor Of it,
and expects TO win his battle on that de-
cision, which says there is no such thing
as Squatter Sovereignty, but that any one
man may take slaves into tearitory, and
all the other men Of the territory may be
opposed TO it, and yet by reason of the
constitution they cannot prohibit it. e.
| When that is so, how much is left of
this vast matter of Squatter Sovereignty,
| should like to know Ia voice tit
has all gone" e..
When we get back, We 90 to the point
Of the rigat Of the people to nake con-
stitution. Kansas was settled, for exam
pie, in 1854. 1t was territory yet, With
on. having formed constitution, in a
very regular way, for three years. All
this time negro slavery could be taken in
BY any few Individuals, and by that de-
cision Of the Supreme Court, which the
Judge approves, all the rest Of the people
cannot keep it out but when they came
to make sconstitution, they may say they
will not have slavery. But il is there !;
they are obliged 70 tolerate it in some way,
and allrexperience shows that il viii be
so--for they will not take the sesro slaves
and absolutely deprive the owners Of
them. AL that space Of time that runs
from the beginning of the settlement of
the Territory until there 10 suficiency
of people TO make State constitution
all thas portion Of time Popular Soycr-
eighty is given up. The seal is absolute
| " put down upon it by the Court decis-
ion, and Judge Douglas puts his on the
top Of that; yet he is appealing to give
him vast credit FOR his devotion to Pop
ular Sovereignty. Applause and cries
of right right good .'gooi. \
Again, when We get TO the question OF
tho right of the people to form State
constitution as tlcy please, to form it
without slayery--if that is anything new,
/ confess l don't know it, Has there
ever been time when any one said that
anybody other than the people OF ter
ritory itself should form their coDstitu-
tiony What is new in it, that Judge
Douglas shonld hare fought several years
Of his life, and pledge himself to fight all
the remaining yesrso his life for? Can
Judge Douglas end any body on earth that
said that anybody else should form con-
stitution Cor a people2 A voice, sizes
Well, / should like You to name him,
should like 10 know who hs vas. II Same
voice--sJohn Calhoun.''l s.'. aa
| Mr. Lincoln--No sir, l never heard Of
even John Calhoun saying such tAisg
He Insisted on thu sau,s principles a.
Judge Douglas; bit his mode of apply
ing it In fast, vas wrong. II is enough
for my purpose to ask this crowd. When
ever Republican said Anything against
1T They never said anything against Il.
bot they have constantly spoke for is; and
| whoever will undertake to examine the
| platform, and the speeches Of responsible
inca, too, if you please, will be unable to
find ono word from anybody in che Re-
publican ranks, opposed to that Popular
Sovereignty which Judge Douglas thinks
that he has invented. Applause. l sup.
poso thst Judge Douglas will claim in q
little while, that he is the inventor Of the
idea that the people should govern them
selves; (cheers and laughtcr;) that no.
body ever thought Of such = thing until
he brought it forward. We do remmem-
Der that in thst old Deelaratioa. of indie
psndenoe, il is said that I'VE hold these
trusts TO he self evident that Cd men are
created equal thst they are eadowed by