The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-09-18
Popular Sovereignty.

The last Cedar Democrat contains .
luminous article in reference 70 "popu-
lar Sovereignty and the bred Scott De-
cision:" 1t trys to reconcile the two,
and in order to do that it misrepresents
both 1t says: "The bred Scott decis-
ion means this, and nothing more, that,
that in all Territories cherc there is no
local lau forbad9;ny slavery, 1t is the
right Of Tie people, II they desire 1t, 10
oes and hold slooes" Any one can see
that slavery cannot exist in q Tel ritory
where there is local laws forbidding it.
Now this it knows well Is perversion
Of the truth. The following is an OK
tract from the bred Scott decision:
ave are satisfied that no one who reads
attentively the page in Peters Reports
to which we have referred, can suppose
that the Court meant in that case to say
that Congress had a right to prohibit a
citizen of the United States from taking
any property which he lawfully held into
Territory of the United States. And
if Congress itself cannot do this-if il
IL beyond the powers conferred on the
Federal Governments will be admitted
We persume that it could not authorize u
Territorial Government to exercise them.
And if the Constitution recognizes the
right of property of the master in slave,
and makes no distinction between that
description of property aud other prop.
erty owned by citizen, nc tribunat ac-
ting under the authority of the United
States, whether it be LEGISLATIVE, ex.
ecutive or judicial, has a r;gat to draw
s.rch a distraction, or deny to it the ben
eft of the provisions and guarantees tina,
have been provided for the protection Of
private property against the encroach.
ments of the government" Chief Jus.
tice fancy, bred Scott decision, p. 45l.
The above extract shows that ono tri.
bunal' can prohibit slavery in the Terri
tories. Mr.. Buchanan, the present ex.
ponent of Democracy as i, is, in his well
known silliman letter, says:
"Slavery existed at that period, and
still exists, in Kansas, UNDER THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES. This point has at Lost been
finally settled ty the highest riJuna,
knoun to our lans. How it could ever
be seriously doubted is a mystery"
Who shall decide, when the Supreme
Court and the President are on one side,
and the Cedar Democrat on the other!
popular Sovereignty" says the Demo.
erat, "means no more nor no less than
this, that the people Of a territory haze
an inherent aud Constitutional right to
tegislatc on all subjects that inrolUe hei',
rights; among ,chich is the slavery ques.
ton"
The Democrat says this "harmonizes
perfectly with the bred Scott decision"
We leave you to decide.
Mr.. Post, prominent Douglas Demo.
erat, in recent speech at Vandalia, Iii.
said:
~ know | once preached the doctrine
that the people of Territory had the
right, by the passage of territorial law,
to establish or exclude slavery. know
that oas the doctrine formerly maintain.
cd by the Democratic party; but I hare
became sottsfea that pe ,eere mrong."
If the Democrat would occasionally
give something in proof CT its assertions,
its readers might have more reason to be.
liere it. We leave it to reconcile itself
with its fellow democrats.