St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-09-02

then. Ana lhlS Is tue uoClilIII VI .-
bred Scott Democracy Of to-day. My
friend Leffingwell endcavors to purge
the Democracy from the odium OF TINS
bred Scott decision, but it is very
much like the flag his friends nave
hung out here, with Liberty and
Union" on one side, and Popular
Sovereignty on the other, Cheers
The government of the Territories
by Congress is not a new thing: 1t
is as old as the Constitution itself.
Mr. Jefferson and other eminent
MISUNDERSTANDING South
enumerated long list of evils brought
upon the country by slavery, and they
desired that its blighting influences
should extend 10 further. Hence the
ordinance of 1877, declaring that
slavery and involuntary scrvitudc, ex-
cent for crime, should nowhere exist
in all the great territory of the North
West The authority of this ordinance
was never doubted till the Democrats
repealed the Missouri Compromise, or
rather till Calhoun promulgated his
startling theory in 1850 The Calhoun
doctrine of Non-intcrvcntion-the Ne
braska Bill--the bred Scott Decision
are the three great wheels that go
to make up this chimerical machine
called Popular Sovereignty, which the
Democratic party would have you be-
licvc is about to turn this sinful earth
into Democratic paradise. Cheers
My Democratic friends prate long
and loudly about our respecting the
decisions Of the Supreme Court. This
was not the Democratic doctrine IN
the days of Jackson, when the Su-
irene Court decided the United States
Sank to be constitutional. The argu-
mcnt then was that the Government
vas composed of three Coordinate
Lranchcs-the Lcgislative-the Ex-
ccutivc-and Judicial-which l be-
Iicve to be true. But notwithstand-
ing the decision of the Supreme Court
in favor of the constitutionality Of the
Bank, the jackson party were bound
to overthrow it, and they did so.
With what sort of grace do the Dem.
ocrats ask us to respect an eXtra.]u'
dicial decision of the Supreme Court
now, in the face of the fact that they
had no respect for its legitimate de-
cision then?
The Democrats love to quote Mr..
Jefferson as the great father of Dc
mocracy, and they used to claim
him as the author of the ordinance
of 81, but in these latter days it has
suited the purpose of the slavery prop
agandists to repudate that ordinance.
They have erected their Cincinnati
Platform-havc procured their bred
Scott decision-and are now DESTROYS
of moulding the constitution in ac-
cordaucc with these. But let them
have care how far they provoke an
unwilling yet intelligent people. After
the election of Franklin Pierce to the
Presidency nearly every Northern as
well as Southern State had q Demo
cratic Governor---now the order Is re-
vcrsed so far as the North is concerned
and what has done it? Will moi
Democrats understand that this DrcC
Scott doctrine is sinking them bcyont
the possibility of recovery? / ad
monish them to read the handwriting
on the wall
Here Mr.. Vandever was informed
that his hour had expired, when he a
once retired, and Mr.. Lefiingwell was
introduced to the audience
MIR. LEFFiNGNELI's SPEECH.
Fellow Citizens - anraa,. bcfnu'
cratic party for Congress, and in do
ing so | wish to address you on the
subjects which enter into the discus.
sions of this campaign, calmly and
caudldly. ! appeal to no passion, no
prejudice, but would address your
reason and Judgment. 1t has been
said by wise man that he who will
not reason is a bigot--he who cannot,
is a fool. Let us, then, reason togcth,
rr, conccding to each and all the right
TO honestly differ ill opinion. This is
essentially the Americans right, and
it is one I would not circumscribe.
Ny opponent has taken occasion to
allude to the flag that floats from the
front of this Hall, and which is the
llag of the American Union, inscribed
with the words Popular Sovereignty"
Thank God, gentlemen, that flag IS the
flag of the whole Union, containing
very stripe, and bearing every star.
Mr. Nandever said that it was dis
grace to that flag to inscribe upon it
Popular Sovereignty on the one
side, and on the reverse Liberty and
Union" He said that popular sover-
eighty is democratic dogma which
disgraccs'the Union, and is reproach
upon the American character"
am glad that | am here in that at
mosphcrc which can support banner
bearing upon its folds every star and
every stripe which represent this glo-
riouS Union of States. Where we
have been Of late, the banners of our
political opponents have sported but
sixteen stars.
Thank God, there is genuine patriot.
ism enough in this community to un-
furl to the breeze no sectional or dis
union flag, but patriotism which en-
braces within its arms every State of
our glorious Republic, and | can think
Of no more appropriate motto to in
scribe upon its folds, emblematical of
" Liberty and Union" than that which
proclaims the sentiment upon which
rests the entire fabric of our govern
mcnt, Poputor Sovereignty"
To achieve the right of sclf-govern-
ment our fathers entered into the rev.
dictionary struggle, and when the
eagles of victory perched upon their
banners, that right was sacred not
only to themselves, but to their
postcrity. And this right they have
transmitted to us, and we are permit
ted to exercise it, holding it in trust
for those who shall come after us.
Let us then hand it down to the next