Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-07-30
Republican Convention in the
Sixth District.

We last week examined two OF the series
of resolutions passed at this convention of
bogus Democrats, and exposed their I'M
meaning assertions and want of truthfulness.
We take the next one in turn, and ask our
readers to examine it with us. 1t reads
thus
Resolred. That this convention rc-assert
and will maintain the doctrine of popular
Sovereignty in its true and rightful applica-
ton to the Territories Of the United States
whereby the people thereof are left perfect
ly free to form and regulate Their domestic
institutions in their own way subject only
to the Constitution of the United States; and
that it is inexpedient to admit any Territory
into the Union as State, until such Terri
tory shall have sufficient population to en-
title it to one member of Congress upon the
basis OF apportionment existing when it
shall apply for aduission nor until a Re-
publican Constitution shall have been estab-
lished by the actual settlers therein in the
full, free and impartial exercise of the right
OF suffrage.
1t will be noticed at the outset, that the
wording of this resolution is little singu-
lar" Resolved that this Convention" &c.
1t is well to inquire if this convention Of
three score and ten individuals, had any
right to speak for the party in the district,
state, or ration. There is remarkable
absence of the leading men of the party.
observa lie in this coInlave. The leading
ofhceholders stunned it. They We're willing
cheat should be palmed off on the district,
but they took good care not to have the par
ty of which Mr. Buchanan is the head, and
the authoritative interpreter of what is true
democracy, compromised by anything said
or done in it. If by any means the cheat
should go down and the voters return Mr.
Bradbury, the party would not be response
bic for what WAS promised by a few specu-
lative and imaginative persons when he was
nominated. 1t was not intended that the
party should. The resolution therefore does
not say that the Democratic party Of the
Sixth District, or of this State, or of the
Nation, '.re-assert and will maintain the
doctrine OF popular Sovereignty in its true
and rightful application to the Territories
&c. No such foolhardiness had taken pos
session of these political walters on Proyi-
dence, because Mr.. Buchanan (who has as
sumed as much authority to decide ma tiers
of political faith within the democratic fold
as Pope Pics IN has ever claimed in matters
of religious faith within his church, has
asserted of one of the terrtories-and the
rule will be applied to all others while the
party is in power-that SIT has been solemn
iy adJudged By the highest judicial tribunal
that slarery erists in Kansas by rirtue Of The
Constitution of the United States. Kansa,
is therefore al this moment as much star.
state as Georgia or South Carolina
This settles the whole matter of popula,
sovereignty, and for all the territories, ant
for the ,choie Of the SO called Democratic
party. From this settlement there is no ap
peal, not even to the people. To get rid O
the question which has been termed squat
ter sovereignty and popular sovereignty by
| turns, and which has given rise to as mucl
discussion among politicians, as the "potato'
lido tuc tuc
. Judicial Court Of the United States WA
called upon to give political opinion, anC
to gre to suat the necessities Of Mr.. Bu
etdaaa's Democratic party. Taking Mr.
Buchanan S Interpretation OF that decision
land he is authority on the point,) there il
no such thing us popular Soveregnty-th,
phrase has no meaning, as applied to tn,
territories, This resolution closes the IN
meaning phrase about re-asserting the doc
, trinc OF popular sovereignty, by saying
''suhject TO the Constitution of the Unitet
. States" The head of the party, and tn,
Supreme Court at it's dictation. have decided
) that slacery erasts IN the territories By uirtu,
OF the Constitution of the United S,utes.-
! The psople in the territories cannot do any
thing contrary to that instrument, therefore
they cannot regulate their domestic institu
tions in their own way.
Allowing that this convention had the
right to speak in the name of the democracy
of this district, it had no right to exhume
the dead body of the still born brat-"pop.
ular sovereignty" after burying it fathomt
deep, and hold its deforned limbs up to thu
gaze Of the world The hws of the land
mmon dteency, and the natg al instinct,