Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-12-23
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY.

lL is tne DllnelDlt Auhl WhNlh hhNt tAGAAih
Fremont President, in place Of the slavery
propagandist who now dishonors the pre-
sidential chair. and that will elect the next
nominee Of the National Rep blican Party,
whether he be Bates or Seward.
Popular Sovereignty is getting to be better
understood by the people than ii is by Doug
las himsei,-its great eXpounder and martyr.
1t means, in simple language the right Of
voters to vote as they please on both politics
and morals 1t does not deny the right OF
folks to vote for slavery, if they are fools
enough to Ike that divine institution; nor
the right of other folks, TO vote against it, il
they are wise enough to hate 1t! Douglas
notion of popular sovereignty is confined to
the subject Of Slavery the peoples notion
includes that, but reaches good deal further,
as the result of the next presidential election
will eminenty satisfy Mr.. Douglas and his
sanguine friends
In our judgement, if the opponents o
modern democracy are not crazier than 'Old
Brown himself. the defeat of the next dem
ocratic candidate for the presidency is just as
certain, as our friend Jones, of Port Lavacca
Texas, used to say that 'gravitation is a
law Of nature Douglas, by force of circum-
stapces, (which he might have controlled diff
ferently,) is "A used-up man. There is not
so much presidential vitality in him, just now
as there is in Frank Pierce and his Northern
friends feel it, if they do not acknowledge it
As things now shape, the democracy never
had a poorer candidate than Douglas.
Just look at Douglas, in comparison with
Bates of Missouri, Ia Slave State,) on thu
/ Slavery question it is known that Judge
/ Douglas owns a Slave plantation at the South
1t is known that Judge Bates has cmancipat
| ed the Slaves that came to him by inheritance
and that he looks upon Slavery as politica
and moral evil Judge Douglas is Free
State man, aud Judge Bates is Slave State
man, the contrast so far as the free North is
concerned, is slightly awfd
Judge Douglas was born in Vermont, and
treats Slavery simply as a political question.
/ Judge Bates was born in Missouri and treat.
Slavery as a moral as well as political ques.
ton, and condemns it in both aspects.
In our way of thinking the Vermonter is
miserable apostate, and the MissouridH a no
/ bic convert to the principle and policy o.
/ FREE LABOR.
The American people will judge between
the two ;--or if not between these two, be-
tween candidates who represent their senti-
ments, opinions and principles. We do not
doubt the decision
With two such men, for example, as Judge
Bates ana Governor Banks, at the head the
Republican National Ticket, opposed by Judge
Douglas, and some other southern hunkey
for vice-Prcsident. we should despair of the
Republic if we could feel tho sIsg.Iesi doubt
as to the result
We don't!
Two years ago Judge Douglas was sure to
be President ito day, he is equally certain
not to be- Forty thousand Charleston nom
nations would not help him hair. The en-
tire Free North and West is absolutely sure
to 20 against him, under whatever Republi
can candidate, and he may be safely said tC
be ''played out, by force of his own tactics
He has been whipping the devil round thu
stump" pro-sayery and anti-sayery, till hi
has nothing but hot house friends, on eithel
side. As Tom Hood says, he is very deaC
indeed = We would not give last year.
Waltons Register for his chances for the
Presidency, and we ask his friends in Yer
mont to "make note" of this opinion
| Burlington Times.