The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-10-12
From tie NJ o. Delta.
Popular Sovereignty Brought Home.


From, the N o. Delta.
Popular Sovereignty Brought Home.
The region west of the Mississippi, which
includes the Territories of Kansas and Ne
braska, was acquired by the United States
from France. 1t was paid for in hard cash,
collected by taxation imposed upon the people
Of the then existing States. 1t therefore be-
came the joint property and possession of the
people Of the said States. 1t was true that in
the ect of sale we guaranteed to the people
resident in this territory all their civil rights,
protection Of their persons, property and con-
sciences, and pledged ourselves to admit them
into the Union, in due time, on an equality
with the other States. But the States ex-
pressly reserved the political control of this
new Territory. It was divided into two dis
trcts, for each Of which Congress provided
territorial OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF agents
appointed by tae President and Senate-with-
out the slightest regard to the sovereignty"
or suffrage, or will of the people Of the Ter
rtory, and retaining in Congress the power Of
supervising the acts of the Territorial Legis-
lature.
The only rights conceded by the Acts estab-
fishing these Territories were those of serving
on grand and petit juii.s, and in the militia,
neither esteemed nowadays as Of the class
of inestimable rights.
Such was the organization of the Territories
of Orleans and Louisiana in 1904. The former
Territory then embraced population of forty
thousand-an old, settled, organized and per-
manent, not q squatter population like that Of
California and Kansas, for which have been |
claimed the right Of regulating their domes-
tic Institution in their own-way, subject only |
to the Constitution Of the United States.n
But in 1904 popular sovereignty in the |
Territories consisted in the right Of the pro-
lection and the supervision by Congress Of all |
the acts Of local Legislature appointed by |
the Federal Government The people Of the /
Territory had nothing whatever to say in the |
legislation for the Territories 1t is part and /
parcel Of this same Territory, purchased and |
paid for by the people OF the States, which has
been settled during the last ten years, by emf
grants from other States and foreign countries
that Dir. Douglas proposes now to endow with
sovereign rights, as large, 4 not larger than
those enjoyed by the States Of the Union
lie proposes that this squatter population in
the old Territory Of Louisiana shall not only
have the right to regulate their institutions in
their own way, but that they shall have the
power and right to exclude from the enjoy
ment of their rights Of property therein the
citizens Of the original Province of Louisiana,
from which these Territories have been de-
tached Col. Isaac E. Morse, native of LOU
isana, says this is all right and just, and con-
st.tutonal 1t is true the Colonel does not :
trouble himself to justify this position by any
thing more respectable in the shape Of argu- 9
ment than the admissions Of few time-serv- y
ing politicians. But it IS something remarka- i
bic that a Louisianian should be found who is 1
willing to give to the agents and Instruments Il
of New England abolition, squatted in the {,
Territories created out of the original Pro- o
vince of Louisiana, rights and sovereignty y
that were denied to his own ancestors ; that ci
he should be ready to acauiesce in the right of d.
such squatters to exclude him and his prop "
erty from the said Territories .
This, too in Territories for the support Of h,
which the people of the States are all taxed. CT
The owners of the slaves of the South pay far 81
more than their share of the Federal revenues; q
they do this in the form Of duties upon the "a =.
articles consumed by them, which are imposed &,
by the tariff This revenue Is largely drawn
upon to support governments in Territories, ar
where, according to Mr.. Douglas and Col. as
Morse a Southerner can be constitutionalIy i;
deprived of the right ofscarrying and enjoy ne
ing the property in his slaves. Thus, our IN
people were not only taxed for the purchase gi
Of this territory, which was originally slave
territory, but they are now heavily burdened az
to keep up the governments which may deny ID
to them the protection and enjoyment therein pc
Of their property and equal rights. iva
When Mr.. Douglas was investigating the .,
principles of our Revolution, we think he tT
might have discover that the pretension he
sets up in behalf of the Territories was hardly
'econcilable with the main doctrine and object
If that great struggle. OF
The property in slaves in Louisiana existed :,
krf 49,. r. AZ n
he United States and to the acquisition of in
ne Territory OF Louisiana. 1t was one of lsi
hose rights which the United States in their OFF
y.of cession pledged themselves to pro tie
iserse ihviJhEss. Here was an OBJ II
cation supplemental to that imposed by the the
FEDERAL Constitution, which emphatically ef- laat
ids to the Federal Government and the be
states all power of depriying persons of their dS
property, except by due process of law tb;
nd provides that private property shall not
e taken for public use without lust compen-
alton" Here was a solemn pledge of the =
aith of the nation and OF the people 70 \ TOR
ign nation and people. Ard yet S,ilei Nh.
Douglas and Colonel Aorse's new views oil g.
'opular sovereignty, tEis engagement stands He
OF nothing against the sovereignty OF a few 10
thousand settlers squatted on the ancient blu
Territory of Louisiana That sovereignty not qui
My overrides Congress from which it de- P pb
lived its existence-which breathed into it all {
he life and power it hast not only assumes -
,owers which are expressly denied to Con- II
ress, its creator, but trampies on the national %
aith and supersedes treaties with foreign pow
rs. 4 venerable citizen Of the old Spanish n
nd French colony of Louisiana, like Mr.. Ber-
ard Marigny, who held Office under the Col anG
Mai Government-on entering the limits of 90,
ne Territory of Kansas with his slaYes-the 1
tile of which was guaranteed By the United and
tates in the treaty of cession-is told that he
annot hold his property, he cannot arrest het
nd recover him, if he runs away within the an;
erritory, and that if he persists in OBTAINING pan
hid slaves, he may be liable to penal action, goo
nd the slave be restored to his freedom. An vii
HIisTaal fzom Vermont, from England, Ger y
nany or France, who enters the Territory, at :,
be same time with Mr.. Marigny, carrying
With him his horse or cow, may not only re- Rim
ain and use the same, under the full protec- 5
ion of the laws of the Territory, but he can
ecover the same by process of law, and have 4
finished whosoeEeE may interfere with his
tile and possession. And this distinction, we &c &c
re told, BY an ex-Attorney General of Loui- s
lana, is constitutional legitimate and equita- =
lie.
From that decision Of the politicians we ap- Id
cal to the common-sense of the people. Res
Quaek hostrums. the
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