The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-10-06

mcnt, and that for any violation, the per
son offending should pay a fine of $500.
and tie Stare Should be emancipated ! And
yet Mr.. Douglas calls his plan the Jefer-
sonian plan
Mr.. DooLITTI.E also shows that this
power was acknowledged in the act Or
ganizng Missouri. in 1919, during Mr..
Madison's administration in the enact
ment of the Missouri Restriction, in 800,
when every member of Mr.. Monroe's
cabinet, Join C. Calhoun included, gave
his opinion in writing that Congress had
the power, under the Constitution, to leg
islate for the territories, and to exclude
Slavery from them in the organization
of Wisconsin under General jackson; in
the admission of Texas f; in the organ
izalion of Oregon, In short, during the
whole history of the government, from
1899, under the administration of Wash
ington, down to the close Of Mr.. Polk
administration, in lS49, a period of near
lly sixty years, every President, every
Cabinet, and almost every Congress, upon
their official oaths to support the Const
tuition of the United States, asserted and
exercised the undoubted and unquestion-
ed power to legislate upon the subject of
Slavery, and other local concerns, in the
Territories of the United States.
Mr.. DOUGLAS. now says, that Terrific
ries as soon as organized are States, that
the power of Congress to legislate for
them ceases, and that they can in all res
poets legislate as States may legislate,
subject only to the constitution. Then
they can incorporate banks, for States in
corporate banks. But in Gen. Jackson's
administration, Congress directly inter-
vened and repealed all territorial bank
charters, and enacted law that no terri
torial Legislature should have power to
incorporate one.
Senator DooLITTLE also shows that Mr.
Douglas has several times, since the or.
ganization of Kansas, advocated the right
and the duty of Congressional interven
ton in the local affairs of the territories.
Kansas was organized in 1854 two
years afterwards he supported Toombs'
bill, for the reorganization of the terri
tory Of Kansas. Where" Mr.. DooL1T-
TIE asks, +" do you find the constitutional
power to re-organize the government of a
"4Statc," republican in its character"
On the Bird of July 1856 he supported
and voted for Mr.. Geyer's amendment.
annulling whole chapters of laws passed
| by the Territorial Legislature of Kansas.
1t had not, it seems, even then, entered
into his mind, to conceive this new dog
ma, that a " territory is a " State" He
has, on more than one occasion, within
the last two years, proposed to intervene
and repeal the organic law of Utah and
to govern that territory by martial law
alone. This shows that when strong
reasons of public policy urge it, he can
abandon the last vestige of popular SOW
ereignty'' in the territories, and that his
boosted principle IS a mere expedient.
/ Mr.. DooLITTLE then goes on to show
the judicial action upon this point, and
refers to five unanimous decisions of the
Supreme Court, during period of forty
years, the first in 1910 and the last in
1854, in which the absolute and unqnes-
toned power of Congress, under the
Constitution, to govern and legislate for
the territories, has been asserted. We
would follow him further, but our space
WON'T admit. As soon as we can find
room we shall publish the entire docu
ment. for we arc more and more i'm
pressed, in reading over our synopsis,
that we have but very imperfectly given
his views, Mr.. Doolltle concludes as
follows ...r s
Since Mr. Douglas, following the lead of
Mr.. Cass in l84e) left the solid ground of the
Constitution as framed by our fathers and ad
ninistered by them for more than half a centu-
ry, he has been indeed like strong man in
IInorass !" the more he struggles the deeper he
sinks. He has turned to the right, he has turn
cd to the left /; he has gone forward as if to go
through, and backward, as if he would retreat.
In this last attempt he approaches nearer than
before, and with one more effort he may reach
the solid ground of the Constitution, where the
old Republican party always stood, and where
the Republican party of to-day-indentieal in
principles and in policy-now stands, and is
destined, sooner or later to achieve a certain
triumph. 3ud aa
More Deception!
EE- A few days since, We received a
letter from Delaware county, purporting