The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-09-22

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Grated in your organic laws? And ha.
any one found that the exclusion Of ar
dent spirits was violation Of any Con
stitutional privilege or right ?" Yet you
will perceive that the gentleman is SC
certain of his conclusions that he puts
them in the interrogatory form. "And
yet it is the case in large portion oI
the Territory of the United States, but
there is no outcry about it." "The law
also prohibits certain other descriptions
Of business from being carried on in the
Territories. am not, therefore, prepar-
ed to say that under the Constitution we
have not power TO pass laws excluding
Slavery from Territory"
Ny Brother Democrat, who do you
suppose said that ? said something like
it, but did not say that. That was the
speech Of Stephen A. Douglas, in 1850.
You can read it in your books in the de-
bate.
A Voice-Just before he sprung the
trap?
Mr.. Corwin-I don't say that-but /
believe it though.
Well, now have given you, my fel-
low citizens, the law as it has been de-
cided by the government for sixty years,
upon the doctrine of Squatter Sovereign
ty-the decision against it by the very
man who is now appealed to as the lead
er of that doctrine. He has changed his
opinion-he wants to get back to the
"go-devil." That is what he is after.
Douglas is respectable gentleman, and
man Of considerable talent-so am l,
laughter but differ with him on that
point, and have the advantage Of stand
ing by the side of Washington, who put
his hand upon my head and said, My
son, you are right and laid his hand
upon Stephens head. and said, f" You
must go to school" That is what Wash
ington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
Jackson and Calhoun would say, too.-
While l am in company like that, am
content to remain.
say this, if it be the constitutional
rule that the Constitution of the country
carries the relation of master and slaves
into the Territories, it is the bounden du.
ty of Congress to make laws to protect
that right. cannot comprehend that a
man has any conception of the harmony
that was to reign in our country thai
don't believe that. If they can establish
that proposition that the sacred panoply
of the Constitution carries Slavery into
Kansas and Nebraska, what Squatter
Sovereignty dare to raise its parricidal
hand to destroy its validity? Has ii
provided that man shall have right
to 60 wherever State Constitution does
not prohibit it and sit down and exercise
dominion over the black man who was
his slave in Virginia, upon the theory
that local legislature shall overrule the
Constitution and destroy it? What sor
of Kilkenny cat-fght is that, swallow.
ing each other 1t is revolving to q
mans common sense. | cant treat i,
with patience. | cannot argue with a
man that will say you have armed the
Government to commisI suicide--it mus,
kill itself, it shall kill itself. Oh!
have nothing to say upon that. won,
condescend to mention it again to sens.
ible man.
If the Constitution carries it there, il
is safe there. No State or Territorial
Legislature can touch it; but il the Con.
sti!ution is as they say. it carries it there
only to remain as visitor-goes there
to rest itself little while, but as soon as
the Territory seeks to be State take ur
you niggers and walk Spanish, for they
can drive you out. Laughter. l don,
like to say much about that. because
like the men on the other side of the
river, who call themselves the Opposi
ton to this Administration doctrine.