The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-09-06
SQUArTER SOVEREIGNTY


Yankee Notions, or Frank Lese's Budget o.
Fun, or the London Punch, or some other profe.
sionsl satirist, or csricature dealer, would have
made more money out Of the transaction than the
Senator; but by the present mode, the price be-
ing snJ rosa, the operation i. beyond the reach
and ken of these men Of fun.
II is not a new thing for politician to hold his
principles for sale, but it is somewhat novel to
make merchandise ofthe announcement OF them
to say TO the world, 1.-THE Locofoco party included,
"yOu shall see me define my position for twenty
Ave cents per head" or, al will let you know
where stand for thousand dollars in the lump,
smscks Of the original, especially in Presiden-
tial candidate.
We have bought the Harper, if not the prin-
ciples, and have the right to see what they
The article is worth the money for it is carefully
and painfully written, "fearfuy and wonderfully
made" and is. wthal, ingenious, which, in these
days. il about IA well as to be true 1t is a good
. substitute for defence of Popular Sovereignty
as could be got up for the money. The Little
Giant" eOrn-cracker turned out failure, because
it undertook to do too much, and It's prototype
has made the same blunder. He undertakes TO
reconcile " Squattcr Sovereignty" with the bred
Scott decision, which denies il. This is too wide
q straddle, and if Douglas had the limbs of the
Colossus Of Rhodes, in room of that "smart
chance Of legs" which the young lady espied
under the blanket, he could not have made the
straddle. There is one fact in the article, which
alone is cheap at twenty-five cents. He says
"There are radical differences Of opinion in
respect to the powers and duties of Congress
and the rights and immunitics Of the people OF
the Territories, under the Federal Constitution,
which seriously disturb its harmony and threaten
its integrity"
Mr.. Douglas places the opponents of the "rad
ical differences" in three different categories.
and defines them. In the first of these, he pla-
ces himself, and it is in this paragraph that the
Democracy get their moneys worth:
"ThOse who believe that the Constitution OF
the United States neither establishes nor pro
hbits slavery in the States or Territories beyond
the power of The people legally to control it,
but leaves the people thereof perfectly free To
form and regulate their domestic institutions in
their own way, subject only to the Constitution
Of the United states
But who are "the People, The very point
Of difficulty, in the case of Kansas, was to dis
cover that fact. This question unsettled, in
wolves one fallacy, and the next absurdty is that
the Constitution either does, or does not author
ixe the establishment Of slavery in Territories.
Il 10 the existence Of this power, and not the
question how it shall be welded, which is vital.
Slavery is not a natural state of man, and can
exist only then by special or organic ANYWHERE
then is the law.
The entire article is specious, unsound, puff
ball, out Of which northern men Of shrewdness,
If they are in earnest, will knock the wind at the
first blow, and which the heat Of southern pas
sion will burst like a bubble. "Issachar is an
ass that sioopeth between two burdens and in
in this case either burden is enough TO break his
back. He cannot bear the burden Of "Dred
Scott" through the northern canvass, and
"Squatter Sovereignty will break his back long
before he reaches Charleston. 1.-The north will
none Of him, and for the south, because he is
neither hot nor cold, they will spew him out of
their mouth"