Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-03
The Popular Sovereignty Riu.

Below we print the bill recently introduce
| cd into the House Representatives by Hon.
ISAAC n. NORRIS. of Illinois Mr.. MORRIS is
democrat of the Douglas school, but wheth-
er the bill meets the appreciation of Mr.
DOUGLAS, or any considerable number of his
friends in or out of Congress, we are not
aware. We place it in our columns simply
as a record of an event in the history of po-
pular sovereignty as political question:
4 BIZ for an Act granting 10 tie reople Of the
several orq4Hized Territories of the IJ,ted States
he rght 10 procide, hrongh their reYect,w LeG,s-
latres for The appointment or election Of tier
Governors. Judges anil all other Territorial Off
GERS. IN .uch mDde or manner as sad LEGISLATURE
rlaY JV idtC Reiermiae
SEC l. BE it enacted. &c, That the people
Of the several organic ID Territories of the
United States he and they are hereby author
iZod and empowered To appoint and elect their
Governors, Judges, and all other Territorial
officers. in such mode or manner as their re-
sp"ctivc Legislatures may by law determine.
and TO define their powers and prescribe their
duties Proriaed, That nothing herein CON
tanned shall be so construed as TO interfere
with the right Of the existing officers i'm said
Territories. or those that may be hereafter ap-
pointed by the President, to hold their re-
sppctive Offices until their Successors are an
pointed or elected. and qualified in pursuance
of tn" laws of said Territories.
SEC. =. The people Of the Territories here
after organized by act of Congress, shall he
vested with the same right aud power of ap-
pointing or clcctng their Governors. Judges
and all other Territorial officers and d timing
their powers and prescribing their duties,
which, by the provision of the foregoing sec
ton. are conferred on the people of the Ter
rito-ies now organized.
SEC. 3. That all suits and causes Of action
in the said Territories, arising under the Con-
stitution and laws of the United States. shall
be tried at such times and in such manner as
Congress may by law provide
SIC 4. That the pcopl" of any Territory Of
the United States now organized or which
may be hereafter organized, are hereby au-
thnrizrd and empowered TO call Convention
and frame Constitution preparatory 20 adj
mission into the Union as "A State in such
manner a their Legislature may by law pre-
scribe. Prouded. That application for such
admission into the Union shall not be made
until the population of such Territory shall
be sufficiently numerous to entitlc IL To one
representative in the House OF Representa-
tivcs on the basis ofapportoinment OF represent
tation established by Congress for the several
States. And provided further that no such
application shall be- received or entertained
by Congress, until the Constitution framed
for snid Territory shall be submitted to the
people thereof, by a direct vote, for their APP
prevail or rejection, aud shall have been APP
proved by Il majority of the legal voters of
said Territory. And ProUiioi further, that
nothing herein contained shall operate against
the Immediate admission Of Kansas and Ore
gon into the Union.
SEC. s. All acts and parts Of acts coming in
conflict with this act be and the same is here
by repealed.