Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-09-21

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Riehss saA~sssAps espssse Teseto. Of Georgia.
Who. skseeh sssl stly wAiE coaid NOT sup
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esdS4 - u s1prsred patriotism. who has
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!. ssnuury sihsu thsnsaad ssch men - Pierce and
D0aglss- IN nm ascwsd bic willingness 10 sup
pa u alisak sisat"
Osrsiey eeesnporary also. whose ultra Southern
prccvitiyss hare givsn hin the mont rank In that
school 'politiciAns which have made every thing
10 poliiies, g turn upon sectional questions and
fsalty real o. imaginary, TO the institutions Of the
sossh; now openly declares that he will support
Jsdge Douglas with great ehee.fsiaess should he
b nominsted at Charleston" Nay. more, ''that
there il no man North. bat one, wbam we (hc)
would prefer 70 Jsdse Douglas. and tina. man is
FrAakliu Pierce.p Sill further. there are dmf
fen men Sbatl Uaom he the) teos'd select in pre-
ference 10 he nisois Senator II, That will do,
sad We bore that We shall hear no more from TINT
source about any maa being "untrue to the South.
after the avowal that tho Republican would sup.
port Douglas in preference 10 Dickinson. Gushing,
Csss. Lane. Dallas, Bronson and host Of others
North and to all bu, a very few" Soulful
More thaa this. the Republican ESSAYS II read the
Presidents mouth-picce lecture for minimizing
tina. "Daaslas' positioa On tho Territorial ques-
ton 10 worse than Eeward's." Now, in n qucs-
tion Of fact between two Democratic organs and
etaunch members Of ''the only national party" il
may mot become us 60 interfere. ye. We cannot help
thinking thai the oleial organ is nearer right than
our neighbor, and II IL were devolsed upon us to
choose between Seward and Douglas: we should.
for the veeson thai he is the more consistent, MS
well as dccenter and honester politician of thetwo.
We do no, know what weight an oranion Of the
Attorney General would hive with the Republican;
indeed We are not advised as TO whether it is
In favor of the Administration, and, In com,non
with others. would like /, know-but Tor the bon
eft Of our neiahbor, will quote the following re-
spec,ing Douglas heresies and Inconsistencies,
from tho late nrtic.e Of Judge Black, in the pre-
paration Of which. it is said. the President had
hand. Says the Attorney General
Never before has any public man in America
30 completely rsvolutionixod his political opinions
in the course Of eighteen months. We 10 not de-
nythAt the change 10 heartfelt and conscientious.
We only insist that he formerly stated his propo-
dtions mach moss clearly. and sustained them
he does now,
When be took tour 10 the South, at tho begun
ming Of last winter. he made speech Mt New
Orleans, In which he announced TO the people
there that he and HE friends in Illinois accepted
the bred SCOTT decision, regarded slaves as prop
.srty and fully admitted the right Of a southern
man 70 60 into e. Federal Territory with
~ u held- In 1870 he voted in the Senate for
what was called Walkers amendment. by which
II was proposed TO put all the internal affairs in
California and New Mexico under the domination
sof the President. giving him almost unlimited
power lcGislatives judicial and executive over the
internal affairs Of those Territories. Undoubted.
u this was q strange way oftreating soveregnties
II Mr.. Douglas 10 right now, he was guilty then
of most atrocious usnrpation.
Utah 10 - much 4 sovereign State Us any 9TH
.er Territory, and perfectly entitled TO enjoy the
right Of self government On the 18th Of June
1857, Mr.. Douglas made speech about Utah, at
Springfield. Illinois, in which he expressed his
apiaion strongly In favor Of the absolute, and I'M
condtioAal repeal Of the organic act, blotting the
Territorial government out ofexistencc, and put
ting the people under the cole and exclusive ju
fsdiction Of tho United States like fort, arsenal
dock yard or magazine. He does not seem to
have had the least idea than that no was proposing
10 extinguish . sovereignty, or to tramplo upon
the sacred rights Of an Independent people.
The report whichhe made 10 the Senate, in
1856, on the Topeka constitution, enunciates u
very different doctrine from that Of the magazine
article. II 10 true that tho language is a little
'cloady, bat no one can understand the following
sentences to signify that tho Territorial govern.
menfs have sosereign power to take away the
property Of the inhabitants:--
The sovereignty Of = Territory remains in abey-
ance. Suspended IN the United States in trust for
the people until they shall be admitted into tho
Onion - . Siate. In the mean time they are al
united 10 enjoy and exercise oil the rights and
nsisileges Of self-gsssrnmcn.i subor,lination to
,shs Constitution Of the United States, and in obc
dience 70 thei- organio law, passed by Congress
I'm pursnaa6e Of ti,at Instrument. These rights
and privileges are all derisd from the constu.
ton through the astof Consres.. and must In ex-
ercissd andsenjoyed usubjection u all the m,a-
fionsAnd ssstrsetiens which that constitution i'm
poses.
The letter hc addressed 10 A Philadelphia meet
ing, in February. -l6a6. is more explicit and bar
ring some anonnaIoun 5dses conserving the nbey-