Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-08-25


written letter to the 'Tammany Society
of New York, in which he advocates as a
proper position for the Democratic party
the doctrine that the people Of the Terrific
ries must not lcgislate in regard to slavery
while they continue in their territorial con-
iition. The Washington Constitution
pronounccs the letter able and patriotic.
This is not the same tune by considera-
bic that the Slaveocracy played on their
rharp of a thousand strings" during the
canvass of 1856. All remember with what
zeal their papers and stump orators advo-
Gated squatter sovereignty. or the right OF
the inhabitants of a territory to regulate
their own affairs in their own way" with
ont any outside / lterfcren &C whatever, from
Congress or the citizens of the States.-
why" they would say in the most tri-
umphant tones. elf acitizcn of Indiana who
has exercised the right Of -sclf-government
until chas grown gray. should cmigrate
to Kansas, is he as soon he plants his feet
in that territory, disqualified for. sclfTgov-
ernmcnt?v This was their song when they
thought their arrangements were complete,
beyond doubt, to make it Slave State,
through the assistance of tine Missouri Blue
Lodges, Border Rui1ians, Stufhng the Bal
lot Boxes, Forged Election Returns and
DISTINGUISHING all who were known to en-
tertan Free State sentiments, by the Dem
ocratic officers appointed by that embod-
iment OF purity and wisdom James Buch-
anan, refusing to register them according
to law. But, as soon as they found the
people had triumphed, in spite of the COR
rrpt Vaccinations, tyranny and outrages
of the Democratic President and his tools,
their veneration for Popular Sovereign
ty" began to cool very rapidly, and now
what do we hear? "The people of the
Territories must not legislate in regard to
slavery willie they continue in their Terri
torial condition. Why not? Oh, it is
un-con-s -sti-tu--tion--al-. Has not
the venerable Supreme Court SO decided?
And has not our venerable President, whose
administration, as our contemporary down
street asserts, evil prove one of the most
bcnefcent and acceptable that the country
has been favored with for many terms
past" declared that Slavery already ex-
istcd in Kansas. and that it was as much
a slave State as Georgia or South Caroli-
ma? When the Slave party, by the most
stupendous frauds on the ballot-box, and
with the assistance of the Missouri Border
Ruhians driving the legal voters from the
polls, succeeded in elccting Legislature in
favor of making Kansas Slave State, we
heard no objection to the 'people OF the
territories lcgislating in regard to slavery" !"
All remember the tyrannical laws enacted
by the first legislature of that territory. ma
king it felony. punishable with impris-
onment for not less than ten years, we be-
lieve, for any person, to speak, write,
or print any thing against slavery. What
did tie Democratic party, the "Populal
Sovereignty" advocates par excellence then
say about these proceedings? They dared
not dcfcni them so they affected to disbe
licve that such things had been done, char
actcrised them as abolition and black Re
publican lies, and denounced every cffor
! of the friends Of freedom in the States t.
counteract the unholy Vaccinations lant
designs Of the Slave Oligarchy. All an,
more than all that the Republicans thel
sai, about Democratic outrages and perse
cutions Of the Free State settlers of Kan
sas has been confirmed by such men a
Gov. Geary. Gov. Walkcr and Seerctar
Stanton. and vet men who uncqnvocall
endorse buchanan administration probes
to be infasor Of Popular Sovereignty!
! Withfwhatreoasis.cncys thcy can iloeso "
leave the reader to judge. The people c
the Free States were deceived BY, thi
cry in 1856, and tits cvilentthat the sam
game is to be played again in 1861
Should another Democratic Presileuti b
elected all disguise will be thrown Of
the slave-tradc re1dpeticd aud the Supfem
Court induced to decide that the Constitr
ton carries slavery into and protects IL
every State and Territory of the Uniol
Has nots Buchanan alfeSay udcclate,l
relation to Kansas that the right to hol
slave property -~as-bsesss- and beyond IL
possd N 6tMcs UdnstintsonsE q hLSliA
This beipg sdmittet, We do rot see wh'
is to prevent 4he ,Ssnremel Court of ii
u. S. from deciding that the provision
the organiclaw in all the Free States 70
bidding slavery is. unconstitutional III
bred Scott decision was only the iniati,
step in that direction If the Africa
Slave trade cannot berci opened in any 9th
way the Supreme Courtlean easily. dccit
that the provision is an uniustifable into
ference with a.business beyond the pow
Of consultations. Or lavs to control. Tn
mav he considered altogether improbAb