The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1859-09-08
Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana,

they would get into a scrape IN doing it. if
they could not show he was born a slave
We have no inherent rights Some people
on one side of the river say that no msn
shall take fugitive slave back from here, be-
cause he has an inherent right TO freedom
There is, tell you, no such thin. as an in
herens right All our rights are given US By
the compact of the Constitution. We see
there what rights every citizen shall have,
and what rights every an in the States shall
have We have sealed by the blood of our
fathers, sanctifed By the martyrdom of our
fathers, and he is recreat dog who will not
fulfil the compact of our fathers. There is
no such thing as sovereignty in these States;
God alone is sovereign. as well as omnipo.
tert Your President is not sovereign. altho
he tries to act like it; but have you not OBJ
served that there is such an iucongruty be-
tween sovereignty and its pretension, thai
wherever one of our President: tries 10 act
the elephant OF giraffe, he is sure to act like
a monkey, and gibber and chatter for the
laughter and scorn of the world. Laughter I
No such thing as sovereignty exists in this
country, except in you; Col help YOU
Shabby sovereigns we aEei R4newe laugh
ter. The man that has the right to 60 to
the polls and vote for whom he pleases, that
man is in that particular sovereign. and has
upon him all the responsibilities of sover-
eign That freedom of will wherewith it has
pleased Almighty God, as | think sometimes.
to curse human nature--that freedom Of will
is not permitted to any man for all time. but
to the voting man on the day Of election
Demagogues often tell u this They tell
you the truth in that, and that is all the truth
they do tell you, aud you don't believe it, or
if you do, then you don't act like sensible
sovereigns. By the By, include myself in
all this
l continue my reading: This assumption
is utterly unfounded, unconstitutional, and
contrary to the entire practice of this Gov
ernment, from its commencement to the pre-
sent day, as | shall proceed to show" Who
do you suppose uttered that? Some little
man from some rem ,te district in Arkansas,
or Ohio. or BIZ Sandy in Kentucky, laugh
ter, or Sugar Greek in Warren county? No
such man! 1t was the same man who was
Secretary of War under James Monroe when
the Missouri question came up before his
Cabinet, John c. Calhoun. Utterly alb
surd,'' he says, and besides contrary to the
practice of the Government, from the begin
ming to the present time" Ny brother De.
mocrat YOU have some confidence in him !;
he committed some errors | supp ose ; have
not you? Us was a N iu of wonderful head,
and although the very question pending be
fore the Senate was the one We are now dis
cussing. and it was to the Interest of Mr.. Cal
houn, as the great leader Of the Pro Slavery
party, to take the other side, he could not do
it. The Government had committed itself
he had comnittei him self; all the sensible
men had committed themselves to that day,
and he denounced it absurd and contrary
to the practice of the GDvernm ent, from the
organizing to that day. How did he proceed
to show it! Am,ny oher things he quptes
all but the Ian slsge Of Chief Justice Mar
shall, in the case OF Canter and the Insurance
Company. He does not quote it, bu. uses
the language as his owl. ..lf" said he, 1.-The
Government of Mexico could make whatever
law it pleased before the cessio OF the Ter
ritory SO the Government to whom the ces-
sion is mile, alone cln m IKE laws for it
now
DoUGLAs AGAINST saUArTaa SOVEREIGNTY.
Well, my frien Is. have you ever seen the
honey bee after having sippel honey from
the rose. the carnstioa or the jtponics, light
down upon The J tnestown weel. and finish
his meal. L have seen it when a boy, anI
have won lerel why it did not commence Oh
that and top OF with the best. | am about
to do someihiny of that kind. am comma
from the sayings Of great N n to the sayings
of man not quite as great. Here is a
speech delivered Jane 2i:
Sir said he, Il do MT hold the doctrine
any specie of property by law from any ter
ritory, is violation OF any right OF property.
Do vou not exclude banks from the mos. Of
Territorias?" Yes, ani I was on the Com
nittee of Territories oncs, when Wisconsin
sent law With five or six banks. voted for
IL b,,- In IN n :at
ed with me nulliie1 the law. 1t want back
to the Territory, AMI sqaatter sovereign tha;
it was, it ceased 20 be law. "Do you not. -
continues he. .'exclude whisky from being
introduced into large portions Of the Territo-
ries?" D. you take up Washington Terri
tory, and if there IS a tri5s d kne eiisns in it,
and any man sells them whisSs hey 60 back
to law Of 1912, AMI punisI man for do
ing it. That law was made By Congress, yet
they say Congress has no right 10 make The
laws for the government Of any body in the
Territories. But the Indian Intercourse act
Instituted by Jefferson himself. is in force in
every Territory, and "S1uatter Sovereignty
wells her diaden, and then it is in humble
compliance for the Uoited Sta'es to make the
laws.
If the Territories have the right to make
laws for the Territories, why don't you say
10 the people. Sell what you p!easas Squat
ter Sovereignty did not think of that. Squat
ter Sovereignty is but youth yet. and he
had not time to think aboa. that Possibly
he will think over these things some day
, gather himself up and Sink awsT
) The speech continues: Gambling tables
which are property. recognized as such il
many of the States. are they tolerated IL
your organic lawss Aud has any one found
that the exclusion of ardent spirits was a vi
olation of any constitutional privilege o.
: rights" Yet you viii perceive that the gen
tleman Is SO certain of his conclusions tha
; he puts them in the interrogatory form
! And yet it is the case in large portion o
: the Territory of the . aitei States. but Their
! is no outcry about it, the law also pro
: hibits certain othsr descri ptions of business
from being carried on in the Territories.
$ am not therefore prepared to say that unde
: the Constitution We have not power TO pas
j laws excluding Slavery from Territory"
Ny brother Democrat, who do YOU suppos,
{ said thats I said son,athino ike II hut I dif