The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1860-09-27

Kansas wants slave constitution, she has n
right to 1t If she wants free state constitu-
tion she has right to it. 1t is none of nv
business which way the slavery cause is deci-
ded-i care not wketber Sidrery is soted do,sn
or rotea up."-- Cong Globe, l857-58, part
l, page 10.
QUESTION FIVE AND SIX.
8. If elected to Congress, would you vote
to amend the organic act Of the several or.
gauizcd Terrritories of the U. s., including
Kansas and Nebraska, so as to authorize the
people of said territories, before they become
States, and notwithstanding the bred Scott
decision, to prohibit or exclude slavery there
from, if they should see fit; and also permit
them to elect their Governors and all other
terrioriol officers now appointed by the Pres
ident of the United States.
g. Are you in favor of complete End en-
tire Non Intervention on the part Of Congress
with the subject of slavery in the territories
and of authorising the people of said terrific
rles aud states to ''vote slavery up or vote it
down." as they shall see proper?
GEN. sTEEDMAN's ANwsER.
If | were elected to Congress, would
vote for any amendment in any organic act
which was satisfied the people Of that terri
tory asked for believe in that doctrine
and would vote for what the people wanted.
s. am unequivocally. The people of
all the states or all territories are the source
OF power, and from them all their institutions
must arise.
JUDGE DOUGLAS ANSWER.
Il will answer the Senator question. 1st,
| do not hold that squatter sovereignty is su-
peIor to the constitution. hold that no such
thing as Sopereiyn po,cer attaches 10 territory,
,chiis territory. hold that a territory pos
sess,s whatever power it derives from the
| Constitution. under the organic act, and no
more. hold that all the power that ter
r,torial legislature possesses is derived from
the constitution and its amendments, under
the act Of Congress; and because held that,
L denied last year that the people of terrific
ry, thout the consent of Congress could as.
semble at Lecompton and create an organic
law for that people denied the validity o.
your Lecompton Constitution, for the reason
that constitutions can only be made by SOW
ereign power, and because the territory wa,
not sovereignty that was not constitution
but petition."- Douglas in the Senate
Feb 90. 1850.
| have denounced Squatter Sovereignty
when you find it setting up government il
violation of law, as you do now at Pike
Peak. | denounce it this year. When 70,
find an Unauthorized legislature, in violation
, OF law, setting up government without sane
ton Of Congress or Court, that ia Suuatte
Sovereignty which 1 oppose. There is tn,
case of Dakotah, where you have left whole
people without any law or territorial organi
zstion, with no mode of appeal from Squatte
Courts to the United States Courts to correc
their decisoAs-that is Squatter Sovereignty
in violation of the Constitution and laws O
the United States. There is similar gov
ernment set up over part of California ant
a part of the territory of Utah, called Neva
dah 1t has delegate here, claiming T.
,, represent it. have denounced that as un
= lawful. / that was what the Senator refer
/, = ed to, am againt it. All say is. the pee
u pie of a territory, when they have become OF
ganised under the Constitution and laws
have Legislative power over all rightful sub
. ects oS legislation. consistent with the Con
s'itution of the United States.-[ Douglas i
the Senate, May H. 1860.
G With the above showing, the reader wi
d be enabled in some degree to appreciate th
o impudence and recklessness Of Gen. Steet
man, which however is in perfect keepin
with the lodging Of a trickster, demogogu
g and gambler.
q WHAT "NON-INTERVENTIO - HAS
r DONE.
e Let the people remember that Stephen
IS Douglas, who is now perambula ing the coul
try soliciting votes as a candidate for the Pre-
idency, used the following language in II