Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-04-07

But may be said thatthc clause "andal others
Of the United States, whose appointments ar,
not herein provided for, and which shall b.
established by law gives Congress the right
10 govern the territories. To this we may re.
mark, that unless II can be shown that Con.
gress has u right to govern people without
their consent, the President has no authority
to appoint rulers over them; and in the Con-
stitution We find 10 such authority granted 10
Congress, except in the territory Of Washing
ton, TO which such power is specially limited
to ten miles square. As VIC have before stated
they possess no legitimate power of governing
or of exclusive legislation anywhere else and
| If Congress possesses not the powers Of legis-
lators, how can the President appoint Cover
nors, &c?
Iftlis statement is not correct, where are
| the rights of the people? Each Of the terrific
ries contain from fifty to one hundred thousand
| inhabitants, q greater number than several
| of the original States possessed Mt the time OF
there coming into the Union. II Congress
could not then govern lesser number Of peo-
pie without their frOwn, whence do they now
| obtain the power to govern a greater2 We
know of none but that right which the strong
has to Cypress the weak. Again, nm American
citizen in any of the thirty United States is in
every sense of the word Sovereign; he
has voice In all Town, County, State and
United States Offices, as well as in the election
of the President of the United States he is a
free man. but the moment he steps into ter
ritory, which is the domain ofthe United States,
and in which he has as much right to as any
other citizen, he is DISTINGUISHED, deprived of
his rights, and is placed in a state of vassalage
or tutelage and this is not only the case with
an individual, but with hundred thousand in
one territory; and they may be Knocked, jeered
abused, tantalized and insulted, without re-
dress, by these self-constituted masters, who
have of there own voltion, snatched from them
these dearest rights, and lorded it over them
ut will. And thus while loafers, blacklegs,
and the very scum and dregs of society, are
permitted the rights of ireemen in the States,
the industrious, energetic farmer, mechanic,
merchant and lawyer, who have the ambition
to penetrate into a new country, to combat the
Indian, to make the first roads and to build
the first bridge and who make the solitary
places glad and the wilderness to blossom ms
the rose these hardy, industrious, intelligent
pioneers, instead of being fostercd and encour-
aged by the general government in there ar
duous undertaking, the very moment they
set foot in territory OF the United States,
they are prescribed in there liberties and dis
franchised. But il may be said the territories
have each delegate in Congress. True, but this
delegate, like everything else associated with
territorial rule, is mere shadow, an autama-
ton, like all good and obedient little boys. He
must hear and see, but say nothing; he has a
seat and he can speak when permitted on par
ticular prescribed occasions; but he cannot
vote in the interests of his constituents or
against any oppressive law.
But we are told that the massachusetts
act is based upon Popular Sovereignty, and
that as all people are soyereigns, that squat
tiers are also and therefore they are called
squatter soveregns. We may investigate this
hereafter, but it will never cease to be mis-
terry with us, how IT is that a citizen of the
United States should lose all his rights and
privileges by moving from particular State
into Il territory of the United States.
Yours truly,
r. g.