Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-07-20

10r the fr0SlOenCy. NWo uhkus uSVo auueA
and afterwards boosted of tho sale-for thai
is literally true We will prove the charge ou'
Of his own mouth. In his May speech, Mr.
Douglas said: s 40 I'D. ss
"It is part Of the history Of the country
that under this doctrine Of non-intervention,
this doctrine that you delight to call squattel
sovereignty, the people of New Mexico have
introduced and protected slavery in the whole
of that Territory. Under this doctrine, they
have converted tract of free territory into
slave territory, more than five times the size
of the State Of New York. 6Uunder this doc
trine, slavery has been extended from the
Rio Grande to the Gulf of California, and
from the line of the Republic of Mexico, not
only up to SO deg. 30 min., but up to SO deg.
-GIvINo YOU A DRGRRE AND A HALF MoRs
SLAVE TERRITORY THAN YOU EVER CLAIMED.
In 1848 and 1849 and 1850, you only asked
to have the line of SO deg. 80 min. The
Nashville Convention fixed that as its ulti.
matum. offered it in the Senate in August,
Is4s, and it was adopted here but rejected in
the House of Representatives. You asked
only up to SO deg. 80 min., and non.inter-
vention has given you slave territory up to
SO deg, degree and half more than you
asked and yet say that this is sacrifice of
Southern rightsi
"THESE ARE THE FRUITS OF THIS
PRINCIPLE which the Senator from Mis-.
sissippi regards as hostile to the rights Of the
South. Where did you ever get any other
fruits that were more palatable to your taste
or more refreshing to youAstrength :? What
other inch of free territory has been,
converted into slave territory on the Ameri:
continent, since the Revolution, except in:
New Mexico and Arizona, under the principle
of non-intervention affirmed at Charleston.
If it be true that this principle of non-inter-
vention has conferred upon you all that
immense territory; has protected slavery in
that comparatively northern and cold region
where you did not expect it to 60, cannot
YOU trust the same principle further South
when you come to acquire additional territory
from Mexico, which was surrounded on nearly
every side by free territory Will not the
same principle protect you in the northern
States of Mexico when they are acquired,
since they are new surrounded by slave
territory are several hundred miles further
South have many degrees of greater heat !;
and have climate and soil adapted to South
ern productsl Are you not satisfied with
these practical results? Do you desire to
appeal from the people of the Territories to
the Congress of the United States to settle
this question in the Territories : When you
distrust the people and appeal to Congress,
with both Houses largely against you on this
question, what sort of protection will you
get? Whenever you ask slave code from
Congress to protect your institutions in q
Territory where the people do not want it,
you will get that sort Of protection which the
wolf gives to the lamb; you will get that
sort Of friendly hug that the grizzly bear gives
to the infant. Appealing to an anti-Slayery
Congress to pass laws of protection. with .
view of forcing slavery upon an unwilling and
hostile people !"
"a DEGREE AND HALF MORE SLAVE TERRI.
TORY THAN you EVER cLAMED-THESE ARE
THE FRUITS OF THIS PRINCIPLE.
"uNDER THIS DOCTRINE OF NoN-NTERvENTloN
THEY have CONVERTED TRACT OF FREE TER
R1roRY INTO SLAVE TERRITORY MORE THAN
FIVE TIMES THE SIZE OF THE STATE
OF NEW YORK.
''CANNoT YOU TRUST TIE SANE PRINCIPLE
1UHTdBA SOUV0S WA8N AVO N0A1 Az ASSSAAs.
ADDITIONAL TERRITORY FROM MEXICO!
"wHERE DID you (rHs sLAvEHoLDEss) EVER
GET ANY OTHER FRUITS THAT WERE MORE PAL.
ATABLH TO YOUR TASTE, Oh MORE RE1RssHINa
TO YOUR srRENGTHf"
The great Squa.ter Sovereignty principle
has given more free soil up to Slavery than it
has ever obtained since the Revolution, and
the great but now S. A. D. Squatter Sover-
eign BOASTS OF IT TO THE SHAREHOLDERS.
Tell US, Messieurs Democrats, have we not
proved that Stephen A. Douglas not only
sought to sell the free soil Of the Territories
to slavery, but did sell it, and afterwards
boasted of the transactionp And what man
is there but believes that his motive for this
sale was THE PRESIDENCY?
No sadder or more disgraceful spectacle
ever was exhibited to the eyes Of any people
since the Crucilxion than the scene which
was presented in the American Senate, last
Nav, when an American Senator from free
State stood in his place in that Chamber, and
boosted to the world that he had, by his
great principle, converted the only FREQ terri
tory into slave territory that had, bssn "a
concerted since the american Recolstion,
and this in the year Of our Lord One Thous-
and Eight Hundred and Sixty. ag7
If from San Francisco eastward to st
Petersburg, the seat Of the Czars, another
living man, . subject Of free institutions, car
be found who has done more in this century
against freedom and for slavery than has Mr.
Douglas, by his own confession, then We vii
reract our, second charge that Stephen "A
Douglas is the Arch Traitor to Liberty Of tn
Nineteenth Century. as% .s3asf ~
q Keenan, the pugilist and Dan Rice
the Snowman, are both Democrats. The,
are respectively the strongsst and most acs;s
members Of that party. ID t 90 ssais
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