Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-10-11

The Mass Meeting of the Democracy in Mil
lersburg, was very respectable in point of num-
bers. The speaking was good enoush-such as
it was, and the days proceedings wound up
pretty much as Locofoco meetings generally do.
The first speaker introduced was Judge Bliss,
of Wooster. As the Judge has made several
speeches in our county this fall, lauding DouG-
LAS and his Popular Humbuggery doctrine, We
propose to inquire little into his antecedents
as politician. We give him the credit of tai
ent and as neighbor and friend, is said to be
all you could desire of man. Six years ago he
represented the Stark, and Portage district in
Congress, and in that body made speech
against Douglas Kansas Bill, in which, speak
ing of the power of Congress to enact the Mis-
souri, prohibition, he used this language:
"The assumed right to acquire territory, and
to erect government over it, has become SO firm
ly established by numerous precedents, that no
one now thinks of calling it in question. We
will. if you please, let slavery in territory be
individualized, as a subject upon which Con-
gress has not power to legislate. Who, then,
can legislate upon it? How can it be made the
legislature derives all its power from Congress,
and Congress cannot delegate power which it
does not possess. The unavoidable result is,
that until the territory becomes State, clothed
with complete sovereignty, no such Legislation
can be had. Now, as slavery is opposed to nat
ural law and right, and exists only by munich
pal law, in derogation of the law of nature, it
follows that there can be no slavery in terrific
ry, as there can be no law there to create it,
This is good Republican doctrine, and cores
ponds with that part Of the Chicago platform
which says "that the normal condition of all
the territories of the United States is that of
freedom"
Again, the Judge, on Wednesday, lauded
Squatter Sovereignty, as contained in the Kan
sas Bill (Which he opposed) as the great pana-
cea for our political ills. Let us hear him. once
more, against himself. We quote from the same
congressional speech. He is speaking Of Doug
las claim that the Kansas bill conferred popu-
lar sovereignty, on the territories.
"Let US see" he says, eff this is not all de-
lusion-if there is any such thing in the BILL
Are the people to elect their governor? No.
Their Judges? No. Nor their Secretary, nor
es oaa,1 ~ ~ Z. nv, Incl h @ .hn p.os;a @
and with the advice of the Senate, which is one
branch of Congress. The Governor. Secretary,
and Marshal are liable to De removed at the
nomer of iao;siat,pn % NJ I IT, n no,, VIZ
ernor to be appointed and removed as aforesaid,
is armed with the veto power. and if he shall
zee nt 70 eAeielse II upon olll taas may nave
brapcbes of the lerislature will he necessary % to
make it law. The governor may exercise the
high power without peril to his official station,
.niouga tne uslaeasuie ., ol 'ne PeIPie' lor ms
noTer over hin, Aga;n no nower Of ieo;sla0
ton is proposed, which, has not been given to
existing territories, and former ones. except the
g"e Tb". upOn n. .re ye s"Ie', Su ,h VI s,sey
mise of 1850. 1t is not in accordance with nny
precedent, but peculiartty of this bill. Now
70 Ge ian Iaaot9 ana 1alr IN lnis discussion. must
mower TO make slayes tban ay wrnn@ Jnn. and nd tho
bill is what it is claimed by its advocates to be. "
We will make one more extract from the
Judges Congressional speech, to show that he
then charged that Douglas and his associates, in
advocating the Kansas bill, designed 10 extend
slavery northward: "ihe people see this subject
in only one light. They see that slave states
are desired above the old established line of de-