Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-09-14
Now it SO happens that the amount of

Now it so happens that the amount of
popular sovereignty contained in the
Kansas:Nebraska bill, and, consequent
ly, enjoyed by the people Of the Terri
tories, ean' be ca lculated and aseertained
by the rules of mathematics Govern
ment, in this country, is divided into
three distinct departments-Legislative,
Executive, and Judiciary; they are CO.
equal; each is one-third of the whole
thus, Legislative, one-third; Executive,
one third judiciary, one-third J; total;
the Government. Thus it is in Kansas;
thus it is in each of the States; and
thus it is in the General Government
AS already stated, popular. sovereignty
means peoples sovereignty y-agovernment
created and carried on by the people
governed it is emphatically the self
government Of the people of State or
Territory; or more strictly speaking
the people Of State, for sovereignty
alone applies to State; and the moment
the people of Territory become sore-
reign, in their governmental capacity,
that very moment they become State.
But let that pass.
We have seen that the government of
Territory, as well as of a State, is
made up Of three departments-the Leg
islative, the Executive, and the Judic-
iary; and that these three are co-equal
Now, are the people of Kansas sovereign
in all three of these2 Are they in re-
gard to these three departments "zike the
people of a StateP" as Mr.. Douglas, Mr.
Buchanan, and the leaders in the Dem
ocratic party say. Are the people of the
Territory allowed to elect their. Cover
nor, their Executive? No; the President
elects him for them! But the people of
State elect their own Governor So
there is oae-third Of the peoples sover.
eighty gone, at all eventsI And TINS,
too, you see the people of a Territory
are not 'slike those of State But
again: are they allowed to elect their
Ejudg ges-their Judiciary Mol The
President elects or appoints their judges
for them. But the people of State
elect their own Judiciary, Hence,
again, the people of a Territory are not
'like the people of State in the mat
ter of self-government And SO there is
another third of popular sovereignty
gone!-thus leaving to the people, at
best, but one-third of this boasted thing
of popular sovereignty-this great prin-
cipIe of self government, which, we are
told, gives to s'the people Of a Territory,
like those of a State, = the right to decide
for themselves whether they will or will
not have slavery within their limits
Was such unblushing falsehood ever ut
tered before by grave official or enlight-
ened statesman! a5ssz.f ,9< 8 ,.15 ar.i
But have the people even .one-third of
sovereignty? The President, as we have
seen, furnishes them with t,oo thirds Of
their government, the Executive and the
Judiciary departments; and leaves the
people one-hird, that is, the election of
their Legislature. But then, one Of the
thirds of their government-the Cover
norwich is a foreign third, forced
upon them, it may be, and has. been
against their villas foreign, in reality,
as could possibly be any law of Congress
made for them; this Executive third has
the power to peutralize o-thirds of the
only third possessed by the people! The
Governor possesses the ueto power; this
is equivalent to t,ro thirds of the Legis-
lature, lacking one vote, as it takes a
two-third vote to overcome it. So the
matter in fact stands precisely thus
The President elects the Governor
three-ninths; the President elects the Ju-
diciary-three- -uinths; governors veto,
two-ninths, lacking fraction; total SOW
ereignty held by the Federal Govern
lment-eight-niths, minus fraction; to-
tai soveignty held by the people Of the
Territory oNE-NINTH, or the third OF
one third, and a fraction too small to be
! worth calculatingI Here, then; we have
1.-THE ffgreat principle of popular sover-
Ieignty, as applied to the. Territories,
worked out, and the sum total ascer-
tanned! Look at it, you Douglasites,
and patrons, aiders and abettors of a
sham Democracy and tell us, or tell
yourselves, your consciences-IsTthis al
lowing "the people Of Territory like
those of a State, to make their own gov
ernment and laws? = st]8a'L els tls37
Now, in view Of the foregoing facts,
. notice the following: Mr.. Douglas is at
4 present stumping it over New England,
and in all his speeches glorifying; this
thing of popular sovereignty" and s;sylf-
. government in the Territories. On the
7 31st of July last he spoke at Concord
! N. H., and his speech has been published
in the Concord papers, the Missouri Re
publican, and hundreds of, other Doug
! Ilas papers throughout the country
From that speech take the following as
sa mple: . ga 7s.'2 .'' -" z'.E'7 81
"Ths Republicans tell you that the
oment citizen of New Hampshire
j (who possesses the inherent right ofself
government SO long as he stays, -here)
crosses State line, and enters. Terri
!, tory of the United States, he forfsits that
right Is1it true that ascitizen of New
Hampshire forfeits his inalienable right
. of self-governmentl when he moves to q
Territory?. = Z 4 x Whoare the peo-
1, pie of the Territories? Where did they
!, come from? Many of them are your
sons, your brothers, who left the granite
hills of their native State and went to
Kansas, They were capable Of self-gov
;. ernmept, were, they not, when they left
home? When did they loose the capacity
to govern Themselves? Were they any less
capable of self-governmentta after they
+ got to Kansas than they.were when they
started? Did they lose all the sense, and
intelligence, and virtue they possessed
aohile on the ferry boat crossing the Ms
souri Riuer9 Where, and when, l. ask
;, did the .natiye-born ceitizen,l who was ca,
pable of self government when he started
!; lose that capacity" ,,,,.,-, .,,.., .,: 49,,
/ We have seen that the people Of the