Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-09-07
WHAT POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY HAS
READl READL KEAD.


! last great speech in the Senate, in which he
magnifes the triumphs ofPopular Sovereignty
for the cause Of Slavery This speech was
made with view Of coaxing the Southcrners
into supporting him for President at the then
approaching Charleston Convention. While
| it failed of its object at the South, it has had
the effect to open the eyes Of Northern DEM
ocrats as to the real bearing of "non-intcryen-
ton in reference to slavery. This speech
ought to be read by every free laborer and
every citizen Of the Free States
From Douglas Speech IN the Senate, May lG, lSG0l
But, We are told the necessary results Of
this doctrine Of non-intcryention, which gem
tlcmen, by way Of throwing ridculc upon,
call popular sovereignty, is to deprive the
South of all participation in which they call
the common territories OF the United States.
That was ground on which the gentleman
from Mississippi Mr.. Davis prcdicated his
opposition to the compromise measure Of
/ 1850. lie regarded a refusal to repeal the
Mexican law as equivalent 90 the Wilmot
proviso a refusal 90 deny TO territorial
legislature the right to exclude slavery as
equivalent to an exclusion. lie believed at
that time this doctrco did amount to a denial
of southern rights but they doubted it,
Now, let me sec how far his predictions and
suppositons have been verified. infer that
he told the people so, for he makes it a charge
in his bill Of indictments against me, that /
am hostile to Southern rights, because gave
those votes.
Now, what has been the result My views
were incorporated into the compromise mca-
sure of $50, and his were rejected. Has the
South been excluded from all the territory ac-
quired from Mexico. What says the bill
from the House of Rcprcst natives now on
your table, repeating the slave code in New
Mexico established by the people themselves /?
/ 1t is part Of the history Of the country that
under this doctrine of non-intcrycntion, this
doctrine that you delight to call squatter
sovereignty, the people OF New Mexico have
/ INTRODUCED and PROTECTED slavery in
the WHOLE or THAT TERRITORY more
than FIVE TIMES THE SIZE or THE
/ STATE or NEW YORK. Under this doc
trnc, slavery has been extended from the
Rio Grando to the Gulf of California, and
from the line of the Republic of Mexico, not
only up to 3G deg 80 min, but up to 3S deg.
/ giving you a degree and half more slave
territory than you ever claimed. In SIS and
! 1919 and 1850 you only asked to have the
line of SO deg 80 min The Nashville Con-
vention fixed that as its ultimatum. | offered
adopted here but rejected in the House of
Representatives. You ASKED ONLY UP TO
SO deg. 30 min. AND NON-lNTERVEN-
/ TlON HAS GIVEN YOU SLAVE TER
RlTORY UP TO 80 deg, A DEGREE
AND A HALE MORE THAN YOU ASK
ED; and yet you say that THIS is A sAcUl-
TicE or SuUruFRN RIGHTS:
These are the fruits of THIS PRINCIPLE
which the Senator from Mississippi regards
as HOSTILE TO THE RIGHTS or THE SourH.
Where did you ever get any other fruits that
were more platablo tu your tastes or more re-
lrcshing TO your strength: WHAT 9TH
/ FIR INCH or FREE TERRITORY HAS
+ BEEN CONVERTED INTO SLAVE TER
/ RlIORI or THE AMERICAN CONT
/ NENT, SINCE THE REVOLUTION, EN-
/ tEPI IN NEW MENlCO AND ARlXO-
/ MA, UNDERTIlE PRINCIPLE or NON
/ INTERVENTION affirmed at Charleston
ORTuARY.-Isaac Matthowson. ESQ, of
Mcndon, died on Saturday, the Sth of Au-
gust, at the age of about 20. Mr. Matthew
son had represented the town Of Mondun in
the Legislature Of Vermont many different
years, and for the last time in 1855 The
/ gcniality and Kindness Of his nature Joined
/ to certain natural pecuiaritcs of manner. had
long since made him notorious if not pop
ular man. His associates in the House of
Representatives will long remember his short,
plthy and telling speeches, and the applause
with which they were always received. He
lived and died bachelor, and his property is
bcqucathed to relatives and benevolent OBJ
jects.
Long shall we seek his likeness, long in vain"
-BrdHicboro' Phonir.
70 Calvin Park, Esq, of bennington.
salad for California on the 2Oth lie goes
/ out to assist Col. Fremont and +. w Park
in the management Of Mariposa
/ 10 A movement is on foot to establish a
boot and shoe factory in Bellows Falls with
capital Of $4,000, and to employ fifty to
sixty hands,
SAD ACCIDENT Giles Pratt of Rutland,
middle brakeman on the Rutland evening
freight train, was found in an lnscnsible CON
dtion on top Of a car when about mile and
half this side of Chester. on Wednesday
evening His head was hanging Off from the
car and he would soon have been thrown from
the train If he had not been discovered It
is supposed must have been struck on the
head while passing bridge. He was put
upon bed at Chester and taken to Rutland.
and was alive Thursday morning, eight hours
alter the accident, but wholly unconscious. -
1t is feared his skull is broken in and hardly
any hope is entertained of his recovery
Beiio'cs Falls Times.
~ A destructive fire broke out in Ches-
ter, Aug 80, about half past one o'clock
and before the flames could be STAYED the
Chester House and other buildings connected
Herewith, including the barn and livery
stable, }. N. Moores drug store, and N.
Nourse's tailoring establishment, were mass
OF smouldering ruins. Most of the contents
Of these buildings were saved, but Of course
more or less damaged. The fire is said to
have started in the kitchen of the hotel, and
was doubtless accidental.
p - An old man named wager, living in
the Blue Ridge, near Mauck's tavern. Page
county, Va, hung himself few DAYS ago
while laboring under excitement caused by
the arrest of one of his sons for horse steal
ing and of another for trying to rescue his
brother. The news of the mans death be.
ing suddenly announced to his daughter, so
Frustrated her that death ensued in few
hours.
q The fifteenth Annual Fair Of WASHING.