Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-07-20
DupGcity Extraordinary.

party showed its estimate of the intelligence
of the people. by adopting Janus faced
platform, having one phase for the North
and another for the South The result was
the election of James Buchanan, fair rep,
resentatlve of the democratic party man
now universally abhorred and held in detes
tation by all respectable men. Buchanan
was elected, not by the choice Of the people,
but by Infamous frauds, recently brought to
light, and the corrupt use of the peoples
money to defeat the ballot box. The less
corrupt or wiser portion of the democratic
party, however closely welded to the abon.
nations of the desolation of slavery, vet
has too much policy to go before the coun,
try again with false issue. Not so with
the Douglas faction. With the same vile
purpose of indefinitely extending slavery,
until every vestige of freedom is swallowed
up in the vortex of despotism, they have
the effrontery to appear before the people
again with base and palpable lie in their
moaths and spread out in all their journals,
supposing that enough Of the people will be
duped to give them success if, indeed, they
expect 10 succeed at all. That we know
whereof we affirm and do them no injustice,
will be seen by reference to the language Of
their candidate. We quote from Governor
Johnson, the democratic candidate for the
! Vice Presidency, in his speech accepting
the nomination, as we find the same in the
| WATERFOWL Democrat of the 18th install, as
| follows: .--. .-..- ..r... ...
The question is now distinctly presented
to the people, whether they will adhere to
the doctrine of non-intervention, or whether
they will abandon it; whether they will re-
open the slavery agitation by requiring Con-
gress to take jurisdiction over it, or whether
they will give repose to the public mind and
security to the Union by leaving it where the
compromise leaves it, to the free action Of
the people of the territories under the con-
stitution of the United States The issue is
fairly made up. It is Intervention or nom
intervention. When the
people of territory desire slave labor, and
the soil and climate are suited to it, slavery
will go-where these conditions do not exist,
it will not 60. -sf E-
Such is the question which the Douglasites
present to the people OF the North, as if it
really was the doctrine of Douglas and his ad-
that Satan himself never invented a baser or
more treacherous falsehood. Let The reader
look little farther, and ponder we'll the fol-
lowing from the officially published proceed
sc la,
nority of which subsequently nominated
Douglas: a-. ...--
Mr.. Wickliffe, of Louisiana, offered the
following, which he said would give D ,ug.
las 10000 votes in that state:
Resolced, That it is in accordance with
the Cincinnati platform, that during the ex'
| istence of Territorial Governments, the n cas-.
ures of restriction, whatever it may be, i'm
posed by the Federal Constitution on the
| power of the Territorial Legislation over the
| subject of the domestic relations. as the anne
has been or shall hereafter be, finally deter
mined by the Supreme Court of the United
| States, should be respected by all good cit-
zens, AMI enforced with promptness and
| fidelity by every branch of the general Gov
| eminent
Since it is an indisputable fact that the
Supreme Court, "a majority of which is made
up of infamous partizans of slavery,) has
decided that Slave property in the territories,
is the same in all its rights as property in
horses, low superlatively false and hollow
must be the pretence of Douglas and his
supporters, that their platform leaves the
question of slavery in the Territories to the
people inhabiting them, at the same time
Douglas accepting this bred Scott decision,
and also the above resolution, which declares
it to be the duty of all good citizens, and of
the several branches of the general govern
ment, to enforce and respect with fidelity,
this very decision. This resolution Mr..
Douglas declares with the platform of prin-
ciples adopted at Charleston and re affirmed
at Baltimore to be a faithful embodiment
of the time honored principles of the demo
cratic party" t- I'd
The substance of the matter then is this
After adopting the bred Scott decision, which
esteb hes slavery in the territories as much
as any other property, and after declaring
that it is the duty of all good citizens and of
the general government 10 faithfully enforce
and observe that decision, to the North they
impiously prate the abominable falsehood,
that their platform leaves the question of
slavery in the territories to be settled by the
people therein One of two things must be
true; They either suppose the people are
too great fools to detect the monstrous con-
tradiction and falsehood palmed off upon
them, OF that they are so base as to be viii.
ling to be led by such means. Can the PEG,
pie have fallen 60 low as to give their sup,
port to candidates and party, whose base
ness is SO manifest? We might reasonably
expect to find just such means resorted to
by men who support slavery, the g sum of
all villainies.r .i as-
E9~ The Republicans of the First Con.
gressonal District held grand ratification
meeting in Milwaukee on Wednesday of
last week. They were addressed by Senator
Doolittle in the afternoon at Albany Hall,
and in the evening by Lieut.. Gov. Noble,
| and n Kr;esman of CHICAGO in MARI Of