The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-10-30

VI tiiV SoHStItUtIOii~tH tAcCuIiNc, III
Legislative and judicial. Suppose Pop
ular Sovereignty to be represented b
the figure g. Perhaps some of my Dem
ocratic friends who cannot read can ci
pher a little. Laughter. Then th
executive, the first Of the coordinate de
partments, would be represented by three
the Judiciary by three ; and the legisla
tive or popular branch, in which the peo
pie are supposed to have a voice, BY
three
IT TURNS OUT A VERY SMALL FRACTION
But the governor, or executive. who
as well as the Judiciary, is appointed by
the President, has * elo power over the
acts of the Legislature. SO that it takes
two-thlrds vote to pass an act over his
head. Now, take out these two of the
three parts of the power of the people
and the six parts of the executive and
Judiciary, and you have eight on one
side, and one poor miserable remnant on
the other Laughter. That is Popu-
lar Sovereignty That is Douglas ;
Great Principle p Why, my benight-
ed Democratic friend, there is no such
thing as Popular Sovereignty, squat
ter sovereign Of Douglass is only the
ninth part of man. Cheers and
laughter. The other eight remain in
the hands Of that tool Of the king-the
old bachelor President.
he VOTES AGAINST POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY.
But, gentlemen, he was not honest ey-
en- in this. /" No, no" The scheme
he contrived to carry out fraud was in
itself an additional fraud. Why do say
50? At the time ths bill was under con
sideration, Mr. Chase, the Senator from
Ohio, and Mr.. Mace, representative
from Indiana, brought in resolutions to
this effect; lhat the people of the Terri
tory, through their appropriate rep!esen
tatIves, may elect their own governor,
their own Legislature, and their own iu-
diciary. That would have been Popular
Sovereignty after fashion. 1t would
have taken the power out of the hands Of
Us thirty-miIions Of people and placed il
virtually in the hands of the small mum
Der Of our people mostly from foreign
countries, who happen 70 be in possession
Of the territories. But that was Popular
Sovereignty, Squatter Sovereignty, in all
is length, brealrh, height aud depth
And where WAS Stephen and his party
when the proposition was made By us to
give Sqnatter Sovereignty some vitality !?
Why, As Tom Benton said. he killed his
own child, his own beautiful and only
daughter, Popular Sovereignty. stone
dead, in the Senate, tie place of her ma
uvity. He and his party voted it down
Sensation. The record Of the country
shows il. Ny Democratic friends 60
and lower your standard of Popular Soy
ereignty. Stephen is not your leader ii
YOU follow in the wake Of Popular Soy
ereignty, for Stephen voted it down. He
was unwilling to see even the niath part
Of It that vas left by his bill.
lie PROVIDES a NICHE For THE DRIED
SCOTT DECISION.
What more He leaves his bill pur-
posely open for this decision OF the Su
preme Court TO crush out this ninth part
of Popular Sovereignty. Mr.. Calhoun
had already given an Interpretation 10
the Constitution. making il a pro o-slayery
Constitution, which BY its own visor car
ried slavery everywhere that it exten led
Aud although this ilea was deriled at
The time, 1t has grown at last 10 be the
faith OF the Democratic party. Mr.. Don
glas knew the new construction which
Mr.. Calhoun and the South had put and
were putting upon tie Constitution
What then did he do? When he brought
IN his Nebraska bill declaring that the
people should be perfectly free to vote it
4 free or slave territory just AS they
chose, he added this proviso Subject
70 the Constitution of the United States. >
You see now where he WAS playing trait
or. The little fellow was preparing "A
loop hole through which, when this sub
Ject became the Great Chinese Wall
along Mason and Dixon's line. from the
Atlantic % the Pacific, separating the
North and the South, he might escape
without knocking out against il what lit
-lo btaiss he had. Cheers and laugh
Ter. But Mr.. Chase smoked him OUT of
his hole, and brought the liple fellow up
Standing in the daylight. SO that every
body could read him He offered an
amendment proviling that the people
II the territory, through their appropri
lle representatives, may, ii they see tit,
prohibit the existence Of slavery thereia"
and there stopped. That AT once clear
ID away all this doubtful construction of
he Constitution. and decided whether il
VAS for slavery or for liberty. What then
lid Mr.. Douglas do? lie and his friends
'sain voted Popular Sovereignty down
50 that in every way in which We could
est him. we found him practically against
Popular Sovereignty.
What more Why, the shareholders
indlug themselves unable TO win even at
he grab game, having tried repeatedly
'ai baea again and again defeated, like
Satan. when he rose gloomily
from the place Of his defeat. and cast his
eyes about the universe to see whether
ae mi 5ht once more hnd standing room
10 wage eternal war against the Almighty
turned about Ia search Of some untried
instrument with which 10 carry on the
war of slavery against freedom And
where did they lini Il? In the Supreme