Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-08-22

Ferids isto the Uaioa = relation . The sasstios
Of Territorial power, II: DosRlas said: .fhe
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they - sssa = tie jsgisdioiD and cosfve4 g
lasgyess a6sins inssosy thsis ossssity; Sss wesa
they attain their majority, and o1ssss od@'asios
end restrictions, szesEt such - the Coasiitssioe
Of the tIn:hd states impossd upon al and saeh OF
the States"
II in the preceding extracts Mr.. Douglas does
not advocate the doctrne Of Stste Sovereignty il
opposition to Territorial; that the Sovereignty Of
Territory remains - Sbsyoace and il ssspended
% The Usitsd Sksses" and that dasise @nfancy" or
the Territorial condition, s'the Jurisdiction and
control over the Territories 10 in Congrea !" il in
Zoe 10 dos noa sstissiy deDeliah his own ~
theory Of Territorial Sovereignty, then We arc at
loss to understand the plain meaning Of the
Let Us now see how Herschel v. johnson, the
Vice Presidential candidate the Douglas ticket,
stands in relation TO this matter. At the recent
Georgia State Convention, convened to send dele
gates 10 Baltimore, Mr.. Johnson . Chairman Of
Committee, reported the following resolution 70
the Convention:
Resolced, That We re affirm tho Cincinnati plat
form, With the following additional proposition
lst That the citizens OF tho United States have
equal right to settle With their property 81 any
kind in the organized Territories Of the United
States and that under the decision Of the Supreme
Court Of the United States in the case OF bred
Scott which We recognise the correct exposition
Of the Constitution in this particular, stage prop
ety stands upon the footing all other descrip
er n NGR ANY TERKITORiAL GOVERN
MENT can, destroy impair the right TO slage
property in the common Territories any more than
the right to any oAer description Of property, that
property Of all kinds. slaves - well rs any other
species Of property, in tho Territories stand upon
| the same equal and broad Constitutional basis,
protection by the LEGISLATIVE, Judicial, and err
| ecwtige departments of the Government.
| We will now call your attention to an extract
from one Of Daniel Webstcrs speeches, in relation
to Congressional and Territorial power. and in
which "the great Constitutional exp0ander" with
his usua, perspcuity makes the subject very plain
to the simplest understanding. Mr.. Webster
| says:
DANIgL WEBSTER ON PROTECTION TO FRoPBRTY IN
TIE TERRIrORIgs.
eve have always gone upon tho ground tbs I
| these Territorial Governments were in state Of
pupilage, under tho protection patronage Of the
General Government. The Territorial Legislature
have power not given by that Congress. They
must act within the limits Of the Constitution
granted them by Congress, or else their acts be-
come void. The people under the Territorial
Government are not . Sovereignty; they do not
constitute Sovereignty, and do not possess any Of
he rights incident to Sovereignty. They are, i.
you so please to deneminate it, in state Of in
choate Government and Sovereignty. If We we'll
| consider this question upon the ground Of our
practice during the last half century, l think We
will End way of disposing of it. 1t is our
duty to provide for the people Of the Territory
government to keep the peace to their prop
erty; to assign - them . subordinate judicial
authority; to that the protection Of their persons
end the security Of their property are regularly pro-
rided for; and to maintain them in that state until
they groU into sufficient Importance, in point po-
| utat.on, to be ddmtted into Ike Union az a State
upon Ms same footing ,oith tho original .stote..
seems to ne..that that is all osr duty shall most
readily concuri in anything which tends to the per-
| Torrance OF that duty
| And yet convinced a:e of the utter adsur-
dity and entire untenablene.s Of Squattcr Sover-
| eighty, because We refuse to leave the old paths
and desert well established principles, TO follow
Mr.. Douglas into all the vagaries of his political
specuatiOns. We are termed boilers, disunionists
etc. Well, fellow citizens, Ne will endeavor to
| survive the terrible anathemas Of "the Little
| Giant" and his faithful followers, and althoug
| he does "grow upon our hands, and may come
down upon US like a tons weight" las Augustus
Cesar predicts We will yet cndeavor to console
| ourselves with the company and sympathy OF all
| the Democratic United States Senators, save the
IMAM Friday" nine tenths of the Democratic
members Of Congress the President Of the Uni
| ted States, and the distinguished Democrats who
com pose his cabinet all tho sure Democratic
States, together with Franklin Pierce, Daniel L.
Dickinson, Charles O'Conner, Henry A. Wise, and
all the other truly great Democratic lights. We
say that sooner than bolt against all these the
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| ton of Constitutional law, and the ancient and
tried doctrine and usage of the great Democratic
| party, We prefer, if you please, ITO bolt" Mr..
douglas and his new tangled doctrines.
/ But let us not be deceived by the confusion of
terms which now prevails ia political lexico-
| graphy. Let us not confound Congressional non
Intervention with squatter or more properly speak
ing Territorial sovereignty. We arc for month
| terrention by Congress or by Territorial Legis-
lature either to establish or prohibit 81 very" in
| the Union or anywhere else within the federal
jurisdiction, but wherever it has conditional
istence, whether on the high seas, the common
| highway of nations, or in the common Territories,
We demand that in such case, that the cOnstitu-
tional rights of the citizen, whatever they may be-
may be protected by tho whole power Of the Fed
eral Government whenever assailed from any quar-
| ter.
Permit us to illustrate our meaning. The rem.
diton Of fugitives from labor is clear constitu-
| tional duty and should have been discharged
| with acrity and good faith by the several States
| but in default Of this and when previous to 1850,
many Of the Northern States not only refused to
perform this duty, but even passed "unfriendly
laws" (as Mr.. Douglas 10 now advising the anti
slavery men to do refusing the use Of their pris-
ons, and denying State magistrates jurisdiction in
slave cases, under heavy penalties and even stir
ring up the people to rebellion and blood, it be-
came necessary for Congress and the Federal Gov
| ernment to intervene, and the fugitive slave law
| Of 1850 was the necessary and proper result. In
sustaining the enforcement and legal necessity of
| this great measure Of National Legislation, Mr..
Douglas stood side by side with Webster, Clay and
Cass, and all the distinguished patriots Of that
trying crisis, and when he was attacked by q mob
Of aboitionists and negroes in Chicago and dared
to travel almost "in the light of his burning efii-
gie.," he awoke q response in the heart Ct tho
nation which ut once elevated him to national re-
| nown. He dared to do right, in defiance Of popu-
lar clsmor and wrapping himself in the flag of his
country, and fixing his feet firmly on the Consti-
tuition, he looked ba X to its glorious history in
the past and onward and upward to its more glor-
| ious career in tho future, and he preferred his
country to any local personal considerations. -
Strong in constitutional might, he barred his
bosom to the torn, and he conquered, - he m
self now sh Urn OF his strength by the Delilah Of
his ambition, will be Conquered ny the same con
stitutional and patriotic influences.
In his very able speech delivered in the Senate
Of the United States on the 10th and 18th Of May
last, Senator Davis in brief and simple words most
forcibly and clearly expressed cur views OF the
doctrine Of non-interventon. In reply to Mr..
Douglas he says $50 If you stand upon the resolu-
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