Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-10-04
For the Leader
The Co7stirution OF the United States
squattcF soveroignty.

sauattcF Sovereignty.
Article 4, section 3, of the Constitution,
says:
" The Congress shall have power to dis
pose Of and make all neediul rules aud regu-
lations respecting the territory or other prop
erty Of the United States"
The above article appears to me to be at
variance with the squatter or popular sover-
eighty doctrine so zealously proclaimed by
Douglas and his deluded followers. The ar
ticle cited declares, first that the territory is
the property of the United States, and not of
the squstters that may squat there; second,
that Congress shall make al (aLD needful
rules and regulations respecting the same
third, that Congress- and not the people, shall
have power to dispose of the same. Now if
the people are sovereign in the Territory,
why did not the trainers of the Constitution
say so If the Territory belongs to the peo-
pie, and they have the right to make of it
such disposition as they may see fit, why
does the Constitution guarantee that power
and ownership to Congress Would Doug
lasites crowd into Territory any more rules
and regulations than are needful? If they
answer no, I then reply that the COnstitu-
ton declares "Congress shall make all need
ful rules and regulations for that species of
property. Now if all needful rules and regu-
latiOns are made by Congress, there are none
lett for the Douglasites to make.
The Constitution places Congress in the
light OF the creator, and the Territory in that
Of the creature. Has the creator a right to
control the creature2 The whole universe
responds in the affirmative
Again: let US view Congress in the light
of father, and the Territory in that of n
son during his minority Tor Territorial con-
dition). Now the son, while he is u minor,
IS subject to the rules and regulations of the
parent who makes all necessary for his gov
ernment; and not until he becomes of age
do his popular sovereignty and State rights
work well, from the fact that previous 10 that
the "pariHt' acts as the Congress and he as
the Territory. If read the Constitution
Alright the Territory is just as much the prop
erty Of the United States, and subject TO the
control Of Congress- as is the District of Co.
lumbia, and Congress can dispose of the same
when and to whom it pleases.
Who places the Governor over the
Territory? The President and the Senate,
and not the people Who appoints the Judges
Of the sRme2 The President and Senate, and
not the people. Who surveys and exposes it
Tor sale, and fixes the price-ten shillings per
acre Congress, and not squatter sovereigns,
with the small giant to lead them on even.
But say the Douglas sages, if Congress
can prohibit slavery, it can establish it. Let
US see. Section 4 says: "The United States
shall guarantee to every State in this Union
q republican form of government" Now
prove TO me that government with a slave
code is a republican form Of government and
then I'll prove to you that impossibility-
that negro is horse or a COW because he is
black. A republican form of government is
a form where the people all the people, have
a voice in making the laws that control them.
Such a government the Constitution declares
every State in this Union shall have; no
slave State, then, can be admitted under the
Constitution without doing violence to the
same
Little Dug reminds me of the story of the
cats thst got into a quarrel and went to law
about a piece Of cheese. A monkey presided
as judge. The cats, on hearing tie testime-
ny and charge of the Judge, concluded to di-
vide the cheese equally and settle the matter.
The monkey set about weighing it, but had
terrible time in balancing the scales, so that
he was obliged to take nip from one piece,
then from the other, until it was nearly gone.
"Holdi Holdl" cried the cats, divide the
remainder, and we'll call it square" "Oh,
but, replied the monkey, {" must have that
for my cost" The Charleston and Baltimore
Con ventons are the cats, the Presidential Of
| fee is the cheese, little Dug is the monkey
judge, the quarrel goes on between the cats
the Jug locos and the Buck locos; one wants
his share of the cheese, and the other wants
his; Dug tries to balance the sales, but can't.
Still the fght goes on, and the Dug nibbles
on, and we will soon see how it will end.
J. B. L.
BRooKIYy. 0.