Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-10-22

the Whig party and joined the Democratic
party; because he thought that was the true
party that was to uphold the right Of the
people of Territory to manage their own
affairs. With this view he entered the field
as n supporter of Mr.. Buchanan. All the
speakers that he heard during that cam
paign upheld this principle; among these
were Breckenridge, Cass, and others. It was
understood and promised that if Mr.. Bu-
chanan was elected, this principle should
be adhered to. He proposed to follow the
course of this argument, and see what had
been done.
You have all heard, said he, of the mirage
by which far distant objects are apparently
brought close to the spectator, who follows
the vision while it fees from him. So 1
have followed this mirage of the sovereignty
of the people of the Territory since 1851
Mr.. Hosmer reviewed the course of Mr.. Bu-
chanan in regard to this doctrine. Buchan-
an promised that this should be his chief ei-
fort-to allow the people of a Territory to
regulate their own affairs and yet, after he
was elected, in his Inaugural he said that the
question was not for him to decide upon, as
it was then under consideration before the
Supreme Court. This was not so there was
no such question before the Court at that
time The Dred Scott case did not include
this. That was first disposed of by deciding
that bred Scott was not citizen of Missouri.
Then they built up a case by saying that il
he had been such, still he would not have o
right to sue for his freedom, not being a citi-
zen of the United States, and having nc
rights to be respected.
Who're was popular sovereignty two days
after Buchanan was inaugurated President
1t had vanished like a meteor and in its
place we had the doctrine that slaves could
be carried INTO all the States and Territorie;
and still be held as slave.
And where was the author of the Kansas.
Nebraska bill? Not a word do we hear from
him, but two months after in a speech in Il.
linois he upheld and sustained the Drec
Scott Decision.
I followed Popular Sovereignty this far
but when saw it abandoned by Mr.. Bu
chanan and abandoned by its great author.
thought had gone far enough and had seeI
little the largest elephant that had eve
walked the earth since the creation. Laugh
ter.) Mr., Hosmer spoke of Buchanan in NJ
stinted terms of condemnation, as one Of tn
vilest and guiltiest men in existence in ieo
pardizing the lives and property of tn
thousands who inhabited the Territory G
Kansas.
Forty-seven years ago, said Mr.. Hosmer,
knew Mr.. Douglas and watched by his be
side in this city while the flame of his lil
waned, and his mother was sent for to Sc
him die. He left here and said that he we1
toward the setting sun, but that I shoul
hear of him in after years either as q schoo
master or aJudge heard of him as both, ,fc
his rise was rapid, and if he had adhered
e truth and right, there is no limit to the suc
cess he might have attained.
q In the contest for the Senatorship in III
t nois between Abraham Lincoln and Stephe
A. Douglas, Mr.. Lincoln riddled the doctrir
of popular Sovereignty until it became lii
q the little rose-colored balloons sold in IL
= streets, so light that it was ready to go u
< ready to burst from cver-expansion, and
: transparent that it could be seen rigl
h through, rose-color and all.
a Mr.. Hosmer presented quantity of e,
4 tracts from Mr.. Douglas speeches, &,
a which showed his course in politics to tn
: time. Like the boats descending the S
Lawrence rapids, so has democracy IT
Is down the political rapids, and as in tn
is river the channel rushes between the poir
Il Of the "two-pointed rock" so Democra
:, under the two pilots, Breckinridgo al
Of Douglas, is rushing on between the tw
is points of popular sovereignty, Northern a,
=, Southern, and in two weeks will strike up
le one or the other and go down to eternal 4
g struction. (Applause.)
Mr.. Hosmer closed with bold and e
10 quent appeal to his hearers to grant t
90 keeping of the glorious country and cons
ed tuition of the country into the hands ofL
m N coin and not into the hands of Stephen
to Douglas.
rs The meeting closed with three cheers
~ Lincoln and HamlIn.