Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-09-28

"slaves are recognized as property, and
placed on an equal footing with other prop
erty hence the owner of slaves, tho same
as the owner of ony other species of prop.
erty, has the right to remove to Territory
and carry his property with him - that the
master has the same right to carry his slaves
into the Territories and have protection for
9bem as for his cow or his horse II subject to
Popular Sovereignty. Laughter Then
he comes North and tells the people that
under his Great Principle the people have a
perfect right to legislate slavery out of the
Territories by Popular Sovereignty and
Unfrierdly Legislation - and all subject to
the Constitution! Renewed laughter.
At one end OF the country the Constitution
is supreme in the Territories, and at the
other Popular Sovereignty is supreme
What can two parties or two powers be
supreme in the same government? No
wonder your mother anxiously inquiries,
''Stephen, arc YOU out?" (Great laug liter
man can exist in two places at the same
time Two men can ride on one horse, and
one must not ride behind! Laughter
Thus your position brushes to atoms and
grinls to powder all your boosted Popular
Sovereignty, and it appears, as it is, an
utter humbug from 8 EN- to stern. 1t is all
gcne-as you say here in the North -s.hook
and line, bob and sink.r," or, as we say
down in old Kentuck, "lock, stock and bar
rel" Repewed laughter.) 1t is all gone
not particle left. Why, it is the gross
est attempt recorded in history to impose on
popular credulity for him to pretend for
moment to be for popular sovereignty, when
all his declarations arc against it, render
| ing it utterly null and void.
In JEFF. Davis resolutions, he SAYS, YOU
claim that the Supreme Court has decided
this question against Popular Sovereignty.
| Be it so-that settles the matter. What is
| the use of taking? So says Stephen; or if
it has not, when it shall so decide, Stephen
says: 81, Stephen, will stand by with the
army, navy and militia of tn, United States
to enforce tho decree Of the Supreme Court
when the appeal comes from the inferi or
| court in the Territories.'' Thus Stephen
says if Popular Sovereignty is crushed cut,
he stands by the Supreme Court, and if it
shall be crushed out he will stand by it !;
thus not only acquiescing in the past, but
pledging himself in the future eternally
against popular sovereignty, and in favor
of the King and the dogma that the Consti
tuition carries slavery everywhere through
the Territories.
| WHAT ARE HIS REAL SENTIMENTS?
| A few words more and have done. "Go
on" "go on, - well hear you all day
have shown you some of the declarations
and actions of Mr.. Douglas. What are his
sentiments Where are his affections On
the same side-in favor of the King against
the people. Where is the proof? you say.
In the Senate on the 9th Of December, 1857,
| H. ~ &c ~ AL,
not whether it Slavery is voted down or
up" OF course he does not. He sees moths
ing wrong in that institution whose barbar-
Gus character Charles Sumner has so truly
portrayed before the world-that institution
whose existence violates every principle of
justice, and tramples out every spark of our
humanity; which Wesley declares "the sum of
all villainies." Where is the patriotic Stephen,
the people loving Stephen? He don't care
whether slavery is voted up or voted down,
and all of you may 60 to the bottomlcss pit
and he don't care so you make him Presl.
dent. Cheers and laughter While the
battle for domination was going on in Kan
sas between free and slave labor, when our
fathers and mothers, our sisters and broth
ers were suffering the hardships of the rev.
dictionary times, toiling fighting, and many
of them dying in defence Of the common
liberty, where was Stephen? He was all
the time on the side of our oppressors.-
When 5000 New England clergymen
invoked him in the name of Almighty God,
the principles of our common humanity to
stand by Popular Sovereignty and shield it
from the slave oligarchy, to call off the dogs
of war, withdraw til army, and let the pre-
tended principle of the Kansas Nebraska
bill and the Cincinnati platform be carried
out, what answer did he make? He flew
into rage and cried out to these men,
~ GU gentlemen of the cloth had better stick
to your pulpits What has religion to do
with politics or Democracy And well
might he ask it. There was great propriety
in that - reproving them for carrying on
dealings with the devil. Uaughter.) What
have the clergy to do with Democratic polls
tics Great Laughter) So say |. When
the Savior was upon earth casting out devils,
they were greatly enraged and cried out
with loud voice, as Douglas reviled the
| clcrgymen, "What have we to do with thee,
Jesus, thou Son Of God Art thou come
hither to torment US before the time p
| (Roars of laughter) Well, il was all wrong
that a solemn protest should come from the
religious conscience Of the nation.
| But here comes a petition from the civil
department. The people of Kansas petition
ed for relief from the abuses under which
they suffer, praying the withdrawal of the
army that had oppressed them, handing the
Republicans OVER bound hand and foot, to
the slave power Where was Stephen then
In the same attitude of antagonism. He
even went into O greater rage than before
iffl fol
most belligercnt attitude the little man,
who can't take the eighteen inch step requir-
ed by the service before entering the army,
cock. partridge (laughter,) shaking his fist in
threatening, ave will subdue you!" (great
laughter, )-as if Il man whose coat-taiI, as
Tom Benton said, was so near the ground,
ter.) He never can step into the White
House (Cheers.)
What more? a little later on the 10th
resolution, what does he say? We find him
down upon his knees once more as he was
in 1854, pleading his cause before the King
ed you than I, your slave stephen ? After |
viso, swallowed my words, disaYowed my
prime Piles, betrayed my constituency, and |
handed over a free Territory to be made |
slave. DO you ask if stand by the Supreme
Court? Yes, do; and | have given you
with my principle more than you ever asked"
Having run through al! the stages of aposta>
cy, he throws Off his popular sovereignty |
livery, comes out boldly for slavery, putting
his foot on squatter sovereignty, and tramp.
ling it into nothingness, glorying in the
snare with which he has deluded the Free
States, he exclaims: "Under this doctrine
they have converted tract of free Terrific |
ry into Slave Territory more than five times
the size Of the State of New York. Under
this doctrine slavery has been extended from
the Rio Grande to the Gulf Of California,
and from the line of the Republic of Mexico
not only up to So deg 80 min, but up to SO