The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-09-28

were fought ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
right Of The people to seli.fuycrnment.-
What sophstryi Who denies the right
Of the people Of this country to self-gov.
crnmont! None but the advocates Of S.
a. Douglas, who deny that the people Of
the whole county have the right to soy
what institutions shall prevail in the ter.
ritorcs--tho common property of the
country-whethcr slavery or freedom.
We would like fer the friends Of Mr..
Douglas TO tell us whether sixty squuiisrs
have better right 70 say whether Kan
sas shall be slave or free than thirty mil
lions!
How was Il, when Kansas was invad-
ed by horde ofruiians and laws forced
upon the people that they did not wantl
Mr. Douglas soid TO them:-you must
suJmit--"WE WILL SUBDUE YOU"|
1f Mr., Douglos is in favor of the people
ruling, why didn't he put il in HE Kansas
| Biz Why did he strike ont the suJmis-
seoa clauye from Toomb's bill and why
did he vote down the Chase amendment
Why didn't he allow the people of the
territories 20 elect their own officers
and pay their own t0xcsl And why
why did he give the Governors appoint
ed by the President, q veto power equal
to two-thirGs Of the Legislature. On
oil these points Mr.. Douglas was oblivi-
Gus.
Our fathers, who fought the Reyolu.
tion, wer5 all fools! They thought they
were fighting for Liberty, but Mr. Doug
las says It vas "my great principle."--
The discovery never was made until
1854.
Mr. Douglas ignored the morality of
slavery entirely. II was a mere CONNER.
ciOl matter, he said, and wherever the
people wanted it, it was right they should
have il. In other words, he don't care
icheiher slavery Is uoiedup or dopn. IIeI
said the Ordinance Of 1857, prohibiting
sluvcry in the North-Wcst Tcrritory,ucy-
or was enforced. Now Mr.. Douglas is
cithcrvcry ignorant Of history or he lies
maliciously. The validity Of the Ordi.
nuncc was recognized by the very fret
Congress under the Constitution aud has
been recognized by almost every Con-
gross and President, down TO Jas. X.
Polk. You can scarcely open page of
our history, without finding some rccog-
milton Of the Ordinance There is no
fact palmer than that Illinois, Indiana
and probably Ohiowould have been slave
statrs to-day, had II not been for the ope-
ration Of oht Ordinance. Thepeoplc orIn-
diana, in 1906, potitioned Congress to
grant suspension Of the Ordinance for
ten yeurs, to allow shareholders TO settle
in thc territory, but CoGgfess refused, III
the Ordinance was imperative, why this
petition! Eycry veteran who heurd Mr.,
Douglus is a living witness, to TIE iolsty
Of his assertion.
TO Mr.. Douglus inquiry, at what pre-
else point do the emigrants from the
states to the territories lose their soye-
reignty,wo reply;-ia your KoasGs-Ne-
traska B,R--thOt takes away all the
soyereignty they lose,
Mr., Douglas said he had always been
the fast friend Of II homestead measure,
which was news to his hearers. His par-
" has been in power with little inter-
rupton for he last forty years and yet
what have they done to secure home
stead to actual scttlcrsl Have they pass
cd homestend Bill No. What has Mr.. !
Douglas ever said or done for Home
st'Ud! We would ike to SEQ il pointed
out, On the 25th of February 1869, Mr..
Douglas voted against post fouirg the
Cuba Bill in order to ttke up the Home
stead Bill Mr., Douglas well knew that
If the Homestead Bill was not taken up
then, 1t would net be that session. lie !
thought voting $3O,OOO,OOO ccrrup-
ton money to the Pr, ,sident for Cuba was
of more importance than voting farms
to honest laboring men,, Mr.. Douglas
DODGED the final vote upon the Home
stead Bill, last secession (Sec Cong. |
Globe, June a2d lS6O) He had one OF
his flyoritc diseases on that day, as he
had when the vote was taken IN the ud-
mission Of Kansas, on the Tariff Bill and
on abolishing PolygSmy in Utah.
Tho Republicans have twice passed
Homestead Bill, notwithstanding the
steady opposition of a large majority of
d, mocrOts in the House, What became
oCth,m! One of them was defeated in
the Senate and the other was vetoed by
the Presidents
MIR, Douglas spoke over an hour, but
he forgot to tell the people anything a.
bout the Dred Scott decision or the Wick
litlt resolution, which upsets his whole
theory. He forgot to say onything a.
bout his New Orleans speech, his Sc
dition Law, or hisvotc to give the Pres
idcnt unlimited contrOl OF the Army aud
Navy, Tie forgot to say anything about
the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise
and the consequences which followed
lle talked a great deal about uon-intcr-
venHon, but did not tell us how il work.
ed in Kansas and Nebraska. He was
very careful not to say distinctly that the
people Of Of the Territories haze Re an
ccadi!igaal righi 10 prohibit slavery. lie
has never said that and he never will
lie invariably lodges,