The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-10-09

IN Paying Ike reckless boy with the club oil
Hercules.
, 1t is my suspicion that Mr.. Douglas tried tc
! effect that Capitalization of power in the hands
) Of the President, expecting to be President
himself, and that then he would use it for the
purpose OF plungng the country into warlike
enterprises to result in the cong uering of Cuba
and part of Mexico which policy of conquest
would relieve him of the difficulties in which
his position upon the Slavery question has in
voved him. | give this as my suspicion. You
may Judge for yourselves whether it is support
ed by any material evidence growing out of his
past career and present situation. But the mea
sure he urged and advocated is so dangerous
and detestabe in itself, that no Interior design
can make it more damnable 1t certainly is
one of the acts dictated by the evident desire TO
retrieve the lost favor of the Slavery propaganda
lists by outdoing them in everything not imme-
diately connected with the Territorial question.
This may be considered grave charge, and |
will substantiate it at once, for in these times
Judge Douglass craftsmanship shines with
more than ordinary lustre.
John Brown had made his insurrectionarv
attempt in Virginia. The Republicans openly
disapprovcd of the act, and denounced him in
good faith, rs they would disapprove and de
nounce every interference with the laws and
institutions OF other States violation of the
spirit of our institutions, which furnish for ev-
cry evil lawful remedy But the South was
excited, and Douglas saw chance for himself
He bounced upon it with almost indecent eae-
"rness, morbidly anxious to anticipate the action
of the Committee on the Harpers Ferry affair.
which was expected to offer propositions appli-
cable to the case. On the 22d of January, Ii 500,
he introduced the following resolution into the
Senate:
ResOlred, That the Committee on the Judici
airy be instructed to report bill for the protec
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against invasion by the authorities of or nhab-
itants of any other State or Territory, and for
the suppression and punishment of conspira-
cles or combinations in any State or Territory
with intent TO invade, assail, or modest the gov
eminent, property, or institutions of any other
State or Territory of the Union.
The true intent and meaning of this resolu-
ton was made plain by the speech with which
the Judge accompanied it. After having en-
deayored to show that the Constitution confers
upon our Federal Government the power to do
what the resolution contcmplates, he then de-
fines his object as follows:
g Sir hold that it is not only necessary TO
use the military power when the actual case of
invasion shall occGr, but to authorize the Judi
cial department of the government to suppress
all conspracies and combinations in the sever
al States with intent TO invade a State or mo-
lest or disturb its government its peace, its
citizens, It's property, or its institutions You
must suppress the c0nSDiracy the combination 10
do the act, and then yOu acW suppress Tin adrance
| demand that the Constitution be
executed in good faith, so as to punish and sup
! press every combination either to invade State
! or to modest its inhabitants, or TO disturb its
/ property or to subvert It's institutions and lis
government. / believe this can be effectually
done by authorizing the United States Courts
IN the several States to take jurisdiction of the
oil Il e,
appropriate punishments."
So much about the way in which the combi-
nations can be, and ought to be suppressed and
/ punished. Now what are and where are the
( combinations
Sir" said the Judge, what were the caus.
es which produced the Harpcr's Ferry outrage
Without stopping to adduce the evidence in de-
tail, have no hesitancy in expressing my firm
and deliberate conviction that the Harper's Fer
ry crime was the natural, logical, and inevitable
result OF the doctrines and teachings of the Re-
publican party as explained and enforced in
their platforms, their parlizan presses, their
pamphlets, and books. and especially in the
speeches OF their leaders, in and ont OF Con
grcss The great principle that I'M
derlies the Republican party Is violent, rrecon-
ciiable, etel nal warfare upon the institutions OF
American Slavery with Il view to its ultimate
extinction throughout the land"
The language is plain There is the dan
gerous combination sciM intent to carry on Il vio-
lent warfare against the institutions of other
States. Now, let us what the Judge is go
ing to do with the unfortunate combination to
which, am sorry to say, most of us belong:
=" Sir says the Judge, g give us such law
as the Constitution contempates and authori-
yes, and VIII show the Senator from New
ork that there is q constitutional mode of re-
pressing the irrepressible conflict. | will open
the prison door, and allow the conspirators
against the peace of the Republic and the do
nestle tranquility of other States to select their
cells, wherein to drag out miserable life as a
punishment for their crimes against the peace
of society"
But in order to remove all doubt as to what
the conspiracy aud combination is, he pro
ceeds:
3" Can any man say TO us that, although this
outrage has been perpetrated at Harper's Ferry,
there is no danger of its recurrence Sir, is not
the Republican party still embodied, organized,
confident of success and defiant in lis preten.
sions Does it not now hold and proclaim the
same creed as before the invasion Those doc
trInes remain the same. Those teachings are
being poured into the minds Of men through.
out the country 10y means of speeches, and pam
phlets ana books, and through partisan press
es. The causes that produced the Harpers
Ferry invasion are now in active operation. = y
Mr.. President the mode Of preserving peace in
plain. This system of sectional warfare must
cease. The Constitution has given the POWER
and all we ask Of Congress is to give the means,
and we, by indictments and convictions in the
Federal Courts of the several States will make
such examples of the leaders of such conspira-
cIes rs will strike terror into the hearts OF others
and there will be an end of this crusade Sir
We must check it by crushing out the conspira-
cy and combination and then there can be
safety"
confess when read that speech, and the
resolution in defense of which 1t was made /
stood horror struck--not as though had fear
ed that a Congress could be found so degenerate
as to pass such law, bat because Senator
tad been Jound who had the cffrontery 10 advo-
cate it in the open halls of an American Lcgis-
latnre. This is not mere figure of speech
do not exaggerate Only look al it. trca
sonable attempt has been committed The Of
tenders are punished. Mr. Douglas Introduces
a proposition for law intended to prevent a
repetition of the attempt. He pretends TO dis
cover the origin of the reasonable attempt in
the opinions and doctrines Of great national
party He charges that party with urging
sectional warfare and crusade against the in
stitutlons Of some Of the States, and declares
that this crusade is carried on by speeches
pamphlets, books, and partisan presses-by
ideas being poured into the minds of the peo-
pie lie declares that there can be no peace as