The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-10-30

preme. What can two parties or two
powers be supreme in the same govern
ment? No wonder your mother anxious
ly inquiries Stephen are you out %
Great Laughter. A man can exist il
two places al the same time Two mer
can ride one horse, and one must no
ride behind ! Laughter Thus your
position crusheS to atoms and grnds tc
powder all your boasted Popular Sover-
eighty and it appears as it is, an utter
humbug from stem to stern. 1t is all
gone-as you say here in the North
(" hook an line, bob and sinker," laugh
ter, or, as we say down in old Kentuck,
I" lock, stock and barrel" Renewed
Laughter. 1t is all gone-not parti-
cal left. Why, it is the grossest attempt
recorded in history, to impose upon pop
ular credulity, for him to pretend for a
moment TO be for popular sovereignty,
when all his declarations are against it,
rendering it null and void
In jeff. Davis's resolutions he says,
you claim that the Supreme Court has
decided this question against Popular
Sovereignty. Be it so--that settles the
the matter. What is the use Of talking?
So says Stephen: Or if it has not, when
it shall so decide, Stephen says " l.,
Stephen, will stand by with the army,
navy and militia, of the United States to
enforce the decree of the Supreme Court
when the appeal comes from the inferior
court of the Territories. Thus Stephen
says if Popular Sovereignty is crushed
out, he stands by the Supreme Court,
and if it shall be crushed he will stand
by it; thus not cnly acquiescing in the
past, but pledying himself in the future,
eternally against Popular Sovereignty,
and in favor of the King anl Of the dog
ma, that the Constitution carries slavery
everywhere through the Territories.
WHAT ARE HIS REAL SENTIMENTS.
\ few words more and | have done
Go on, 90 on" Wen hear YOU
all day l have shown you some of
the declarations and actions OF Mr.. Doug
las. What are his sentiments Where
are his affections? On the same side
II favor Of the King against the people
Where is the proof? you say In The
Senate on the 9th of Decembec, 1857, he
said in the course Of The debate, q care
not whether it (slavery) is voted down or
up OF course he does not. He sees moth
ing wrong IN that institution whose bar
barous character Charles Sumner has so
truly portrayed before the world that
institution whose existence violates every
of justice, aud tramples out ev-
cry spark of our humanity ; which Wes-
ley declares the sum OF all villainies."
Where is the patriotic Stephen, the peo-
pleloving Stephen? He don't care
whether slavery is voted up or voted
down, and all OF you may 90 to the bot
tomless pit, and he doa't care so you
make him President. Cheers and lau gh-
ter While the battle for domination
was going on IN Kansas between free and
slave labor, when our fathers an moth
ers, our brothers and sisters were suffer-
ing the hardships Of the revolutionary
times, tolling, fighting, and many of
them dying in defence of the common
liberty, where was Stephen? He was
al the time on the side of our oppressors.
When six thousand New England clergy
men invoked him, in the name Of Al
mighty God, the principles of our com
mon humanity to stand by Popular Sow
and shield il from the slave
olsarcby, to call off the dogs of war,
the army, and let the pretend
ed principle of the Kansas Nebraska
bill and the Cincinnati platform be car.
tied out, what answer did he make ? He
Ilew into a rage aud cried out 10 these
men, " You gentlemen of the cloth had
better stick to your pulpits. What has
religion to do with politics or Democra-
;y - And well might he ask it. There
was great propriety in that-reprosing
them for carrying on dealings with the
devil. Laughter What have the
.lergy to do with Democratic politics ?
Great laug So SAY l. When the
Savior vas upon earth casting ont dey
is, thcy We're greatly euraged and cried
)ut with a loud voice, IS Douglas revled
he clergymen, What have we TO do
with thee, Jesus. thou Son of God -
AIT thou come hither 10 torment us be
ore the time - Roars OF laughter -
Well it vas all wrong that solemn pro
est should come from the religious con
science OF the nation,
But here comes a petition from the
civil department. The people of Kansas
DetiIionel for relief from the abuses un,
Ter which they suffer, praying the with
travail of the army that had oppressed
hem. handing the Republicans over,
bound hand and foot, 10 the slave power
Where WAS Stephen then In The same
attitude Of anagonism lie even went
mo greater rage than before Why |
The little fellow was swollen up into a I
most belligerent attllude-the little man,
who can't take the eighteen inch step re
lulred by the service before entering tie
army, stru,ted across the Senate floor like
> htle cock partridge | laughter shaking
his fist IA tire faces Of the friends OF Kan
sas aud threatening. We will subdue
You !" (great laughter. las ii a man
whose ooag-lail, rs Tom Benton said, Was
50 near the ground, could subiue any
body. (CAeers and laughter) lie ne,
er can step into the While House t.
{ Cheers