The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-08-30

GU " tno-tutfuS tOte. mere Is no L TO1
,e ular Sovereignty.
le How is it with regard to the judiciary
20 The people cannot choose their own juds
Of es. And this is very important. If th
'e people cannot control and call them TO az
count, it will be under the power that ere
e ated it, or become very corrupt The
o are appointed by the President, and the
abjudicate all the rights of the citizen
y between themselves and between then
e and the General Government. Unde
: this system you have no power, and ye
you Douglas Democrats call it the estab
# lishuent of Popular Sovereignty Th,
: prohibition-which bad stood. with the
e pledge to maintain it-that prohibition
8 was annulled. Now, what did yoa ge
!, for thatl Did you get Popular Sover
eighty! No. you got Presidential inter
. vention for Slavery. | appeal to you
$ what have you had but Presidential in
terventionl Didn't Pierce interfere .
, Of course he did. He did nothing else
but interfere. He acted as if there was
, as Gov. Geary declared that there was
an understanding that Kansas should be.
, come slave State, and Nebraska only
dedicated to freedom. | know not how
that was-Geary says it was so; but | do
know they held their caucuses ev.
cry morning in secret. The Democrats
got tired of him because they did not like
bis policy on slavery. And then they got
Mr.. Buchanan, aud they thought they d
got somebody. But what did they get I
He followed in the footsteps of his illustri-
Gus predecessor, only that be made every
track longer and broader If Pierce
scourged freedom with whips, Buchanan
has scourged her with scorpions. Now
none so poor as do him reverence. Mr..
b is thoroughly Pro- -Slayery-that's it..
The fact is, there is no Democratic heart
but beats warm for freedom. The Dem
ocratic heart don't beat for slavery
And now, my Democratic friends tell
me. "Oh he's an old Federa'ist" Well
didn't tell you sol l went about Ohio
aDd they said they had real Democrat.
And the same gentlemen say they are mis-
taken; and they ought to be Mistaken
And they are going to be mistaken again
if they expect to get any Popular Sover-
eighty out of Douglas. | coucede his a.
bilitics as cheerfully as any man in the
country. We ere as wide apart as the
poles. He follows the false light of des-
poti'n; l follow the light of freedom.
Mr.. Douglas and l were then together.
We we're Democrats. In nv opinion the
prohibition was not inconsistent with free
dom. Were you not Popular Sovereigns
because you came here and found land
dedicated to freedom Ifthere bad been
roads and canals made for you by Con.
gress, would you not have been free, be-
cause you bad not N ade them yourselvesl
| know there is no unconstitutional pro.
vision in such prohibition. But, when |
knew there vas fixed purpose of Doug
las aud his confederateS in this Nebraska
bill to repeal this prohibition, l Iendeavor-
ed to secure true Popular Sovereignty
in that bill. Now, l rejoice to know that
there is Popular Sovereignty which gov.
erns Governors and Legislators, judges
Judges and, as Mr.. Buchanan will find,
presides over Presidents. Well, when
Mr.. Douglas proposed to repeal this pro-
hibtion. the first bill contained this pro-
vision--thata all questions of slavery should
be settled by the people through their
appropriate representatives. But certain
Southern Wings said they we're not going
to let the De nocrats of the South have
this advantage they we're going to have
a repeal direct. They told me SO. And
Mr. Dixon of Kentucky introduced such
a repeal. Then Douglas asked that it be
referred back And he brought in the
bill to repeal, and the provision to submit
to the choice of the people was struck out.
1t declared the Missouri prohibition was
superseded by the Compromise legislation
in 1850. 1t was not true that the Com
promise measures superseded this prohibi.
ton, and | moved to strike out that decla-
ration; and Mr.. Stuart said it was not true
in law or fact, and Gen. Cass said it was
entire fallacy. But Mr.. Douglas and bis
friends voted not to strike out, and my
motion was not carried. But this would
not do-and they caucussed it over, and
then Mr.. Douglas himself moved to strike
it out, and then it passed very easily
And then be inserted that clause that now
stands in the bill-as Benton expressed
it, "a stump speech injected in the belly
of the BILL"
Now what was meant by that beautiful
phrase, subject to the Constitution 1t
as like the cat under the meal. What
was under this The Constitution had
been. extended to the territories, and
the Constitution was to carry slavery with
it. said, "you mean to say to the South,
you can go home and tell your people
that their Interpretation is to be effectual
that the people of territory have no
power to interfere with slavery, while here
in the North we have Democratic orators
who said it was the most harmless proyis-
ion in the world" and to test it. moved
to add, "under which the people of the
territory may, through their representa-
tives. exclude slavery. If they choose. -
Now Who voted for this | want the