The Nevada journal., 1860-10-05
THE NEVADA JOURNAL.
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 5tIn. 1860.

DouGLAs MEETING-The Douglasites held
a meeting in this city on Saturday evening
last, on which occasion John Nugent and
c. N. Brosnan, Esqrs., were expected to en-
Tighten the audience. Both appeared, but
how fat fhcy succeeded in meeting expec-
tations is a matter of some doubt. John
Nugent, however clever with the pen, is no
orator as Brutus was. The old phrase:
shoemaker, stick to thy last" Nugent
ought to take to himself In other words, he
ought to abandon the stump forever, or
write and learn his speech better and quit
his confounded mannerisurs. Nugent's
speech had one merritt was short. In
this respect he won a laurel over Denver of
last year. In other respects the two are
on par.
Bronson succeeded Nugent On the stand
without improving upon his speech at all,
or falling far below his standard Really
it would have been difficult matter so to
OF course popular sovereignty diluted
NOuIu aHoTu HOlHlnH new.
At the close of Mr.. Brosnans occupancy
of the stand an indigenous speaker mount
ed the tribune and was proceeding to warm
up the crowd when,-"bad luck to his sowl"
Rider came along and trotted the oratori-
cal genius to the calaboose.. At this stage
of the proceedings it was quite clear the
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be fairly set down farce. Something of a
redemptionary nature must be done. What
else could avail but speech from McCon-
nell? The old war-horSe was sent for, and
brought to the stand. The crowd gathered
once more around and it was RECALLED with
good speech, which took the curse off
prior proceedings. 1t was the only speech
of the evening worth listening too, and for
n forced one, it is counted the best that has
been heard on that side of the question du-
ring the canvass. Mcconnell is capable of
doing justice to the party and himself, and
were his love for law reading less and poll
tics more, he might rank in the political
world above all the Gwins, Wcllers, and
LathamS of the State.
POP. Soy. AND SQUAT. Sov.-The Sacra-
mento Democrat alleges we confound the
terms popular sovereignty and squatter SOW
ereignty. We understand BY squatter SOW
creignty, so-called, inherent right of the
people in an uhorganized Territory to gov
ern themselves. The doctrine of squatter
sovereignty is that preached by Pugh,
Broderick and the Sacramento Union, that
the people of a Territory have the right of
themselves to organize a government ard
the Constitution of the United States does
not-extcnd over them until at their option
sanctioned hy Congress. 1t is the doctrine
taught in Licbcr's work on "political eth
les"
BY popular sovereignty we understand
the exercise of the right of government by
the people of Territory after an enabliI g
act, has granted the permission. That is
the old definition understood in 1856. 1t is
the phase of the doctrine taught by Doug
las. That other definition given by the
Democrat, that popular sovereignty means
the exercise of the right of the people to
govern themselves when they shall come to
form q State Constitution, is another thing
which goes by the same name for want of a
distinctive term. But we shall insist Doug
las is not an advocate of squatter sover-
eighty. He asserts government like that
undertaken by California in ls49, is irregu-
lar and revolutionary. The case of Califor-
MIA is one of squatter soyereignty-not
popular sovereignty.
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