Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-22
sQUATTBR SOVEREIGNTY,

The Sth Resolution Of the Chicago platform de-
clares.
That the normal condition Of all the territory Of
the United States is thai of freedom. That as our
Republican fathers, when they had abolished sa-
very in all our national territory, ordained that no
person should be deprived Of life. Liberty, or prop
erty, without due process Of law it becomes our
duty by legislation, whenever ouch legislation is
necessary, to ma.ptain this provision Of tho Con-
Btitution against all attempts to violate 1t; ard we
deny the authority of Congress, OF a territorial
legislature. or Of any individuals, to give legal ex-
~iistence to Slavery in on5 Territory Of the United
States
This would seem to indicate tho position and pol
icy of the party which adopted it, had there not
been such a universal splitting upon platforms du-
ring the present cam paign. The platform cxpec-
t%orat;ons INDUCED in 10y Horace Greedy a few years
since, very1much Disguised his political friends.
aud was. regarded as a bold innovation upon popu-
lar usuage bat the practice has now become as
common ms tobacco splitting in a rail car. In one
of his Congressional speeches Mr.. Wade emphat-
ically asked, 'Hho cares for Platforms p Mr..
tGorwin prontunces them a 6elHsian' Gen. Carey
in q recent stump effort declares 4 despise plat
forms
With aparty platform no more binding than a
p6iitician's oath Of Office, it is somewhat P%erplex-
irg to the rank and file to know what doctrines
they must advocate. The Chicago platform very
clearly denies the right Of squntter, or popular
sovereignty to establish slavery in a territory,
while Douglas and his platform as clearly assert
it's right either to establish or prohibit it; and this
comprises abou! all the difference pertaining TO
l----- I--- IL D.-.Il;,on Onl Ian,noraN:n
parties. Squattcr Sovereignty is emphatically De-
rmocratic thunder, aud it is hardly kind in the Re
.rublicaus to steal it. But on the principle, we
suppose, that all is fair in politics, they have be
gun to appropriate it for themselves. and quito ex-
tensively, too.
When Mr.. ThaSer, of NJ massachusetts,, in the last
Congress moved to have the rules suspended that
ae might introduce a hill looking to the establish
ment of Popular Sovereignty in the territories,
the result of the action taken is thus summed up
by the N. ]. Tribune In other words, the free
states voted to let the embryo Territories organize
md govern themselves, while the slave states vot-
ed nearly solid Cor keeping them tied to the apron
strings of Congress;' IEaprcars that sc Repub.
licans voted yea, 81 nay while As were absent
or lodged. Mr.. Thnyer in a recen. speech to his
constituents upon bis yet subject, the non-inter-
vention of Congress in the Territories, said,
What l now propose ia, that the people in the
Territories may have the same power as in the
States, may choose all their ewn officers, judicial,
executive and Legislative. | never heard one ar
gument, or anything that locked like an argument,
against this. 1t is said that nobody agrees with
it. / say hat a majority Of the Republican mem
bevs Of Congress, have told me il was q good pol
icy, aud that they were ready to go for it. John
Sherm n, in n 'speech at Columbus, boosted that
he had gone for honest Popular Sovereignty, and
for allowing the people Of the territories to make
their own laws. | was tlld 10y the editor Of the
Ohio State journal, published at Columbus, that
the Republicans would lack more than twenty
thousand votes OF carrying the State of Ohio. if.
they went into the campaign On any other policy
than that of non-intervention
1t ia said that nobody agrees with this policy. !
tell you Hon. Salmon p. Chase spent three days
trying to bring up the delegation from Ohio to
vote for 'tiis policy, and he told me it suited him
perfectly we'll 1t is said that nobody agrees with
this policy. | tell you that Hon. Benjamin Wade
of Ohio, said he would make a speech in favor of
shese land bills, if tieS should come to the SEN
ate. Senator Cameron, of Penn, favored them
also. / tell you it is fals,, this assertion that no.
tody agrees with this policy. 1 have had a chsnce
to know what are tho views of men in Congress, on
this question, as we'll as out of Congress, men
who are Republicans and who are in favor Of this
doctrine Of non-intervention, and | say there can
not be carried, on the old policy Of intervention
&c the territories, eight of the free States of this
cOnfedesacy.'
Give the people Of a Territory the same power
as have those of a State. and they can vote slavery
up. or vote it down, legalize it, or prohibit it. Aud
Mr.. Thsyer asserts that a majority of the Repub.
lican members Of Congress are ready TO gre IL
That the editor Of the State Journal told him
that Ohio would be lost to the Republicans by 20,
600 votes u The party advocated other than the pol
icy Of non-iRtertenton ! That Salmon P. Chase
spent three days in trying 10 get lie Ohio Deiega.
ton to endorse ii, d., G.
A few weeks since there appeared in the Cir
einnaii Commercial an article bearing upon this
question. The Enquirer having stated the politi-
cal issues Of the day thus,
'WuIcu DO you Prefer;
The following is the briefest-and, withal,
truthful representation of the platforms of the
Democratic and two sectional parties, on the sla-
very question. that we have seen I:
Let Congress interfere to PROTECT slavery in
tie Territories - Breckenridge.
Let Congress interfere to PREVENT slavery in
the Territcries. - Liucoln.