Nebraska advertiser., 1860-02-02

Gu WAN Guy eAN SRSi3 C4Oth maui W PAO-
,ect the rights of the people of Nebraska,
and advance the future interests and
welfare of the Territory, let those efforts
come from whatever source they may.
R. w FURNAS.
Governor Blacks Veto Message
What is Popular Sovereignty
VINO are the People? And what
Rights have they while in q Ter
ritOrIal Existence?
Last week we closed with a quotation
from the Hon. REvERDY JOHNSON. In
addition we might quote from the debates
in Congress during the consideration of
the Kansas-N Nebraska Bill, as sustaining
our position, sufficient to ill the entire
columns Of our paper for weeks. Every
man who spoke upon the subject, without
asingle exception, declaring it to be "the
true intent and meaning Of the act to
neither legislate slavery into or ont Of the
Territories; but leave the people per-
fecty free TO regulate that matter in
their own way Their language is not
tO'be misunderstood ihey said plainly
that our right to legislate upon the, sub
ject of slavery existed as well while in q
Territorial existence, as at the time we
met ira Constitutional Convention.
We cannot refrain from making a few
extracts from speeches made BY advocates
of the bin, as follows, viz:
In the House of Representatives, Feb.
9Th, 1854, Hon. A. S Stephens of Ge-
Orgia, said:
The whole question of slavery or 10
slavery was to be left to the people ofhe
Territories whether North or South of
36 . 80 min, or any other line"
1--WE now call upon this House and the
country to carry out in good faith, and
give effect to the spirit and intent of those
important measures of Territorial legis-
ton" -r
Again on the l7th Of Jan. 1856, Mr..
Stephens said:
81 shall " negative any law they
may pass, If il is the result Of fair legis-
laiion expressive of the popular viii. ]
am. willing hat the Territorial Legisla.
tUre may act upon the subject when and
how they may think proper"
Hon. George E. Badger Of North
Carolina, in a speech delivered in the
United States Senate on The 18Th day of
Feb. 1854, said m
'The clause as it stands is ample. Il
submits the whole authority to the Terri
tory. p
If the people of tie Territories choose to
exclude slavery so far from considering
it a wrong done to me or my constituents
shall not complain Of il. Il is their bust
ness"
Again, on the ID of March, 1854, Mr.,
Badger said: l.lra-g
"But with regard to that question we
have agreed-scme of US because we
thought it the only right mode, and some
because we think il a right mode, ant
under existingc the prefera
bic mode--to confer this power upon thG
people Of the Territories"
Mr.. Butler, Of South Car llinas in ihr
q. S. Senate on the ID Of March, 1854
said:
chow I believe that under the provis
ions Of this (Kansas-N Nebraska bill, an
Of the Utah and New Mexico bills Their
will be a perfect carte blanche given t
the TerraOrial Legislatures to legislat
ss they may think proper"
Mr.. Toombs of Georgia said in h
Senate Feb. %, 1856:
ave intend that the actual bona I'D
settlers of Kansas shall be protected j
The full exercise of all their rights o
freemen. that unaided and u~ncontrolle
they shall freely and Of their own vii
legislate for themselves 10 every exteT
allowed by he Constitution while the
have a Territorial Government"
Hon. George w. Jones Of Tennessee
in the House Of Representatives De-
%. 1855 referring to this subject said:
Then, Sir, you may call it by wh'
name you please.
il is, sir. the power of the people
govern themselves, and they, and the
alone. shall exercise il, in my opinion, {
we'll while in a Territorial condition as
The position of a State.
believe THAI the great principle-tl
righto Of The people in The Territories
well as in the States, 10 form and reg
late their domestic institutions in the
own way, is clearly and unequivOcal
embodied IN the Kansas Nebraska Az
and If il is not, il should have been.-