St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-08-09
Popular Sovereignty Extracts.


time, the advocate of the "juris-
diction and control of Congress over
the Territories" His friends, in try
ing to maintain the contrary, give
the lie to his own statement:
The father NAV bind the son during his mi
nority the moment that he tthc som atttins
his majority his fcttrrS are severed anu he Is
free tn regulate his own Cnnduct-so, SIR, with
the Territories, they are subject 10 the l'ris-
diction and control of Congress during intan-
cy, their minority hut when they obtain al
mission into the Union they are free from all
restraints and restrictions except such as the
Constitution of the United States has imposed
on each and all the States. -SGphen Il. Do"g-
las.
Stephen 4. Douglas once advocated
the doctrine that Congress could, and
ought to prohibit slavery IN The States.
His supporters who deny this, will
find themselves contradictcd by his
own words. Here is a resolution in
PRODUCED by him pending the bill for
the admission of Texas
And in such STATE or States as may he formed
out Of said Territory. north "i SAID Missouri
Compromise linn slavery CT involuntary ser
rltudc Except fur ,'inS' shall he pr"hllhtcd.
-- 'niut States S!:t'.s II large lS"9-lSio, =.
79S.
Stephen \. Douglas once held that
the people Of Territory could cstab-
fish or prohibit slavery without re-
gard TO the decision of the Supreme
Court:
The people Of Territory can, Ivy lawful
means. exclude slavery from their limits prior
to the formation Of State Constitution.
Ii the people are opposed tn slavery they will
elect representatives who will Ivy untrirndly
legislation rtfrctu,lly prevent the introduc
ton If il into their midst Hence,
no matter what the decision of the Supreme
Cour. may ht, still it is the right of the pc,-
pie to make slave Territory or a free Terri
tury.-Doggils Speech at freepor', 1858.
The Democrats, both in their State
and National Conventions, having
taken the slavery question from the
people and from Congress and given
it to the President and the Supreme
Court, it may be well to bear in mind
that Mr.. Buchanan says "slavcry cx-
lists to-day in Kansas and Nebraska
as much as it does in Georgia or
South Carolina" while the Supreme
Court says
Every citizen has right to take with him
into the Territory any article Of property
which the Constitution of the United States
recognizes a. property.
The Constitution of the United States rec
ognizcs slaves as property, and pledges the
Federal Government to protect it.-Dred Scot
Precision.
Now read the following, and who
will not say, if Mr.. Douglas ever did
have any faith in popular sovereign
ty, that he does not clearly rcnouncc
it in this paragraph:
!. in common with the Democrats of Hi
noiS, accept the Decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States, in the bred Scott case,
as an authoritative exposition of the Constitu.
tion.-.Sphen Il. Dougias in 1858.
In 1852 Mr.. Douglas congratulated
the Senate on the end of Slavery aSi.
tation he declared that he had made
his last speech on the subject, and
that the Compromise measures of 1856
had forever settled the question. On
the 4th of January, 1854, he reported
adversely to repeating the Missouri
Compromise, because that would dis
turb the adjustment of 1850. just
nineteen days aftcrward he reported a
bill repeating the Missouri Compro
misc. And the reason he gave was
that the line Of $3.50 was inconsist
cnt with the act of 1850. Now wlicl
time did he tell the truth Why
both times, of course, our Douglas
Democrats would say.
Stephen \. Douglas nou holds thai
the people of Territory cannot pro
hibit slavery if the Supreme Court dc
cidcs that it exists there" Such i,
the changing political creed Of Stcph
eli \. Douglas. lie has been agains
Popular Sovereignty, and for it il
favor of Congressional interference il
the domestic institutions of State
and against it he has claimed til,
Supremacy of the Court, and dcnicC
it; in fact he has passed through
every change and contradiction o
conduct, and the marvel is, that Il,
has never yet subjected himself to tn,
charge or imputation of having don,
anything through an honorable o.
patriotic motive, but that every thing
has been done to promote his owl
selfish ends and individual aggran
dizcmcnt.
Here is precious extract which ev
cry "squattcr sovereignty" Democra
should cut out and wear in his hat
| 1t is part of the history of the country tina
under this doctrine of non intervention thi
doctrine that you delight to call squattcr sove
rci.nty, the people Of New Mexico have intro
duced and protected slavery in the whole O
that Territory. Under Mts doctrme, h,y ho,
converted tract Of free territory into slare terrific
RI, more than IRE hHtes The size IF tie State Of Ne,
! York. Under this doctrine slavery has beer
extended from the Rio Grandc to the Gulf o
California, and from the line OF the Republ
Of Mexico, not only up to 80 deg. so min. bu
up TO So dcg.-giring you a degree and hal
more SLAVE territory tim you cidmed Yo,
asked only up to Sc deg. 80 min, and non
Intervention has given you up To IS deg
Douglas Speech IN the U. s. Senate Nay lG, 1860
OF course our Democratic friend.
also want to know the position of thei
candidate for Vice President, and wha
Popular Sovereignty means with him
Here is an extract that may throw
some light on the subject:
Few at the South deny the power of Con
grcss to pass laws for the protection OF slav