The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-05-17

IL,
ponsiblc author of the kansa'-Nebraska
0ct--known as the Legislation of lo34-
tbs policy of which is incorporated into
the platform of the Democratic party as
the fundamental article of its creed -
lie is the man whom that party, as apor.
ton Of it, now propose to nominate anu
elect to She Presidency. He,sbovc all
others, seems to be deserving OF such an
honor He is the protested author and
defender of the oul y essential element OF
their political creed. He is the archl-
tect Of their platform. lie is the lndi-
vidual who furnished the ladder by which
the party has assembled to that position
that elevation or depression, whlchev-
er you choose to call it-from which
man may, without inpairins his standing
a, a Democrat, proclaim that he regards
the involuntary servitude of the South as
preferable to the free institutions OF the
North may characterize Northern States
a. servilc States may defend the instl-
tuition of slavery as ter ding to develop
the highest type of civiization-an IN
stitution sanctioned by Coda missionary
institution, which is calculated to rescue
from barbarism the millions of Africa,
and to bring them under the chrl.tlanz-
ing influences of the peculiarly dislntcr-
csted philanthropy Of our southern
brethren. 10. all ye nations, bring on
your heather In this unitarian age and
country cotton planting and the mlllcn-
neum 60 hand in hand. A man may al,
so stand upon this platform of the Demo
cratic party, and repudiatc every senti-
ment Of the fathers denunciatory of slav-
cry; and may deride their warnings as
"false in theory and nnsound in fact :
may even limit the significance of the
Declaration Of independence to but one
portion of the human family; may de-
nounce the laws for the suppression of
the African slave trade GAS foul blot
upon our statute book" They may even
say that the election Of man to the
Presidency by the su1rascs Of the PEG
pie of this country, in constitutional
manner, who cntertains opinions differ
eut from those entertained by gentlemen
from another portion of the country, will
afford sufficient cause for dissolution of
this Union
The man who has performed all this
service for his party certainly ought to
have Presidential nomination at the
hands Of the democracy. know it is
objected to him by some of his party
friends that he has not always stood true
to their measures that he faltcred upon
enforcing the Lecompton constitution
upon the people of Kansas and that he
entertains some peculiar views upon the
subject Of popular sovereignty.
The alleged fault is, that at a critical
moment he turned upon his polltica!
friends, and voted with the enemy
His constituency however, had risen in
indignant rebuke of I.ecompton. \ SEN
atorial election was at hand. To sustain
himself at home,it became necessary that
he should rcpudiatc all connection with
the intended wron. of forcing a slave
constitution upon an unwilling people
against their solemn protest. Duty and
self-intcrcst were coincidcnt, and this
man of pluck, as he has been called, spit
in the face of the administration. -
Many of our Republican friends had
case 1 81 real h shSS h}EE h va
With him as repentant soul But alas,
for all their hopes, no sooner had he Sc
cured the coveted boon of re election,
than he turned his back upon his new
found friends and admirers, the compan-
ions of his parlor conferences and all,
and returned t, the bosom If the De-
mocracy, to grace its triumphs with the
lau:els he had Won Strategy is one of
the arts of war. The politician as we'll
as the general understands this, and may
profit by it.
Now, then, for the popular sovereign
ty Of Mr. Douglas, which is urged against
him by many of his party friends, anG
which is supposed to Turk som ewherc il
the Kansas Nebraska bill After the
senatorial election in Illinois, Mr. DorG.
LAS discoursed in this wise in the Sen
ate, when called to an account by hi,
brother Democratic Senators, for til,
seeming heresies he had been promul
eating. Speaking of the Kansas bill, h,
said:
ave did not pretend to decide tn
question whether the Territorial Loyis
ture had power or not t. prohibit slavery
but we did agree to give them all tn
power we had and, if they exercised i
IN such a manner AZ to violate the con
stitutional rights Of any portion of tn
psople, their remedy is to be found in al
appeal to the Supreme Court, and not t.
Congress. - Conyrisssonal Gioje 7Hir
y.ttM Conyress, second session, part :,
page l25s.
And again, in the same speech, Mr.
Douglas says:
Il do not put slavery on ditIeren
footing from other property reco.
nlzc it as property under what is undcr
stood to be the decision Of the Supren
Court. agree that the owner Of slave
has the same right to remove to the Te,
ritories, and carry bis slave property wit
him, as the owner af any other specie
Of property, and to hold the same subje,
to such local laws as the Territorial LIE.
is!ature may constitutonaIly pass
Entertaining these views. what ma
ters it if Mr.. Douglas does almit tn;
Territorial Legislatures may pass law
unfriendly to slavery? lie will not de
fend their right to do 30 The kansa:
Nebraska bill, he says, confers npon tn
territorial government all the powt
shich Congress possessed over the sui
Ject but it does not rctend 70 decit
the right Of Territory to exclude slav