The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-06-20
bred Scott.

bred Scott.
This old colorcd gent continues to be the
*'piIlar Of cloud" for the orators and editors
of Repuhlicanism. The Supreme Court
decided that negro is not a citizen of the
United States, and as that was the only
question before them, that, of course, is all
they decided. At the time of the decision,
the Republican party, through its leaders,
insisted that the other points to which they
referred, were extra judicial and were Of
no weight whatever. Hon. Reverdy John
son, the attorney in the case, so stated; Sen.
ator Douglas and all the Anti Lccompton
men Numbering not less than nineteen
twentieths Of the Democrats) SO insisted
he Illinois canvass was conducted on that
CIV of the question; the Democracy, in
Convention, throughout the North,
worry rare exceptions, insisted on the
jew in the battles of '5s and 80
Inocracy at Charleston in their plat.
virtually ignored the counter view
horns seeded because that portion o.
Sion scas not regarded as raid O,
for; the Douglas theory of Terrific
dependence on domestic questions i.
>rious as was the Colonial Independ
rs; each Demo paper of tn,
Except Government advertisers,
hny Of the aLlest of the South, tax
pc position; the home orators of, y
rcy, even in CLAYTON CouSI..t va
nc same in their address,, th;s w.
end yet in the far acular-lookine
alage lawyers. e tell their hearers
MS VINO and his advisers have
r, D9Halidity of point that mill.
inst all the argument they have
psing for the past two years! We
that 'Reverdy johnson is the only
OF prominence who takes this view
case.
|itics, as in other matters, we hold
pty of an orator or writer to tell
d he who will deliberately mistate
1ecure point, must consent to be
IS unworthy Of the respect Of the
Mr.. Douglas and majority of
egates in session at Charleston deny
be bred Scott decision covered tn.
lorial Legislative question, and he
states otherwise, whether convert or
vert, exhibits want of perception, or
ant of conscientiousncss. The fact is plain,
palpablc and undeniable. The Democracy,
To-day, stand precisely where they did last
fall that is, B- On the right of the Ter
ritories to say for themselves what domes
tic institutions they shall have. 1t is the
position Of the masses of the people of all
part'cs-it was endorsed by the Republi-
cans in Congress, when Mr.. Douglas was
sustained by them in demanding a vote of
the people on the Lecompton Constitution
1t was sustained by the people and the
Press throughout the country, and AR.
Douglas has done nothing since to justify
the charge Of change" The report that
douglas telegraphed his friends at Charles
ton that he would abide the bred Scott
decision is not true If true, his assent
was understood to be as he had construed
the decision in his debates on the stump,
and in the Senate; but the fact of his
having refused to hold any correspondence
With Charleston during the session Of the
convention, goes to prove that the report
was false in toto. The statement is put
up to catch class of men who are al
ready in love with the local 'flcsh pots, /"
and who want some sort of veil to pro-
tect them from the gaze of Fairness and
Honor.