The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-08-23

Judges. The people Of Kansas, instead O.
exercising the right OF self government, pop
uiar snvereignty, are, 10 the frat place, en-
tirely dependent on Congress for the charAc
ter Of their government, and then upon th.
President. appointed governor and judges fol
its administration. And that Douglas would
have ii so, and not permit the people to ex-
ercise any God given inherent right of self
government about which bis followers by.
faiutin, he himself distinctly asserts in the
following extract which we make from his
remarks In the Senate on the 18th of May
last, in which, in the presence of slave
holding Senate, be uttered the following
scornfnl repndiaifon cf Squatter sovereign
ty. MIR. Douglas said:
"Regarding squatter sovereignty as nick.
name invented by the Senator and those with
whom be acts, which have never recognised,
must leave him TO define the meaning of
his own term. | have denounced squatter
sovereignty ~hen you find it setting up a
government in violation of Law as you do now
at Pixies Peak. | denounced it this year
When you find an unauthorized Legislature
in violation OF law, setting up government
without sanction Of Congress or court, that
is squatter sovereignty which oppose. There
10 the case Of Dakota, where you have left q
whole people without any law or Territorial
organization, with no mode of appeal from
Squatter Courts to the United States Courts
to correct their decisions that is squatter
sovereignty in violation of the Constitution
and laws of the United States. There is
similar government set up over part of Cali
fornia and part OF the Territory OF Utah,
called Nevada. Ii has delegate here claim
ing to reprasent it. have denounced that
as unlawful. am opposed to oil such
squatter sovereignty. If that is what the
Senaaor referred to, am against it. All
have to say is, the people of a Territory,
when they have been organized under the
Constitution and laws, have Legislative
power over all rightfnl subjects OF legisla-
ton, consistent with the Constitution Of the
United States. That is the language of the
law, and if they exercise Legislative pow
ers on any subject inconsistent with the
Constitution of the United States, the Courts,
to whom appeal may be taken under the laws,
will correct their errors. That 10 all"
Thus we find by the embodiment OF the great
Douglas pr.ncipls in the act organizing Kan
sas and Nebraska, and By Douglas own in
depreciation OF his principle, that be recog-
nizes no popular sovereignty except such as
Congress confsrs upon the people and the
Legislature. and that, practically, amounts
20 nothing ut all. His organic act of Con-
yress for the government OF the territories
iitfared from that of Iowa and all previous
.cts only in two important particulars. One
VI those was the repeal Of the Congressi onal
prohibition of slavery and the other right
II appeal from the territorial Courts to the
Supreme Court OF the United States In GER
ain eases. The effect Of the repeal
If the prohibition of slavery, was to ad-
nit il into Kansas, where it still exists in
'pite of the people and the Legislature.
And the efec: OF the right of appeal will be
10 bring case before the Supreme Court in
which that august tribunal, following up the
bred Scott decision, shall declare that, as in
he apinion OF the Court "the right OF prop
srty in slaves 10 expressly affirmed by the
Constitution of the United States,o neither
Congress nor any local government, whose
powers are conferred and limited by Con.
grsSs, can impair or obstruct the enjoyment
81 this property any where under the iuris-
diction of the Federal Government Mr..
Douglas and bis party have already avowed
their concurrence In the doctrine OF the right
of Shareholders to remove with their slaves
to the Territories, and to hold them thore ON
the same footing as other property; and they
have pledged their party 10 abide by the de-
cision which the Court may make, should it
bold that Shareholders have the Constitu-
tional right TO keep their slaves in the Ter
ritories, in spite Of any ''nnfriendly legsla.
ton" by the local Legislature.
II anybody can find anything to boast of
In the "popular sovereignty" secured to the
people of the Territories under oil these DUAL.
ihoasions, they must have very keen scent
on the hunt.