The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-09-13
hat mas Popular Sovereignty
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Our Democratic friends abound in
ldations ofPopular Sovereignty; they
oclaim continually what this SO called
ineiple proposes to do. Why nottell
lie people what Popular Sovereignty
rs done ? The people have a right
judge of any theory Of government
y its fruits what are the fruits ofpop-
lar Sovereignty Let us see what
hey are, and then let the people judge
ow they like them. Let Mr. douglas
imself be heard in behalf of the bless
igs Of Popular Sovereignty he GER
ainly ought to be taken as good author
y, at least by his supporters.
In the Senate of the U. S., on the
9th of May last, Mr.. Douglas entered
nto an elaborate defense of Popular
Sovereignty, against the assaults which
he South had made upon it. He re-
counted the great things, which this
principle of his had accomplished for
layery at the expense of free territory.
The following extract from his speech
IS found in the Congressional Globe,
ell plainly what "my great principle
mas done
cit is part of the history of the coun-
Try that under this doctrine ofnon inter
vention, this doctrine that you delight
to call squatter sovereignty, the people
Of New Mexico have INTRODUCED
and PROTECTED slavery in the
WHOLE OF THAT TERRITORY
more than FIVE TIMES THE SIZE
OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Under this doctrine slavery has been
extended from the Rio Grande to the
Gulf of California, and from the line of
the Republic of Mexico, not only up to
SO deg, 80 min.. but up to 3s deg
giving you degree and half more
slave territory than you ever claimed
In 1888 and 1910 and 1850 you only
asked to have the line of SO deg. 80 min.
The Nashville Convention fixed that as
its ultimattm. / offered it in the Senate
in August, 1853, and it was adopted
here but rejected in the House of Rep
resentatives. You asked only up to SO
peg. 80 min, AND NON INTERVIEW
TION HAS GIVEN YOU SLAVE
TERRITORY TO SO DEG, A DE-
GREE AND A HALF MORE THAN
YOU ASKED and yet you say this
is sacrifice ofSouthern rights p
"These are the fruits of THIS PRIN.
CIPLE which the Senator from Missis-
sippi regards as Hostile to the Rights
Of the South. Where did you ever get
any other fruits that were more palata-
BILE to your tastes or more refreshing to
your strength ?"
Mr.. Douglas continues in the same
speech to recount the advantages, his
principle of Popular Sovereignty, has
given to slave territory; and asks the
South, "are you not satigted eOith these
practical results
Now we ask every honest man-ev-
cry man who has any preference, for
free territory over slave territory, how
he likes the ''practical results" of Pop
ular Sovereignty ? According to Mr..
Douglas own testimony, it has done
nothing for freedom for says Mr..
Douglas in the same 10th of May speech
-"What other inch of free territory,
has been converted into slave Territory
on the American continent, since the
Revolution, except in New Mexico and
Arizohia, under the principle of non in
PREVENTION, affirmed at Charleston ?''-
What has popular sovereignty, or non
Intervention done for slavery? Mr..
Douglas answers by saying, it has done
more for slavery than the South has ev-
err asked 1t has given to slavery a
degree and half of territory more, than
the South had ever claimed.
SO much then for the fruits of Popu-
lar Sovereignty, on the authority of Mr.
Douglas himself. But there are still
other fruits of this Douglas doctrine,
which are part of the history of the
country. The Missouri Compromise
was repealed, for the purpose of giving
popular Sovereignty in Kansas and