The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-10-05
Vol 2.

ing violatedl A voice" Turning all
your friends out of Office and laughter }
WHY has not Mr. Buchanan enforced the
laws, and kept these trespassers off Indian
lands | called the attention of the
United States Senate last winter several
times to this condition of things, and &c
manded either that the President should
turn those settlers off the Indian lands, or
that Congress should pass law .egalizing
those settlements. | called upon the
chairman Of the Committee on Territories,
who had superseded me to follow my ex-
ample in relation to Oregon, and bring in
bill to organize the Territory of Pike s
Peak and legalize the action of the settlers
there, and thus by law convert the squat
ter sovereignty into popular sovereignty
0mmense applause) Here you find the
distinction between those two terms.
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TWO TERMS.
The squatter sovereignty is where the
people 60 and seize upon the public do
main, and set up gove -nlnent in violation
! Of the law and in defiance ofthe authority
of the government Popular sovereignty
is where the people have settled in pursu-
apce of law, and are exercising all the
rights of selfgovernment according to the
Constitution of the United States. And
am in favor of popular sovereignty.
(Cheers) And | am in favor of either
enforcing all the laws Of the land against
these trespassers and intruders, or of legal
| izing their settlement by giving them a
| government according to the Constitution
and the laws of the land. loud applause
and three cheers for Douglas)
HARD RUB FOR BUCHANAN.
But while the President Of the United
States, bis Cabinet, and the newspapers in
bis pay, and his federal Office holders, are
denouncing squatter sovereignty, you can
of Office and enforce the laws against that
squatter settlement at Pixies Peak The
| President is bound by his oath to enforce
those laws 3; but he has allowed them to
be violated every hour of the day, and
every day of the year, since the first set
tlement in that territory. tremendous
applause, and cries of "Hear hear") He
thus stands by, sanctioning a squatter SOW
ereignty while making war on me for
maintaining popular sovereignty. (Enthu-
slastic applause)
ANOTHER sQUATrER GOVERNMENT.
| Fellow citizens, that squatter govern
ment at Pixies Peak is not the only case
of the kind Every newspaper mail from
| California brings pou intelligence Of the
amount Of silver that has been dug from
he Washoe mines Now, where are
| those fabulous Washoe mines, Of which we
hear so much They are situated on the
eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, in the
Territory of Utah, and with some portions
extending into tie State Of California
The miners in the Carson Valley and ITS
vicinity, refused to obey the laws.of the
Territory of Utah, which was established
by Congress, and, inasmuch as Congress
failed to make new territory for them
they have gone to work and set up a GOV,
ernment of their own, in defiance of the
authority of Congress. This government
Of theirs IS composed of legislative, q
/ judicial, and an executive department. and
they are exercising all the powers and
functions of self government. They are
exercising those rights ard privileges OUT
side of the constitution, and IN violation
and in def tnce Of the authority of the fed
eral government, and vet we find President
Buchanan and lis Cabinet standing by
and seeing that act of rebellion against
the constitution and the laws without
using the federal power to suppress it.
(Applause.) | ask, then, why do not
these men, who have such an awful hor-
ror of sQuatter sovereignty, put down
! these squatter governments, which exist in
violation Of law?
! YET ANOTHER CASE.
| viii now give you another case. A
few years ago, Minnesota was admitted
into the Union as State The State oc
cupies just one half of the territory en-
braced under eho territorial government
of Minnesota, and the other half remains
without the protection Of law. There is
! no government in existence there, and no
law BY which murder or robbery can be
punished. or, worse still, rape, or any
other crime, Finding that they had no
! legal protection, the people have gone to
work and established government OF
their own, a squatter government, formed
IN violation Of law, and in contempt Of the
federal government.
| THE REPUBLICANS ALSO IN TIE BOAT.
Notwithstanding all these cases exist,
| the Republican party on the one hand and
! the federal administration on the other,
denounce squatter sovereignty Why DO
not tie Republicans, who have majority
in the House Of Representatives, pass bills
and send them to The Senate aboIishing
! these squatter governments, and establish
ing lawful government in their place =
Why DO not the President and his Of
fce-holders enforce the laws against these
trespassers:
THE DUTY OF TIE GOVERNMENT.
In my opinion, it is the duty of the
government to pass laws giving legal gov
erumen:s to those people. They should
be organized, according to the constill-
ton, into political communities. Tie
| principle Of popular sovereignty should
then be applied 10 them, and they should
be " left free TO manage their own affairs
IN their own way, subject only to the con
stitalon OF the United States" (Round
after round Of applause aud shouts Of