The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-03-02


nsensiblc, 20 her own chamber, where
pc helped 70 chafo her hands, and bntbe
per forehead with perfumed waters.
She was ill a long times and when she
recovered, she became nun in the con-
vent Of Fisehingen; for she ceased 10 love
ne husband whom she had found TO be so
passionate and cruel
Before she le0 the castle, the raven
was proven 70 have been the cause Of the
and was punished with death
for his thiovish tricks,
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,Fbe EIuhnbug Of Or"POpuIar SOVc-
reiEnty."
Undoubtedly the most arrant and unal-
loyed humbug that partizan desperation
ever sought out, is popular Sovereign
iy," to which Douglas and his followers
look for relief from their present extrem-
iiy. Il has not asingle redeemiug equal
ity to relieve lis triokey. It has never
been applied in a single ono Of the cases
for which It's author claims il to be adopt
ed.
Mr., Douglas tells MS the principle was
discovered by HIMSELF and frat applied in
the Kansas and Nebraska Territorial bills.
Now, every body knows thatin the whole
history of the Government, there never
ras been any difficult or serious complaint
on the part OF the people Of any Terrific
ry in regard 70 the management oftheir
domestic affairs, except in these idcntic-
al cases, to which this great pGnacea OF
Popular Sovereignty" was first applied.
What is more, itisvery evident that there
would have beon no trouble in them, but
for this misehevous and unwarrantable
tampering with the settled policy of the
Government.
In the case Of Kansas, the people have
been kept under subiection by political
parasites from Washington, backed by
federal bayonets, for nearly five years, and
denied rights and privileges never before
withheld from any people under the Gov
ernment. The long catalogue Of their
wrongs is too well known for repetition
here.
In Nebraska, too, popular Sovereign
~" is exhibiting itself in its true colors.
Apprchending that somebody might be
led to bring slaves into that Territory
under the supposition that Slavery existed
there, the Legislature passed an act pro-
viding against that institution. This was
what the author Of the Konsas-Nebraska
bin told them they were specially author
iAed 10 do under that great measure. New
or until he had engralted popular Sove-
reignty" on the policy ofthe Government
were the Territories, "like the States, free
10 dispose of their domestic concers in
their own wayl But alas as ia the case OF
kansas, this precious boon cannot be re-
allied by the good people of Nebraska.
When they, through their chosen repre-
sentativcs, pass bill for regulating their
domestic institutions" gentleman sent
there from Washington City, steps up
and says 81 forbidl" But how sol What
authority has he thus to interfere with the
local affairs of this peoplel Why, he was
appointed for that exclusive purposel By
whom BY the President to be sure. On
what authorityl On none other than that
Of hr Douglas, popular Sovereignty
kgnsos-Nebraska bill!
The sum Of this famous experiment
with popular Sovereignty" in these two
Territories, is just this: In Kansas, the
people for yeRrswere not allowed to elect
their Legislatures, and that body was die
tated TO them by hordes Of ruflians end
robbers from Missouri, who swarmed
their territory armed with cannons, guns
bayonets and whiskey, drove away the
citizens, seiYed uponthe lot-boxes,a ,anC
stuffed them with fraudulent votes; anC
the claims Of the creatures Of this mol
to dictate laws to the people Of Kansas
were enforced by federal bayonets, under
the order ofa Democratic President, anC
with the sanction OF Mr.. Douglas and hil
friends in Congress and throughout the
country. The same bands Of outlaw,
over-run Kansas, numbering its inhabit
ants and pillaging their property, undel
the protection Of Government troops. So
much for fruit No l, of popular Sover,
regnty,"
Nebraska has been fortunate In thus
far escaping he reign Of terror and out.
rage which the Kansas-N Nebraska bill
brought upon her sister Territoryi but II
is squite evident that her good luck In that
connection, was more the result OrrOru-
nate circumstances, than Of anything else.
Her more Northern latitude was less in
Ylting for the introduction of Slavery
than was that Of Kansas hence, the fret
end greatest battle for that institution,nn-
der "Popular 5VvoraiQniyn - wac fought
in the latter. But the determination to
forco the detostablo institution Of Slavery
upon them, is promptly revealed at the
first serious attempt to exclude II. Thus
we see, that although the people OF Ne
biaska ara allowed t. elect their own Leg
idature, the moment they attempt to "reg-
uats their own domestic Institutions in
away contrary to the wishes Of the South
o Pro- Slavery Executive, provided by the
gseat popular Sovereignty" measure Of
Mr. Douglas, vetoes their acts at a single
dssh Of hia penl
45uunge Rs il may seem, II is nevershe-
less true, that while these facts are as no
torious as public history can make them
Mr. Douglas Is asking for the Presidency
on account Of his pre-eminent friendship
fG the right Of the people Of tho Terrific
fils TO manage their affairs in their Owl
wav, and cites o. a sample md embodi.
msnt OF his policy, this Kansas-N ebraskl
bil, under which have occurred we thiiiA
the only cases known where the people
were not permitted "to regulate their 90
nestle institutions" for thomselyes.---do
iedO BLADE
FALSE OnAcLEs. .-On the occasion o
Douglas speech nt Wooster, Ohio, las
summer, Mr Douglas walked 70 the edge o
tha nIafform and introduced Mr. Hannel
sGs tho next Governor Of Ohio. Thei