Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-08-25

latter are yet generally hostile to its practical rec.
ognition aS a means to establish slavery in a terri
tory Ihs chicago platform emphatically dopies
the authority of Congress, or a Territorial Losis.
iature, or Of any individuals, to give LEGAL sSist.
ence to slavery in any territory of the United
States while the Cincinnati pla,
by the Convention at Bdltimore-as stronsiv "A.
sersS the doctrine OF 'non.interference Of Conersss
with slavery in the Territories, or in The Distric,
OF Columbia If we are able to understand The
point bore made, tho Democrats Affirm thu, ~ NJ,
people OF q Territory or the District Of Columbio
CHOOSE 70 establish or continue slavery, Conpress
mas no authority to interfere 10 bro7ent II. mi.
tne republicans deny expressly, in regard to n
territory inferentially and logically, in relation
to the District. ~ "
Let US now run a parallel between the Territory
OF hansas and the District Of Columbia.
Kansas has q Territorial Legislu,afe Uboss
power though more limited than that of State
Legislatures,is nevertheless rs authoritative with:
10 its bounds; it has also a Governor appointed bv
The Federal Executive. The District Of Columbia
has no such Legislature, and no Governor.
The people Of Kansas do not wish to havo ala.
very. The people of the District wish to have
slavery.
ln Kansas slavery has never been loealizod as A
local institution. In the District Of Columbia i.
has been and lie now.
10 Kansas the Territorial Legislature has FOR.
oiuden its existence. In the District the Federal
Legislature legalizes and protects it,
in Kansas the people vote for the members of
their territorial Legislature. and express their
sentiments through them. In the District the peo-
pie have no right to vote for members Of Congress
that body which exercises exclusive legislation
over them.
Kansas is the property of the United States on.
iy in a qualified sense, that right ceasing whom i.
shall be admitted as a State. The District is the
absolute property of the United States, ceded to i,
by the acts of its former owners.
Such being the facts of the case, are the peoule
Of Kansas, or'the people of tho District-if either
better entitled to have the doctrine of Souatter
Sovereignty, or Popular Sovereignty, as IL is some.
times called, applied to their case II would
seem as If that people who in process of time are
expected to organize a State government, and be
admitted into the Union as a sovereign State. have
a better claim to be consulted as to whether slave
~ shall or shall not be established upon their soil,
than have the Inhabitants of a District which was
accepted simply as a matter OF convenience for the
location of the Federal Capitol, and who do not
look forward to any other state of political exis.
tence than remaining the disfranShised d%eiiers
of a territory which was given on condition that
congress should exercise over it 'erclusiUe egisla-
tfon.'
The Democrats say that Congress has no bust.
ness to interfere for the prohibition or establish,
thent of slavery either in the District or in Kan
cas-, applying the same doctfine-and as we think
unjustly-to two very dis-similar cases. The Re-.
publicans say that Congress has no right to legal
tze slavery in any territories OF the United States,'
and so far as jurisdiction is concerned, the Dis.
triot OF Columbia is a territory of the United States.
Whether the resolution Of the Chicago platform
designed to embrace it or not, is perhaps a matter
Of but little moment, seHihg that the principle Of
self government, the doctrine Of squatter soyer-
eighty is manifestly as applicable, to say the least;
to the inhabitants Of an embryo State, as 10 tboss
Of q fossil District.
Blu. while the Republicans deny to the people
Of Kansas the right to iegslise slavery, the Chica-
60 nominee COR the Presidency applied the SQUAT:
ter sovereign principle to the people of the Dis
trict, and in his gradual abolition and fugitive
slave bill said, If you wish slavery abolished, say
. 80, and Congress will do it. If you do not, say
so, and Congress will continue to legalize it, If
that is not squatier sovereignty in its broadcast and
most Objectionable form, we have failed to eompre.
bend the meaning of the phrase.
Why Mr.. Lincoln should give to the people OF
the District the privilege Of deciding whether they
, would or would not have slavery, not only for
themselves, but as q national institution at the
7 Federal Capital, while denying that privilege to
: the people of the territories, we leave for those 10
explain who denounce the establishment of slavery
o in Kansas as a grievous wrong and q curse to the
6 people, and brand as among the gravest of crimes
every John Brown interference for its overthrow
8 in Ar-kansas, and pledge their Constitutions
power for its defence in one half Of the states