The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-07-12
For the Courier.
How the Record Looks.

renegade office seekers, as well as the eX-
pectants,-still persist in their vain efforts
to deceive the honest masses, by denying
and directly classifying the record of their
corrupt party, together with that Of their
own?
The reason must be obvious to every can
did mind, TO any one who will trace those
records backward, through the legislative
history of our country, to the time that wit
messed the origin OF the doctrine that "slave-
ny was national, freedom sectional.
The democratic stump orators every
grade of intelligence and decency-and I
confess there is very wide range-through-
out the whole length and breadth ofthis I'm
ion, are exerting themselves with herculean
powers, to use language that will express
what they do not mean. For instance, in this
part of our political heritage, they are trying
to make the people believe that they are in
favor of the Douglas doctrine of S9uatter
Sovereignty that the little 81 am their
candidate for-defeat, is also in favor
of "leaving the people ofthe territories per-
fecily free to regulate their domestic institu-
tons in their own way,"-that they shall
have slavery if they want it, and if they
do not want it, they can reject it.
Now, with all due Difference to their
seeming honesty in their declarations, I
must say that the record proves beyond any
kind of doubt, that their declarations are
false. Every reading man knows very well
that when the Nebraska Bill was before Con-
gress, that every attempt made by the Re.
publican members to amend the bill SO that
it would express in clear and unmistakable
language, that the people Of the territory had
the right to establish or prohibit slavery, was
voted down by the united vote Of the demo-
cratic party.
will give two examples Mr.. Chase Of
Ohio, offered the following amendment, to the
four zenith section Of the bill, to wit. Gun
der which the people ofthe Territory, though
their appropriate representatives, may, if
they see fit, prohibit the existence of Slave
ry therein"
The vote on this amendment, which, if it
had passed, would have settled all this diff
Guilty about "Niggers," and robbed the dem
ocracy of the only argument they now pos
sess-the "Nigger," and he always brings
down the house when alluded to by them
resulted as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Chase, Dodge of Wiscon-
sin, Fessenden Fish, Foote, HAMLlN, Sew
ard, Smith, Sumner, and Wade-10.
Nays-Mcssrs. Adams, Atchison, Badger,
BELL, Benjamin, Brodhead. Brown, Butler,
Clay, Clayton, Dawson, Dixon, Dodge ofIowa
DOUGLAS, Evans, FITZPATRICK, Gwin,
HOUSTON, Hunter, JOHNSON, Jones of
Iowa, Jones ofTenn., Mason, Morton, Norris,
Petit, Pratt, Rusk, Sebastian, Shields, Sill
dell, Stuart, Toucy, Walker, Weller, and
Williams-36.
| Does this vote look like the Democratic
party was in favor of the people doing as they
pleased in the territories?
But you say this was not fair vote, that
the proposition was one-sided, tina. it gave
them the power to prohibit, but not to pro-
tect. Let us see about that 1t says they
may prohibit slavery, ifhey see fit to do So
If they do not see fit to do so, what then p
Why, of course, they could let it alone
So you see the democratic party are not will
ling, that the people of the territories shall let
the Niger alone. No wonder, when the
party think so much of Cufy-about a
thousand dollars!
If the vote on Chase's amendment is not
fair example, take another. Mr.. Trumbull,
Of Illinois, offered the following amendment
to the Toombs bill, as follows:
"4nd be H.further enacted, That the pro-
vision in the act 'to organize the Territories
of Kansas and Nebraska which declares it
to be the true intent and meaning of said
act not to legislate slavery into any Terrific
ry or State, or to exclude it therefrom: but to
leave the people thereof perfectly free to form
and regulate their domestic institutions in
their own way, subject only to the Constitu-
ton of the United States, acas intended to,
and does confer upon, or leaoe to the people
Of the Territory of Kansas. full pocer at any
time though its Territorial Legislature, to
exclude Slarery from said Territory or to
recognize or regulate 1t thereinr
1t does seem to me that, if the democrats
were honestly in favor ofletting the people of
the Territories govern themselves, they
would have voted for this amendment Don't
you think so reader? Well, let the record say
whether this party that processes so much
regard for "self government" voted for this
fair proposition or not
The vote on Trumbulrs amendment was as
follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Allen, Bell of New Hamp-
shire, Collamer, Durkee, Fessendcn, Foote,
| Foster, Hale, Seward, Trumbull, and Wade
| Ill
Nays-Messrs. Adams, Bayard, Beniam-
in, Biggs, Bigler. Bright, Brodhead, Brown,
Cass, Clay, Crittenden, Dodge DOUGLAS,
Evans, Fitzpatrick, Geyer, Hunter, Iverson,
johnson, Jones Of Iowa, Ma lory, Mason,
Pratt. Pugh, Reid, Sebastian, Sliien, Stuart,
Thomson of Kentucky. Toomb's, Toucy,
Weller, Wright and Yulee-54.
! There you have it,--every democrat in
the Senate voting, fairly and squarely,
against the 7ery thing--the very principle,
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