St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-15
PRICE, TWO DOLLARS PER ANNTrN
NUMBER IL.

tne capital StateS, IN an hour of
strange bewilderment, concurred and
the Wing party instantly went down,
never to rise again. Democrats Sc
ceded, and stood aloof the country
was contounded and, amid the nor.
plexittes OF the hour, a RepubIican
party was seen gathering itself 10.
with little show Of organization, 10
rescue, II 1t were not now too late. the
cause CT Freedom and labor so unex-
pectedly and grievously impcriIcd in
the Territories Of the United States.
| will not linger over the sequel. The
popular sovereignty of Kansas proved
to be the State sovereignty of Missouri,
not only IN the persons of the rulers.
but even in the letter of an arbitrary
and cruel code. The perfect freedom,
proved to be a hateful and intolerable
bondage. From 1855 to 1860. Kan
sas sustained and encouraged only by
the Republican party, has been en-
gagged IN successive and evcr-varying
struggles, which have taxed ali her
virtue, wisdom, moderation, energies,
and resources, and often even her
physical strength and martial cour-
age, to save herself from being
betrayed into the Union as Slave
State. Nebraska, though choosing
freedom, is, through the direct exer.
else of the Executive power. over
riding her own WILL held as a Slave
Territory ; and New Mexico has re-
lapsed voluntarily into the practice of
Slavery, from which she had redeemed
herself while she yet remained part
of the Mexican Republic. Meantime,
the Democratic party, advancing from
the ground of Popular Sovereignty as
far as that ground is from the Ordi-
nance of 1857, now stands on the po-
sition that both Territorial Govern
ments and Congress are incompetent
to leglslate against Slavery in the
Territories, while they are not only
competent, but are obliged, when it is
necessary, to lcgislate for its protec-
tion there. In this new and extreme
position the Democratic party now
masks itself behind the battery of the
: supreme Court, as if it were possibly
true construction of the Constitu.
tion, that the power of deciding prac-
tically forever between Freedom and
Slavery in portion of the continent
far exceeding all that is yet organized,
should be renOunccd by Congress,
: which alone possesses any legislative
: authority, and should be assumed aud
exercised by court which can only
take cognizancc Of the great question
Il collaterally. i'll q private action be-
!, tween individuals, and which action
u the Constitution will not suffer the
/. court to entertain, if il involves twen-
+ ty dollars Of money, without the over
e ruling intervention Of a jury of twelve
" good and lawful men of the ncighbor-
: hood where the litigation arises. The
+. independent, ever renewed, and ever.
= recurring rcprescntive Parliament,
p Dict, Congress, or Legislature. is tho
r one chief, paramount, essential, indis-
Y pcnsablc institution in a Republic.
Even liberty, guaranteed by organic
. law, yet if it be held by other tenure
, than the guardian care of such u rep
resentative popular assembly, is but
precariously y maintained, while Slave
ry, enforced by an irresponsible judi
cial tribunal, is the completcst posi-.
bic development of despotism.
Mr.. President, did ever the annals
of any Government show more rapid
or more complete departure from the
wisdom and virtues of its founders !?
Did ever the Government of a great
empire, founded on the rights of hu-
, man labor, slide away so fast and so
far. and moor itself so tenaciously on
!, the basis of capital, and that capital
, invested in laboring men? Did ever
, a free representative Legislature, in-
vested with powers so great, and with
the guardianship Of rights SO impor-
tant, Of trusts so sacred, of interests
so precious, and of hopes at once so
; noble and so comprehensive, surrcn-
der and rcnounce them all so unneces.
! sarily, so unwisely, SO fatally, and so
ingloriously? If it be truo, as every
: instinct of our nature, and every pre-.
cept of political experience teaches us
that,
q III fares the land, to fastening ills prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay
then where in Ireland, in Italy, in Po-
, land, Or in Hungary, has any ruler
prepared for generous and confiding
) people disappointments, disasters, and
1 calamities equal to those which the
r Government of the United States holds
f now suspended over SO large portion
{ of the continent of North America -?
Y Citizens of the United States, in the
: spirit of this policy, subvertcd tho
free Republic of Nicaragua, and open.
, ed it to Slavery and the African slave-
trade, and held it in that condition
waiting annexation to the United
States, until its sovereignty was re.
stored by combination Of sister Re-
, publics exposed to the same danger
, and apprehensive of similar subver-
, sion. Other citizens reopcned the for.
. eign slave-trade in violation of our
/ laws and treaties and, after a sus-
{ pension Of that shameful traffic for
fifty years, savage Africans have been
once more landed on our shores and
distributed, unreclaimed and with inl-
| punity among our plantations. For
t this policy, so far as the Government
has sanctioned it, the Democratic par
: ty avows itself responsible. Every
} where complaint against it is de-
nounced, and its opponents prescribed.
: When Kansas was writhing under
the wounds of incipient, servile war.
f because Of her resistance, the Demo-
cratic press deridingly said, "let her
, bleed Official integrity has been
vol 10 nd .,h
when it resisted frauds designed to
i promote the extension Of Slavery.
= Throughout the whole Republic there
: is not one known dissenter from that
: policy remaining in place, if within
) reach Of the Executive arm. Nov