Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1860-03-17

SATURDAY, MARCH II. 1850.
srnrnEv A. DovoLAs."
The iumssss force Of The isrisistabls
Will Of the people has never been aore
clearly illustrated than in The utter failure
Of al The combined efforts Of e~uvious po-
liticisns, 70 break down. and degrade
Sfspnsx A. DoUoLAs. Or annals will b.
sesschsd 10 ssin for N example Of vile
dstractiou-virulen, ~abuss-stsr chamber
plotaings-and vide spr2ad combinations
dssigned to render . public servant odious
with The people, that equals in severity, sr
psrsistancy, that which has been exempt.
fed in The ceurss and coaduet Of The n .
.iss Of this distisgaishsd a The Gal.
anny shss vss hsAped spoo him because
Of bic advocacy Of The Ksnsas-N Nebraska
Bill, the refusal - grant hin . hearing
upos lie return to Chicago, the o
With which 10 Vas assailsd wen from the
religious press and the pulpit-his removal
from > post Of honor in the Uoitsa States
Seaats-the influences that we're brought
10 bear, with almost overwhelming force
againss him BY the myriads Of parasites
pampersd BY the boun.ies Of federal pat
souage-the unremitting efforts Of Sena-
tori to decay him into the commission Of
some act Of imprudsnce-the attempts to
adopt scw tests Of Democracy that would
force him either to strike his colors, or
withdraw from the party-are among the
many sxpedienss that have been rs'or.sd
TO, to effect the cherished object Of his
disgrace with the pcspls-aud j. is graft
firing to know that, he has withstood the
terrible ordeal, and has come out unscath
ed. There 10 an inherent principle which
prompts every mar 10 admire n who has
she frmness and integrity boldly 10 breast
III. storm Of persecution, resolutely deter
mined 10 maintain his principles or share
their fate. and the moro importan, the
principle involved, and the greater the
hsrsism exhibited in it, defence, the high
Or will be the position which such IN one
will occupy in the confidence Of the peo-
pie, - soon ~ bis acts and motives are
understsod aud appreciated. 1n the case
Of DouclAs be assumed the position in
preparing the act for the organization Of
the territories Of Nebraska and Kansas,
that the question Of slavery should be re-
gardsd ~ . local one, aud that ike al
ether questions in which the people who
chose to settle therein we're chiefly and
directly Interested, i. should be left entirely
to local legislation. subject to such judi
cial remedies for individual grievances ~
the Consultation and laws Of the United
States may provide. From this position
he has never departed. 1t constituted the
leading feature in bis discussions with
LINCOLN, in Illinois. and VA prominent in
all the speeches he has since made North
ssd South, in the Senate, and beforst the peo.
pie, % wellas in the communications be has
published. His views on this subject me:
with the most cordial endorsement from
the Democratic party North and South a.
the time they we're 6rss proclaimed they
were understood throughout the country
70 be the doctrine Of the Cincinnati Plat
form, and 80 prominent we're they A. to be
deemed worthy Of . special endorsement
by President Buchanan, in his letter Of
acceptance /; they we're made the principle
issue in that campaign, nc speaker or
writer having animated any doubts as to
NE Interpretation Of the Democratic posi-
ton with reference to slavery in The terri.
tories. The agreement then was that the
people who became pioneers were Of that
class who we're competent to decide for
themselves as to what was best calculated
10 promote their own interests, and that
to denythen this right was an infringement
Of an inherent and elementary principle
Which is the very corner stone upon which
our institutions rest. Against this doc
trias the Republicans maintained that
Congress should legislate to prohibit sla-
very in the territories regardless Of the
wishes Of the settlers; upon this Issue the
people made up their verdict and triumph
sally sustained DoucLAs, by the election
Of PRECEDENT BUCHANAN.
No svsuts have since sranspired TO
change this opinion. The masses Of the
Democratic party arc quite ready again to
meet the same question with the same
platform, and The same arguments in its
defence, and upon this issue the RepuL-
licsns occupy the same position - in the
last contsst-their doctrine still 10 No
more slave territory" and those Democrats
who oppose DouclAs now, would so far a.
this the main question before the country
10 concerned. place the Democratic party
spon the same platform which they before
denounced, and which the Republicans
then and still maintain. They would on
esds that Congress has not only the power
but that il 10 their duty to legislate upon
the question Of slavery in the territories,
thus forcing the whole subject Of slavery
into Congress and making il continual
souree Of distraction and danger to the
Union, against the long established and
we'll settled policy Of the party, and the