Nebraska advertiser., 1860-09-06
For tbo Advertiser.
P0IIlleal Paners.-NO. I.


ID SrERL1sd afoRTox that be is a Doug-
las DemOcrs endorsing the Nebraska.
Democratic PlatEprn; and, believing
th asSeraon to Be u~nfounded. untrue and
dangerous 10 the present as well as future
prospects and prosperity of Douglas De-
mocracy and Popular Sovereignty in this
Territory claim the right, as a Doug
las Democrat, of, at least, attempting to
"show up Nebraska Democracy, as adj
opted in their platform and carried out BY
is "rspressnfativs men,, 'in high places"
appointed by james Buchanan.
Eirstsin order comes the preamble to
their platform:
WHEREAS, we, the people OF NebFaska, have no
voice in the election OF a President OF the United States
and, Where's, our own material interests alone are o.
sumcient maguituie.and Importance 10 command and
employ ali our best energies.
Both propositions are plain, and no one
will contend hat we have a "vOice in the.
election of a President !" yet, is there.
a Douglas Democrat who doubts, for a
moment, that, at the present time-whiie
the campaign is at its hight-thoosands,
nay millions, are anxiously looking West,
to the Territories, fora practical demon
stration, or at least an endorsement, Of
the principle Of popular sovereignty.
Some for evidence of its %soundness, others
for evidence against it, and thousands,
ion tie fenCe'' are, as a~nxiously looking
for lis results, whose opinions and votes
depend Upon the utility Of the principle
as, shown BY lis fruits. and our acceptance
of it botheys the while, depending on
Doaglas' own assertion, that "the people
of "a territory know best what suits them
10 bear them up iip their Iqkewprmness.
With these factsein view, was it the
part of policy or sense in Douglas Demo
.6fdfsT to hold a Convention and not say
al }gahcOtdffaging9 word to their friends in
the States, who are battling for that
qgreatApriReiple3 ofnHberty, which we,
andnotl they oarento enjoy Not even
endorse the Cincinnati and Charleston
Baltimore Platform !? Bur, to resi- upon
the assertion that "OUR OWN material
ALONE are of sufficient mag
and iah~sB6rtdnce to employ ALL
our Best energiess,9s even to the exclusion
Of i've, lines from their platform endors-
Ing Douglas and the platform on which.
he stands r. ed 9asm HH sor
{" bssf eds al am raps and cannot cloth =
The monstrous bulk Of such ingratitude
81 f.w With any size of words rIsHu
But felloY-Dou glasites, they have not
adopted a platform that smackS the least
Of that great principle p onothe con-
trraalrry # IS an ambiguous, bungled "inter-
ventlon'' platform, in eyerysense Of that
term, as now applied i. the States. And
/ have it from an oficiaI-who holds to.
the Breckenridge principle, was a dele
gate there and on the platform committee
that il was FIXED UP to unite the
Dsmocraey!o 1a.ggaj. sau l
The first section of the first resolution
contains intervention )" it reads as fol-
Res9lrcd, That we, the Democracy Of Nebraska,
~repbgnize That political party which was formed by ThOs.
Jefferson, and from that day to the present has carried
country forward TO an unprecedented degree Of pros
pefitS l2]u 49, ~ dfo2 4nta}IGH
Is iflikelyt that Thomas Jefferson would
form a political party that did not agree
him in sentiment +? Well, let US see
what were his views-on Territorial sove-
reignty--as expressed in his "Ordinance
of 1857" applied to the Northwest Ter
ritory, which was ceeded to United the
By his native State-a slave State
Virginia /; Art. 6, reads that
lThere shall be neither Slavery norihvOtuntary serv-
ltnde in the said Territoryi Otherwise than in the pun
duly .eOSyieted 'F1JlsBp 3mr orb s3 .3
How doesdthatdiingle with Breckin-
position In 1850 9-
'oThat territorial Governments are temporary and
pF0yisiVnah and not sovereign E; hence, they cannot i'm
tinue to be Territories they are Under hGCONTROL
CoHsfsSs sGo1 bl1W .1e
And how does it chime with the Sth
Of die Chicago Platform:
arhst-as our Republican fathers, when tbezhad aboi-
isted slavery IN aIuodf,N ational Territory ordained
hat no, person shopld be derived r0i lie, liberty or
By Legislation, whenever such legislation becomes
n IeS e 4SlsfqgF fsi' ProV'St9' against all at
Now look at hoihfntsrventio13 F." as de-
fined BY Douglas in his speech in the
Senate, Jan. 18th 1850 Js
fpgfthe very pisht the Kansas-Nebraska bill was
passed. I stattdthatth SOLE object Of the repea! o. ne
AtssouthrestrtEtidH vas that tDe peopEeof ne tefritory
rforia8 Eeqisitttrs while . Territory, as well az after
hpsTbesOneR sipteiibhg Ell feai6 81-irg
Or would thettN Nebraska Democracyn
rather takes Jefferson's position in his
70 Jebnr Holiness
.oae thing am certeia-shat, as the passage Of
'iayes from one State toanothcr would not make a slave
4 one Being Who would not be SO without it, SO
Aer sgqfs2R orerr greater sNrJGee would make them
Individually happier, ard ptouortionally facilitate the
accomplishment Of their emancipation, by dividing the
'9Gthe9 on a greater aumber Of eoadjutors.
sBhiehhOenp Of the dilemma viii the Ne
Democracy take 2 Are they in
'aqOf 6fsdaTusiag the MICRO to 'faeai-
daccomptishment" of his "~enlahcipd
tUH .F aN