The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-09-01


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Mr.. Dousias having secured his retarn 70 D.
Senate III manner which be fears may be desri
mental = bic chances for the Presidency. he q
once goes South and gives his FIRST counterblas
ct Memphis, IN 1855, N follows: asfx'9 .tsls}
by the decision in the bred Scott case, !
| viii be found by reading Chief Justice Taney
opinion, that slaves are decided 70 be propert,
on an equal footing with other property, and tha
| consequently theo1nefs Of that species Of prop
| erty have tie same right to take it into 1 ter
| ritory - the owner Of any other property. Tn,
Illinois Democracy accept that decision q tht
authoritative expoeltion of the, constitution
AND ON THAT POINT I 1CONcuR /" .i59 aa
Al New Orleans be i still preaching Arst rat
DEED Scott slave code Democracy: sss II .f 81.
II, in common with ths Democracy Of Illinois
accept the decision ofthe Supreme Court Of tht
United States in the bred Scott cAse, ~ an Az
thoritative exposition of the Constitution
Whatever limitations the Constitution, As ex
pounded by the courts, imposes on the autl1ofits
Of . Territorial Legislature, we cHEERruLLY re
cogniae and respeck In conformity with that
decision, slaves are recognized - property, ale
plAced On an equal footing with AL other pro
pertS. Hence, Tho owner Of slayes--the same q.
the owner Of any other epecies Of property--has
right to remove to territory and carry biz
property with him niasss88l .sssas5is5s SIG
Having promised to conform to the decision
Of the Court, in answer 70 Judge Trumbuli, h.
ssao: Ssi moIi yH.asasia1s sza sna55 sac a 81
my answer then vaa, and nowi ia that if tl1e
CONSTITUTION carries slavery there, Unto the Ter
ritories) let it Co. ad no pos~'. On earth can ta1t
6dscoy. 81 GGidseli rlest :ips us eti4dAaI ri
In 1856 he says if the Constitution carries sls.
very into the Territories no power on earth can
take it away. In 1888, two years later, after his
election, he said the Constitution carried it
there. laiassl isFseaS as 3Asl 800 yo's9' a w
AT Baltinore having still some faint hope Of
uniting the Democratic party upon Douglas, lis
friends Sspudiate Popular Sovereignty and UNI
friendly legislation in the platform as follows:
"Resolyed, That it 10 in accordance with the
Cincinnati platform, that during the existence
Of territorial governments the nedan1 Of yesfrici
lion, whatever it may be, imposed by the Con-
stitution on The 5oser Of the Territorial Leyisa:
hsre over the subject of the don,estc relations,
the same has been, or shall hereafter be finally de
iev1m;ned BY I've Supreme Court of the United
States, should be respected by all good citizehs,
and entorced NTH pronptness and fidelity by ese,y
branch Of he General Government" * .si.sn,
To this resolution Douglas gave his assent in
his letter Of acceptance as follows! as2- - 70
"Upon careful examination Of the platform
ofprinciples adopted at Charleston, and reaffirm
ed at Baltimore, with an additional resolution
which Is in PERFECT HARMONY with the Others,
find 1t to be faithful embodiment Of the time
hap rosv oe sho ~
the same were proclaimed and understood by
all parties in the Presidential contests Of fS4e,
1852. and 1855" z A1H3f59i'i iNe @at.fe t5t9ii
i9''E% - R''.aa PHASE III ii saisaosi 7s9a 1
DouGLAs AMONG rHR DowS EAST YANKEES
FINDS THE PRESSURE TOO SEVERE ron Ms
NERVES 81 -a5i.<+ SEt'4s s7e %si5aei
Mr. Douglas has engaged in stumping tour
and has been bidding very high for Yankee free
coil votes. At Portland, Maine, he recently
made speech, from which we cut the following
which is the last Of his changing views upon
Popular Sovereignty and the Supreme Court. In
that meridian ''the measure of restriction which
the Interpretation Of the Constitution BY the
Supreme Court places upon territorial sover
eighty ''dont amount 70 shucks!" In fact he
plueks the Court Whose decisions were to be
respected by all good citizens and religiousl,
enforced by Douglas q President) irreverensl,
by the beard, sndsaysit has nothing to do with
the matter. He kicks the Court out Of the arens
in the following energetic manner. We extract
from the Eastern ArguA . sound Douglas Jour
mall O. Jl} e e-B ssac4s III s4Jflg o..
He FIRST reiterates his Ereeport popular sover
eighty with increased vigor, thus ~ ~
1.-THE position Of the Democratic party on ttil
question is non-interveEtion by Congress viii
slavery anywhere, either in the States ar Terri
tories "Good. y" The Democratic party stant
upon the principle that the people in every pc
litical community, whether States or Territories
shall make their own laws, establish their owr
institutions, and govern themselves" ~ ~.
And then repudiates all the nonsense about
Subject to the Constitution of the United
States" to be interpreted BY the Supreme Court
by ruling the Court out ofthe arena, thus: ~
~ "This is the first time that ever dreamed tia,
the Supreme Court had . right to make political
issnes- That was not the doctrine Of Jefferson
or Jackson, and trust that it will never be the
doctrine Of the Democratic party. If there be
one question more positively settled than anoth
er, 1t is that the judiciary shall be separate aud
iistinct from the legislative department The
Constitution declares that each department shall
ne separate and distinct from the other AID IN
dependent Of the other. Hence deny that the
Judiciary has any more right to interfere with
the legislature than the legislature has with the
judiciary.s'a Si4s ~ ~ e4asl9ai 50
That isti the last hole that Douglas went
into. Where or how he will come out NO live
man can tell, or what will be the next phase Of
popular sovereignty. His friends win have to
watch increasingly and exhibit = celebrity Of
movement equal at least TO TIM Zousve drill or
they can't begin to keep up with their file header
OF follow his sinuositieA he has now gone
South, and we may expect to sec some counter
movements. Gasg si,u Is
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We fnd the following catalogue Of the diseas.
e which have interfered With the public duties
Of NJ. Douglas N one Of our exchanges .sss5
Where was Douglas when the Homestead Bill
passed the Senate IN
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