The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-10-06

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oas f'sking D sdhefents North q South. what
ptchs y ~ = - ~ peopse Of Territory, thas
Vongress sossalns ffom settling the slavery quesi
slon ana ies We people q Territory 90 through
sne sfou0ls'ef discaaang that question, ana they
instruct the'r Legislature bow % Fegaiaee y. ff
tine supreme Court has the power 70 give such
an interpretation TO the Constitution Of The
United States. q overruies the decision made BY
the people Of Territory. That would Be no
prohe, but real losA Does Nc, DouGlas mot re-
nembef that no himself told 10 his Senate
speech last Nay, that he has made bargain
with me great majority Of the Democratic Con-
gressmen, not 20 decide the question Of Terrific
rial power, but 70 leave that Judicial ques-
t'on % be settled by the Courts Does Ar
Douglas not recollect that ne told the Democrat.
&c Senators, that, IT the Supreme Court OF the
United States should make such decision. he
% wen ~ they, would be bound therebyY Does
Mr. Douglas not remember that, IN his speech on
the Trumbull amendment, he said that he told
them it was judicial question, that the Kan
sas-Nebrsska act does give the power to the Ter
ritorial Legislature, unless the Constitution Of
the United States prohibits it, Does Mr. Doug
las not remember that in the same speech he
said, NY answer was then and now is, that If
the Constitution carries slavery there, let It 60,
and no power on earth can take it away :" Does
Mr. Douglas not remember that in his Harpers
article he argues against the statement Of Pres
ident Buchanan, that, according to the Dred
Scott decision, SLAVERY exists in Kansas By
virtue Of the Constitution of the United States"
and says il that should be true, then iti estab-
lished In like manner and BY the same authority
in all the States Of the Union, because the SOW
ereignty Of every other State is limited by the
Constitution, as the supreme law Of the land
Does he not remember that in that noted article
he used the following words: "The provisions
Of this Act are believed to be in entire harmony
with the Constitution and Laws, and under them
the people Of Kansas possess every right, privi-
lege, and immunity, in respect to their internal
polity and domestic relations, which the people
Of Pennsylvania can exercise under their Consti-
tuition and Lave. Each is invested with full,
complete and exclusive powers in this respect
subject only TO the Constitution Of the United
States !" Does hr. Douglas not remember that
he placed in that Harper's article the sovereign
ty Of Territory and Of State upon the same
footing? and does he not remember that in his
minority report in the Senate, Feb Is, 1855, he
contends that Territory cannot assume or ex-
ercise sovereign power, before Congress has Civ
en- permission through an enabling act, and that
10 long the sovereignty Of Territory is In
allowance, suspended in the United States? We
could bring more to the remembrance Of Nr.
Douglas, but We conclude for the present it y
enough. Let bis followers try to concliate all
these different and conflicting statements to-
gether and zee if they can hold their candidate
the unchanged and Interchangeable man, - ne
tried to force himself upon his Democratic com
peers in the Senate, in last Nay. We cannot but
hold the doggish stubbornness and insulting ef-
frontery Of Mr. Douglas in unmitigated contempt
If the right Of the Territory 10 subject 70 the
decision Of the Supreme Court, then they have
that right like Mr.. Douglas has the right 70 be-
come President Of the United States. Accord
ing to that doctrine sntje1 only, We can.say Hr.
Douglas BY virtue Of the act Of the Baltimore
Rump Convention, has perfect right 70 be
President Of the United States. salieef only TO
the verdict Of the people Of the United States,
would that conceded righs OF holding i Consen-
ton and nominating man ior PRESIDENT give
him any more right 70 claim she once 'nan any
other statesman VINO should prefer % run, OF 20
be named by MS friends g candidase! Dls-
covering that W. Douglas has forgotten az 'ne
lodges ne made, al the contradictions ne 70