The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-08-25

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Douglas orators OF the South, made an earn
est speech in the National Convention of the
Democracy in favor of the slave trade.
HI. v. johnson, the Douglas candidate for
Vice President, made a speech In Phiadel
phia, few years ago, in which he took the
position and argued warmly in support Of
the policy that capitalists should own their
lahorers and be also insists on Congress
sional slave code in the Territories, in reso-
lutions reported by him and in letters which
be caused to be published in Southern pa
pers.
Stephen A. Douglas, candidate for Presi-
dent, has, in bis speeches, declared that ssno
such thing as sovereignty attaches to Ter
ritory - "that Territory has no power over
any subject, except such as has been confer
red by Congress-" and that 'sthe limit of the
legislative power of Territory 10 the organic
act of Congress" He has also expressly
repudiated squatter sovereignty; has affirmed
the right of Shareholders TO emigrate to the
Territories and holdtheir slaves as property
on the same footing with horses, mules, &C.,
and many things Of such like character in
favor Of slavery and against popular sover-
eighty.
But it seems none of these things were in
tended for "the public eyeo OF the North
The Douglas papers do not publish these
opinions Of their leaders. They dare not
| publish them. Their leaders are playing q
game Of fraud and deception on the masses
! OF the Democracy now, in behalf OF Douglas
and popular sovereignty, just as they did
four years ago in favor of Buchanan and
free Kansas"
Henry clay on Popular Sovereignty.
! G. G. Cole, III G. Dean and others of
the Sauatterites, claim that the Compromise
| of 1850 established the doctrine OF Popular
Sovereignty and Non Intervention by Con-
gress ON the subject of slavery in the Terri
tories II that be true, then why was the
principle broken down by Douglas interven.
ton to repeal the Missouri Compromise pro-
hibiting slavery? But not only so; they in
sst that Henry Clay advocated Squatter
| Sovereignty and Non Intervention. How pail
pable their falsehoods are on this point, may
appear from the following extracts from the
great speech of Henry Clay in advocacy of
the Compromise measures, delivered in the
Senate in 1850.
/ MIR. Clay said
'sfhe power then, Mr.. President, in my
opinion, and | extend it TO the introduction
as well as TO the prohibition of slavery In the
new territories fots erist in Congress; and
| think there 10 this important distinction
between slavery outside OF the States and
slavery inside Of the States; that all outside
of the States 10 debatable, and all inside oil
the States is not debstable."
Clay says of Gen. Cass' original Squattel
Sovereignty doctrine, and Douglas admits ht
stcle it from Cass:
"Mr. President, | shall not take up tht
time, OF which so much has been consumed
already, to show that the clause which give,
TO Congress the power TO make needful rnIet
and regulations respecting the terrt ory ant
other property of the United States convey,
the power 10 legisiate for the territories.
cannot concur with my worthy friend and
D use the term in its best and most emphatic
sense-my friend from Michigan, (Mr. Cass
| say | cannot concur with the honorable
Senator, though | entertain the most pro
found respect for the opinions which he ha
: advanced adverse to my own, but | must say
that when point is settled by all the Gle
mentary authorities, anu by the uniform in
depreciation and action OF every departmen
of our Government-legislatiye executive
and judicial-snd when that point has bee
settled during period Of fifty years, thin
that II we are TO regard anything as hxe
and settled under the administration OF tbi
Constitution Of ours, it is the question whic
: has thus invariably and uniformly been SO,
n tied"
And further on, in the same speech, Mi
0 Clay said:
: There are prohibitions upon the power
Congress within the Constitution, which pro
hibtions, | admit, must apply to Congre,
> whenever il legislates, whether for the oil
: states or the new Territories but none
Q them restraints the exercise Of the power
= Congress upon the subject of slavery.
~ know that IL is argued that there Ia 4
. grant Of power in express terms in the Cor
y stituton specifically, over a vast variety
n subjects upon which the powers Of Congre
are unquestionable. The major includes 81
minor. The general grant of power compr
bends all the particulars Of which that pow
y consists. The power of acquisition BY TIE
10 ~ draws With IL the power TO govern all u
10 territory acquired. II there be q power
y acquire, there must be = power TO govern
:, aud think, therefore, without at presel
= dwelling further upon this subject, that fro
y the two sources OF authority in Congress
ie which | have referred, may be traced t
or poser Of the government Of the Unit
a States to act upon the Territories in re
erals
II there be anything that renders the do
- trine OF total depravity too palpahle for 90
troversv, il is this claim of the Locnfoco I
ne -, tt ~