The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-10-04

the,cry, "Hoil Columbia, long may it
wave" He found that the Bell men,
where they really did mean anything,
had fused with Douglas, and meant
squatter sovereignty or with Brockcn-
ridge, and meant a slave code.
Let him look now for a moment at
the Democratic party. It had the r.
reprossiblo Conflict in IL; and the strife
was to prove who was the most for the
Union, Douglas or Breckenridge. In
deed, it was a gratifying evidence Of
the wholesome reaction which had taken
place in Southern sentiment, that every
Southern candidate was now anxious to
prove himself q Union man. Brecken-
ridge is for the Constitution and the
laws,-but it is a Constitution carrying
slavery into the territories, and laws
protecting it there, that he means
| Douglas has another version Of the
Constitution-reading Squatter Sover-
eighty, qualified by the Dred Scott de-
cision-the settlers right to establish
but not to exclude slavery, to vote it up
but not to vote it down; for that decis-
ion proolaims that slavery exists already
iu the territories by virtue of the Con-
stitutiou.
If Schenck were a Democrat, he must
be a Breckenridge man, if he wished to
be honest; because the next step after
inviting slavery into the territory, is to
protect the stakeholder in his property
there If he or another proposed to do
otherwise, he would be a rascal and a
swindler. But Douglas appeals to the
instinct of self-government, universal
in Americans, and jingles this specious
doctrine in their ears. At the North,
he says you can vote slavery (Which you
believe the Constitution carries into the
territories) up or down. Turning to the
South, he whispers, Don't be alarmed.
The squattcrs can't vote it DOZEN. My
| Drod Scott qualification blocks that. -
/ Then hurrying back to the North, he
Iproclaims: ITS all right You can
kill it by Unfriendly legislation" All
which reminded the speaker of the Qua
ker gentleman whose principles would
] not allow him to kill the robber who
had taken his horse, but permitted
him to hold his head under water until
his breath was gonel Unfriendly leg.
isIadon! What did any honest man
think Of it2 1t was swindle and q
fraud. The only consistent Democrat
was the Breckenridge man.
For his part he did not believe that
the Constitution carried slavery into the
territories. 1t was the Republican doc
trine that Congress had the power t.
keep slavery out of the territories, anC
ought to do it, that there might be n,
doubt Of their adopting free Con5titu
tions. This was the old Wing doctrine
and he was sorry to find old Wings il
the Democratic ranks fighting agains
it.. After the excitement Of the cam
Z paign was over, aud Lincoln was elect
ed, aud the country was at peace, the,
, would look obviously at Squatter Sover
eighty, and the Slave Code-and per
haps experience the horror and aston
r. ishmout of that tipsy gentleman VIII
{ vomited, one night, into basket OF
y goslings, set to keep warm upon th
q hearth, aud exclaimed, when a light wa
brought, and the goslings discovered
e. Good God! wife, when did 1 swallow
them hiugs2"
6 A few years since; and no one dream
ed Of citing history to prove the righ
o. and practice Of Congress in prohibitin
! slavery in the Territories, for all partie
4 stood together in admission Of the RICH
= and of the fact. Mr., Schenck rca
from a speech of his on the bill for tn
admission of Oregon, in which he dc
clared that though q Territory Nigh
form a Constitution establishing SLAYER
?. for State, yet while it remained a Tel
4 riJory, it was under the control Of Con
y gress, and Congress then could an
q should prohibit slavery in it, in ordC
n that its admission as free State migt
v be put beyond question. lie also rea
n from a speech of Stephen A. Dougla
ION the bill for the admission of low
p aud Florida, in which Douglas afirme
A. that though a Territory, when it pre-
n scnted itself or admission as a Stat
10 might decide upon its organic lav
n yet while a Territory it must renal
D. subject to Congress. This was the
N prescribed as right and precedent t
L Douglas, and yet Douglas now elaine
,e to have made his popular sovereignt
.o panacea from a recipe of the father
10 He quoted Douglas against Douglas.
.y Moreover, he objected to popular sove
is eighty, because is was nothing of d
ne kind. Douglas knew that every Anne
7, lean citizen loves the idea of solf-go
g, ernment, aud he always appealed to
ne but his appeal was a fraud. In the FIR
a place he proposed that Congress shou
he make a Territorial Constitution, W
r. there very much Popular Sovereign
IT, in that2 Then the President appointt
to the judges aud marshals of the teri
Titory. Was there very much popul
ty sovereignty in that2 Then Congre
at prescribes how and under what limit
20 tions the territorial legislature shou
er be elected. Then all the laws Of Il
n legislature must be submitted to t
he censorship Of Congress Was there pop
NC lar sovereignty in all this2 Yet this W
en- Douglass Popular Sovereignty, and
oe, nothing whatever but testimony
ut the unquestionable right Of Congrt
TO- over the territories.
in 1t is true that a territorial lcgislatr
to might pass bad laws, and bad Congr
his approve them; as in the case Of N
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