Show senator ijen ator douglas owl on 10 1 o aular liar sovereignty j canar at the september number dumber of A by tine e contains an elaborate and ably j art article 1 cl from senator douglas 01 on the then MW ahle vexed question of popular Sere 1 the Terri territories teries 2 the tha article is ia laty lacal toning to insert in our coburn columns ns but we sub jt l UIs the N of commerce a sw ikuo of it which is believed to be just anil and impi jh I 1 bial we need hardly add that line sen cmaj yr douglas brings to the discussion of this q duj be tion a degree of investigation and a force i a logic and argument rarely equalled equal led soji aj tare ibe lo 10 which must excite the admiration I 1 of thus the from whom it fails to coni convince ince I 1 it is no doubt a difficult task for even eve th greatest and alii wisest statesmen to lay rit the exact line of beta era can aej does ra al I 1 and local authority as the they are coq caved laved afe combined under our system of but assuming that judge douglas views al aj mor hope ghei to the sovereignty of the territories that att t cal matters are corre correct nt and place the te ten rr s tories onea in this I 1 ahr respect on art an equality with hi titue states does it follow that either th stat sta jnue e or territories may pass laws a ws and adai clari carl customs in in opposition to the om aher the rl sense of the great body of tj the le nation anfoot a of V which must bring reproach and ills is ba 5 on the nation at large the a this thi a 19 no 0 11 1 I question but will to pi ere long re require re a so solindo soli 1 ido dom tion in regard to tc the ugo a all but of this territory N a harpers Hir pers monthly magazine for septem perl be ber r contains an article of nineteen en pages en as ta titled the ibe roes 0 o dividing line between federal lc deral and local dom authority popular sovereignty Sovereign tyl in the territories te by tow stephen A doum y abed las ins this th is we presume is i the exposition ij which lias has been from time to time pa p from washington as in course of pre paral tiou tion by b y judge douglas zeni on the question quest on which now attracts such general attention act toju J 11 which aich is supposed to have an important bear tion 10 ing I 1 upon U the presidential cam but I 1 aeo position campaign paip ibe position tion of mr air douglas dondas as a so a candi 1 I date do for the presidential nomination nomination nation as wt well I 1 sit itu as the distinguished part he has taken in 1 tt tl iles es discussions on the subject 0 of the present r to C tide gives universal significance a I to his arg g ions iona at this time and will lead to a carelli gnei ir scrutiny in all quarters the ills article ard ae beford ear arr im us is ably written and presents pr a conca fl ia the 1 logical and connected new of the colb ina upon which it treats from the earliest genii tu rad in our colonial history down to the frese tac all time 1 bl mr douglas states the position of the two stat f tat great political parties in this country as ra sal mon am lows ws the 1 ia republican pirty orty p he assumes in to the complete comple tp p ower over the quest OB nc cb j slavery yin in the territory Terri tori es in accordance willig witti I 1 V the resolution re adopted by that parly in 18 19 ia at t I 1 as a part of the philadelphia Phil idelphia platform isaid mai inai declared ii for that the constitution confers upon co me gress soi n power over the C Z u the t he united g states for their government g 0 ern ment M li t that in the exercise of this powers nr the right dijol the duty of congress to telf hibit in the Terp tones those dwir lh barbarism polygamy and slavery sla iery as the democratic party mr it in it would be unc to deny denais i go agreed upon pon the relative power tf bf feil crai re reg and territorial authority over the be ww question ico C of slavery and he lasses classes c these me diff Mw cos I 1 IV me I 1 under three heads le ie first those who believe belier that the conati wf wh aution of the united states mates neither establish jer bar es nor prohibits bla alai ery cry in the states or teri 1 pol 1 1 ri tories beyond the power odthe of the people ca ae legal fa lie 1 ly to control it but the e people eo le there 1 tin of ef perfectly free to form or vest and regul regulate t e tr then ih h domestic institutions institution 1 in th their ei own a sab to jec eject only tonly to the conati constitution uti of t the e uni e nh states state 1 l second those who believe that the coll co j ing u tion ution establishes sla slavery cry III I 1 the li U ort 10 0 up be besand nes and withholds from congress and i the IV wi territorial legislature the pott er to control sift ml it and who insist that in the besent the 1 er ii lot t atonal rit orial legislature fails to enact the tl c 1 on ui site bite laws for its protection it becomes i tio he la imperative pera tive duty of Con congress Cong grecs to interpose its 14 authority xi and furnish such protection 11 11 third abo those e who while iro professing to to believe that tile the constitution establishes 8 ia 13 1 r very in in the territories beyond be ond the boer po of 1 S Congre aa sd or orthe the ilia territorial legis atul ta arol ait abbe at the same iame time protest against the u n f it congress con an giess less to interfere for 1 Us krotec c 01 0 but ins insist that it iq 59 the duty of the juc 4 r to protect and maintain slavery in 4 m te territories I 1 f without auy any law la w it upon poll the i 5 douglas boulas ou las of course adopts the fist first of or above propositions ro positions ions and lie he remarks I 1 at af j presenting t the e various aspects of the kd wn tion that oft is difficult to conceive horany how any person believes that the constitution con the right rig of protection in in the enjoyment 10 claro property in the ret d elss odthe of the wishes of the people and tri othe the action of the territorial legislature a it n satisfy his conscience and his oath of 0 tl belity to constitution in in withholding irl it ch congressional legis apiou as may ay b be at rutial to the enjoyment of such r right un in ira a rabe the constitution under this view of the B 4 abject ct it is impossible to resist the a i n that it if the constitution does establish y javery ay irk in the territories beyond the power if t be people to control it by law it is the is iterative duty of congress to supply all the a wi necessary to its protection ef th s proposition Is not true t feces eardly kiy mesulta t that hat the constitution neither 1 e nor prohibits slavery any where I 1 L uit but leaves the people of each states and Tern tory entirely free to form and regulate their domestic affairs to suit vesy the intervention enters inters antion of congress or any other her power whatsoever mr ier douglas disposes of the argument that ingress congress may confer upon a territorial leg lature all the powe boive a which itself possess t by declaring the reverse to be generally true die that in in fact any subject upon which m hie bogress may rightfully legislate legisla tec cannot be legated Ie gated but that it cia ay provi provide 1 for 0 a T ter r government for a people with whose fitial and domestic affairs it has no power to pter fele while it may create a ter atonal V Is lattire which has full control over all nylons iona of a local nature slavery included n cointin pointing out and tracing the dividing ahne ne between betwee federal and local authority vr douglas goes back to our colonial days stowing showing that the complaints of the colonies were never directed against the exercise by the te imperial government of powers which bich A biere ere imperial and not colonial but arose from the tact fact that their local and domestic 7 wats ats were w ere invaded that among other wrongs licked inflicted upon the colonies was the authority 1 given to introduce slaves so against their consent against which virginia and other colonies remonstrated and passed laws taxing slaves thus introduced which laws were rendered 1 inoperative by the order from the imperial government to the colonial governors I 1 not to give their assent to such la aws vs that tat the right to resist such unfriendly leg insisted upon by virginia and other colonies and that to this day the con of virginia contains a clause continued from its original bill of rights de clarai clarire areat that one of the reasons for separating fro from great britain was the inhuman use of I 1 tb eroyal negative nega tiie in refusing us the colony of 0 va vaa J permission to exclude slavery from lie by law we have not space to follow the argument which is designed throughout hout to prove that all legislation i upon pon local and domestic questions belongs not to congress but to the territorial legislatures that tha such tsuch was the uniform understanding in the early of our history that the lie new states il as at they y bete were then called instead of territories possessed the same control of their 1 domestic affair ii as the old and that at no time has that right been parted with w ith or alienated to the federal government passing to a review civi ew of the opinion of we the supreme court in the tred dred scott case he adenies that there is any thing in that opinion to justify the declaration that the constitution I 1 ion carries slavery into all the territories tint but he says it if the proposition be true that the constitution ution establishes slavery in in the territories beyond the power of the people legally to c control it another result not less start ling and from which there is no escape must inevitably follow the constitution is is uniform leveda every where within the dominions of the united Unite states slates is the same in pennsylvania as in kansas and effit be true as stat abat tily taby tho the president in in his special message to congress that ithac slavery exists in kansas of the constitution of the united states ates and that kansas is therefore at this moment as ai much a slave state as georgia lor south carolina why does it not ot exist iia hi pennsylvania Pennsy nania by virtue of the same ame constitution ution we do not deem it necessary to go more at at length nto into I 1 a statement of the positions maintained by b mr air douglas and with much torce force and ability the whole matter is summed up at the close in the following lan guage this exposition of 0 the b astory these meas ires bres slows a conclusively that the authors of the lie comaromi Comp romi 86 measures of 1850 1830 and of lie be kansas nebraska act of 1854 as well 83 s the ird members embers of the continents continental I 1 congress and the fou founders riders of our system of government subsequent to the revolution regarded the people of the territories and col ILo lonies as aa political communities which were ere to a tree and exclusive power of lep in in their provincial legislatures here their representation could alone ard served in all cases of aad internal policy this right pertains pertain sto to electively as a liw law abiding and ana peaceful c com ill and not is orated individuals ube tho may wander upon the public dai domain airi in in violation siO lAtion of law it it can only be exercised here there ire are inhabitants sufficient to constitute isolation atit te and capable of pel pe form i in ing its various functions fui cliona and duties affetto be ascertained and ty by congress whether bether the number shall be fixed at ten fifteen or twenty thousand inhabitants does t the principle the principle under our ur pol political system is that fiery ery fica community loyal to the constitution ami d t 8 en entitled ii ti dio to alfo jarig lo tind nit 0 g t in n respect i il aier local conce concerns ns aadil ni internal anter I 1 dohty r olit auti suti yet t oay y to 0 alie tl of 0 ikc tata united vt |