THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL.
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JNO. S. MANN,
I EDITOR . ;
EDWIN HASKELL,
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The Now York Tribune strong
ly recommends the election of HENRI
WAnu BLECIIER to Congress.
I:7 The very able address of the
anti-Nebraska members of Congress
will be found on the fourth page
this paper. We hope no person will
overlook a document of so much im
portance.
ICl' Those persons desirous of im
proving their stock, and every farmer
ought to be, will do well to enquire
of Samuel. M. Mills, who can give val
uable inti,mnation on this subject.
Ea" The crops in this section are
suffering terribly for want of rain,
except corn, which holds out remark
ably. The hay crop is nearly a dead
loss, and great injury is done to the
proSperity of the county, by the un
heard-of dry weather.
rr Mercury stood, on Wednesday
afternoon last, at 100 in the shade for
two hours, and was at 93 at 4 o'clock.
such a thing was never known in this
county before,
12F The Vannatter boy committed
to jail fur stealing, sonic , weeks ago,
broke out on Tuesday night last, and
has gone to parts unknown.
rir Titus Lossey, for some years
rather prominent in this county, has
been convicted of counterfeiting the
coin of the United States and sen_
tenccd to five years imprisonment in
the Penitentiary of New York. We
have been expecting to see a virtuous
expose of this matter, by the parties
who made such a blaze about the un
fortunate ruin of a poor mechanic's
son of this town, but look in vain for
any notice of the matter, and.we must
conclude it is only the crimes of poor
men's sons, that some people think
worth exposing.
rF" We send a large number of the
present issue of the Journal to those
who are not subscribers, at the request
of various active friends of the cause,
in order to distribute certain facts in
relation to the Nebraska question
which no Bigler paper thinks it safe
to let the people see. Ist, there is the
speech ofSenator G illette, which speaks
language the• people will be glad to
hosr. Then there is the address of
the Anti-Nebraska members of Con
gress on the fourth page which every
man ought to read and then lay up for
future reference. There arc the res
olutions of the Wellsboro meeting,
which every democrat ought to read
and ponder. Then there is an edito
rial entitled "Party vs. principle,"
which we fancy contains more truth
on the Nebraska question, than any
administration paper would dare tell.
Knowing the sincerity of the mass of
the people, and their anxiety .to learn
the whole truth and do their whole
duty, our friends have thought it ad
visable to send out a large extra edi
tion. The same thing may be done
frequently between this and election,
so that those persons not subscribers
who may receive the Journal, need
not think we are begging subscribers.
We am only trying to lay the facts
of history before all the people.
Hunker leaders invariably shun the
truth. Progressive men do their ut
most to spread it as freely as possible,
knowing the heart of the masses is
ever ready to receive it, and that free
dom 24.11/ triumph.
THE AGITATOE
We have received the first number
of a paper bearing the above title, and
published at Wellsboro, Pa. ; M. H.
Cubs, editor, and W. D. Bailey pub-
lisher. The Agitator takes the place
." 1 of the Wellaboro Advertiser, and-is in
part the result of the great effort of
the people of the North to harmonize
all the elements of freedom into one
great party for the Overthrow of
avery. •
.We hail . the appearance of the Agi
tator with unusual , pleasure, for al-
though the Advertiser was a consistent
Temperance and anti-Nebraska paper,
et being a Whig organ, •it was not
as bold in the assertion - of truth, as the
exigencies of the times demanded.
The new paper, fortunately for the
cause of progress in Tioga county, has
secured the services of W.D. Bailey,
editor of the Advertiser, as publisher,
and will therefore have all the strengtl
of the old paper, with the addition. of
all that a determined, faithful, necom
plished and hopeful young man, who
wields a graceful pen, can give it.
. The following, extract front the in
troduction of Mr. Cobb, will give our
readers an idea of the important, aid
which may be expected from the new
paper in Tioga county. We hope
every friand of Temperance, and every
hater of oppression in our sister coun
ty, Avill give the Agitator a generous
and enthusiastic support.
The following is the extract from
Mr. Cobb's opening, which t-e
heartily endorse:
'With the perfidy of Arnold Douglas fresh
in the public mind, can ue allow the present
to bear record of moral cowardice and crimi
nal neglect of duty ? If the men of To-day
fold their arms, the men of a coining genera
tion must blush for them; but if they stand
up to their duty, posterity will honor them.
.1f we are united at the North, the superstruc
ture of slavery, reared as it is upon a sandy
foundation, must go down. It is only through
' internal distention that a final triumph of
Right over the most stupendous wrong of the
nineteenth century can be retarded.
We acknowledge no- allegiance and yield
no homage to any party as a party ; and when
an- honest adherence to principle ceases to
recommend us to public patronage, we shall
abandon this profession and choose one. that
can be retained without a loss of self-respect.
But there will be no steessity for this; the
public mind is ripe for reform. Men are
tired of following demagogues blindfolded.
A better spirit is leavening the masses. The
rights and dignities of faeemen are better ap
preciated now than ever before. NV hat were
once considered as priveleges, simply, are'
now come to be recognized as imperative and
sacred duties.
" Democracy," as it is " believed and prac
ticed," is bat the ass in the lion's skin. It
was once thought progressive ; it is now
proud retrogressive. We do not remember
when it moved forward, though it revolves
around the star of self-interest as does the
earth around the sun. True Democracy is
just taking firm root in this Northern soil. It
oFr.stAtos dag laity roues ama
Bradford, and we come to help water the
germ already quickened in Tioga. This is
our object, and our motto—" Heaven prosper
the• Right."
We have adopted a name indicative of the
course we intend to pursue. Without agita
tion, no good thing ever accrued to Man. It
gave us Christianity in the place of bigoted
Phariseeistn, the Reformation, erected this
nation into a powerful independent state from
a dependent colony, and with the blessing of
Providence upon the efforts of good men, it
shall yet strike the fetters from the limbs of
the millions who groan beneath the driver's
lash and the iron rule of Intemperance.
We cannot close this article with
out again bearing testimony to the
honorable and upright manner in which
the Advertiser was conducted by Mr.
Bailey, and we trust his present con
nection with the press will prove fIS
pleasant and profitable as his former
one was high-toned and useful. 'the
following extract from Brother Bai
ley's valedictory points in a felicitous
manner to the duties of to-day, to wit:
union among freemen for the sake of
freedom:
Recent events of a national character, have,
in our opinion, rendered the publication of
a strictly party paper no longer necessary.
The Agitator will Mei- front its predecessor
only in being less disinctive and better cal
culated in its new form to bring about the
end for which every friend of his country
should labor, viz: tie expulsion of slavery
from free soil. It will support Judge Pollock
for Governor, and strive to make the coming
campaign upon Temperance. and anti-Ne
braska issues.
PARTY vs. PRINCIPLE
The old line Democracy of .this
county have called the usual, and
regular party Convention. This .is
just as we expected; but we desire to
ask the rank and file of the party, who
mean something when they say they
are against the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, if it is what they ex
pected. how is the restoration of the
Missouri prohibition of Slavery to he
restored by sustaining the men who
carried the repeal of that measure ?
The repeal of the compact which
secured Nebraska and Kansas as free
'States forercr, could not have been
carried without the almost undivided
vote of the old line Democracy of
Pennsylvania; and this vote 'was se
cured in Congress because the Admin
istration
men in the Legislature of
Pennsylvania refused to pass the Senate
resolutions condemning the monstrous
fraud on the free States. And when
the Convention met which re-nomin.
ated William Bigler for Governor, the
eleven members of Congress froth this
State, who were watching to see if it
was safe-to g 8 with the President and
against the people, were encouraged
.to.go with the: Isr"esiifent "in forcing
upon the people of the ?Forth_ this
odious measure. The Convention; in
full view of the fact that the' great
crime was about , to be committed iii
Congress, passed a long string of reso
lutions endorsing the President,- Sena
tor Brodhead, who bad just voted for
the bill in the Senate, and •various
. .
other little things; but not a Word in
relation to this greatest of all political
cpiestiens," did the 'Convention say.
Everybody knew that the influence of
the Convention was for the Nebraska
bill, and everywhere through the State
anti-Nebraska Democrats are uniting
with all opponents of that measure
without reference to their previous
party connections, bevuse of this state
of things.
We do not believe a single intelli
gent man in the State • bus a doubt of
the fact that a - vote for William Bigler,-
or for any party man on that ticket, is
a vote in furor of the .Nebraska swin-
die. Hon• can there be a doubt
Senator Brodhead 'voted for that bil
and yet the party in State COnvention
approve his conduct. Eleven members
in the otheillouse, all old line demo
crats, voted for that bill, and the party
approre.their conduct. But to make
the question perfectly clear, every
prominent Bigler paper in the State
not only openly and brazingly sup
ports that measure, hut they boast of
it as a party triumph. Now, as the
mass of those who voted for William
Bigler at the time of 'his election are
earnestly opposed to the N6braska
outrage and to the extension of SlaverY,
we again ask them how they. can,
with a shadow of consistency, sustain
the party that carried that measure
through, and. the organization Vhich
is the only obstacle to 'the restoration
of the Missouri Compromise.
Suppose- the _County Convention to
assemble on the sth of August should.
pass some milk-and-water resolution
against the Nebraska bill, what will it
amount tol What do the slaveholders
or their allies care flir your resolutions,
so long as you come ti; the polls and
rote for their men ? Is there, then,
111t,s
vention which is worked by the same
machinery that forced' through the
Nebraska bill in defiance of the public
opinion, is to go against your princi.:
pies? Of course this language applies
only to those Donarats who are hen
est/ y opposed to the triumph of tIL!
Slave Power, and has no reference to
those men who allow personal feelings
to control their votes, or who care
more for the triumph of party than
the preservation of their principles.
To this class we have nothing to say,
for no arguments would influence
them; but the former class we ask to
read the Wellsborough resolutions;
hear the-counsel of Hon. David Wil
mot, the N. V. Evening Post, and all
other Jeffersonian Democrats. These
all concur in saying that the only
safety for freedom, is for freemen of
all parties to unite in'its defense.
Will you hearken to reason, or to
party? That is the question.
• One other question:
_What single
good will you accomplish by voting
for the party"
In a day or two, a call will be issued
inviting all opponents of the Nebraska
outrage in this county to cooperate
for the purpose of restoring the Nis
souri Compromise, and for the repeal
of the Fugitive Slave bill. We sub
mit that this is the only way for earnest
men-, who mean what they say, to act.
Wo appeal to the better judgment of
all, to throw aside prejudice and act
as reason prompts. Do this, and all
will be well. •
TIOGA COUNTY IN MOTION
The establishment of a new paper
at Wellsborough is an indication of
the progressive movement at work in
our sister county, but , that is but an
index. Every mail brings us letters
full of enthusiasm and goad news.
The papers contain additional facts,
as the following from the New York
Evening Post will testify;
[Correspondence of the Evening Post.]
The Cutout of &peal in Tioga County.
WELLSBOrtO, Tioga Co., Pa., July 6, 1.85-1
I have just returned.from the fit% popular
demonstration which has already been made'
in this county against the repeal of the time
honored Missouri Compromise.. The present
meeting was presided °Vet by Judge R. G.
White, and among the vice presidents were
our present.democratic member of the Legis
lature and the editor of the democratic county
paper. I never sow a gathering ofthe masses
_which seemed to express by its proeedings
more earnestness and determination. The
meeting was addressed lot' more than two
hours and a half by Hon. David Wilmot; and
he never before gave Etch general satisfac
tion.. The ground - was taken that the time
for talk, long resolutions, and temporizing
oi - ernes to 'save theliartj; was past andliiiii;
Thu resolutions, which were drawn tip by . the
asst orthodox democrat, find no opposition
among tho party in the county worthy of the
least notice:, . r .f hey denounce the President
as using corrupt influences: to accomplish a
nefarious purpose, and charge the northern
"representatives who supported the measure,
w ith the basest treachery, and close by pledg
ing themselves, to oppose. any candidates for
county, state, or national otlices who are not
in favor of the' iininediate restoration' of the
Missouri. restriction, and also declare that the
"only safety fur freedom is in the union o
freemen, without regard to former political
attachments."
Judge Wilmot has made three speeches
this week at three different mass mcetm2s iu
this couhty. lie was met by Judge - Knox, of
the Supreme Court, a degenerate son of
Tioga, but a personal friend of Wilmot, who
used all his influence to put a stop to this
movement among the democracy, but his en
treaties were of no more avail than if he had
been .appealing to dead men. The vote for
Knox when running for Judge was almost
unanimous, but since coming here and at
tempting to sustain Big:ell and President
Pierce, he is not /treated civilly, and was not
even invited to speak at-the trileeting, although
formerly a popular public orator.' •
I think Grow, our presentmetuber will be
sent back if he will pledge hiMself to insist on
restoring the restriction of slaverY.
" NoW on NEVER."
Judge Knox and other leading Big
ler men made the same attempt to
keep Wilmot quietin this county, but
be is not the man to stifle his convic
tions, and so he electrified a large
audience with a. two . hours' sfioech,
that did the heart of every friend of
freedom good, and made the adn4inis
tration of Franklin Pierce look a little.
more contemptible than we had ever
thou glit it was. • •
But we have still stronger evidence
of the progress of ' the people-.ofTioga
in the resolutions of their meetings,
which we find in the .ifirttator.
The resolutions of the Wellsbore
-,
meeting, over which' the Hon. IL 0.
White presided, are all that could be
asked, and if the old line democrats
here would act on the smile liberal and
.honest principle, this county would
give a vnanimous vote for the restora
tion .of the Missouri Compromise, and
there would be no sftirtber jarring.
But the leaders 1 -!s-fir lave never
desired to oppose this measurOn
earnest—their whole object being to
keep the people quiet—hence their
personal slang—bitter denunciation of
active free soil men, and: malignant"
oar on all persons who cannot be
awed into reverence fbr the upper ten,.
who arc vain enough to think - that'
everything said against a c,slaveholders,
and pro-slavery men, nitsaits e m. So
long as the party is controlled by such
men, it. will have rio principles, and
make no progress. To the mass of
the party, who desire to vote so as to
accomplish some purpose, we corn-.
mend the following.resolutions, 'adopt
ed by the old line . .democrats of Wells-.
born. Were' we in Tioga \v i e should
•
zealously cooperate with all persons
who, would faithfidly live tilt to the
spirit of these resolutions, and we ask
all 'persons in this county, who mean
anything when they talk against Ne
braska; how they expect to resist the
aggressions of slavery! Please to tell
us if there is any other way than that
Suggested by the Wellsboro' Demo
crats, in the following truly republican
resolutions. Read this last one twice:
&Merit; Tint the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, so far as it was accomplished
by Southern votes, was a breach of faith ; and,
so far as it was accomplished by the influence
of a Northirn President, and :the; vote. of
Northern rdtresentatives, a base betrayal of
.the rights of Northern freemen.
Rtaolred, That as members of the Demo
cratic party we protest against the interpola
tion of the doctrine of slavery extension into
the Democratic creed. That a doctrine so
repugnant to the principles of humanity, mo
rality and religion, so subversive of the rights
of twin, and so dangerous to the perpetuity of
our Government, cannot meet the approval of
the masses of intelligent freemen in the
Northern States.
Respired, That the aggressive. spirit of
slavery can he checked only by a manly and
determined oppositiim on the part of the free
population of the Northern states: That to
this end rigorous efforts should be made to
defeat, at the ballot box, all candidates for
Office, whether County, State or . National,
who are known to favor the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise. That the election of
Northern men to official stations who are
frvorable to southern interest, (Northern men
with southern principles) will be proclaimed
Witte world as a Nebraska victory, and inev
itably lead to the eventual triumph, of the
slave power, and the prostration of the trite
principles of government.
Resoleed, That the President and Secreta
ries of this meeting, be appointed a"committee
to address such of the candidates on the Dem
ocratic state ticket as hive not publicly ex
pressed their views upon this subject, request
-tug their opinions upon the question involved
in the Nebraska and Kansas sill fully and
explicitly,,and that we will not support any
candidate whose answer is not in accordance
with the views here expressed, and who will
not pledge himself to use his utmost influence
to effect are tnactment of tee Missouri Com
promise.
Resolred, That the Hon. G. A. GROW, our
Representative in Congress, in manfully re
sisting, the consummation of' the Nebraska'
iniqui!..y, deserves and receives , our entire
approbation.
Resolved, That the Celia of Freemen, with
out regard to former political attachments, is the
only safety for freedom.
R. G. NVIIITE, President.
E. RLrx►an, Scerectzliis
A. E. NILES,
"Love refuses nothing that love sends."
TER SPE= OF MR. OrtuTrz • the Legislature, some of whit...
Th - eeititech. of Mr. Gillette, the — neW - s z ' itiiiiTy gays they, did pass i and some
ly elected. United States Senator from • of Which*, he also says, they did not
ConnectiCut, on ThurSdaylest; in reply past. Thus arraigning the Legislature
to Mr.- Teucey. the Nebraska Senator of Connecticut before the Senate not
from that State, furnishes us a foretaste only for sins •of commission, but also.
of what we may expect *Om 4he men' .for sins of omission. Now, sir,. I am
.who.are destined henceforth to repre- unable to see the pertinency of these
sent the North in the National Legs; matters to , the i question before us.-:-
.lature. ' . .—• •- < - . I How - the enactment - or non-enactment
Mr.. Toney, it will be recollected, • of good or bad laws by 'the sovereign
in opposition to the positive instruc- 1 authority of. a State can justify its rep
, tions of the legislature of his State, I resentative in disobeying positive in
' had voted for the Nebraska bill ; upon structions to vote against - a bad law,
which the legislature passed a resolu- l here in the Senate, unless it has coma
tion of censure upon him. When this to pass in these latter times that, con
resolution. was laid before the Senate, I trary to the Seriptire, the servant is
Mr: Toucy took. the opportunity to . greeter thanthe master.
justify his refusal to obey the instruc- I • Lam yet to learn whether the Leg
-dons ; . and arraigned the legisla- ' islature of Connecticut is guilty of
ture On the charge of "assailing the wrong doing for enacting such laws, as
constitution of the United States,", in they in their wisdom may think best.
diet. - act for the protection of persons The honorable gentleman has corn--
claimed under the fugitive slave law. istented upon some acts which they did
—La,nrariter Whig. . not enact, and upon some which they
In reply, Mr. Gillette, after some did, among which he gave particular
preliMinary remarks, said : prominence to an act for the def:nse
It May not be unprofitable, -in the of, Liberty. This, in his judgment con
first plate, to enquire-what is the cause filets with the Fugitive Act, fir this
of the disagreement between my lion- safety of which lie is alarmed. Now,
orable,colleag,ue and the State which Sir, I would not do my collegue the
we represent ? WhY has this un- injustice to compare myself Nvith_ hinx
happy difference, to use no stronger in legal science; but 1 have given some.
term, arisen between a sovereign State attention to the law to which he haw
and one of its representatives on this taken exception, since I saw it her ,
floor ? It it one of the bitter fruits of aled through the country as nullifica-•
the last great peace measure which tion, and I have not been able to dis
was to settle all agitation fir all time cover anything in it that needs to er
in the country. It had its origin in ite the apprehension; of the most vigi
the Overthrow of the Missouri Corn- i last sentinel of the
_Fugitive Act. I
promise. This is the pestilence-box i have consulted several eminent cis i
-1 out of which it sprung. I will state I limas in relation to it, all of whom lava
.the facts as briefly as- possible in rela- ; assured me that it conflicts with no
tion to the matter. •The
. prop e sition law of the:United States, and I think
to Violate the puliefilith 5Y the abro- I can safely challenge those who assert
gation of that Cmnpromilie i thus break- 1 to the contrary to :produce the proof.
ing`aown the last'barrier against Slave • But without detainslig the Senate upolt
ry to all. the Territories of the 'United this point, I would here raise the ques-
States and leaving them wide ()Pen to tion whether under the Constitution
its dark inundations, Territories which of. the United States, Connecticut lasi.
had ibeen considered forever free by , not as much right to enact laws for the
what was 'considered at the time to best protection of the rights of her people
a solemn and irrepealable' l :Mimpact-- - C, as South Carolina has to enact laws ,
startled - the good people of Vonnecti-:: fir die destruction of the rights of her
cut from their shindies:: and rallied people ! ' Whether freedom_may not
thesis to the polls at _their late State as %veil be protected tinder the ,
Con
election in April, and the ballot-box • stitutien as well as slatery ? Cannot
I rang out an • 1 . • 'N " This was Connecticut lie indulged a little with
ini ignant . IL
the great issue at that eleetion, rural the pri‘ hog,' of. -protecting the rights
r
nevewas.there a political revolution and liberty of her own people
in any State more co mildew and signal. upon her (own soil, %Olen a part of
It I was, attended with no storm of I. theM at least have no protection er
poptfar excitement. It was conducted cept such as is furnished by prison
with remarkable moderation and calm- walls in certain other States of this
ness—hardly a leaf trembh.l in the Union ? Oh, Mr. President, has it
breeze. It was the natural. spontane- ' conic to this, that we of the North are
oils uprising of the people to avert a all centralized, a bsorbedonelteddown,
• great impending calamity and save su allowed up, consolidated into this
I: theinselvs and their 'country from its great central -usurping government,
' I disastrOus - consequences. Outside, of and . the Northern States are mere rips
- thepale of Goverumental officials:sliesc pinidages,—shorn and rayless sate!-
was hardly a voice of dissent. The re- Sites, to revolve around this.all-absorb
sult, Sir, was what we should natural- in! , center, in borrowed light.. God
ly expect. Both branches of the leg- turbid. s'fo this ntiimentou question,
islature were overwhelmingly opposed Contiecticut, '1 -rejoice to say, trne to
to the odious measure. Sion after her ancient fame, as the vigilant chain-
I convening, early in the month of May, pion of State rights, and mindful of
the subject was brought up and reso- her grand historical eminence as a de-
Macon; presented dtclarints it to be a I fender of liberty, answers No. I feel
. violation of the public faith, destrue- i somewhat as the great friend of Amer
tiVe of mutual confidence, subversive ~ ira and Libsrty felt when giving voice
of the fundaniental .principles of na- to these words -in the British Parlia -
tional justiCeAnd threatmong the sta- ; meat in 1176 : •' 1 rejoice that Amer-l.
' bility of this Government, and they i'• ica has resisted. Three millions of;
instructed their Senators, and earne it- I " people so dead to all the feelings of
ly requested theirsltepresentatives to I "liberty as voluntarily to submit to
Oppose it by all 'honorable means and I " Slavery. would have been fit instill
'to the last extremity. The'se resolu-,I " meats to make slaves 'of the rest." -
firms passed the - House by a vote of Ido rejoice that in the great conflict
nearly three to one; and in the Senate i between democracy and despotism,
With only a single neigal'ive. I submit ni)w begun in good earnest, Connecti
to the consideration of honorable Sen- cut has been so prompt to take her
ators whether there was ever a fairer, pOsition on the side of Freedom. and ,
fuller, more explicit and authoritative : to call upon us to restore this-govern
expression of the. popular sentiment ; neat to the - old foundation on which.
I of any State anywhere, at any time, on 1 her Ellsworthand -Sherman were so
any question. The . legislature six- - I active in establishing it, and - separate
pressed the sentiments of the people of ' it from Slavery at once arid finever.
Connecticut on that momentous ques- i She had done with all comprprnises,
I the'. There was hardly a discordant I with the perfidious violators and
echo from any quarter of the State.— i haughty contemners of the public faith.
; These re aolutions were duly forwarded and now says, return tic the early pol
-Ito Congress. The dreaded bill soon I icy of this Government, that
--of dis
came from the I louse with an amend- : couraging,. restricting and discounte
-1 malt for the final arti_on of the Senate, I mincing Slavery everywhere, under itsi
and what did my honorable colleague? 1 jurisdiction. She calls upon us to dis-
It is known to the Senate and the coon- i card the vile and contemptible. dogma
I try—on the memorable night of the I thatishe Constitution of the — Fluted
Ifinal vote, a few moments before the States is a shield of Slavery or anywise
1 qusstiim was put—he arose in his soft : countenances that most cruel and ter
-1 with characteristic deliheration, and I rifle despotism-that has ever crushed
informed the Senate that he was under r hunianity. . A despotism which denies
instructions to vote agbilist the WI, the natural right of a man to his own
'but lie had deserinined to disobey the , body, a husband to hi; own wife, of a
instructions of an Abolition \'hie father to his own child ; which sells
Legislature, and vote for the bill—a husband, wife and child separate or
beautiful exposition of the doctrine of I together in the market place ; which
popular sovereignty, by one of its dis- I asserts chattlo Slavery to be a Divine
linguished advocates. Hardly had the I and Democratic institution, and so
last word for popular , sovereignty. hill avows its purpose indefinitely to cis-
Kansas and Nebraska died away upon . tend and forever to perpetuate the ter
his lips, before lie arises in the Senate I rifle curse. I thank God, Sir, Con-
I chamber, scouts tile, popular sorer- I neeticut is washing hands from this
i eignty of hiS own State as an Aboli- I bloOd, and calls upon 'us in her old
1 tion \Vhig sovereignty, and assumes' voice of freedom, to cleanse' this Go
autocratic povereignty in opposition 1 vernment from its guilty, praticipation
and•defiance of the popular sovereign- in the 'diabolical Work of enslaving
ty. 'This is a simple and unvarnished and imbruting man. She invokes us to
statement of the case. Never was disabuse the
. Constitution of the ,mis
a: fuller, - fairer, more explicit, authora- erable dogmas which slaveholders have
tive expression of the poular will; and foisted into it. toserve their own nefa-
I leave it fof others to say whether rious purPoses, and to restore it to the
there ever was a more audacious and original construction in' which. its
contemptuous violation of public sen- illustrious framers conceived and es
thnent. In regard to the good old tablishecl it, not 90 much as admitting
Democratic doctrine of the obligation into it;tccording to Madison, Sher
of the representivb to obey the will of I man asd oti:ers, the blasphemous idea
his consumer's, I have nothing. to say. I that man Can hold 'property in man.
I leave- the Honorable Senator with- She in•v•ike3 us to return to the origi-
Jefferson andl4constituents: But ply 1 nal policy of th? Governrnent, inaugu
honorabre colleague' has seen fit to, ratvd by Jefferson, andinterdict Slave
take sanctuary in certain other acts Of I , ry on every rod of territory under its
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