Fond Du Lac Weekly Commonwealth (Newspaper) - October 17, 1860, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin in 5 per annum I'M -o tonal by dollar a line Strays published four for head tin not by Britten HOOKS IO 1 rut ride Court House Fond i I Va anil promptly made to order as and work p It Win Warner Cor Main anil Office with Attorney at P at Law of the North-Wl-rt Jii to Dr on door east ol Lewis Cm C C Ill 31 J nearly opposite the on Vorest tf It COLE Practical Dentist Block up Attorney at ilu first Bool O A PRIEST Attorneys at over Gillett at Law adil Food lit Lac Wisconsin struct corner IKY H Office over Millinery Store Olie old of j organization of the Free done than any other mnu thai rn what merit is Y Old Stand Ko 2 Block to manner from the uly icas in Institute Ntw Other in the Northern states Large f of to Kansas every will oe but j ratify your nominations as I as you do In the nomination they see tbe j guarantee ii glorious victory in ing farina anil industrious spring up under of the free state men Do you remember often Judge las emptied the rials of his frath and i dp not expect me to i cast denunciations ripon the heads of free ion be Riven tic about Stale affairs I will labor immigration And mark well that was anti-slavery A Legislature id set dp by a band of in Teeth Wash and in all Goods usually kept in Stores Fond du Lac Fire and Insurance lowest by T S Wright tho-- NIAGARA Of New YorK City nnd Phenix Insurance Co Brooklyn ST Y T I E S ami at your to tional topics I sale at The Safe made T for Northern Proprietors brg leave 1 and thu generally t L to manufacture FOR AND SAW MILLS additions to j fully prepared tb execute all their line anil of known mid the italo your I hope you will beur with me A stand it threa hours In a contest of great principles like that which is now country I am to discuss the al qualities of but individual merits of a man are set up as his tp the highest and most in the Republic it is natural that we should feel obliged to j examine his history character with more than ordinary care It is a notorious fact that the friends of Northern States solicit ho vote of people on the ground has done more for the of TM'Htbries and that he is n truer champion of labor and besides a than living Thus a personal issue is urged upon us and -ive are ready to This be tlie subject of remarks to-night I not transgress the StocK ol its of but I am to call things by their right it that entitles J Douglas to the high-sounding appellation the of or greatest living statesman Is it his past career or is it his present You can survey the history of this champion of freedom at a glance The Judge has his northern mnn lias not But there is hardly a prominent man in political life who has taken more pains than he to tar apologize for his anti-slavery So we may drop this subject lawless set up by the most atrocious of the set up in defiance of all the rules of constitutional government that Legislature adopts the slave code of the laws of and adds to them laws so outrageous in their ture that even northern democrats ed opprobrium Do you re- member that Judge Douglas recognized that Legislature although ita criminal igin was manifest to all as the highest authority of the Territory and the laws enacted by although known to be the of fraud and violence as the valid laws of denounced every one who ould not a rebel and a nd mark well that Legislature and lose laws were The free ate settlers of evidently a irgo majority of the inhabitants po to ork and frame a That was gotten up in a way more irregular than tho Constitutions f many States It was submitted to a of the people and adopted large So it presented to is TO 1 at li of Baptist and Korest s oiu stand Street du Retail Oyster at all Fresh Lan at win in thi TJ u n to the of v had 15 years ISili ho Hopes for and patronise ce of Second of Brass anil Topper WHITE JOIK all been IS more instructive Tn 1620 tho Missouri Compromise was framed as a compact thr two sections of By virtue o that Compromise was as a slave state and Arkansas as a and thus the free North as oui party to the contract paid down its price for the slavery prohibition north of thirty minutes Wa Mr Douglas ever heard to express doubt as to constitutionality of th E Ei TT T Mann IS BOOTS SHOES ASD Missouri Compromise so long ns it served to augment the number of slave states It to him as to all others a eacre and inviolable sacred an inviolable ns the Constitution itself an the that dare to brcaS it down after tl Mexican war the territories acquired fo this Union were to be organized wa among the foremost who the extension of the Do you remember that Judge re no too ile to use it against that Constitution nd that he stigmatized those ramed it as traitors who must be struck And mark well that ion the choice of the people of Kansas was Anti-Slavery What a series of wonderful s i So fur whatever was calculated ti slavery in Kansas Judge Doug as was suro to approve whatever wa calculated to serve tho cause of free la Douglas was sure to denounce I must not forget that he brought for- ward reasons for his acts than the of Ah indeed Is it a man of ability who to do a mean act should have wit to disguise his plausibilities with these coincidences anil will with me come to the conclusion of Free if helping prevent its at In tpite hirr that consummation 13 become Look at he Nebraska friend ru to the of Territorial Liberty fire are work the Republican Douglas with a le irater throws it into bo swella himself up rid claims to hare the peor pf aa the true champion of freedom And this te had the to dp had not as is known o all of ua the indignant threats of the overawed him faa I never to question He which actuated in the lecompton struggle had not the aota which preceded it his honesty those it all belief in the sincerity of bis If yoti obliged to confess it is exceedingly lard tb On the strength of this he in carrying his point in Illinois not indeed by majority for that was against him bat by an old dering apportionment It was ona of those lugubrious victories which a narrow escape from total annihilation But his seat is regained and now he throws a wistful eye upon scat and at once that the cratic to the White House loads through tho slaveholding states So he turns his face southward without delay and sets out on a trip down the pi He is nt once making a few remarks here and there to gatherings Suddenly we find the man who Had tried to delude of Illinois the belief that under the Kansas and the people had a right to exclude slavery in the South busily apologizing for it and now behold the old wielding the on of sophistry with unblushing boldness and endeavoring to make liis doctrine oi Popular Sovereignty palatable to the Southern stomach The the Popular doctrine is one Uf the most in- chapters in the history of days It shows bow easily the popular can be by plausibility and how easily correct ciples are lost sight of in the confused struggle of interests and aspirations will scrutinize with rious tho history of our have means to introduce or as they for the reason that slavery a hour unless it is v police only bo the ture and if the slavery they will that who will by prevent introduction their ing the decision to the following in accordance true of intp a unless the people dice it by luiw that the have the right to exclude it by a di- act of that hey may annoy and lolder in thp of his erty so as1 to if ho tun years maii jad call this the people liive of serious mental Is not really this kind of Popular according to Mr Lincoln's striking il- thin as soup that waa made by tho of a pigeon that had been It seein tp it any thinner and yet Mr undertakes task After having tried to delude the voters into the belief that consistently with his position the people of a Territory may ia home way Bravery this trae of goes and proves there that Slavery has a legal existence in the We find him same man who at had told tho people of Illinois that it mattered not the Supremo Court might decide as to the ab- stract question whether Slavery may or may not go into a Territory same man spoaks to the people of Louisiana as i I in common with the Democracy oJ Illinois decision of the Court of caab ol Dred Scott as an authoritative tion of the Constitution In accordance with that decision that Slaves are property and an equal footing with property the the slave has tlie same right to move into a Territory arid carry his slave property with him owner of any other erty has to go there carry his ty If there could bo any misunderstanding as to tho meaning of this sentence ho lias removed of it by nn ex- pression he in in tho Senate on to tho Dred Scott decision being property stand on an equal of Which Judge 1 AVe hear no longer of of tbo Territory own of j restriction Legislation The what are those rest may bo the SUpremo remind you of Mr whenever thp question was put of erty in slavos Territorial Govern reply to the question for answer was the Scott decision Wo are now finally Supreme Court of the United What will ready finally that Government cannot impair the right of property iu but has coupled tho and guard the owner in his tiona which be finally de- knows what they be But las i's bound to ness and fidelity So it turns out that fastens Slavery more upon a is such than it ened upon South The people of South their ever they see fit The Kansas in territorial condition cannot pie of South Carolina have dent in a message u or -y fire nil paid sewed to not of When could pr slavery be voted up or D B A t r r i s 0 0 T S A a D S H T TUB OLD STAND OK 3 H 1C OB TB E ST the v THE SHORTEST ie really was au to slavery lis than a good Christian ought to do Bat we will be just to him Now wo arrive a period in his history in which he seems to have acquired some title to the his countrymen We are so little to see that kind of statesman tto a- fair thing that our prise is stimulate I allude to the position by Judge Douglas in the struggle ton Constitution A packed Convention lias framed it Constitution fastening ery upon Kansas Hud refusing to submit t tn n of the people Tbe the admission of tinder that with the Republicans measure not indeed he ia op- to lie solemnly does not days and wonder at She cess of so transparent a fraud Permit aio a brief digression Popular Sovereignty in ilie true of the term means tho sovereignty of all individuals so regulated by law as tect the rights and liberties of any one against the encroachments of any other and so organized By political institutions as to give a common to the col- will Its basis is the ity of the rights of all men Its natural is tho protection of all individuals in the exercise of their rights and in tho en- of Honoe it pre- cludes the idea of slavery in all its forms Apply this true Popular tho territories and we are willing to it is the very which are contending But is this what Douglas in the Nebraska By no means His Popular the place old stand of I iroD ha other Procure them at the Registers Office ONLY which to by the Register f d Force Pumps ror Cisterns the best pimp will work In OF ANY DEPTH I Aud TO FREEZE Are B in Court tl to o du I ot lo shores But now the inie arrives when are to up under the guaranties f same Missouri A new dawns Ho in the and the of the scuri line can no longer bo pled from because the exclusion f slavery rery condition as a slave without if pr the country nail of factory eil Jo Lac l US has just her M oi Millinery Consisting ot Flowers soun was it war witli principles ol who had nV ruthless fue that m and for tlie aid of his seems to rise 15 absurdity d tc detract the credit he gained by his attitude on that occasion if the facts which and followed were not of so un- a as to open our eyes to the of circum- which made it almost impossible for him to act otherwise And here again we notice a series ot most striking coincidences It so hap that just about tbe timo when the Sho NEWS THE subscriber announce to tho the in particular hD of ew for the towns of torost Calumet du antl that he intends to on for at his Shop on Labor the insult tl bollow which 53 nr linx cr T Haifa nifty Wo a- time re- ten to A 1 WK S PATENT ALL FAIRBANKS GREENLEAF 35 Chicago e careful the for Casb ST OK C L O T H 1 N G at nry Low Prices EEC H T TAILOR yie P OO FOND uc rom of the on Sunda Sept 9th 1800 one mare old anil one dark colored co nh in pood condition Any person or bo Mats Bead ets for the Hair Id also rail CLOAK DEPARTMENT just the Styles loSu of Spr call ACRES OF CHOICE UCl freedom How wonderful a it time lie proposed the sion of lino to the he was either convinced of the that compromise or he ivas not If he was how he propose the extension and perpetuation of a measure a crime against the Lecompton w DouMas term as a United States Senator was before Congress upon the assumption that one class of men lias tho tbe strip another natural rights and to bold them as slaves For argument's Sake let us follow him in his course of reasoning and suppos he white population of the territories hn he to hold a portion of the ants E's property So we have to lown he standard of Popular Sovereignty legree Listen to language of th Kansas and It is the trao intent and moaning o tins act not W legislate slavery into an State or Territory uor to exclude i therefrom but to leave the people there of perfectly free and regulate their in their own subject only to the Constitution of tlie United first one would gave at the Territories eign right to slavery provided always that slavery could not go there unless introduced by a positive act of legislation Is that what las principle df Popular Sovereignty By no with all other kinds of property id there is just much obligation on part ot the Territorial to slaves as every of to protect horses attle and liquors And mark welU Judge Douglas Sever the There is Douglas le candidate for the of pis who doe's not care what way the reme Court may decide and here is for the ho declares the decision of tho Supreme to be authoritative iou nf the What then did the Court in e Dred Scott case Let me he the Constitution of tho recognizes as property v The Constitution of the U the Federal Government to That Congress therefore a citizen of the U.S taking with hin slaves when he moves Territory in to reside is an act of authority over the private which is thus warranted by the While it may legislate over it within the scope its Constitutional to of the U Snd may establish a Territorial Government sud form o tho local government must bo by the of Congress but powers noK exceeding those which Con gress the is author exercise over the citizens of the U S tho discourage slavery bj tion the people of guard and protect the in: hia rights laws eral government haa 110 power to fere in SRS dares to disregard this if he should become United States would stand enforce that and And pf freed sneak behind the judicial Supreme Court and murderer of Banquo tell you I did say he The character of his doctrine was determined by the question whether slave as could be before there by a positive net Territorial If this question was the affirmative the doctrine that slavery is the creature of local abandoned It slavery could in a Territory without being by ocal it by a higher aw than local and that no other thun the convictions hushed into silence Or if ho by was how did it ho became suddenly the Senate of his assuming a For ab- him a slaveholder may duce his slave property and thereby in- and establish slavery in n ry without that positive act of territorial legislation have therefore to lower tho ard of Popular Sovereignty another de- must ty tho j that comr convinced of that very that the preservation and execution of that compromise have the interests of free How did it happen that his convictions in all their prompt ncd wonderful tions always coincided so admirably with 1 his s indeed a most astonishing coincidence and I leave it to your sagacity to draw year conclusions But Douglas is still the true was about He knew well that his popularity at home rested the pop belief that he really did work for the of free labor How stupid mus the man have been not to see that with the Lecompton Constitution it would have beer impossible to keep up the de- lusion So ho assumed tbe mask of an of popular rights coquetted with the Republicans so as to disarm their opposition arid went before of Illinois as a candidate for to slavery at so being admitted at the of he Territory at least reign right to remove and exclude it by i positive act of s that what Douglas's principle ot Poplar Sovereignty Ho told you at first that tWs UL right it I can show that he threw it oft as his object was gained Review his acts in connection with the Kansas struggle free labor had for their fierce war about fortunate territory with doubtful champion of free for it is asse v first ed Nebraska san which breaks down tbe barriers to will by that operation free labor into the The thing is speedily brought to a tical test sooner is the Vaid cow may be u the restriction struck down than Emigrant Aid Societies to the U of Byron spotted white and bundle owner proT II Wanted Aer Now at last no sane man could my longer close his eyes against the fact that when the outrage was perpetrated tbe free state men bered their opponents almost ten to one Their be delayed but was no longer doubtful How bad Douglas acted so long as slavery had a ouauce to gain the preponderance Need I remind yea of the unwavering solicitude with which he defended the Border of the fierceness ed the state immigration of the with which he upheld tbo Border Ruffian code of laws of the promptness with which he put his foot the expressed free state his brutal cynic sneers at the agonies of a Was of the Border the enactment of the horde in the slave states for tlie purpose in- slavery into Kansas The the former and 1 was a question to be decided by tbo Court then told you that the sovereignty of a Territory remains in suspended in tho United States n trust for the people until they shall be admitted into the Union and at last after the Illinois campaign he dropped Expression excluding altogether It is significant that the attempts of the people of Nebraska and Kansas to exclude slavery by law were promptly put down by the vetoes of the Governor's of those toes exercised virtue ot the powers conferred on the Territorial Governments by Douglas own Thus we have two great from the true of Popular Sovereign ty without Reached Judge Doug IBS great principle and will that the true Popular has al If needs any elucidation I may nish it by quoting a sentences from the decision No word the tion which more power over slave property or entitles property of that kind tb loss erty other the only conferred is the e duty of guarding and protecting the This then is what Douglas interpretation of and what i for not is ust obligation on tKe part of tho to y in slaves as there is to protect r species of Well but wha his great principle of ar Sovereignty 7 What of that called unfriendly according to he Dred Scott which Douglas acknowledges the authoritative in- confer lower which itself does The only power it in slave be rom bya of whether direct or rect and Douglas need any his They tho logical offspring of- his own position ho that lie did dom was cither es or he was not If lie wail ble of- gross is to the charge of deliberate irf tlie cause covered with hypocrisy yon your not sagacity or are cases principle of Popular iii Cleaving lie free arid iitc own institutions if ever a was Is of the pour into ot tee m and control the and Did A Ir Ruffian code of laws a less lotion of popular rights ton t How could ha uphold the former and claim any credit or op- posing the latter Here is another most wonderful long as slavery had a chance in Kansas Douglas stood sida of slavery But no victory of freedom sure ready disappeared long ago But let n an vo sooner tor a word of reproach or Ia3 was sure to stand upon the u- in tory revoking hypocrisy it is chx'jnjiion en Slavery the strip the people of every right to it popular tha out iribs H not want here Bat we to such frands it truly so thousands liave to be It ia i of be in practice i is or guarding -W.bat a terrible tno in apii mt last is coupled with tho duty to-do so Hence tho only power can upon thp Territorial Government in relation to slave property is the coupled with the duty of and protesting the owner in his rights Thus we are obliged to lower the ard of Popular still another in reach great not eren in- the right of to out bi a Territory the duty acts protection o Slavery but by no means Thc people of new a- ty still another degree and may hop the we ma position At assumed power to Court may hereafter decide as to the ab- not a particle of turtle TV TO Lfl whether in tb tract not go into a Territory habit of a little about the to the v people liis h Douglas
