Remarks of the Hon Stephen a Douglas On Kansas Utah And the Dred Scott Decisi
Remarks of the Hon Stephen a Douglas On Kansas Utah And the Dred Scott Decisi
Stephen Arnold Douglas
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Hence the great principle of popular sov- ereignty and self-government is sustained and firmly established by the authority of this decision. Thus it appears that the only sin involved in the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska act, consists in the fact that it removed from the statute book an act of Congress, which was unauthorized by the constitution of the United States, and void because passed without constitutional authority, and substituted in lieu of it that great, fundamental principle of se...lf-government, which recognizes the right of the people of each State and Territory to form and regulate their domestic institutions and internal affairs to suit themselves, in accordance with the constitution. [Applause, ] The wisdom and propriety of the measure have been sustained by the decision of the highest judicial tri- bunal on earth, and ratified and approved by the voice of the American people, in the election of James Buchanan to the Presidency of the United States, upon that naked and distinct issue.
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