Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House incidents, war reminiscences, etc. . of a Buchan-an man. You will judge if there is any force in it. WHAT IS POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY. Popular sovereignty! everlasting popular sovereignty!Let us for a moment inquire into the vast matter of pop-ular soverignty. What is popular sovereignty? We rec-ollect that in an early period in the history of this strug-gle, there was another name for the same thing—Squat-fer Sovereignty. It was not exactly Popular Sovereigntybut Squatter Sovereignty. DEBA
Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House incidents, war reminiscences, etc. . of a Buchan-an man. You will judge if there is any force in it. WHAT IS POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY. Popular sovereignty! everlasting popular sovereignty!Let us for a moment inquire into the vast matter of pop-ular soverignty. What is popular sovereignty? We rec-ollect that in an early period in the history of this strug-gle, there was another name for the same thing—Squat-fer Sovereignty. It was not exactly Popular Sovereigntybut Squatter Sovereignty. DEBATE WITH DOUGLAS. 365 What do those terms mean? What do those termsmean when used now? And vast credit is taken by our friend, the Judge, in re-gard to his support of it, when he declares the last yearsot his life have been and all the future years shall be de-voted to this matter of popular soverignty. What is it?Why it is the sovereignty of the people! What was squat-ter sovereignty? I suppose if it had any significance atall it was the right of the people to govern themselves, tobe sovereign in their own affairs while they had squatted. THE SQUATTER S HOME. on a Territory that did not belong to them, in the sensethat a State belongs to the people who inhabit it—whenit belonged to the nation—such right to govern them-selves was called Squatter Sovereignty. Now I wish you to mark. What has become of thatSquatter Sovereignty? What has become of it? Canyou get anybody to tell you now that the people of aTerritory have any authority to govern themselves in re-gard to this mooted question of slavery, before they forma State Constitution? No such thing at all, although there is a general run-ning fire, and although there has been a hurrah made inevery speech on that side, assuming that policy had giv- 366 Lincolns stories and speeches. en the people of the Territory a right to govern them-selves upon this question; yet the point is dodged. To-day it has been decided—no more
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