The weekly independent. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss) 1848-1853, 1849-12-01
Territorial PupiIage.

1.-The controversy about the Wimot Provi-
so passes away, X the purpose of the Whnot
Provlso is about to be accomplished in man
ner more summary--by the admission Of Cal
iiornia into the Union as a non-slavehoIliur
State. This is contrary to usage, contrary to
political Justice, and an insult and an outrage
to the feelings and dearest interests of the
South. She should at once take an emphatic
and positive stand against it.
If California had g0Rc H5opqh The c1tStouarv
territorial pupHage, if her Constitution nrjtcrs
wsre really bona iide settlers there, and not
hordes Of rowing advcnurers, and many of
mem alitns. and i he cgRatry hut been ScLlcd
ruin fWt Hse"yunce IL the SouH tint its DroDerty
'rontd fnh i frotction there far series of gclos
---il under these Circumstances California was
applying for admission as y uuu-sluyelloltlinq
state, we should say admit her"
The Yazuo Democrat from which we
quote the above article, is. an able Cass
journal, and an advocate of the favorite
doctrine Of Neutrality-suspicious. It's eulogies
upon Cass, and upon his fidelity to southern
interests, have neither been few nor coId.--
Its endorsement of his views was poutedo
full and open. According TO the doctrine
o! the Nicholson and Richie letters Of Gen,
Cass, and the 'Ioll-intervcntion platform,
no Territorial! rupila"e' in fact was needed.
'Pnnilage' implies guidance, projections,
obedience TO authority, submission to rule
The Cass-democratic theory is that the peo-
pie OF the territories need no such hclp.-
They can stand erect without aid. They
are able to instruct, manage. govern them
selves. "Ihe people Of the territories.
(sald Cass in July last, in letter which
the Yazoo Democrat styled "iiollc and pa
triotlc, and worthy Of the Democratic
cauSe,") are fully competent to conduct
their own affairs, and the very first princi-
pie OF our social system demands that they
should be permitted to Ito SOP There is no
man who can show the slightest necessity
Tor this interference on the part of the ccn-
":al government" In a previous letter.
Cass had declared that the people inhabit-
ing the territories were as capable of regu-
latlng their int NAL concerns in their own
way, as the people of the states.
SO again as to the protection of the prop
erty Of the South. In order to mount a
platform on which the frce-soiler and slave
holder can stand side hy side, the non.
Intervention doctrine conceded that Com
2ress could not interfere in any way in re-
lation to the subject, that it must abstain
from all Legislation &c. The denial to Con-
gress OF the right to protect slave property
by leg isiation, of itself prevents those ''full
assurances" which now, (orsooth, the va
200 Democrat deems 50 Indispensable
However fully in the opinion of the whole
south the Constitution recognizes and
guarantees slavery, action by the general
government is required 10 render available
and operative those guarantees. If such
action is unconstitutional, how ever can
the south have full assurances for the pro-
lection of its propertyp
Then again, who are they that have so
loudly proclaimed that slavery could not
possibly be 'rc-cstabliyhedn in New Mexi.
co and California ! Who have thus pre-
vented the South receiving full assurances
of the full protection of her property p
The very leaders whom the Democrat has
praised up as truest among the true. Cass
and Polk, the magnates of the party, its
model Presidents and noble candidates.
All this the Yazoo Democrat must have
seen and known; and yet now when non
intervention has done its work-when
under this Cass and Richie theory, terrific
rial pupilage has become obsolete, and the
inhabitants of the territory are left to exer-
else the mature powers of LEGISLATION
when, checked by the admissions of demo
cratic leaders, the South has felt afraid to
carry slave property to the territories
when the inhabitants of those regions have
regulated their own internal concerns, aud
carried out the recorded prophecies Of Cass
aud Polk-then in truth the organs Of the