Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-04-01
MILY vIRGINIAN.
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epiaion that DoueLAs BILL was proposition Il
favor Of freedom. and added that, if il should
pass. although VIC might absorb the whole o
Mexico nof another Stare Stale ~o"id erer eom'
into sle Union" Mr.. c. has been induced Il
write second letter, addressed TO the President
qualifying unilnpo-tant portions Of his first let
ter. but leaving the expressions most otlect'"na-
BILE to the South precisely as he reported them
before. Here is the letter rsr.sz.af
WASHINGTON. March 81 1854.
Dear Sir You have called my attenifun to n
late letter of mine to n. Dasis j., Esq and
particularly to the following sentence
..He expressed great surprise At the opposition
Il met with from the North, aud equal surprise
that the South should be wiling to TAXI il
At the time tne conversation !" when that
s.nteuce nIludes took place. was walking back.
wards and forwards across the room. aud should
not have noticed il if YOU had moi remarked thni
Won had no eonceahnents upon the subject, aud
that YOU were : lad was present |" hear IT.
In INV letter to Mr.. Davis did not pretend =,
give your language, except where quotation
marks are used and, from subsequent converse.
ton with YOU ! think ii very probable that
misunderstood the purpart 81 yonf Fon,sik upon
This mari cular point. 1onr surprise may have
been expressed that the frue nlen 81 the North
should hesitate 10 vote for Douglas bill when
the South were willing IA take i and. If ! had
not such would have been the impression of my
mind.
| have never sought conversation with you +
upon the subject of the Nebraska bill; but every T
time have heard YOU menrion the subject you /
have uniformly expressed yourself warmly IN Ia I
vor Of tie principle Of the bill viz; the principe
of the right Of the people of the Territories 10
regulate the question Of slavery far Themselves
IA doctrine from which | dissenfed; and, "a !
knew we were not at all likely to agree, | sought
no discussion 81 thu question.
70. have assured me always that you thought
Il hest for tie whole country. and insisted hat
patriofie men N both sections ought to iake it,
! thought the south must be the loser think
- nov understand yoH 10 place it upon the
ground that the principle is right in Itself, and 1t
il works for OF against particular section, no
one has right 20 complain tat you we're Tor
the rights Of both sections and willing to take
any consequences that might follow the praiical
carrying out Of ihVse rgh.s N You understood
them.
Very truly. yours, JiIE. CLEMENS.
GEN FRANK. PIERCE, President L. States.
In his first letter. Mr. CLEMENS spoke of the
difference between himself and the President
relative TO 'the right of the people Of the terri
tories to regulate the question Of slavery Tor
themselve.'-eyidenty designing 10 state That the
President had declared himself in fhyor Of the
obnoxious doctrine Of ''sqaatter sorereigntg -
In his second letter il will be poreeivedh he makes
no disclaimer or explanation on this point-nor
Of the Presidents decided opinion that the bill
i q prnposition in favor of freedom (meaning OF
conrse 6eeson,) and that under il not another /
sIars state teouid euer come into The tnion--
but he confines his explanation. This attention
having been particularly called TO that by the
Prerident,) TO the surprize expressed by Gen.
Pierce. that the North should oppose the bill and
the south accept it.
II stands ayowed, then, that the President is
an advocate of that political heresy, repudiatcd
with one voice by all parties in the South known
as ''sguatter sopereignty." As II 10 place the
matter beyond the possibility of doubt or eavi
the Presidents organ at Washington proclaims
that 1.-THE publication OF Col. Clemens two let
tiers will render il impossible hereafter for my
man honestly to misunderstood the position #
President Pierce" Indeed think 1t is
Numerically plain, { at the man chosen and honor
ed for his reputed fidelity 10 southern interests
is the friend Of system that, il reduced 10 prac
tice and submitted 10. would un6. ma, her IN
situations. rob her Of her usi elts, destroy her
equality under The constitution, PROSTATE. de
grade and ruin her.
BY consent of all, this dscirnc of squa,ter
Sovereignty las been held, in the South, more
dangerous and insuflerable, because more insi Ii
OUT, than the Wilmot Provi>o. The latter was
open. positive and direct in its provisions aud oh
jects, and could be conirontc and resisted at
the threshold. When the misshapen monster
was throttled there-there ii was stranged and
there buried but the subtle and insnuating
reptile that, under the false name of "pop-
ular sovereignty" diffuses its yirulent breath
into system, is an enemy against which
there will be 10 defence, il once ii be given lib
erty.
In all seriousness and solenniie, call upon
the friends of the administration in Virginia TO
give their heed to these ayowals of Mr.. CLEMENS.
BY a deliberate resolution, passed unanimously
at the tb,ir State Convention in AZ or o, they
stand pi, dyed 80 resist the perilous doctrine
of "sque ter aoyereignty." Will they now sit
silently / aad b, ar it proclaimed by their great
Official AID party headl VIII they allow the
forged stamp of this Interpretation to be putupon
that bill by the President, in signing il, as il was
by Gen. Cass in the Senate, in voting upon 1t
Will they turn their backs upon their sol
emn and plighted declarations of faith, and be-
tray the rights and interests of the South, to
tain President whose trustworthness was more
than doubtful, even before these fatal disclos-
uresl
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cross the Blue Ridge, experimental, and the