Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-10-04
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS

SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The Inteiligsneer wonders why 1t IL that
the people Of the South, without distinction of
party, are so hostile to the anti-N ebraska po-
sitiens of the recent New York State Wing
Convention, which, according to our neighbor,
involve only hostility to squatter sovereignty
The South is, Of course, hostile to squatter
sovereignty in the offensive sense Of the term.
and, we trust, ever will be- That is, as
exercised by the handful of adventurers
who, under General Riley's auspices, as.
sumed the right to make a constitution for
California which involved an abrogation of
the eOequal rights of the South there, aad the
assumption of the property rights of the citi .
lens of all the States by these adventures
neither warranted by justice nor law But
the IntslifgsneeT Is committing a grave mis-
take; the South is not so deficient Of brains
as lot to be able to comprehend the fact that
the late Syracuse Convention and Its candi-
dates are as thoroughly Abolitionized, in all
ie<Peets, as Lloyd Garrison and Fred Douglass
themselves. The HuisHigeneer also applauds
the people Of Cumberland County, Va, for
resolving to purchase Of Virginia importing
merchants only as far as possible, and other
wise to patronize home.
The Union defends General Cass from the
structures of the Richmond Enquirer, and
quotes the Detroit Free Press to the same end
That journal says:
Gen. Cass had the temerity, in his remarks
before the State convention, to say that he did
not regard slavery with favor that he was
thankful that he lived in free State; that it
was not strange that Northern sentiment was
opposed to slavery; that the Nebraska Kan sas
&C: did not open those Territories to slavery,
but lett the people thereof at liberty to estab-
hsh 1t or reject It, as they saw fit, &C., &c He
said n effect, at the same time that it was the
duty of the people of the North to perform all
their obligations to the people Of the South in
respect 10 slavery; that it was an institution
that the people Of every State In the Union
could establish or abolish at their pleasure
without asking the assent of Congress or of
any other State. He, in short, took the same
view OF the whole subject that be has time and
again taken IN the senate-the view tn at every
enlightened statesman and every sensible man
IN the Union takes"
On these remarks of the Free Prs, the
Cnion says
.'' In tbs remarks of General Cas- on the
subject Of slavery we recognise the sentiments
ente tanned by all northern men. As is we'll
remarked by the Free Press the sentiments of
General Cass are those entertained by Doug
las, Toucey, Bright, and Dodge; and if Gen
Csss IL to be denounced for their uttersncs.
tton are they, too, subject to the same strio
lures Such course amounts to a repudia.
ton OF all northern men as unsound and un-
reliable on the slavery question Such is not
tne southern conservative sentiment. The
South wants northern men to stand by its in
situations as they are guaranteed and pro-
tected by the constitution. This General Cas-
did IN the very speech so severely criticised.
hether he looks with favor or disfayor on
slavery Is matter Of minor moment to south
srn men 30 long as he lends the weight of his
great name to the mainten snce of their con-
stitutionsl rights against the aggressions and
assaults of abolitiOnism. He has been the
great champion of the doctrine of nom in: or
venton, which the South claimed as its pecu
liar position Instead of censure, he has en-
titled himself to the gratitude of all nationa al
men, whether at the North OF the South
Whether he il repaid for his patriotic services
with censure or gratitude, he will not falter
or stop short in his devotion to the Union
whose permanency he so heartily seeks to Sc
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