Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-04-18
From Charleston Courier
FSIDENT PIERCE AND THE NE
BRASKA BILL.

sSrS. EdH0rs:-The opinions of President
Pie, on the character and probable effects OF
: the ebraska Bill, are subject naturally OF
gu interest Ex-senator Clemens, of Ala.
o IN, has recently made, first disclosure OF
tps opinions, and then an explanation or rath.
etaOdtfcatioR of the disclosure the former
pElg Mr.. Pierce in rather an anti-Southern
aeude, and the latter leaving him, to say the
! Ied in very equivocal posture on the subject
III very well known that Mr.. Clemens is op-
3 pos to the measure, as, in his opinion, sane
tiony the doctrine of squatter or territorial
. soVeA Agnty, and also decided in its leaning to-
wardfee-soilism. We entirely dissent from
MI! M Smens but it seems that President
!. FlTcebncurs with him as to the free soil ten
aefy o. the measure, and for that reason ia.
!oI thebill, the very reason that makes it OBJ
Jeeonabe to Mr. Clemens.
y long letter, of the % of February last,
It adtssed to Nicholas Davis, Jr., of Huntsville,
AlsIulz cfcuruIro erJUrIttviy vfvfeIItts ms
, option to the Bill, as recognizing the doc
trinof squatter or territorial sovereignty i. e.,
: ''tb the people of a territory, while it remains
! tcitory, may regulate the subject of slavery
forEemselves' es'-the doctrine of Gen. Cass'
Nieolsen letter, which was repudiated by the
ente South in 1913. The Southern Senators
of tat day, and the deceased Vice President,
! Villain r. King the present Secretary of war,
! Jefrson Davis, and Judge Butler, especially
auteld "that twas a dangerous doctrine, and
peShich as ei.ectually excluded US the South
from the Territories as the Wilmot proviso
itselfn
"Iet me add" SAYS Mr.. Clemens "tEqt such
tstbt opinion note entertained by the President
Of the United States himself But a fe,o dGys
IN D.
and myself he gaUe 1t, as his decided 0DiaioR,
that Doug'as' bill tcas PROPOSITION IN FA-
voR OF FREEDOM and added that, if it should
pass, ALTHOUGH WE MIGHT ABSORB TIE WHOLE
OF MEXICO, NOT ANOTHER SLAVE STATE WOULD
EVER CONE INTO TEE UNION. lie oppressed
great surprise at the opposition it met ,ciJh from
the North, and equal surprise that the South
should be ,elling 10 take It. agreed with him
fully, and could not help recurring to the strata
gem, by which the Greeks effected the destruc-
ion of Troy"
i-Ihis letter bears too strongly the marks Of
. elaboration that its publication had annoyed
+r. Pierce, has had the charity to modify it a
/ tie in form, but not ot or title in substance
reiterating in SO many words that Mr.. Pierce
ID not only, on the particular occasion, refer
d to in the letter to Mr.. Davis, but repeatedly,
oppressed himself warmly in favor of the Bill,
V The PRINCIALE OF THE RIGHT OF THE PEo-
; p OF THE TERRITORIES TO REGULATE THE
QlSTIoN OF SLAVERY N THE TERRITORIBs-a
derine from which dissented, and as knew
weere not at all likely to agree | sought no
diAssion Of the subiect.'
E. Pierce, then, endorses and approves the
Casdoctrine of SqGatter Sovereignty. so ab-
hort to principle, to the Constitution and to
theputh, and makes that the ground Of his
suPIrt Of the Nebraska Bill! We deem this
4 q p.s ar-af so rnrnb Importance that we rive in
full te second letter of Mr.. Clemens, (written
! IN arsver, it would seem, to a complaining let
/ ter ofMr. Pierce, which we should like to see
in prit, so that our readers may give Mr.. p.
lall possible advantage to be derived from it.
In tbs letter the explanation or modification
seems ptirely confined to the alleged express
ion Of fr. Pierces surprise at the willingness
Pf the South to take the bill We should like
% see al explicit statement from Mr.. Pierce OF
lis views on squatter sovereignty. Mr.. Glenn
o's second letter faStens the doctrine on him,
pd he must discaim it Or it will stick On him.
Here follows Senator CLEMENS second letter
| d2lth March, which appeared last week.-Mrs..
BEE Press.
We have no reason to believe that Judge
Duglas caa be claimed for the heresy ofsquat-
! te Sovereignty. which only confirms US in the
ohion that his Bill is not the Grecian Horse
tht Senator Clemens and President Pierce
void make IT, SoUTmRoN.
gentleman finding his servant intoxicated,
saif What! drunk again, Sam? scolded you