Squatter sovereign., 1855-10-09

Northern party. So, also, this miserable
administration expects the South TO forgive
its abandonment Of Cuba, and generously
renew its lease for four years, because il
administers the Fugitive Slave law.
If anything were required to show the
madness and folly of federal government
interference In the local affairs of Terri
tory, we have had it well nigh tragically
exhibited in Kansas. Governor Reeder
encouraged and sustained by all the pow
er and patronage of the federal govern
ment, with the additional aid Of the North
ern Emigration Societies, succeeded under
the guise of friendship and impartiality to-
wards the South in obtaining very mode
rate results for free soilism. Open, def
ant partizanship on the part Of the federal
authorities under Chase. as President, and
Black Douglass, as Governor of Kansas.
would have obtained much less. The
Northern Aid Societies could not have
asked better assistance than the masked
cooperation of Pierce and Reeder. Yet
the ostrich-like discretion. which marks the
diplomacy of the administration, betrayed
the scheme. New England dictation and
federal intermeddling caused Pierce and
Reeder to be absolutely kicked out of the
Territory.
| If we had had a Southern President
and Southern Governor, and no antag-
onistic collision to rouse a hitter sectional
spirit of defiance among the settlers. it is
doubtful If Kansas would not have been a
free State. Men of cool observation know
that popular sovereignty will assert itself
against all official or foreign intermedling.
The natural inclination Of the proud Wes-
tern pioneer is to resist every attempt to
force him, even to the extent Of going cx-
actly opposite to his first intention. Aho-
litionists themselves compare the calm spir.
it in which emancipation was contemnla.
ted in Virginia, the grandmother OF Mis-.
souri-before it became religious politics
to teach negroes that it was their duty &c
rob and murder their masters-with the
irritable disposition that now prevails ovel
the South and Southwest on this subject
AS TO President Pierce, he understands
the American pioneer as little IS he does
the European red republican. In his pet
ty ambition to manage everything, he is
perpetually trying to initiate Louis Napo-
leon.
I give here some extracts from q cores
pondence on the peculiar aspect of African
bondage in our country. which took place
in London, June, 1854, and which was
shown to all the leading ''reds" in the me-
trspolis at that time, meeting their warm
approval.
Extract of my letter addressed "To Lou.
is Kossuth and others, representatives oi
Jeffersonian republicanism IN Europe'':-
"LosDoS, June 2, 1854.
| ask, in Justice to myself and the ques.
ton, that you will correct me if, in recent
statements of mine to friends at home,
have, through any misrepresentation, mis-
tated the views of the republican leader.
in regard to European interference with
American internal affairs.
"From my repeated interviews with you
all, during my stay in London, and oul
close and earnest discussion Of Ill the lead
ing points of your policy, have felt au
thorized to say that it is your deliberate
judgement that such interference was il
opposition to the principle of State right
"a cardinal principle of the Democratic
statesman of Italy, Hungary. France Po
land and Germany. A paper declaring
this was, before being sent to America
expressly shown to Mazzini and was ther
sent to the Louisville Democrat. (Ksn
tucky), and will be found in the March is
sue Of that journal. It states, as the sen
tinent of the European republican leader
in London, that they have faith in Oh.
honor and generosity and justice of the
Southern States, that they will do of them
selves what is right in regard to the slaves
and the better for being lett calm and free
Of irritation from any external influences
'Thc republican statesmen of Europe
: deeply interested In the history of tl,
/ great republic of America, must know tha
the existence of slavery IN the United Sta
ties is an inheritance from the British Gov
ernment, and that il involves at the pres
ent day questions of much greater magni
tude than the simple cash value of tn,
I slaves; and that social and political equal
ity cannot be created by foreign in,erven
ton. But the whole history OF the Unlte'
States, as government and as people
= shows that they have practically zone NOR
than anv other nation for the advancement
ofthe African race. And that IN taking
the lead of every government In the aboli
ton of the slave trade, which was continu
$ ed many years after by the British govern
e ment.
{ ..In the condition of the negroes in th
4 Southern States, who are not as in Italy
. Hungary. France and Poiand-a refine
and civilized people-abased and erushe
by the tyranny of their rules, but benighl