Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-07-09
should like to hear Mr.. Miller on the stump or
through the columns of the Signal, in reply to these
facts and positions But saws Mr. Miller

happiness her prosperity her safety than that which
contained i'll the application of alien Squatter Sovereign
ty over the subject of slavery, to the erritories"
Let us how this is. Mr.. Miller defines "squat-
ter sovereignty" to be the right of abolitionsts.
aliens, and unnaturazed foreigners to "exclude
the property of the Southern slave owner from the
Territories" We assert in reply, and shall proceed
to prove, that such right exists and that if it
does exist in the Kansas-Nebraska act it is also to
be found in the act organizing the Territory of Wash
ington, approved by Mr.. Fillmore! The Kansas.
Nebraska act provides
"That every free white male nhabant above the age of
twentyone years who shall be actual resident of said
Territory and shall the qualifications hereinafter
prescribed shall be entitled to the first election and
shall be eligible to Office within the said Territory but
the of voters and of holding office at all sub
sequent elections shall be such shall be prescribed by
the legislative assembly: Prouided That the right of su
and of holding office shall be exercised only by citizens
OATH their intention to become SUCH ana shall have taken
oath to support the Constitution of the United States
and the provisions OF this act And prouidd FURTHER That
officer soldier marine other in the
and of the United States attached to troops
in the service of the United States shall be allowed to vote
hold office i'll SAID Territory by of being service
therein"
The Washington Territorial act, approved by Mr..
Fillmore, provides
"That every white male nhabitant above the age Of
Territory at the time of the passage of this and shall
The qualifications hereinafter prescribed shall be
of voters and of holding office at ali subsequent elections
semby Pto T That Re of suge and Of hod
ing oce shall be exercised only by citizens of the United
that age who shall have declared oath their intention to
become such and shall have taken oath support the
And prouded urher That officer, soldier, seaman,
mariner other person in the of the United
States shall be allowed said Territory by reason
of being therein unless said Territory and has
Pooida fs't1sr, That person belonging to the
or of United States shall elected to hold
any civil office appointment in said Territory"
1t is also provided, by the Kansas Nebraska act,
that the provisions Of the fugitveslave law shall be
extended to, and have full force in, said Territories.
1t is also provided by section eleven of chapter SIX
ty-six of the acts of the Legislature of Kansas,
| that.
every free white male citizen of the United States, and
free male Indian who is made citizen by treaty
otherwise and the OF twenty who shall
be nhabant of this Territory, and of the county or
district in which he offers vote, and shall have paid
territorial tax shall be qualified eector for all elective
officers; and all Indians who inhabitants of this Terri
tory and who have adopted the of the white
man, and who liable to taxes shall be deemed cit
P'ooded, That soldier, seaman, mariner, in
the regular army navy of the United States shall be
titled to by of being service therein And
pocided rher That person who shall have been con-
of Congress entitled AN act respecting ugtves from JUS
tce and escaping from the service of their
supplementary to said act approved 18th September 1850;
whether such conviction by criminal proceeding
BY of sS ae s % any %
of State Territory, of offence deemed inam-
i Office s in the f territory e and pSu9ie ass That
person offering vote shall be challenged and required to
the judges of the election. that he VIII sustain the provis
ions of the abovercted acts of Congress- and of the act
and Kansas" approved May So 1884, and shall refuse
take such oath affirmation, the vote of such person shall
be rejected"
This, then, is the whitening" and dangerous I"
doctrine, against which Mr.. Miller warns the coun-
try!-a doctrine incorporated in all Territorial
acts-a doctrine approved by Mr. Clay and Mr..
Webster in the compromise of 1850, and signed
by Mr.. Fillmore himself in the Washington Terri
toral act-a doctrine, under the operations of which
slavery has been recognized, and eriss in Kan
sas-a doctrine which requires all voters and all
office holders in Kansas including alike the for
eigner" so-called and the native Yankee abolition.
ist, to take solemn oath to support and enforce
the fugitive slave law; and doctrine whose results
are to be seen in the following extracts which we
make from the laws of Kansas, enacted by the Ter.
ritorial Legislature. These Aliens" and "squat
ters,"-these enemies to the rights of the South
and who are '' booming" the South to destruction
have declared follows:
"No negro nu!ato, held slave within this Terri
tory, or lawfully arrested fugitive from service from
another Territory shall be discharged, shal
right of freedom be had under the provisions of thi
act.
No person who is conscientiously opposed to holding
slaves who does admit the right to hold slaves il
this Territory shall sit juror the trial OF any pro
secuon for any violation ofany of the sections OF this act
If the plaintiff be negro muatto he is required
prove his right to freedom.
If print, WRITE introduce nto publish or cir
culae to be brought into, printed written pub
lished, circulated or shall knowingly aid or assist
this Territory book pamphlet magazine hand
BILL circular, containing any statements, arguments
opinions, sentiment doctrine advice, or nuendo calculate
produce disordery dangerous, rebelious dlsaet
on among the slaves in this Territory to induce sue
slaves escape from the service of their masters to re
sist their authority he shall be guilty of felony and
# punished by Imprisonment and hard labor for term
less than five years"
~ There it is, Mr. Miller You, K. N. in slav
State, preach ruin and fatally witherng" result
- from this doctrine, and from the repeal of the Mi:
i souri, restricton while the K Ms in the free State
It It declare that that repeal an "infamous" an
e an g atrocous act, by which the doughfaces an
:, the Buchanans" of the North have profted an
which has extended and legalized the flash of, tn
n slave.driver" in and over Kansas! You, Mr.. Mi
le are greatly concerned about the operations an
effects of "squatter sovereignty" in Kansas, wher
if the whole matter had been left to you you ooul
ae haue maintained this same Missouri restriction
is which was, in itself, PRACTICAL ABOLITION; an
IN a0ouM thereby haze cut off the entire South tro
e. any and all rights, and from all sovereignty soAa
as soecer IN this Territory! Is not that so? Deny