Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-01

squattcr sovereignty.

The Hon. O. C. Cambreleng. who in aforetimes,
as sc. C. c." figured largely in our politics, and
who was nicknamed in cholera times as ''the pre-
monitory symptom" of Mr. Van Buren, gives us the
benefit of his views upon this delectable topic,-n
a letter of some length to ex Speaker of our
State Assembly, Mr. Ludlow:
'sThe shareholders will not get Kansas, and they
are now deprived OF the pretext of going into the
territories south of SO go under that compromise.
They generally opposed non Intervention on that
ground, and contended for carrying the compro-
mise line to the Pacific Ocean. IL is certainly not
for our interest now to have that compromise line
restored Why the south should have voted for its
repeal, lie question for themselves to settle-they
all at the time, admitted that Kansas would never
be a slave ST. to- / hope our friends will meet the
issue boldly and leave the question OF State organ
zation to the people of the Territory, who have the
natural and best right to decide for themselves.
at appears to me to be perfectly absurd for us to
grumble about squatter sovereignty at the present
time, when squatter sovereignty will make free
every inch of territory now belonging to the Uni
ted States After the acquisition of California with
the prospect of the addition of more Mexican ter
ritory, when Gen. Cass proposed the doctrine of
non Intervention, il was an important question, as
it might have led to the introduction of so many
slave States; but after the south had been COM
pletely check mated by Calfornia's declaration in
favor of Freedom, we had no reason TO object to
the doctrine of non intervention of squatter sover
eighty.
1--WE have now, besides Kansas and Nebraska,
e New Mexico, Utah. Minnesota, Oregon and Wash
ington making seven territories, which will give US
seven free States. Some think the fate of Kansas
doubtful; but the invasion of Missouri rowdes, in
dependent of natural causes will make it free
State. These borderers came over hrst to vote tor
pre-. slavery men-the second time to vote against
them in the location of the Capitol-and the third
time to make buster under Shannon, plumber the
people, and drink whiskey. This is the last and
dying struggle of slavery. Under such circumstan
ces cannot conceive what We can possibly gain by
resisting principle which has hitherto excluded
slavery from territories"
Mr.. Cambreleng writes this to urge his party
here
"Fo stick to the National Democratic party"
This is all very well,-but in this National
Democratic party let US have no cheating,-no
doubie-playing. Mr.. Cambreleng re~echoes the
doctrines of Gen. Cass, and the views Mr. Richard
son put out in reply to the Zollicoer queries,-but
the North and the South have here a double tongue,
quism is not only unfair, but on exciting sectional
questions very dangerous
The South contends that,-under the Nebraska
1.-THE people of the South have the right (which
nobody denies under that law TO take their slaves
to Kansas, and to keep them therein spite of
all Territorial squatter sovereign legislation to the
contrary. The State of Kansas, not the Territory,
can exclude slavery,-is the Southern Nebraska
creed. The South says,-and with unanswerable
force taken for granted the absurd basis OF squat
ter sovereignty that few scattering squatter
soveregns cannot hurry into Territory, and pitch
out the North the South, only government OF
squatter sovereigns duly organized as a State.
Upon the Cass, Cambreleng, and Richardson creed,
one or Two, three squatter sovereigns might for
all time fix the status of a State,--but says the
South, there must be enough of these sovereigns to
form State, some 10000 squatter sovereigns,
say. Here very different positions taken by
the slaveholding and non-slaveholding democracy