New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-09-16


If the loss Of life. Appended to this account is list
If tie vessels lost III the bay ofsSagua "a Grande,
among which We notice the following
American bark ARKANSAS, Capt. ALB with 9 cargo
Of sugar; bark Aquilla, Capt. Barker; bark Warden
Capt Gill brig Galyeston; brig John Hathaway
Capt. Smith; also an American bark whose name is
almost all Of which are a total loss.
Il Besides these were also large number of vessels
from different countries. Accounts are also given
from other parts Of the island and tile neighboring
islands, showing that the gale was very general in
its visits but nothing of any are contained
in them.
Our files are barren Of anything interesting further
than the accounts of the storm and we notice no po-
lieal news OF even ordinary interest.
The theatels and otherpnblic places Of amusement
are open in the city, and are represented by the
papers. as being in full blast. s,
The Democratic Party and tho South.
when Senator Douglas introduced the Nebraska
BILL he declared that it was intended only to carry
out as to the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska,
the principle Of the Compromise measures of 1850.
That principle was popular sovereignty Its appll-
cationlin 1850 had excluded the South from Cali
3fornia Although the South in 1850 had repudated
and denounced "squatter SOY yet, IN 1894.
when the same doctrine was engInfted upon the bill
organizing the Territories Of Kansas and Nebraska,
compiled with the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise
line her Represe in supported the
measure, and her people acquiesced in it. What was
the cause Of this startling change The question is
answered the repeal ofthe Missouri Compromise line,
and the hope of securing Kansas as q slave State.
But for this last recitation the South never would
have accepted the Nebraska bill wv
y Now, what was this principle of popular sove-
reignty, as xpounded by Mr.. Douglas and asserted
oNEt Ioc1
that the people of the Territories should he free to
form their own domestic institutions, subject only to
the Constitution Of the United States.n Mr.. Cas-
and other leaders eff the Democratic party. further
explained the doctrine as follows & The people Of
Territory are sovereign and the Act Of Congress or
ganzing the Territorial eminent is recognition
by Congress, of that sovereignty The only limit to
this sovereignty is the Constitution Of the United
States, as eSpounded by the Supreme Court The
direct concusonfrom such premises and which Cas-
and the Democratic party repeatedly asserted, was
that after the passage by Congress of the act or:
ganzing the Territorial Government Congress should
not interfere, in any manner. with the Territorial
Legislation And the great merit claimed by them in
favor Of the Nebraska bill was that tput an end tic
Congressional intervention Twas direct pledge to
the country, and especially to the South, whose char
acterand institutions had for twenty years, been as
sailed on the floors OF Congress- that henceforward
Congressional agitation should cease. The only ar
bitter Territorial legislation to be the courts
of the United States. Right or wrong, this was the
agfeement--this the compromise. .4 =
If the principle that the inhabitants Of Territory
are sovereign be correct, then any interference by
Congress with their legislation is an outrage. ItWil
not do to say that frauds were perpetrated a
the elections. Admit it-but who is to inquire
into them, Or rectfy them Does Congress eyel
inquire into the regularity OF elections to the Statt
Legislatures No more can it do so Of the elections
Of a Territory, if the Territory is sovereign
These propositions are too plain to need elucida
ton Suffice it to say that the Nebraska bill mean
this, or it meant nothing "Squatter sovereignty
was this, OF nothing. And so Mr.. Douglas ant
& the Democratic party taught us to believe
What have we seen The Territorial Legislature
of Kansas pass laws admitting and protecting slavery
and therefore obnoxious to abolitionsm. And wha
h is the course of Mr.. Douglas and other Democratic
same principle of popular Sovereignty, Abolitonisn
California excluded the South from that magnificen
domain and she protested againstt the leaders Of TIL
Democratic party sustained the principle and sane
toned our exclusion. 4@- f.
What, we repeat, is their course when the people
of Kansas, acting under the same doctrine, pass law
protecting savery2 MI. Douglas comes forward witt
his Paclication bill "a bill which, in the teeth
!" popular sovereignty" in the teeth Of the Nebrask
bill ITSELF repealed whole statutes Of the Tertoria
Legislature. And this measure, fragrant in its vic
lation Of the just uttered pledges Of the Democrat
party-this measure, revivng +" Congressional intel
yention' and repeating the laws of pro-slaver.
Territorial Legislature passes the Unite
and of Southern Senator's There is a still lowe
deep, with an effrontery beyond conception. NJ
Douglas, in his late speech, even yaunts that til
Democratic Senators were willing to repeal the Of
noXious laws while the Ereesoiers resisted it 70
political effect. Mr. Hunter, of Virginia. adopts tn
same view, and Mr.. Orr, Of South Carolina 81 on
| Herodsn all by invoking Executive intervention t
strange Judge and jury the escape of Abol
ton malefactors in Kansas ! - 49,
wv Can betrayal of the principle 90 further? What
this doctrine of popular sovereignty, that to-day
gpudiates Congressional intervention, and tomorro
invites itthat makes the Courts Of the Unite
States the sole arbiter, yet calls upon abolitoniZe
| Congress and the President to trample upon them
ereignty for Kansas, are very different things 1t Isl
be lauded and upheld when it excludes slavery, BIZ
to be repudiated when it admits slavery. Congre
sional intervention, on the other hand sto be rep
dated when invoked to protect slavery in Callto
mia, but to be fostered when invoked to. crush it,
| Kansas! The Compromise of slS50 is to be KEEP
when it defrauds the South, but to be violated whe
\ it benefits her. Such is the last warning specimen
| National Democratic faith.
And is it expected of the people of this State tn;
4 they will shout hosannas at the heels of q par
which stands ready so to insult and trample on then
\ Shalwe crnge aud fawn abouta party which, by
recent acts assures us in what contemplate esteem
4 holds its own principles and our rights Shall W
| monstrations, still praise the glorious doctrine
90 squatter Sovereignty, and look to the Democrat
party to enforce it faithfully One thing is certa
| The Democratic party in Washington are ready
abandon it. Northern Democrats quail before Il
pressure Of an overwhelming sentiment at home
while Southern Democrats as before, ARE found rea
Ito sacrifice principle the South--that AT
lition may be appeased and spoils dispensing par
be led to Triumph Charleston Mercury, llthinst,
i $50 $50 $50. .
4 F1LI&oRE AND DoEEIsoN MASS MEETING in L
i TAw, ALA.-A letter to the Montgomery Mail, fro
4 Eutaw Greene county, under date of the 4th ms
4 has thefollowing: }2 b i8-.i. ~ T. q. &.
/ There was never q more glorious popular demo
4 stratlon in West Alabama than that to-day in Il
\ beautiful and hospitable town.. We had expected
| turnout of five hundred or thousand people, but
stead there was an assemblage which in the agg
gate could not have been under three thousand. v
tell you that the cotton planters of Greenegorio
Greene!were out in their strength, with not q ii
4 from Pickens, Sumter and MaIengo, and d sprinkIi
from East Mississippi 1t has been 4 day to rene
berTa real epoch and do not doubt that its etfet
will be seen ediately and fora long time to con
The planters Of Greene are out for Fillmore and Dc
elson! Al # y. slass
The ogoss, The extremely hot and dry wtatf
4 of the last six weeks has, We fear, seriously i
paired the Nale OF the cotton crop in this scott
of the State. fhe forms are falling in great nn
bers, itissolate nthe season, that no great fe;
are entertained from the caterpillar; on some plS
tations, they are said to have appeared, but not
sufficient nnEnbeEs to injnfe the crop thus far.
!. the whole, there will be much below an ayeEa
III CROP both OF corn and cotton, this year in this p
N lsh; and we learn that the same may be said
the crops in DeSoto and Sabine.
~ {Natchitoohes Chronicle, 8th'inst