Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-02-05

"SQUArTxK SovERElGSrrp is An INVENTION rHK
SoUTH WILL NEITHER RECOGNISE NOR ToLERATE.--
Staagton indicator.
This is strange language, coming from
State in which both the existing parties, speak
ing through their organized conventions, lead
ing politicians, and leading presses, support
. the Kansas N ebraska bill The South will not
tolerate nor even recognise the invention Of
Sqaatter Sovereignty, chr Why, then, do not
the South condemn that measure which rests
5 upon "squatter sovereignty" as its foundationf
No man Of any intelligence win deny that the
Kansas Nebraska bill contains the quintes-
cence of this odious and detestable doctrine !;
and yet the South, whilst declaring against the
doctrine, maintains an act of Congress profess
eddy and undeniably based upon this identical
doctrine This is Southern consistency
The American party especially profess to
have in view Sn extension of the term of pro-
baton for foreigners before naturalization.
They seek to extend the term to twenty -one
years, as proper term for the indoctrination
Of foreigners into the principles and practice
Of republican government. The American
presses at the South, as well as at the North,
without exception, contend that twenty zone
years probation is short enough, and that no
alien-born can sooner understand and compre-
bend all the principles on which free govern
ment is based, and the machinery by which il
is exercised. This doctrine is held, SO far as
we know, by all those who profess to belong
to the American party.
Now the Kansas and Nebraska bill contains
aprovision which permits an alien to hold
office and uote in the Territories without even
one months residence in the United States,
and simply upon making declaration that he
intends to apply for the benefit Of the laws OF
naturalization That bill instead Of extending
the term of probation for aliens, removes the
limitation which even now exists land yet,
!" Americans" at the South sustain it. This is
going backwards instead Of forwards---itt throws
down the barrier which was erected to keep
the ballot-box free from alien votes and foreign
influence, and offers the premium of office and
Of immediate suffrage to all who will migrate
hither
That the anti-American party should favor
the = Squatter Sovereignty doctrines contain
gu In INC AallShS-NeDTaShA Oil, uOeS not 6XclJc
surprise, but that any man claiming to be an
American in his party affiliations should do so
] is matter of establishment. Now we ask the
Staunton indicator whether or not it approves
the Kansas-Nebraska bill, with the clause
therein which allows aliens to vote and to hold
1 Office before Naturalization If so, viii it
please state why and wherefore it sustains a
measure which directly conflicts not only with
the past policy of the government, but with
the present aims and purposes of the Ameri-
can partyg
We would be glad to hear from the Rich
lnond Wing, tho Petersburg Intelligencer, and
other Southern presses, on the above point
DO they .faoor the alien suffrage portion Of
tho Kansas Nebraska 6illF They profess to
oppose squatter sovereignty" and yet, if we
are not mistaken, they s,oear by the eristing
legislation" which is founded upon that very
"squatter sovereignty doctrinel