The Mississippi times. (Holly Springs, Marshall County, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1856-09-18

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All the balance Of the Louisiana Terrilor,
was left subject to the Legislation of 82l
until it should be directly repealed Mr.
Fillmore's declaration is in entire accor
dance witt the facts. He believed that i
would be- better 10 let that remain which
had existed so long, and had been entered
into in a spirit of compromise, than to risl
the peace of the country by repeating it
His language is: "Gocd faith, as we'll a.
the peace of the country, seemed to re
quIre that compromise which had stoot
for more than thirty years,should not b,
wantonly disturbed"
His Democratic competitor, Mr.. Buell.
anan, occupies the same position. All hi
speeches and letters down TO the act ire
peal, show that he was for maintaining
and even extending it to the additiona
Territory. He spoke of it as a solemn
compact, measure that saved the Union
in 1890 one that is not for the descendants
Of either party in the present generation
to cancel-something "almost AS sacred
as the constitution" Then, of course. he
was opposed to its repeal. and can take
no credit on that score. The objection
made to Mr. Fillmore, then applies equal
ly to Mr.. Buchanan. Mr.. Fillmore had
nothing to do with the establishment of
this line. 1t was done long before he
came into public life. But he does not
propose to restore it. He defends the
South for accepting the repeal and he
denounces the Black Republicans, who
are the champions of the restoration Of the
line.
As to Squatter Sovereignty The pro-
visions of both of the acts organizing the
Territories of Utah and New Mexico, re-
serve the entire authority and control
over all territorial laws ofthe Territory, and
that all Legislation by the people of the
Territories is null and void without the
sanction or approval of Congress. Now
here is record evidence to show that Mr.
Fillmore believes that the people of the
Territories have no jurisdiction over the
subject matter of legislation, except by
grant for that purpose by Congress.
1t would be out of the question for me
to think of voting for Mr. Buchanan, af.
ter he has adopted the Democratic plat
form at Cincinnati, in all its length and
breadth. Many principles and dogmas are
affirmed therein, which, in my opinion, if
carried out, are well calculated, in time,
to subvert our institutions
The resolution in regard to foreigners,
| consider extremely Objectionable. They
proclaim in this resolution that the doc
trnes contained in it are those Of Jefferson,
and were by him embodied in the Declar-
alton of Independence. and are sanction.
ed by the Constitution. And to make
them truly orthodox, the Convention is
pleased 10 say, they "have ever been car
dinal principles of the Democratic faith :"
and every attempt to abridge the privil-
eye of becoming citizens and owners of the
soil among us ought to be resisted with the
same spiri. which swept the alien and Sc.
dition laws from our statute book. -
What parallel can be drawn between the
alien and sedtion laws, and wholesome
and restrictive measures against the set
Element of foreign paupers and criminals,
apA, the abandoned eanaiUe Of all nations.
within our borders or the extension of
the period of naturalization, with a view
alone TO cheek the rapid increase of foreign
in our institutions /? can see
no res mblance whatever. Verify, we
have fallen on evil times and 1t behooves
all American patriots to look to the pre-.
of the Union. from more than
one domestic danger.
The resolution touching the Kansas
Nebraska act is rather extraordinary, for
its verbiage and and peculiar tortuous
1iction, but there is one thing to be
cleaned from it and il is his : that it was
to endorse, and did endorse.
the doctrine that the people of the Ter
ritores by that act were vested with ex
elusive jurisdiction over the subject of
slavery within their limits. No hair split
ing advocate of this Convention can avoid /
his conclusion, when he looks to the cir. |
,umstances that surrounded them at the
line of the adoption of this resolution /;
and it is a doctrine at war with every in.
crest of the South, and with the rights of
slavery, and at once as odious to the peo-
Die of the South as the Wilmot proviso.-
t will effectually put stop to the extern
lion Of slavery within the Territories
That this convention knew the effect of
heir action on the Kansas Nebraska act,
S more fully shown by their nomination of
Mr.. Buchanan for the Presidency, man
Who had publicly declared years before
hat Congress had sovereign and exclusive
Jurisdiction on the subject of slavery with
II the Territories.
That this is the construction of their
esolution by Mr.. Buchanan. himself, is
By his letter Of the 9lst of
August, l848, directed to Mr.. Sanford,
lie explicitly declares it to be his opinion.
hat Congress has exclusive jurisdiction
N the subject of slavery within the Ter
itories," and after his nomination, he
declares in substance that, by the Kansas
Nebraska act, it is properly vested in the
lands Of the people. the true legitimate
ource of all power. l will do Mr.. Buch-
man the justice to say. that for once on
his subject he seems to be consistent and
EXPLICIT.
Read the opinion of that distinguished
Democrat, the Hon. M. Van Buren,. once
he Democratic President OF the United
States, on this subject. in his letter to the
rammany Society. respecting the nomina-
ion of Mr. Buchanan. under date of June
%, 1856 After declaring his intention
o vote for Mr., Buchanan, he explains and
ndorses the position he occupies; and
hen citing the substance Of Mr. Buchan.
ms review..of the Nebraska-Kansas act,
he says: From these terms it is too clear
o admit of cavil that it was the intention