The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-10-10
SCATTER SOvereignty-EIr. Buciscn.
ann Fillmore.

The doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty is one
that the South has ever rejected with loaihing
and adherence. In no past Presidential cam
pagn. did any Southern man of any party
whatever dare to proclaim, even if he IS Is silly
enough to hold, a doctrine so utterly revolving
The South always rejected the Wilmot Provi-
30 and many other anti slavery measures pro-
posed by the freesoilers of the North, but of all
those measures, the proposed establishment of
the principle of squatter 81 sovereignty was the
one most odious to the Southern understanding
and the most disgusting to the Southern.
heart.
Mr.. Buchanan is a squatter sovereignty man
His avowal upon this subject in his letter OF
accepting the Cincinnati nomination as plain
and direct and explicit as human language can
be. We defy the greatest living master of the
English language, whoever he may be, to avow
SUPPLEMENTARY in palmer and mole une.
quivocal terms than Mr.. Buchanan has done in
his letter. The thing can't be done.
With pride we turn from James Buchanan
to Willard Fillmore. The latter is as sound
upon that subject as his patriotic party in the
South. Col. Joseph s. Williams, a planter o.
Louisiana, and gentleman Of the highest char
acler and standing both In that State and il
Tennessee, where he formerly resided, Gale,
upon Mr.. Fillmore few weeks ago, and after
wards, in response to letter from the distiD
guished editor of the Memphis Enquirer, wrote
Il fho fol- If
during the interview:
MEMPHIS, Sept IL, 1855.
/ Col. J. p. PRYoR--Dear SIR: Your note o
this instant, asking for publication the subst anc
Of conversation between Hon. Willard Fill
more andmyself upon the subject Of "squatter
or Territorial sovereignty, has just been hand
ed me. cheerfully comply with your requcs,
as was placed under no restraint by him il
i reference to the matter.
Upon my return home from the North,
called to see MIR. Fillmore at his home in But
falo, N T., on the 4th instant. During on
conversation asked him what he tn ought Q
squat ter sovereignty" and in reply, he entere
into free and unreserved expression Of his view
He said he was decidedly opposed to this doc
) trine, as advocated by Cass, Douglas, Buchan
an, Van Buren,, and Others He believes that
Territory, until its inhabitants were sufficient
numerous to authorize the formation of Stat,
constitution, preparatory to admission into tn
Union as State, could only be regarded as
a condition of pupilage, possessing no sove
eighty whatever, and referred to the Utah an
/, New Mexico Territorial bills, sanctioned
him, as correct indication Of his opinions.
was gratified to end that Mr.. Fillmore o,
cupied the same position upon this questio
which is maintained by the American party
the South, and by the whole band Of nations
r Americans Of the North. headed by such me
as Fuller of Penney lvama, Haven OF New Yor
and others, and told him would like to be
: liberty to speak Of the explanation receive
: from him. He replied he bad expressed Ii
8 same views to others, and that I could NAL
I such use ofthem asI thought proper.
z Yours, truly,
JOSEPH s. WILLIAMS.