Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-05-31
Mf. Sfuarts Black Republican Eesolu-
ton Repudinfed


MI stuart's 3lack Republican Eesolu-
ton Repudiated.
The Lynch5urg Virglnian, and The Rich
mohd wing, the very abest and the lead
ing papers Of the opposition, in Virginia,
explicitly denounce Mr. Stuarl's Black Re-
publican RESOLUTION, adopted by the late
state Know Nothing Convention. We IN
wife attention to the extracts below, as am.
ply sustaining by inference, the positions
taken by the Vrndcator upon this qucs-
ton. The conviction must be forced upon
the popular mind, that Mr.. Stuart design
cd his resolution as a bid to Black Repub-
licansi We are honest when we assert
that we believe that Mr.. Stuart intended
his resolution as a tender TO the Black Re
pubicans for coai.ion--the basis of ne
Sot'ation which would end in the fusion OF
the anti Nebraska Know Nothlngs ofthe
South, and The Black Republicans OF the
North. The following extract is from the
Wing:
ana here we may say once for alias
1t necessarily follows from what we have
already said-that we object out and out
to the resolution of the late Stanton Con-
ventlon which denounces squatter sover-
eighty as pafi and parcel of the Ne
bfaska bill We agree with cur contem~
poranes OF the Lypchburg Vilginidn that
s1ch concession was unnecessary and i'm
poiltlc II hot ABSOLUTELY stupid--Secause
unless the constitution Itself recognises and
sanctions such a doctrine, land Southern
men of all parties contend that it does not)
then it is not contained in the Nebraska
bill, as it is impossible TO give TO others
what it does not possess
This is no more explicit than the follow.
ing from the Lyncllburg Virginan
"Iie resolutions, with but one excep-
ton, command our hearty assent. We re-
gret seriously thai the convention admitted
by impIieation that The Kansas bill EN-.
braced an assertion Of The odious prlnei-
pies OF sqaatter sovereignty. The adms-
sion was not only not wdrranted b4 feet,
but was On many accounts most njudieious
aud impolitic. Il squatter sovereignty Is
established by the Kansas bill, thea squat
ter sovereignty is constitutional. because
the Kansas bill is expressly made "subipet
TO the PROVISIONS of the constitution. -
Unless il can be shown that tins doctrine,
properly characterized by Southern Dem-
ocrats, TO be as odious IN practice and as
indefensble In principle as the " ilmot Pro
viso. is in accordance with the provisions
OF the constitution, 1t is an egregious and
fatal blundeT to admit that it is contained
in the Kansas bill, For the effect Of such
admission is 10 acknowledge the right of
the Yankees and foreigners, who are rush
ing TO Kansas, 10 put this grant of the Kan
sas law into execution, by at once proceed-
ing TO legislate the South Of Kansas. These
are necessary results Of the admission that
the Kansas bill eountenauces the heresy Of
squatter sovereignty. We confess our sur
prise that the intelligent gentlemen who
met at staunton could have come 20 such
conclusions. For our part. we DO not hes
itate toisag that If we had construed The
Kansas bIil ds establishing sqaatter S0vef-
eighty, we should have opposed i, IS the
most fatal legislation 10 the South thai had
ever been attempted in Congress. Tie re-
peal OF the Missouri Compromise, had II
0een dopbiy as upjus; apd.wfoRg as Il " as.
could never have reconciled Us % lie as
SertIon oi doetflne so ss5Vefsipe Of er-
der SO Destructive t9 equality. 50 sk uik
insiy fromesige q ffse 'soihsrl, SO vile in
theory ahd So mouIF9us in practice as
squatter sovereignty. LIS poor relief from
the error CT the admission 20 have protest
ed against the incorporation Of the princ.
pic as wrong-ior that would not prevent
us being law if It were there, MOI would
the abolitiohists in proiting by the la " re-
gard the protest. The true position for the
South to take, the principle as well as policy
is TO deny that squatter sovereignty IS sane
toned by the constitution, by the kansas
bill, by any usage or precedent Of the gov
eminent, by reason, night or necessary
that oil these are against, it and the South
will never submit 10 its practical applica--
ton, but will resist all and any such at
tempts Eat every hazard and to the last tx
tremity." These structure are made in no
consorious or captlous spirit, bat with re.
greet, and Only as due to the position which
this journal has uniformly maintained and
will continue to MAINTAIN