Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-05-07
The Cincinnati Platform SOVe-
reigntY.

retgntYs
The Union a. american denounces the doe
trine of Squatter Sovereignty as of "aH Others
most Odious to the South" Nevertheless, dem
ocratic leaders, North, declare that this is
the doctrine of the Kansas Nebraska act,
aud for that reason they support it. We
have seen no intimation in the columns of
our neighbor, of desire on his part to
have the Cincinnati Platform so construct
ed that there shall be no room hereafter to
doubt the meaning of that act-but the
Richmond Enquirer speaks out boldly and
manfully. In its impression of the 2lst
ult, it declares
I'VE must, in the Cincinnati Platform, RKPU-
date SoUATTER SOVEREIGNTY, and expressly
assert State equality We must declare that il
is the duty Of the General Government to see
that no invidious or injurious distinction are
made between the people or the property Of
different sections in the territories. We do
not mean 10 dictate. IL may be that the as
s-rtlOn In the Platform of the abstract propo-
sition of State equality, may suffice to carry
SIRE But 1t is often charged that the Kansas
Nebraska biz contains the doctrine Of Sguatter
Sovereignty, aud that Sgudtter Sovereignty is
the most efficient agent Of freeSoiLim. Some
Northern Democrats hare maintained this
ground. N0O this gun must be spiked 10 must
appear from our Platform that ace maintain
practical State equality, and repudidte the
construction Of the Kansas Nebraska act Which
p0uld defeat it The South only demands
.quAnly of right The more clearly il appears
tlat the Nor thern Democracy 10 ready to con-
oede il TO her, the more certain is our candid
OF success"
We hope to see the Union and american
cooperating with the Enquirer in insisting
upon the reputation, in the Cincinnati
platform, of the odious doctrine of Squat
ter Sovereignty. The Kansas Nebraska
act, the touchstone of Democratic nation
alty, should not be allowed to be held up
in one section of the country as most
efficient agent of freesoilism," and in the
other, as a guarantee of State equality"
If the Democratic party does not intend
to deceive the South, it will in the Cincin-
matt platform, give the true Interpretation
of the principles of the act But will the
party do il? viii the Northern Democ-
racy agree TO repudate Squatter Sever
eighty? We apprehend not The South
ern Democracy will be compelled TO cave
in. The Richmond Enquirer will have to
knock under,n or sulk and kick in the
traces. The Northern Democracy don't
intend TO give up the advantages which
the doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty af
fords them in propitiating the freesoil and
Black Republican elements which surround
them. They have found it good thing"
and they mean to save it-save it, In
ls47, Dickinson, of New York, the leader
of the Hards, the soundest Of all the Dem
ocratic statesmen Of the North, enunciated
this doctrine in the United States Senate,
"a tbr following resolution, which he offered
on the 18th Of December
Eesolnod Thai. ia organizing a Territorial
G nmsn, for Territories belonging TO the
o I'd State, the principle Of self government
% w.ncl our iederstiYe system rests, will be
q, .,n"isd, The rue spirit and meaning OF
so s,uuiion lie deserved, and the onnied.
..' anened, BY le0eiag all questions
c.neerliAg the G0Hsestie policy tkersiA. % the
Legst fur chosen 5y ns people lAereeE.
o. t!.e s0th Of the same month Gen.
CAss wrote the Nicholson letter, maintain
in similar views. and in ls4s, the Demo
cratic lastg, North. planted itself upon