Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-06-16
From the Memphis Eagle.
Effect of 6 The Sober Second Thought %
"Squattcr Sovereignty - Defined.


The following statement has Just been furnished
us, from source entitled to the highest credit
"A short time since, certain distinguished gen.
ueman in Arkansas withdrew from the American
party, and went over to the Sag NIGHT Democracy
Since his withdrawal, this gentleman has become
convinced that the National Democracy and
especially the Northern wing Of 1t, is hopelessly
unsound on the only vital slavery question, THAT
Of slavery IN the 7erritoriss,) and that every
Northern Democrat is committed to the Squatter
Sovereignty construction Of the Kansas-N Nebraska
bill; and he now says, or has been heard to say,
that he @ostd give $4,000 If he had neuer aoith-
drasar from the american party n 9 M
This statement is vouched for, and our inform
ant says can be proven, if necessary, by witness
of unquestionable veracity. 1t is further stated
that the change Of mind referred to has been part
lY induced by a comparison of the records of the
several Democratic candidates for the Presidency
with the record ofMr. Fillmore on the question Of
slavery in the Territories Mr. Fillmore signed and
emphatically endorsed the Utah and New Mexico
bills, which not only mbedy the principle of g Con-
gressional non-intervention" but substantially de-
clare that the people of Territory shall not estab-
lsh or prohibit slavery until they come to form a
State constitution. Those bills are part of the
Compromise of 1850, which Mr.. Fillmore SO often
exhorted the whole american people to regard rs
final settlement OF oil the slavery issues. and
80 to regard until the unfortunate and iilstarred
re-opening of the slavery agitation by Mcssrs.
Pierce, Douglas, d Co., by means oftheir cunning
lydevised Kansas Nebraska legislation. That mea-
sure imbodies the repeal Of the Missouri Compro-
mise in terms; the authorization of unnaturazed
foreigners to vote; and the principle of "popuar
sovereignty" The first gave a " handle" to Free
sellers with which to "agitate;" the second was
an outrage upon the constitution and upon the
La of and t1.ot
FIJI egmcocation, which might be claimed as '.squat-
ter sovereignty" at the North, and Congressional
non-intervention," as construed in the Utah and
New Mexico bills, at the South
What Is Sqnatter SovereigntyP" II means
the people of Territory shall have the right ana
time before they come to form State constitution
in their Territorial Legislature, to establish or pro-
hibit slavery. That Is "Squatter Sovereignty -
and, taken in connection with the foreign vote
clause OF the Kansas bill, is a DEATH BLOW to
Southern interests in all the Territories, whether
north or south of the Missouri Line "Squatter
Sovereignty "-or " Popular Sovereignty as
Douglas, Cass Co., softly call it--means that the
people of Territory be they few or many, 100,
1000, 10000, or any number less than suficien-
cy 10 form State constitution, shall have TIE
power TO prevent Southern men from removing
to that Territory with their slavesi This is the
way Cass, Douglas Pierce, and every Northern
~, "isnout c1cePuon, consIru06 Inc kAn-
sas- Nebraska bills bill which they and the whole
Southern Democracy have set up as test Of or
thodoxy! tv ~ saa eaift
Are the people Of the South willing to submit
to such swindle Is our penitent Arkansas Sc
ceder willing to submit to It Or, are they not
In duty bosnd, as good Southern men, to rally to
the support of Fillmore, who is committed against
Squatter Sovereignty" by the Compromise Of
1850, and return TO the ranks of that great and
growing party, whose leader and spokesman in the
House Of Representatives, Il Northern man too y
Hon. Henry N. Fuller, of Pennsylvania, on the
10th Of April last used the following noble truly
national, and Southern language, in references TO
thia the only vital question between the North and
Southl NnTN tBNsFN N ID f8Nth%h -