Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-16

ed loudly in favor of his being supported in his
contest with the border rufians) The Post soon
came round on the border ruffian side, and now
glories in its shame.
The Post accuses US of misrepresentation, in
stating that it had argued in denial of the right
of the people of Kanzas to frame constitution
for themselves, as the people of several other
territories have done. And then it goes on to
make out that it still adheres to its old doctrine
| of "non-interventon," and "squatter sovereign
ty."
If it does it is most wofully at loggerheads
with &c democratic contemporaries in one half the
Union Certainly, our national" neghbor of
the Post does not wish to be understood as now
standing on sectional" platform-but it will,
fit nmates that it still adheres to its "squatter
sovereignty notions. Temporal mutantuv, ct
cum Ills nautamus That sterling national DEM
ocratic journal, the Richmond (va.) Enquirer,
which represents fairly the sentiment of the de-
mocracy of the South on this matter, talks right
out in this wise, in reference to the approaching
national convention oil its party:
ave must in the CINCINNATI platform, repudi-
ate SQuGtter Sovereignty, and expressly assert
State equality. We must declare that it is the
duty of the general government to see that no in.
vicious or injurious distinctions made between
the people or the property Of different sections an
the Territories We do not mean to dictate 1t
may be that the assertion in the platform of the
abstract proposition of State equality may suffice
to carry along with it the consequence which we
desire But it is often charged that the Kanzas
Nebraska bill contains the doctrine of Squatter
Sovereignty, and that Squatter Sovereignty is the
most efficient agent of Free SoitiSm. Some North
eT1l Democrats haze maintained this ground
Now THIS GUN MUST BE SPIKED. 1t must appear
from our platform that We maintain practical
State equality, and repu3iate that construction Of
The Kaazas. Nebraska act aohich s0oald defeat It
The South only demands equality of right. The
more clearly it appears that the Northern Dem
ocracy is ready to concede it 10 her, the more
certain is candidate of success
This is the ground which all must ultimately
take, who sustain the policy of the general gov
eminent toward Kanzas. If the squatter sover-
eighty policy had been enforced, different state
Of things, from what now prevails would exist.
Squatter sovereignty will answer for the South as
long as there is any prospect of a eater rush of
Shareholders than Free State men into a terrific
ry, but the moment the latter class of emigr ants
predominates, squatter sovereignty must be dis
owned, and slavery sovereignty instituted in its
place. And the leaders of the Northern democ-
racy will soon be found Ginning in with it, as
usual, at the crack of the slave drivers whip
The Post evidently misunderstands the position
occupied by the Free State men on the Kanzas
matter. They do not hold to the policy of resist
ing the general government-outraged as they
have been to an unprecedented extent-all they
seek is the recognition of their movement pro-
ceeding as it does from the settlers, in strict
cordance with the "squatter sovereignty" doc
trine, as preparatory step towards being admit
ted as a sovereign State into the Union. And
they justly claim the right of being admitted, on
the ground of the close analogy of their case to
those of Michigan, Arkansas, Iowa, &c, which
States were admitted with constitutions framed
by conventions called without any recommended
ton or enabling act of Congress.