Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-05
WARREN
HALLErr FOR soUArrEs sovERz1GSrY

Mr.. Buchanan, as we ell know, CONSTITUTES the
Cincinnati platform to mean Squstter Sovereignty.
Mr.. Douglas long ago gave the Squatter Sovereign
ty construction TO the Kansas act So every distin-
gushed Northern Buchanan man has given the
came construction to the Kansas act aud the Plat
form. And now the Hon. B. F. Hallet, the author
of the Cincinnati PLATFORM has in bis fourth of July
speech in New Hampshire, fully expressed the odi-
Gus, execrable doctrine.
Hear what he says on what he calls
THE REAL ISSUE
Now then, gentlemen, as the final point in our
argument, what is the issue between the Democra
tic party and the Black Republicans and their Know
Nothing allies, touching Kansas?
Do not let them misiead you in plain matter.
The issue is not, they pretend, whether slavery
shall be established in Kansas, or whether a single
human being not slave, shall be made a
slave there But it is solely whether the real peoS
pie who mean to make Kansas their home and be
governed by lis laws shall have the right, in com
mon with every Satte that ever entered into this
Union, of deciding deliberately for themselves
whether they will allow slaves to be oroughs from
other States and live there, or exclude them from
the TerTitory-Or whether OF the North, who
hold slaves; by bare numerical majority against
the South shall undertake TO settle it beforehand
for them?
Then, according to the man who built the anti
American platform, the people of the Territory
may EXCLUDE SLAVES FROM THE TERRITORY I" Can
it be possible that this is the doctrine OF those who
call themselves Southern Democrats! Ii might do
for man who, as Mr.. Hallett is reputed to have
said, has declared that hell was too good for
a STAKEHOLDER" but is it Southern Democratic doc
trine7
There is on the last page of the speech an itera
ton of the detestable Squatter Sovereignty prnci.
pie in terms as emphatic and distinct as those al
ready quoted. Here it is:
The whole of this mighty agitation against "the
slave power" comes down TO the simple problem
in "a government of the people," whether a sec
tOnal President and a sectional Congress, chosen
exclusively by the Northern States which hold no
slaves, shall fix the location of negroes in the
South, where they choose TO have slaves; or wheth-
er Congress shall let it alone and leave the States
and Territories acting IN their individual political
capacity, the Kansas act leaves them, perfectly
free to form and regulate their domestic institutions
in their way, subject only to the Constitution
the United States"
Reader there is the construction of the very
man who put together the Cincinnati platform. In
that platform, he described the proper mode of de-
Gliding the slavery question in the Territories, by
the people WHEN they adopt State Constitu.
tion,) but he very adroitly omitted to declare that
this was the ONLY time and occasion when it could
be done. Now, speaking to Northern men, he tell
them that the people of territory my Exclude
slaves from tie Territory" and that laws which
restrict discussion Of slavery in the territories vio-
late the constitution"
Buchanan, Van Buren,, Hallett This is the trio
that is TO mould Southern sentiment on the subjec
of slavery in the Territories