Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-05-17
Thirty. Fourth COngrcss-Eirst xe..:
SENATE.
THE INDIAN WAR on THE PACIFIC.

THE INDIAN WAR ON THE PACIFIC
The President sent to the Senate the f,ll;
documents relative to bostlities on the pao;ee
coast.
General Wool under date of March %. saws.
The war on Puget's Sound will soon be h-on,L,
to a close unless such thing is prevented nv
Governor Stephens determination To cefrv nm
the war Independently of the U. States troons
He adds that the same remarks are applicable IN
Governor Curry. and that both these Governors
appear to be running tn see who can din
deepest into the public treasury He continues.
In the dense forps, If Puget's Sound another Flo
ida easily be carried an at an exppnsa
oftwenty or thirty millions of dollars aud say.
,hs will also apply to the mountain region a
round Puge,'s Sound Valley. Gen. Wool las no
doubt but what he could settle the contest if the
Governors should withdraw from it.
Governor Stephens says;-General Wool neg.
lected and refused Ia send force for the relief Of
MYSELF and party when known to be in imminent
danger. and believed by those who are best cana
BILE of Judging to be coming on to certnin death.
and this when he had at his command sufficient
force of regular troops. He has refused to sane
ton agreements mada between General Mason
and Maj Gaines for troops to be sent to my as.
sistance. and ordered them to he dsbanded =
1t was reserved tor Oregon volunteers to rescue
us. There has been breach Of faith some
where, ask for investigation into the whole
matter.
GEN. CAss ON sQUATTER SOVEREIGNTY.
Mr.. Cas- adir 's-ed the Senate on sauatter
sovereignty. He said: Tins term originated re-
lative to the fir, settlers of California who having
no government made one for them selves and ask
ed the general government to recognize it, but
they were derisively called "sqater sovertigns. :"
as if people who are thrown waits upon d,
iant strand where there were M law, had M
right to make regulations for their govern
ment. They were called sqnattcr soveregns
because theyd1 not own the land. The use
of this cant phrase proceeded from the assumption
that there is no sovereignty except landed soyer
eighty. This reasoning carries US back To the
dark ages when men were considered as nothing,
but land, rocks and trees everytl ing. In con.
nection he quoted an apolouge of Dr.. Franklin
who discussed property qualifications in this way:
.'If the property qualification be fifty dollars
n man who own jackass worth that sum has
right to lvote to-day. but tomorrow the iaekass
dies and the man loses his right to vote. In
whom then does the right to vote lie: in the man
or the jackass!' This question Mr.. Cnss said
he wa. not enough Of a casust to determine but
be would proceed to discuss the question of
the power of Congress over the Territories
On this subject he said: if Congress derive the
power to make laws for the Territories from the
ownership of the land just as soon as the general
government sells the land there would he no lon
ger any fo0ndatIon tor the power. The right
must therefore lie in the people not in the land.
Mr.. Cass proceeded to crilcise Mr.. Douglass
port on Kansas matters, dissenting from many
of its conclusions. 1t did not alude at all
to the true object for which governments
were instituted, and contained many iieas that
are erroneous in theory, and dangerous in
practice. The committee says the organization
of a Territory is eminently necessary and
proper, the means Of enabling the people
thereof TO form and mould their local and do
nestle interests. and establish n state govern.
ment under authority of the constitutions prepar
a'ory to admission into the Union. and thus argue
the right OF Congress to pass the organic act in
cuded in the provision which authori>es the nj.
mission of new States Bui Mr.. Cass thought
the doctrine that Congress has power to pass any
measures they considered ~ tending to promote
the prosperity of the Territories would lead 10
false conclusions. Congress might think the vii
mot provso would be IA good thing. but there
would not be any limit to their discretion if they
proceeded on such loose grounds. He also said
the bill OF the Committee on Territories did not
allow the people of Kansas t. reguia their affairs
as they pleased-hence they did not carry out
the doctrine of the committee relative t. that sub
ject.
Adjourned.