Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-02-13
AoUARREL AHEAD.

Washington letter writers stare tnat an IN
teresting Democratic quarrel is brewing in the
Senate, which is likely soon to come to a
head, and produce endless difficulties to har-
monious action in the Democratic National
Convention at Cincinnati.
1t seems that Senator Douglas, who was at
the time detained by i'll health at Cleveland,
wrote to some of his Democratic associates
that he desired the postponement Of Shannon's
nomination, and all important territorial bust
ness until his arrival in Washington. Com
pliance with his request is due to his position
as one of the chief originators of the existing
slavery agitation, and as the Hercules whose
strength and prowess are relied on to carry 1t
through to an issue not disastrous to his party,
and as the Chairman of the Committee on Ter
ritories. tits, however, understood that Judge
Douglas does not concur in the administrative
policy of fighting things out in Kansas, and
will oppose grants of money or men for that
purpose. Mr. Bright, will also, it is rumored,
oppose the President on these essential points.
The Cass and Douglas squatter sovereignty
doctrine, as now construed by them, does not
seem to be much relished by Southern Hot
spurs; and hence the disposition Of the latter
to secure the nomination of Gen. Pierce for
reelection. The fact is, the South begins to
feel that it has made mistake in giving its
approval and support to Judge Douglas move
ment to repeal the Missouri Compromise; and
there is growing suspicion among Southern
men that they have oyer-reached themselves,
or, it may be, been oyer-reached by cunning
little Douglas. Those from the South who
sustained the Kansas-N cbraSka iniquity in
Congress, returncd,to their constituency, boas-
ting that they had achieved for the South q
great victory; that they had obtained from the
North an acknowledgment of the principle Of
popular sovereignty, by which perfect equal
ity was brought about between the North and
the South in the territories, and that now the
apple of discord, which had 50 long disturbed
the country, and had been productive Of so
much evil, even threatening u dissolution of
the Federal Union, had been removed. The
Southern papers, especially the Democratic,
lauded the authors and supporters OF the mea-
sure in the most extrayagant terms. Accord
lug to their account, political millennium had
been reached, and universal good brotherhood
was to be the result in our country. We saw
nothing Of this ourself, and felt that more
harm than good would be the consequence TO
the South, of the measure alluded to. What
has been the result? Let US, for a moment.
see. \ brief year and half has scarcely
rolled round, and what we believed and antici-
pated would be the result has, practically, al
ready been realized. Both Kansas and Ne
braska will be Free States. This is now deem
ed fixed fact, even by the South, and now,
when too late, her Hotspurs discover that they
committed an egregious blunder in commit
ting themselves to the Squatter Sovereignty
doctrine. They accepted it as just and right,
and now they discover the mistake. Hence
the violent agitation commenced by them, and
their determination to fight it out, as Prcsi-
dent Pierce seems to be willing to do but in
this, it seems s-thcy will have the opposition of
Messrs. Douglas and Bright, and probably Gen.
Cass, and an interesting little Democratic fam
lily quarrel may therefore 10 looked for
Daily News.