Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-04-19
Why Northern Democrats Like the Doctrine OF
Souatter Sovereignty.

| interest TO southern men, lhhi VIZ CIV Inv ihf'-
,erial portions If il below. The Atlas and Argus
is the chief organ of tho Pierce party in the great
State Of New York, and one Of the most intlDen-
,lnl papers If TINT party in the Union It, state
ments and opinions. therefare.may justly be con
.dcred the yoice Of the Administration men oi
the North. Now beg 10 call particular at
tantion 70 the confirmation il gives, at the very
outset, to the declaration OF Mr.. Clemens. that
Pierce favored the Kansas bill because IL a
bill in Earor Of freedom. After this Testimony
We presume Southern Pierce organs will be mute
on this subject. But are keeping ib render
from the article alluded To:
Why SnorLp THE NoRTH OBJECT TO PORT
LAR SOVEREIGNTY 1t Ell Senator Clemens,
who gave currency TO the story that President
| Piorc. during the tendency Of the Nebraska bill
! EXPRESSED surprise that Northern men sh ould OPP
pose IL, and said that the effect Of the principle
embraced in it would be to restrict raj her than
extend slavery. The remark iras sogaeious
ONE II any portion Of our people should parfie-
uiorIy fapor the policy Of leaving the disposition
of the Slavery question 10 the action Of the resi-
dents in the Territories rather than Of Congress.
" is that portion uhieh farors free Institutions
The President certainly did not nor do we,
aoqui.sce in the principle of the Nebra ska Kun
sas bill. because more or less favorable to one
| the other sections OF tne Union. I'm the con
trnry however il might harmonize with our pre-
| JUDGES or local interests, we should hesitate 10
| approve it, were it not based upon the doctrine
| OF tho equality Of the States and exact and i'm
partial justice TO every portion of the country
| On this ground it may and does command the
support of intelligent statesmen and patriots
without regard Ia local considerations. But of all
others northern men should be the last to oppose IT,
| They are presumed from education and as.oeia-
| ins tufip dp ut,tr
domestic slavery, and are not expected, either by
their direct action or their synpathies. 10 aid in
its extension. Their preferences. of course,
| ~ see our Territories come into the Uuinn rs free
States. Thtse predictions. noe insist, naturally
| prompt hem--or rather those of them who have
given tho subject calm and philosophical exami-
nation--to dpprort The policy inaugurafed By The
organic act establishing the Territories Of Kan.
sas aud Nebraska, From these remarks IL will
b. seen that contend that the plan Of leaving
the people Of our Territories free to determine
the character of their future Institutions in
poet to Slavery wiH tend 10 bring these Terri
tories into the Union as free States in other
uordsfo accomplish precisely ,ohdi the education
and sympofhies OF Norihtrn men prompt them TO
desire.
In nm extreme Southern territory. peculiarly and
exclusively adapted, by soil and climate, to slaye
labor. the causes, which we have enumerated,
might not prove controlling. but they will prove
~, in any territory uow ownfd by our gouern-
mtni. II the view which we have presented il
southland we invite those who think otherwise
To n candid discussion of the subect-,c hy should
Northern msn object 10 The policy adopted Jy
the Kansas acR Tthe South is content nth H.
nhy should the North murnur at III Indeed, do
not Southern men. in supporting il, shom a mag
unanimous depotion 10 what they consider IA sound
principle of government, Mt The expense Of their
distinctive iHtersstsi And are not the "Repub-
q.
snbeot.the enemies no less Of their o,cn Northern
section ofthe Union, than OF the pence prospect
~ and happiness of the whole country.
In October, 1854, in reply to tho Richmond
Enqurer's severe structures upon General Casss
doctrine of squa,ter sovereignty, the Washington
Union said:
In the remarks of Gen. Cass, on the subject OF
slavery, we recognize the sentiments entertained
by ill Northern men. As well remarked by the
Detroit Free Press (the organ of Cen Cass) the
sentiments of Gen. Cass those onter,aind by
Douglas. of Illinois, Toucey. of Connecticut
Bright, of Indiana, and Dodge. of Iowa. and if
Gen. Cass is to be denounced for their utteranee
then they, too, subjec to the same stro
| lures.
| Upon this the Louisville Journal makes the fol-
lowing commentary:
So the entire Northern Democracy of the ma
ton the Washington organ was never author
lied to speak for any other party in that see,ion)
held in 1854 tho doctrine Of squattor sovereignty
the doctrine not only that the people of II ter
ritory may through their Territorial Legislature
quash slavery but that Southern man can go
into the territory with his property without the
previous enactment of a law to authorize it, The
whole Northern Democracy, according 10 tho
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a doctrine which is outrage on the Constitu
ton and the most odous and offensive to the
South of all the shapes in which Aholitionism ca,
rear its foul and horrid head. All other form.
of Abolitionism are tolcrabe and harmless prac
tically speaking.in comparison with it, The doc
trine that Congress may abolish slavery in Ter
ritory is unsound but it is less obnoxious an,
odious to the South than this miserable doctrn,
Of the whole Northern Democracy. that thu
wretched squatters who may first flock to thu
public lands like hungry buzzards to carcass
have power to slam the door in the face of tn
South and its property. The South is represent
ed in Congress, but it may have repre- sentative
among the squad Yankee. German and Iris
Aboltionists. who. perpetually on the look on
for chance to get roperty without labor. an
having no more ties than many wanderin
Arabs to restrain them in their movements fror
place to place, can always be the first to rus
upon and take possession of lands belonging t
the United States,
: German Emigration to Kansas.
The South has been assured by Democrat
papers and orators that the Foreigners at IN
North are thu true friends of slavery. and thu
this was particularly the in the State of Hi
| nois. among Mr.. Dnnrlns, cnna.;.na... IL q