Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-03-22
Northern Democracy with Southern Feelings

Gen. Cass' organ the Detroit Free Press.fron
which we copied an article in a late number. ex
presses its Indignation at the idea that slavery
can go into Territory unless invited by posi-
tive law. and protests that no Democrat North
and very few, if any, South. hold any such her
esy us that. According to It's authority. ih'
party in both sections of the Union nave agreed
TO stand on the platform of popular sovereignty
which is the Cass phrase for squatier sovereignty
The Free Press inimates that there is posi-
tive and formal compact OF this sort, and de-
olares that it would be unparalleled bad
faith I'm the Southern wing of the party. TO fail to
abide BY that compact. We would like to know
something more about this holy alliance" be
tween Northern and southern Democracy
When and where was it entered into Who
were the parties negotiating, and by what au-
,hori,y did they undertake to bind the masses of
the party in the South TO doctrine las indefen-
sibe in principle and as dangerous in practice as
the Wilmot Provisol" What Arnold has thus
BETRAYED and sold the SOUTH The Free Press
ewes IL 10 truth and patriotism TO be more dis
sinet. We we'll knew that the Northern Demo
eracy were rotten 20 the very core on this Sub
lfct wi tf-bbl We h'h h'i
know that Southern men had been found re
creant to principle, so perfidous ana d,loyal, a.
10 countenance this ''most monstrous doctrine
Do the people of the South know what this squat
ter sovereignty is, and what are lis objects Do
they know that il is disguised and skulking free
soilism--that il is the most dangerous because tn
most plausible scheme yet invented by the cnn
h,,tn &c &c Nouk IN phaat then,
of their rights. and ohouse them Of their eqality?
Do they know that it is by fastening il on tbc
Nebraska bill that that law is accepted and up
proved by Northern Democrats MS "a measure
in behalf of freedom!" Have they forgotten
President Pierce's declaration, that by virtue oil
squatter sovereignty we should have no moro
slave States, though we ght acquire the whole
of Mexico-and that of Gen. Shields that, squat
ter sovereignty would carry free. soil down 10
the very Isthmus' And il is into such com
pact as this that Southern Democrats have en-
tered with Northern free sellers, We have shown
by repeated citations from the organs of the
Northwestern Democracy, the proceedings of
their public meetings, the declarations of their
most influential statesmen, and the language of
their journals, that squatter sovereignty is the
primary and principal article in their political
faiih-and that i is because they regard it
the mos, potent means of advancing free soilism,
and crushing oat the expansion of Southern in
stitutons. We make an extract, now. from the
Baltimore American, to prove that in Now
Hampshire. among the Granite Democracy"
il is the same thing:
The contest which has Just ended in Now
Hampshire, presented some features not usual in
State elections. Gen. Pierces chances of renom-
ination were viewed as depending in an important
degree upon reversing the decision of the previous
year, which placed his own State in the anti Ad-
mnistraion line and again bringing it back to the
fold of political Democracy. The effort, though
made with an earnest perseverance, that omitted
no effort Of party maneuvre, was no, altogether
successful,and New Hampshire still dsowns her
son and refuses to him her support. The most
curious feature of the struggle is shown by the
National lnteligencer,i in the fact that the Demo
crazy in their eagerness to win back the State,
betrayed all the national issues" of which in the
South they claim especial guardianship ,and sup
ported the Nebraska bill not as n national meas
ure calculated to secure TO both sections their
rights in the territories, but as a ''measure of
freedom which by its legitimate effect will pre-
vent hereafter the creation of single slave state.
We have not the space to reproduce all the ex-
tracts from the press and speakers who supper =
ted the Democracy, given by the Intelligence,
but quote sufficient to show that the party in
New Hampshire is as thoroughly abolitionized
as even Mr.. Greeley would desire. the only ques-
ton between them and their Republican oppo.
Rents being, as to whether the Kansas Nebras
= ka bill is or is not II for freedom.
The Portsmouth Evening Gazette,a Democratic
paper, with the names of the candidates of the
party at its head, on the lth instant is devoted
10 a synopsis of speech just previously dehv
cred by the Hon. c. l.. Woodbury., and glow
ing enoanium upon '.the lucidity of style an,
severe logic" which he used in showing the pros
pect free territory wherever it was open t.
the competition Of free and slave labor Tn
editor then,for himself, says:-
I'VE may remind readers that the extre IN
Southern men opposed the Kansas and Nebrosk
bill because they foresaw that its inepitable oper
alton could insure the admission of those Teri
tories as Free States. The Hon. Jere Clemen.
one Of the most ardent friends of the .peeua
institution took strong and impregnable groun
for this very reason against the bill. denounce
it as being the cat under the meal, and warne
his allies against its adoption; an empty conces
sion was made to the South. hut all resutin
of real advantage would accrue to the non slave
holding States. His prediction is becoming hi,
tory. Kansas, ,rhen admitted, tciH be admitte
as q free State, not from the preponderance {
Sharp's rifles, but from the superiority of FIRE
over Slave labor, from the superior energy, in
-dustry and economy of the Northern over til
Southern character"
The Southern Democracy cannot fail to ap
preciate the compliment bestowed upon them j
the. concluding portion of the above extract
The,Coos Democrat argues that it is unneces
,sary for the Republicans to oppose the extensio
of slavery. because ''the people who will settl
the territories will prevent them BY doing
tAemseiues." As TO Kansas il says:
IF Kansas. with all the efforts which hav
been made by the pro- slaveryists, with all tn
advantages IF the adjoining States of Mi,
sour. full Of slaves and wild with fear that tn