Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-08-30
How the Slavery Questio. may be Settled.

;
:, always assumed to he the special defdn
ders Of the slavery rights Of the South
They have Of late years, ingeniousl,
Blended this idea with that Of strengt.
at the North to control votes there fl.
voriny the South.
They have successfully striven to i'm
press the mind Of tho Sonth will, the
idea, that the Kansas act was the pal'a-
dum of Southern Rights, notwithsta....-
ing that
i. The act Was open 10 Squatter Sow
ereignty, or the opposite, rs eac', section
mi ght choose to construe it; and
.. That it directly encouraged and
invited foreign migration to the Terri.
tories, thus locating therein the wors.
possible foes Of the institution ofslayery;
aud
8. That in express terms it repeats
whatever laws may have been previous>
y operative in tie Territories, "pRo-
rEcr1ss slavery.
The recognition Of the doctrine Of
CONGRESSIONAL NoS-1SrERvESrloS,i in
the act, induced most Southern men, in
their horror Of Hilmot Provisoiss (Mr.
5uchauan's theory until the Kansas act
delegated, in his estimation, the SOW
EREIGN pOVEI. of Congress to tie
Turitories,) to receive the act as bless
ing, in spite Of the glarins frauds upon
tie South which it contained. They
hoped that ]. would not be held to mean
Squatter Sovereignty, and they shut
their ears to the declarations Of PIERCE,
DOUGLASS aud other Northern uphold
ers of it, that it dill mean Squatter
Sovereignty. They chose to be deaf,
when the President and bis Northern
aud Western supporters described it as
measure for freedona' They iec!iued to
notice the omuious words Of STEPHENS,
Of &c nrgia, last winter, when he CONS
meneed to preps'e the public mind OF
Georgia to acquiesce in the practical ap-
Pile tivn of S4uatter Sovereignty. They
hoped on, in blind confidence, relying on
,uen Worth and South who were com>
tini"g 20 cheat them into quiet adop-
ton Of the infamous principle.
But, at last, comes out M. Buchanan,
in bis letter Of acceptance, and declares
that ",''e people ola Territory, like those
ofu State, shall decide for themselves,
whether slavery shall or shall not exist
within their limits" This open and
frank avowal Of the datested principle
by Buchanan has been var,ously treated
in different portions Of the Southern
country. In some localities, there has
been little effort expended to make men
of sense believe that it taeant anything
else tl.an that the Territorial legislatures
could prohibit or establish slavery within
their limits and the labor Of the party
has been given to proving that squatter
Sovereignty after all is only sort Of bug
a boo. In other sections, men OF talents
have stultihed themselves with may and
meaningless qu;bbles to show that Mr..
Buchanan did no; mean squattcr sov-
ereiguty when he describes with such
accurate words that abomination III the
eyes Of JOHN C. CALHOUN. We THINK
however, that this last position will be
deserted !; and that Squatter Sovereignty
will become one of the cardinal primer
ples Of the Southern as it is Of tue North>
ern lDemocr cy-open, avowed, bare
faced squatter Sovereignty.
If our last supposition be correct; II
the Southern Democracy can, as we
think It will, shoulder and support the
infamous and unconstitutional doctrine,
whose practical effect, it is admitted on
all hands, will he to EXCLUDE the
South ENTIRELY FROM THE TER.
R1TORiES ; then the election Of Mr..
BUCHANAN would settle the slavery agi'
tation-tor all that the North claims
throuoh Fremont Is the ercluS've occu-
nation bv the North Of the Territories.