Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-01-28
Tru,t.forSou,,erp pemocrats.
Now that the election is over, the Demo
cratic leaders can tell the people some truths
not written by them before the election:

Now that the election Is over, the DelhO-
cratic leaders can tell the people some truths
not written by them before the election:
Correspondence of the n. O. Delta, DENY
WASHINGTON, January l.
The strife now is, really, between the North
ard the South The question is, shall not any
more States-the constitutions of which shall
tolerate slavery-be admitted into the Uniou?
But thing so easily evaded is really not
worth disputing about, for in truth, in fact,
"squatter sovereignty" is the question. Sup
pose, for the sake OF argument, that the qIes-
ton is settled, irreVocably settled 10 Congress,
against the admission of such States; and the
inhabitants ola Territory desiring admission
into the Union are decidedly in favor OF
| slavery, what is to prevent them from making
no provision in their Constitution concerning
| slavery, or from changing after admission, any
! provision which the force Of circumstances may
| have introduced against their wIll Yes,
"squatter sovereignty" is the question. How is
| it likely to operate in future2 Is it not the
popular doctrine2 fit is not Democratic or
| Constitutional doctrine, il certainly hasso much
the appearance Of Democracy as 10 be taken
| for the genuine thing itself by nine-tenths OF
! the people. 1t will decide the Kansas difficult
ty and il II is not it viii be, ere long, the pop
uar doctrine of the North. What reason Is
there for this Opiniou2
Whence flows the strongest current Of emf
grafton to the public territory Everybody
knows it is from the North.
Ia what manner viii the election Of Mr.. Bu-
chanan affect our domestic emigration and
cUncomitant "squatter soyerelgnyE In Ire
land the election is hailed as an Irish triuml h
in Americd;"-n Germany it Is "a German
I l.s Ltf i'm
crease very considerably, the number OF cur
European eInigrants. Generally they have
! little money when they arrive, and therefore
hover about the place where they land and
the neighUoring cities. Their restitution im-
pels them to work for any wages they can gel;
aud being lo7g Injured to hardship aud priya
ton, have learned to support family for a
week on a sCm that would not more than sui
flee for Il like !ami Of Americans a single day.
| They VIII come in great numbers during the
next two years,-aud IN proportion, the emit
! gratiOns OF Americans to the West VIII be IN
| creased; and all those crowded out from the
| Northern cities and neighbOring towns VIII be
! in favor of ''squatter sovereignty" aud "Hee
| soil" The foreigners who take their places
| those at least who come FROM despOtlc govern
mentS-fallng in the way OF the Abolition
and Republican eaders, and getting the idea
that they alone are for treedom-are the
Liberty party"-they will join that party.
! The South Is comparatively free from this
trouble. 1t loses also its effects in pUpulauDg
le public territory.
Succeeding in Kansas and Nebraska, this
great tide Of emigrants viii turn southwark,
sweeping over to exas. Tie inducement, in
the Territories farther North and West, will
not for some time be sufficient to desert its
coures in that direction. As soon, therefore,
as the great Northern hive discovers the
success OF those swarms they have sent Oft
thus will every one give his voice for "sqgaJter
sovereignty" But what goes it signify In a
few years both houses of Congress will be OPP
posed to the extension of slavery. Already
some that the South regarded as friends, have
declared themselves anti-slavery and anti
extension men. Even Douglas, Bger aud
Shields, have recently made similar COMES
siOns. Can the South rely on any Northern
man standing by her in the day OF trial, any
far her than he shall deem ii his interest 10 do
sol Ii there be such a man who is her