Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-05-11

MONDAY, MAY IL, 1857.


KansAs as n Free State-Tbe Practical
operation of Alien SuffaRe and Squat.
ter Sovereignty.
Under the deceitful guise of popular SOW
ereignty, as defined to be the right of the
people acting under the promptings of a
high civilization and permanent society,
TO regulate their own institutions in their
own way-a right which none in this coun-
try dispute-the democratic party has in.
augurated and riveted upon the country,
the sophistical and ruinous doctrines of
Alien Suffrage and Squatter Sovereignty.
Under the still more deceitful claim to ma
tionality as party, an under the ror ct
PrstereG Mill professions of peculiar friend
ship for the South and its institutions. the
same party has betrayed the true intere, is
of the South and the Union into the hands
OF its adversaries and is now ministering
to its overthrow, by thorough sectionali-
cation of the country. Urged on by an
ardent lust for power and plumber, reckless
OF everything, save party supremacy, it
has been eminently successful in fOrmenting
strife, and in uniting extremists of every
section in their fanatical crusade against
the vital interests Of the Republic. The
unprincipled duplicity of the leaders of
that party, has SO far developed itself that
is beginning to be seen and felt by the
most casual observer of political events.
In nothing, perhaps, more than in the
question of Slavery as related to the cree
ton of the present territory of Kansas into
a State, has the truth of these remarks
been more palpably manifest. To the de-
mocracy belongs exclusively the infamy of
conducting the disgraceful affairs of this
unfortunate territory, from first to last; and
to them will belong the deep Indignation
of the people of the South on account of
being chseled and intrigued out of the
rights of citizens, in going to and mould
ing the institutions of that territory.
During the last Presidential contest this
party proclaimed that it alone was the
guardian and protector of Southern rights
in the territories. 1t was successful, and
now let US see the verifcation of its pro-
feSsions. The first subject to which the
attention of the new Chief Executive was
turned, after the primary one of dividing
the SpoilS, was that of Kansas. Happily
the disturbances which had grown out of
the never-tO be- pardoned blunders of his
predecessor, had been tranquilized. The
Legislature of the territory had met, and
passed law, providing for taking the Gen.
Sus, and the election of delegates to a
convention to form a State constitution
This act had stipulated that this conven-
ton should fairly reflect the sentiments of
the bona tide residents of the territory, by
declaring that no person should be allowed
to vote for delegates, who had not been
resident for three months prior to the cleo
ton, and 10hO Das not a cit,zen Of the United
States This had, as far as it was possible,
put quietuS upon alien suffrage and squat
ter sovereignty. This did not, of course,
suit the Free Kansas" supporters of Mr..
BUCHANAN in Pennsylvania and other
Northern States, and hence, a trick must
be resorted to, to satisfy the democracy of
the North and at the same time hoodwink
the democracy of the South An expedent.
was ready. The Presidents Inaugural--"a
political love'letter, written in the raptures
of the honeymoon" says one of our demo-
cratic changes-furnished the specific
Squatter Sovereignty was passed tenderIy
over and alien suffrage was introduced in
to the family, with every mark of affection
and regard. 1t was christened from the
East Portico of the National Capitol, and
Southern democrats threw up their hats
and shouted 10 TriUmphe! This was we'll
The next article in the programme was to
secure proper instrument to execute the
plot. This was more adroitly done than
anything which had gone before. ROBERT
j. WALKER, Pennsylvania by birth, for
many years a resident at the South, but
latteriy resident by choice, of Black Re-
publican New York, and a man of no mean
ability, was deputed to the GovernorShip; f.
p. STANTON, also anative and long resident
at the South, Secretary of State. So
Indispensable was theappointmentot WALK
Err, TO the success of the scheme, that no
refusal could be heard. Thus is the South
silenced. BY this process the wool came
down over Southern eyes, with all the
sOftness and gentleness of the cygnet'S
down. Gov. WALKER accepts; but owing
to his operations in Wall Street, was un-
able to leave for the scene of his duties
till the llth Of May. STANTON goes out as
the aUaHat courier, temporary governor.
He writes an address to the people, pledg-
ing himself and the Governor, to carry out
the inaugural, that ut as the Imperative duty
of the goperRment 10 SECURE 10 epery resident
inhabitaHt, the free and Independent oppression
Of his opinion By his rOte." With this un.
Outstanding the n Y. Post, the Pittsburg
Journal, and other Black Republican jour
mails, express their entire satisfaction at the
turn things are taking. Some of their
short-sighted papers, not looking beyond
the narrow horizon of the the present mo-