Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-08-29
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SATURDAY. AUGUST 90, 1857.
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President Buchanan was elected by the aid Of
Northern votes, on the assurance, held out to his
supporters throughout the free States, that he
was in favor Of "squatter sovereignty prinei.
pies. Having been elevated to his present posi-.
ton on such plea, we find President Buchanan,
according to the testimony Of Elk Gov. A. G.
Brown, Democratic United States Senator from
Mississippi declaring to the latter, one of the most
intimate and confidential supporters of his ad
minisuation at the South, that 'squatter sover-
eienly is one Of the most damnable heresies ever
preached in this or any other country, and that
he means to leave nothing undone to throttle it,
This is Mr.. Buchanan's Southern face, and is,
undoubtedly, the true index to his course, as de-
clared to that section Of the Union on which he
most leans for support.
Alexander H. stephens of Georgia, who has
just been reelected to Congress as the regular
Democratic candidate and exponent of President
Buchsnan's administration, gives in recent let
ter the following exposition Of the ''squatier SOW
ereignty' theory, as claimed by the Northern De-
mocracy in the last Presidential contest, to be
contained in the Nebraska bill -
.sAnd as for the 'squatter sovereignty feature,
that was nothing but a fancy Of the brain from
the beginning which conjured up some
time afterwards-about the time It was discovered
thatthe only defenders of the bill at the North,
with few exceptions, were Democrats No such
principle, however, was in the bill This was
concnsively shown during the canvass last year,
and is now generally ADMITTED. In fact, the main
argument last year was not soimuch to show that
any such principle was really in the bill, as to
prove that such was the Northern construction of
it."
Mr.. Stephens has a correct view Of the matter,
as the forced construction put upon the Nebraska
bill by the Northern Democracy, in the last Pres
idential contest, and the partial success attending
the appeals to the people in support of such fore
ed construction, in certain quarters at the North,
proved. Mr.. Buchanan's letter of acceptance was
ambiguously worded, for the especial object as it
would seem, Of admitting of two interpretations
Of its meaning-one for the North, in favor of
"squatter sovereignty" and an opposite one for
the South, against it-and both interpretations
were claimed to be equally deducible from the
principles of the Nebraska bill, which served as
the common shibboleth of Democratic rallying.
At the North, Mr.. Buchanan was represented as
especially anxious to allow the people of Kanzas
fair play in the regulation of their own domestic
affairs, while at the South, the true object and
intent Of The Nebraska bill were represented to
be as follows, according to Mr.. Stephens, in his
letter defining the ''true principles on which the
administration is supported in that section of the
Union, where President Buchanan obtained much
the largest share of votes in his election:
sit was to prevent the general government
from having anything to do with or exercising
any influence over the formation of the constitu
ton OF the States, either for against slave.
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South unlimited right of expansion to the almost
extent of her capacity. More than this, she has
no reason to ask. And with this, she has moth
ing to fear now or hereafter either from British
phflanghropists' or American abolitionists, or
the moral sentiment of Christendom' Secure
in her own State institutions, without the power
of molestaton on the part of the federal author.
tiles; with the full enjoyment of the right grow
as the country grows, to enlarge as that enlarges
and TO carry her slave population whereuer CHI
mate SOIL, and productions, mute them, in our
immense public domain, she has nothing to fear
from any quarter"