Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-31
sqaattsr Sovereignty Diaowned by Pres
idemG buchanan.

The Yazoo (Mississippf San of July Z, gen
unine Buchanan Democratic print has the fol-
lowing account of a speech delivered recently, at
that place, by Senator A. G. Brown, who is the
right hand man Of the administration from that
State, in the national councils. The emphatic
aud decisive manner in which he repudiates the
"squatter sovereignty" doctrine, once so loudly
protested by Cass. Douglass, and even Buchanan
himself, and the positiveness and authority with
which Mr.. Brown claims to represent thepresent
opinions and position OF Mr. Buchanan on the
matter, is indicative of the " great change
which has come over the minds of the leading
Democratic statesmen of the country, within the
last few yeats, owing to the domineering demands
of the slave power. Senator Brown claims to
have it from the Presidents own lips, that the
latter declared that " this thing of squatter SOW
ereignty was one of the most damnable heresies
that was ever preached in this or any other coun-
try, and that he [the President would leave
snolhing undone to throttle it." Shade of Cen
eral Cass What is Democracy coming to,
when its once-elaimed Fundamental doctrines"
are thus cruelty repudiated by Democratic
President?
Note particularly, with what junction this right
hand man of President Buchanan at the South
advocates the peculiar tenets of Knov0Noihing-
ISM as sustained by his vote in the Senate on the
Minnesota bill. The fact is, the whole Southern
Democracy are ready, as the votes of their Sem
ators and Representatives in Congress have re.
peatedly shown, to endorse Know Nothingism to
any extent, provided they can make any capital
out Of it for the benefit of their section.
Hear this Senator Brown, as reported by the
XazoO Sun:
In regard to his Minnesota speech, of which
there has been so much said of late, he had but
this to say--he had made the speech, and it was
his intention to stand or fall by it, He did not
believe that foreigners should be allowed to ex
erclse the right of suffrage in the Territories, and
assist in bringing new State into existence, be-
fore they were Daturaized And if any man OBJ
jected to HIM on account Of that speech, he could
do so-he was not going to apologize for giving
expression to the opinion that naturalization
ought to precede citizenship. He had uttered the
very same sentiments in his speech on the Cali
fornia bill, and no person, at that time, thought
he had done anything particularly clever. The
South objected most strenuously to the admis-
sion of California into the Union, because aliens
from every cline, and every creed and color, act.
ing under the advice of Gen. Riley, were allowed
TO assist in framing her constitution, which ex-
ciudss the South from her limits and how any
Southerher, any Democrat, could blame him for
protesting against such a state of things in Min
nesota, he could not dvine-it was beyond his
comprehension.
From this branch of his subject, the speaker
passed to Kanzas affairs, in the discussion of
which Walkers course met with the severest re-
probation at his hands He did not believe that
Mr.. Buchanan would suffer Walker to retain his
place as Governor of that Territory, but if he did
the South would rise up and denounce him as
false to the great principles of the Kanzas bill,
and traitor to her best interests. He, for one,
would do so, and would every true Southern
er. He had heard 1t from the Presidents oso,
Ups, that this thing Of squatter sovereignty s0as
one of the most dImnabte heresieS that soas eueY
6roached IN this or any other country and that he
the President sooaId leaoe nothing qasdone to
throttle 1t. Mr.. B. had told the speaker this in
sincerity, and he believed him. He had no doubt
out that Walkers appointment s0iH be Cancelled
Squatter sovereignty being thus repudiated,
Gov. Walker must be set aside for so far paying
Difference to it as to declare that the people of
Kanzas shall have the right to voice in con.
stitution framed for their own government But
Gov. Walker had not then issued his proclaim
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