The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-02-05
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THE SOUTH AND ITS SDANGER.--DEM0CRAC
AND SQUATTER SOVEREIGNTY

demands our attention as poilticni editors,
inusmucl, us it is supposed to be II sort of
rloclS-l,and to Indicate the hour Of the day
on the Democratic dial, thus speaks of a
speech made not long since by Mr.. English,
(Dc,nocrat) of Indiana:
The speech of Mr.. English, delivered in
the House of Representatives OH the l7ll',
which we give entire this morning, is an
able and successful vinlica:ion of the
Northern Democracy from the combined
assaults of Know No,hing> and Black Re-
ya,icans. 1t will be read with both pleas
me anil profit.
l,"riog the delivery Of this speech, MIR.
Englisl. WAS interrupted iy Mr.. M,,sl,all, OF
Kentucky, who a>kcI linn to give his
views on Ill" 'ncrne of Squattcr Snvcr.
eighty Mr.. Marsl,all said he considered
that Mr. buchanan and Mr.. Fremont wcro
equally unreliable on the slavery question,
or, said h", in other words, the doctrine
of exclusion and squat:er sovereignty are
70 Ike stakeholder the same doctrine pre-
ciselv. There stand, and challenge the
t.erttcr,as or his party to meet me here or
elsewhere uh"., that proposition"
Tn reply. Mr.. English said:
am willing to runccde to him and his
party that there is so,nc difference between
the position occupied l'v the Democratic
party at the North aud that occupied 10y
u portion of the Democratic party at the
South, upon the particular question OF poru-
We agree that the will of the people
should be carried out. Where shall we
ascertain that will: \ p"r,ion of the gen
tlcmen from the South hold That the proper
time is when the pr.'p pie meet for the pur-
pose Of forming State Constitution. l
gentlemen generally. 1t is not the posi-
ton of them all. a portion Of them hold,
us do, that the right Of II people begins
ut an earlier rrri.d-that this question is
within their control from the time the or
ganic act is passed and put into operation.
Mr. English sni'l also i'll reply TO ~ qucs-
ton from Mr.. Cuiuback:
] do not know Il man If any party in
Indiana who is in favor Of extending the
institution of slavery But we of the
Democratic party are willin. to allow other
people to do as they rr;.>, OH This ulject.
and hold their own "inn;ons in respect to
it.
When asked further hy Mr. Scott il the
Democracy uf Indiana recognized the legal
existence of slavery in kansas ut this time,
Mr.. English replied that it was question
not yet settled by the courts and lie con-
tinucd:
But prior to that decision I will give
what | understand to he the position OF the
Democratic party in Indiana, and it certainly
is my own, and that is, that they Go not
believe that the Constitution carries the in
stitution of slavery into a Territory. They
think that there must first bc law cstab-
lishius or recognizing the institution be-
fore it can lave any legal existence. Gen
temen might 90 there will, their slaves and
hold them l.y suffrrancc and permission (!)
but apprchend not l.y such legal right
rs could ever be enforced in the courts.
The above extracts deserve to be en-
amined AMI pondcrcd over. They convey
n world OF meaning, direct and indirect,
infercntial and suggestive. Mr.. English is
IL democratic member Of Congress from
Indiana. lie is one of the few who voted
for the ka::s;.s Act, and WAS reelected
lIe has since been again reelected, and
having thus twice passed through the
popular ordeal, is well qualified to speak
for the Democracy of Indiana. This office
lac does ASSUME, and what is the result g
Why, We have the Union, the organ Of the
Administration, present and to come, en-
dorsiny, rs "an able and successful v:ndica.
ton Of Northern Democracy" and as re-
markably readable for both pleasure and
profit" speech Which admits that S.,,,at-
ter Sovereignty is the doctrine of Northern
Democracy and of portion of Southern
Democracy that there is not a man of
the party i'll Indiana WHO is in favor Of the
extension Of slavery: that lie and his con-
stituents do not believe that slavery can
70, under the Constitution. into any of the
Territories without Il law admitting it and,
fianally, as great boon, this vindicator of
Northern Democracy informs us that South
ern gentlemen may go into Kansas and
Nebraska aui hold their slaves by "suffer.
ance and permission" but not by "sucli n
legal right as eau ever 10 enforced III the
Courts"
And has it indeed come to this Is
this the mouse which laboring mountains
have brought forths Or, rather, is this
the ugly, grizzly, grinning, mocking mon-
ster which, after SD long Il travail and SO
much superfuous obstetrical skill and coun-
sci, we are called upon to baptisc and con.
sccrate as the Legitimate offspring Of the
Constitution and the Declaration Of Indie.
pendence? Has the Kansas act so soon
i.eeu turned into III armed adversary against
tho South Shall the Soutl, drink to the
dregs the poisoned chaice wlicl, the cen
tral Democratic organ conmends to it:
lips9
We observe that-naturally enough, un
der the old maxim which implies tt,a
"birds Of IL feather" are generally found
"logether Howell Cobb. the great com
promiser Of Southern rights, the frient
and ally, in 1850, of II. Stuart Foote ant
Jere. Clemens, applauded Mr.. English ir
the course Of his remarks. The latter was
about the middle of his speech presset
by Humphrey Marshall with some difficult
question, be was about to despair of Iii
Successful vindieatioa," and deprecatingl,
said, II know the gentleman is an ex
Ierienccd DICTATOR, and may possibly ge