Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-12-08

lta c Ssd Tn the re-QuOJaIlOn DelOW, WOulu ho6 have used it, as there was better evidence at hand A portion of the letter contains doctrines to which we never have and never will sub scribe. But, so far as he went, the author was in opposition to the abolitonSts, which was the thing we had in view to demonstrate, and especially that portion of the letter which our contemporary omitted to copy; as follows;
 "Upon this subject deem the public mind to be substantially settled in the full determin- ation to leave slavery to be dealt with by the laws of the several localities where it has its existence. With it, we in Massachusetts have nothing to do save to letit alone. or to treat 1t in our rolitical as we do in our business rela- tions wherein we buy and sell the products of slave labor, and furnish our own fabrics for its support, thus recognizing the institution as an existing fact, for which we in no way re- sponsible, and because of which we, in no way, disturb ourselves save to sell our brogans and negro clothes for the use of the slave as dearly as possible and to buy it's cotton and sugars as cheaply as we can'
 The Gazette of this city, at whom the article was aimed, failed to detect the heresy in Mir. Buffers letter which we confess we had over looked and whi ch in point of fact was not sefta al to the argument we were advancing, but ho@ Lad it kindly pointed out to him. We are ra her surprised at the State Rights Democrat coming to the relief Of the Gazette, and do not suppose such an event could have occurred under its former editorial management. Our copying the letter, with these remark, and none others, called forth the follow ins editorial in the State Rights Democrat:
 "Squatter Sovereignty in Arkansas
 It has been our strong desire to have 10 con troversv with democratic cotemporaras, and we wish none now. But when one of them mis-tatea the position of our party, in a matter involving important principle, i .s both our right and our duty to point cut the error. that 1t may be retracted, if attributable to inadver- tsnce, or that its propagator may bs repudjated, if 1t be persisted in This sufficiently explains our course in the present instance.
 A leading editorial iu tine Little Rock True Democrat of the 17th inst, quotes at some length, from a etter recently written bg Mr. f. F. Butler, of Massachusetts. Part of that letter, as quoted by the True Democrat, is in the fol- lowing words:
 q believe it to be an essential element oftho democratic creed aGd promulgated at Cinc;n- nati. in 1856, a>Swell as plainly deducible from the doctrines of the "Father of th" Republic" one to which every living democratic states man has, at some period, pledged himself that | the people of every community, who associate themselves upon tho territory of the United 'tates and obtain sufficient numbers 30 a, to be rganized into territorial government, have a ight by their legislation, under the consttu- on, to manage all their domestic institutions | their own way. or in other words; 10 deter nine for themselves fully the status of society l nder which thev will live, and that this right | ontiEues until the formation of such territory l 1to state when it is conceded by all. Then. | laves, being decided to be property by the sr-
 rene court in the states where slavery exists | y local law, are protected as such in the terri
 ories, as far as the several states, giving the | master the right to hold them while there is | o territorial legislation on the subject with | he further right to remove them within a | easonahle time after legislation is had that di- |
 ests him of his property by law declaring | hem free.
 This would put the rights of the south upon heir true constitutional basis leaving the pub | lie domain fairly open to competition and emi- | grafton; permitting the question of bond or freq to be settled by the natural laws of inter- | est and profit, or by the newly formed commu. nifty, as soon as it is of ability to settle any other question of government policy retaining in the | shareholder, who had brought his property up- on the public land under the protection of the | constitution, the right to take it away if in dan- ger of being divested oft by territorial legsla- tion More than this the south ought not to ask; more than this the north ought not to grant +b hold that by carving his slave into unoccuped nd unorganized territory the master valves
 is right to him, so by this act he would be | mancipated.''
 If we are capable of correctly constrlug | lain English, the above language of Mr But 1 er means, that territorial legislature has the ame power over slavery in territory that | ate legislature has over slavery in Q siate,--
 more, no less. A fair and impartial read i lg of the extract will force any mind to the ad- | mission that We interpret it properly. It is ! equally evident that Mir Butler holds that this [ legislative jurisdiction extends over to the di- rect abolition of slavery.
 To show bow this Butler theory would one | rate. we will suppose that tbe Indian country | west of Arkansas is purchased by the United States and organized by al act of Congress AS a i territory. ch3lding southerners, in con- 1 stantly increasing numb bers, pour into the fertile i regions thus opened to slave labor. The emi- grant aid society Of New England becomes alarmed at the prospect of a new slave state being added to tie Unon. The sewers of the abolition cities are .raked of their contents,-a mighty host of lousy fanatics are thus fished up and banded together,-and soon, under he leadership of some abolition Peter the Hermit, they march to the new western territory, cru sadinc for freesoi Al the first territorial elec- ton the issue is made at every precinct, and the result is the election of free soil legisa- ture. That legislature passes an act abolishing slavery in the territory. Mir. Butler says that would be valid and constitutional law From his decision, the wronged southern settler ap peals to the editor of the " True Democrat" the potential organ of the Arkansas democracy, for aid and comfort What is the editors re- sponse? According to our understanding of bis editorial of the 17th, his reply Is, uaat lfr Butler IS yigh,-that his opinion tn tte premises exactly accord aci that o the southern democracy! But" asks the outraged settler. < have we no remedv.-none whatever?'' "Oh yes" an- swers the editor of the "Trine Democrat" you have remedy,-one invented and patented, expressly for your benefit in this emergency. by that immaculate "Democrat,' Mir. B. F. Butt Ter of Massachusetts, right to qet out of the territory as fast as you canf
 Ard this is the "True Demouats'' standard