Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-12-10
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1858.

very NVuuiOh W htdT cOuherNallNe nlen, OF
al parties, say that the agitation of the
r,avery question must cease; that there is
10 sufficient reason why it should be kept
ap and that it is doing serious injury to
all the interests of the country. But it
is easier to say it must cease than to put
stop to it and a reference to the out
lines of its history will show that it will
never cease whilst locofoco asceudancy
curses the country. The democratic party
has lived upon it, throughout its baneful
existance, and the Republican party owes
its rigin aud existence to the same cause
slavery, with two parties depen-
3ent for support upon that sole issue, it
will at once be seen how very difficult it
is to put stop to slavery agitation. For
more than twenty years, the locofocos, of
the South, have been charging the North
with aggressions upon the institution Of
slavery, and every general election has
turned upon that issue-the programme
having been but slightly varied in any
instance; and during the whole course of
this unnatural and unnecessary struggle,
the avowed object Of both wings of the
party has been a final adjustmen of the
vexed question. But whilst their voice
was for peace, their acti ms have been for
war--ceaseless war, not with each other,
but against all opposition, and for the
possession of the spoIs. The doctrine of
squatter sovereignty, as first promulgated
by Gen. Cass was once the rallying cry of
he southern wing to call to its standard
The enemies of that nefarious doctrine
which defeated its originator, and, for a
time, closed the treasury against locofoco
plunderers. Since that period, squatter
sovreignty has been gaining ground in the
affections of southern locofocos, who laud
Buchanan, one of its most ardent up
holders, and who are, even now, giving a
most enthusiastic welcome to Douglass
The step father ofthe politicalmonster. Then
rs long as the North demands concessions
asainst slavery, and the South grants
hem, it is idle to talk about the cessation
Of the slavery agitation.
The Compromise of 1850 was declared.
by both parties, in Convention, final ad-
.ustmont of the slavery question, and
9th pledged themselves to resist any at
'empt to reopen it, no matter from what
quarter the attempt might come. But as
= rigid observance of this pledge would
have been the death warrant of locofoco-
ISM, that party wantonly and maliciously
Violated it, by the introduction of the
Nansas-Nebraska bill-Stephen A. Doug
1ss being the spokesman of the occasion
Aon the argument was, that all the
outh demanded as a final adjustment,
sea the repeal of the Missouri restriction
nd the recognition of the doctrine of
non intervention-both of which were
sud to be embraced in that bill. The bill
passed, and again the locofoco party pro-
claimed that the slavery question was for
ever settled; but scarcely had the pro-
ol1mation reached the confines of the Re-
public, when Douglass and Pierce declared
that measure of pacificaton n better
security for freedom than the Wilmot
proviso, and Cass hailed it as the triumph
Of sQuatter sovereignty. The contest was
renewed aud with this base treachery
staring them in the face, the South voted
for and elected II President who pronounced
the power of a territorial Legislature over
slavery to be as absolute as that of a
State.
Scarcely had the new Administration
been installed, when Kansas petitioned for
sdmittance into the misunderstanding
all the animosity that has characterized
the slavery agitation; and when tho Eng
I''h bill was passed, again, and for the
thlrd time, the locofocos proclaimed the
question of slavery finally settled; vet, in
the face of this declaration, the cctions,
in the North, turned upon the slavery
question, and Douglass boldly made the
canvass upon grounds adverse to the
South--upholding squattcr sovereignty as
tn" true doctrine, and arguing that it is
the only means by which the bred Scott
decision can be evaded, or nullifed. And
now that southern democracy is uphold
lu' Douglass, and thereby surrcndering
cherished doctrine, as we'll as the benefits
OF the bred Scott decision, what is the
next move to keep up the slavery agta-
..'n' II is nothing moro nor less than
... surrender of the doctrine of non-in-
..roonon and the demand that Congress
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