Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-12-02

From The Southern Representative.
Hon. s. A. smith and his antf.Demo.
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New doctrines are dangerous things,
whether in politics or religion, and should be
especially guarded against when the attempt
is made to replace by them doctrines. time
honored, constitutional, long established and
conservative.
Sometime during the session of Congress in
1856, Mr.. ORR, of s. c., "a prominent and
electioneering candidate for Speakership of
the House of Representatives, give publicity
to sentiments repugnant to the South. and
wholly foreign to his natal soil. These senti-
| menis were received with regret and disap-
poiR tment by the State Rights democracy
Sonth. and were forgotten as an error OF
| Judgment, coupled with the great desire 10
become Speaker. Other Southern gentlemen
were afflicted in a similar manner to Mr.. ORR,
and their better judgments were swayed,
and they, in gusto of National fervor. fol-
lowed in his wake. Amongst these gentle
men were GEO. o. JONES and S. a. SMITH, of
! Tennessee.
These sentiments were in substance. ''that
a Territory. whilst in Territorial state, had
the right to exclude slavery" This was,
and is. an Acknowledgement of that most
odious of all heresies ''Squatter Sovereignty"
Ia doctrine that the true democracy have
| ever denied and repudiatcd. The matter was
| suffered to pass without much comment. but
/ should have been then and there met at the
| Threshold aud denounced as an innovation
| upon the principles of the democratic parry.
| This dangerous doctrine has slept until the
apostacy OF DOUGLAS revived it in bis late
| contest in Illinois. DOUGLAS used this new
! doctrine with SO much adroitness and Skin
during this campaign, that it has almost II
! not entiI ely become the sentiment Nortn anu
the success of DOUGLAS has emb0idened or
gans of the party South. with numerous
politicians, TO declare that 1T is the correct
| doctrine. If the democratic party does
endorse such a heresy. it had as well surreh-
der to the Black Republicans, for II is really
and ernphatically the doctrine OF that party:
| Ii is at utter variance with the decision vi
| bred Scott. and the Constitution Itself. why!
| The Dread Scott decision declared that tne
| Territories are the common properly ol ali
the State, ergo, any State has the rlgh' "
! carry into these Territories proPer'y
| coonized by the Constitution. The Con
| stiturion recognizes sidUe property, nut
according to Mfr. DOUGLAS. MIR. ,. A: SMITH,
and all of that ilk. slavery, if carried into the
| Territories, must have some ''pottce regutduoh
To nrotact it. Why not '.police regulation to
protect other property? The common law OF
| the land protects property In the territories
as it does everywhere; and the Constitution is
! snecifc on the subject. Besides, there Is the
|
| nullity in some States,) enacted Tor Inc
purpose of protecting slave property from the
| vandal hand of the free-soiler, and reclaim
| inc Them TO their lawful owners. Is this not
..,,o,;c, r,ouLation" enough? But what does
| Hon. S. A. SMITH say in speech delivered IN
| Congress, in June 1856:
IL have never regarded the difference OF
| opinion between northern and southern gen
| tIemen. upon sauatter sovereignty, as OF any
inheritance. | have held that in Territori-
| al canacity the settlers had not the right to
| exclude slavery Yet a majority of the peO-
nile in a Territory will decide the question af-
| ter all. In Territory we must have laws
not 10 establish, bit TO protect tie institution Of
slqUerv. and if a majority of the people OF Ter
ritory are opposed 10 The institution, they 'etH re-
fuse 10 pass iq,cs for lis protection, and ,cH not
40 there. If, on the contrary, they are in favor
of il. they will pass laws for its protection,
and it will go there. 1t will go there or not,
accordinq 10 the popular seneament OF the people
of the Territory"
Does the democracy of this Congressional
District endorse sentiments like these? If
they do. there is certainly close relationship
to Black Republicanlsm. Such sentiments
are treason uttered in the Democratic camp,
whether by Douglas, Orr, Cobb, Jones, or ),
A. Smith. If this sentiment is to be adopted
by those calling themselves National Demo
Gratis in the future and this odiOus heresy of
Squatter Sovereignty (for it is nothing else.)
is to become one ofthe basis principles of the
democratic party, then we say abandon
at once the time-honored principles OF
Jefferson and Calhous, and hoist the pratt
cal flag of Black Republicansm, for it VIII. if
adopted by the Democracy, surely lead this
great party. tattered and torn by dissenters,
demagOgues and traitors, into the camp oil
Seward. There is none so mighty as to stay
tho otorn,. tbarafore we warn the democracy
and more especially we warn the people of
the South, to repudfate at once this Douglas
heresy of '.police protection to slavery in the
Territories. as dangerous and damning to
their interests. their homes. their institutions
and to their posterity. Repudiate at once
and for all time, any man from the South
who dares to utter such sentiments.