Daily national Democrat., 1859-10-05
Southern Sentiment in favor of Douglas.

Southern Sentiment in favor of Douglas.
T.. B. Flournoy. n wealthy planter and
slave owner, and prominent politician, in
Arkansaw, has come out boldly in favor OF
the position assumed by Stephen a. Douglas
on the slavery Question. lie says.
"Of our Northern Democrats, think Doug
las Is regarded as the strongest. This Terri
torIal question then which we have been dis
cussing uarrows itself at last down to this
/ single point. If the inhabitants Of Terri
tory are pro slavery in sentiment, they viii
guard and protect the institution hy sucl
laws as will give to it a vigorous and health
ful growth. If public sentiment is the other
way, they will 50 embarrass the institution
10y unlrieudiy legislation. or 10y 10 legislation
al ALL as To cause it to have a puuy and
scky existence, and all the Congressional
Intervention on earth will never remedy it,
Then what will be the practical result Of this
thing?
All the Territory now belonging to the
| United states. and in the future to be mem
| bers of the Coniederacy, lie up in the north
[ west, except the Indian Territory, lying west
/ Of Arkaus a.. Circumstances so cOusl,ire rs
10 shortly make it the interest of those
/ Indians 10 sell and of the United States
to buy. Slavery is already established, aud
/ all the elements necessary To its success com
/ Uiue to keep it there. 1t Is large enough for
one State or more and will as certainly be a
slave State. If left to the people themseivet
TO determine when they come into the Union
as that they do come into the Union pro
vided we can keep clear of all intery ention
on the part of Congress, aud it will be IA,
certain TO go the other way if Congress in
.eryeues.
With these facts before onr eyes, with the
doctrine of Congressional Intervention estab
/ iished, no man Of ordinary intelligence car
/ believe the South has the remotest chauc,
/ Tor one foot of all that Immense Territory
/ large enough for five States. owned 10y til,
/ United States in the northwest Then tn,
/ whole thing narrows itself down TO the di-
meusions OF a nutshell aud is embraced ii
this single PROPOSE ion; With Congressional
n ln-interveution the South will certainly re-
tain all the Territory west of Arkansas
amounting to one or two States and have a
chance for "a State or more Of the northwest
while, with Congressional Intervention, we
may, and think the chances are, that tn,
South will lose ALL How then is it possible
southern men can hesitate between inter and
non Intervention for it is simply question
of whether the South shall have part Ger
tain, with chances for the balance, or nc
chance at all for any"
In the same article, which is in the nature
of an address to the Southern people, he de.
siguates those men who are in the habit o
denouucing Douglas, as "Sn,aH politicians"
Col. Flournoy is not alone in these view:
in the South. The slme sentiments are en-
tertained 10y such men as Soule. Forsythe
Wright, and host of other Southern lead
ers. They perceive, full well, that Dough-,
is occupying the same ground that was taker
by John G. Calhoun, in his celebrated speecl
on the Oregon Bill, and proclaimed ugair
and again in his public efforts The doctrine
Of non intervention is in fact the great lead
ing feature of that policy for which he wished
the South to contend as the policy of the
Federal Government.
Col Flournoy does not believe that the
Constitution of the United States warrants
any Congressional intervention on the subject
Of slavery in the Territories. He believes
that that instrument confines the powers G
Congress, on the subject of slavery, to tive
simple propositions, the Fugitive Slave Law
ana the Federal Basis. Beyond this lini
Congress has no power whatever, and he de-
ties the advocates of interv ention to find
solitary clause in the Constitution in an,
manner enlargins that limit, either in ex-
press terms or by implication.
But the Southern friends of Douglas fine
their most conclusive argument outside o
any constitutional question. They find it il
the wisdom of that policy which, if carried
out, will secure to the South what she already
has, and give heran equal chance with the
North in what is yet to be acquired By re.
turning to the old doctrine OF Intervention,
the principle of the Missouri Compromise
might be restored, which Compromise at one
dash took away from the South the entire
territory of the Union lying north of SO de
grees and 80 minutes. Other lines might
/ hereafter be run which would rob the South
ern portion of the Union of all that rich ter.
I '''N'9 'NN ONNNl4SN ~ WV NlNhtAtu dHN
wealthy Indian tribes, who own very large
number of slaves, and who will some day
consent to have their country Incorporated
into the Union as States. Ii noninterven-
tion prevails, these States, numbering some
four or 1--WE, will all be slav eholding States
and greatly strengthen the political power 0
the Southern section of the Union. Tn,
southern friends of Douglas see how Iidicu
lous it would be to sacrifice such prospec
as this upon the barren question of an ab
stract right of the Federal Government t.
protect the property of few shareholders il
a territory which never can be anything bu
free and where the majority of the peopl
are hostile to the institution Of slavery. 4
like prospect is afforded the South in muel
Of the territory already belonging to th,
Union and in by far the greater portion o
that most likely to be acquired in the cours,
Of the present generation.
No FURTHER USE FOR HIN.-Speaking Sen
atorially, the Butte Record says:
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