Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1859-06-01

Prote, hon Of !Slrre property IN TeFHor1cs-LeHG
from Senator BrOlrn.

Prote, lion Of Sire property IN lerFaor'cs-heHe'
from Senator BrO,rn.
TERRY lIINps Co Miss, April IA, 1888.
To The Editors Of the True Southron In your
dolv issue of the 18th, obs rve an article head
rJ :rhe Douglas Pamphlet cmbr-" ing an ex-
tract from the Cincinnati Enquirer, which
such Injustice is done me rs to make it proper
that should ask the courtesy OF being allowed
very briefly to reply. OF course do not mean
to intimate that you have done meany "fenAoAG'
injustice.
The phamplet referred to was courtcDusly sent
to me bv Senator Douglas. and is now before me:
II issued from the press after the adjournment OF
tLa Senate and was not seen by me until wlthlh
thn lasf week. 1t is entitled The "Spcech OF lhe
Uon. $. A. Douglas in the Senate OF the United
State. Feb. %, 1859, in reply to the Hon. a; u
brown, of Mississippi he." Before proceeding
TO notice the points on which feel that injustice
has been done me, ] beg to remark that the ap-
pendix to this pamphlet was never read or other-
wise exhibited in the Senate, but seems 10 navy
beer attached BY Senator Douglas IN his speech
uith view to strengthen the positions taken by
him So far as it has Il tendency to accomplish
fhnt object | admit the justness and legitimacy
~ I;s corrse. If, however, | had been ADVISED OF
lis nuruoss to publish such an appendix, l.
sbouid have saved myself and you the trouble OF
this exclamation bv Il timely correction to MI
Douclas himself OF 50 much thereof as refers TO
mc ,... 49,,
On page 25 of the pamphlet he introduces an
.sextract of a speech of the Hon. \. u. brown
of Mississippi, delivered in the [. D Senate
July 2.1S56 - On referring TO the 'arpenalN
to the Congressional GloJc, 3lth Congress ISL
session page SOL - find the quotation to be from
A few brief remarks Of mine, in reply 10 MT
Toucey, then a Senator from Connecticut, ana
now Secretary of the Navy, and to zen. Cass'
then Sena or from Michigan, and now secretary
of State on the general question ot admitting
Kansas as a State, but more particularly and cS-
rccially on the point of rejecting certain iro-
S,rcyI and other, to them. obnoxious laws, pass
cd short time before by the Territorial legsla-
/ ture of Kansas. They insisting their rejection
and opposing on the ground that 1t would be
an infraction of thar ivnrte theory OF mon IN
tcrvention and popular Sovereignty At that
Gav Mr. Douglas, Mr. CaSs, Mr.. Toucey, and,
: believe, every Northern Democrat, some South
ern men. and. of course, all the Republicans
rrorosed to s'Intervene," and blot ont the laws
the popular sorcrGcns in Kansas. They sald the
laws were odious, but observed that mOstol them
were pro-slavery laws, and half suspected that
a good deal of their '.odIum' came out OF that
\ circumstance. At all events, | called loudly on
the friends of mon -interreHhOH and s7uatteI
\ sorereisnfv,'' to stand by their doctrines, bu'
they refused to do it-Mr. Douglas, Gen. Cass
and Mr. Toucey taking the lead. And now, or
sooth paragraph is snatched from an oh-hant
speech Of mine in general skirmish, and hele
np as an evidence that was at that day the al
yocate-of these beresies. | never for single
moment fsltErs3 in nv opposition 70 these 51loai