The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-07-06
How an era Of good feeling may be
established between the Anti-slaye<}
4 and the Pro-slavery Parties,

from Northern anti.sgaEer ~. : = !.
sns iseo ~ :. s. e - South that the Oh
s..e" : =. - ) Enlisted in the crusad
-. - zI'.'r slts. is everywhere abandonin
= l5s.Il1e Of Congressional prohibition I
sls<sFy for the Douglas dogma Of unfriendl,
tefrtorial legislation or squatter sovereignty
Particular reference has been made to til
platforms adopted BY the Black Republican
Of Maine and Pennsylvania respectively.
These platforms clearly indicate the currenf
of anti-slayery sentiment Intends unmista
keably towards the Douglas dogma, as a mort
speedy and effective mode of depriying the
South Of her right to an equal enjoyment Of
the territories and Of preventing the admis-
SON Of new slave States. than the Wilmot
Proviso.
All the Democratic party has to do, there
fore, to put an end to hostilites between the
two sections-to arrest the war between Black
Republican 6naticism and Southern Rights
ism, and to establish an era Of good feeliny
between JEFF. Davis & CO., on the one hand
and Seward & Co, on the Others to agree
70 the conditions upon which Douglas kindly
consents to accept a Presidential nomination
Let the party endorse sQuatter soyereiar1,Il
and the millennium EiIkan1Sce =
distracted country. FOn
standing upon Tbs eontending hosts
ulriuuk9 same platform; they will |
sf peace. and Arc--as-r-u-,stt
srsi;c will Tor once repose in cordial en-
brace.
n addition to the evidence already adduced
.osbow that the Black Republicans are assum-
10 the position here indicated, we submit the
following from the New York Courier and
ENQUIRER, one of their ablest and most inhu-
entail organs. In late issue, it holds this
language:
We observe that the late Republican State
Convention in Ohio, as did the Peoples State
Convention which has Just adjourned in
| Pennsylvania, while they took the firmest
stand against the further extension of slavery,
vet RETAINED from any re-afiirL alton of the
| duty of Congress to inteFpose positive legisla-
/ tion to this end. The doctrine of the Wilmot
Proyiso, or of Congressional prohibition in any
/ shane. was not mootcd; and no commitment
i was made in reference to it one way or the
other. We also observe that the late Reppb-
4 lican Convention in Kansas, while it with
1eoual emphasis expressed itself against slave
try.extension, get took open ground IN fauor Of
I CONGRESSIONAL no1l-iaterUealtion.
The fact is unquestonable that, during the
last two or three years. there has been grow
inr unconcern in the Republican party nor IN
ysgqrd to principles, bsa in regard 10 methods.
The doctrine Of Congressional prohibition OF
. slavery was most explicitly affirmed by the
National Republican Convention of 1856
we doubt whether the National Republican
Convention of 1860 viii have word to hy
anon the suhiect-not that the great BODY of
| the Convention will not be as fully ASSURED as
!. eyer Of the constitutional right of Congress IN
!, the premises but that the question will rob-
Z Iably have become a barren abstraction upon
which il will be both unnecessary and uwlse
E to raise an ISSUE The object to be scored IS
4 the confinement Of slavery to its preset Inn
Its; If that can Je as e9e5taally occonsliShed
!" 54 the attioa of tie people of the Terribfes as
5y he acton Of Congress, there is no ret cause
for quarrel bettcee1a the opponents of s5eHsior.
,e 1t is growing feeling among the Republican
i masses that the superior numbers antactrvlty
Of the North will, in the natural purse OF
things send into every ne,g 1ss7Tt5E,a NORTH
OF eyn and free Stots population ichiehg let olose
by tie Federal Government might 6S5fssHaf SS g
he'd npon to uose dozen all plans to nst1ee
1. Sae
The great practical end, SIS 70 conceive, Is
at to prevent the Federal GS<nment irom ex-
,e crossing any positive senee OF agency IN
!. 49, of slavery .-<rf barely that which the
Cons pfescrbes That once accom-
tsSpfisha1 tIlere need not be the slightest fear
that slavery oyerstep its present limits 1t
Il can never do so, unassisted. A Republican
President of course would afrerd no such as
sistance /; and this simple negative service, in
our estimation, more than all other benefits
4 combined, will constitute the value of such
zssessisrat in rsfaras.ss tAiA great ssahiect
q We Therefore receive with satisfaction all suct
tokens of liberal feeling and enlarged policy
as were exhibited by the recent Conventions
and have confidence that similar spirit vii
rule to the end
So much for what the Black Republican,
, of Maine, Pennsylvania, Ohio, &c, are doing
: and so much for the anti-slavery results wiist
!. they confidently expect to derive from tn
j practical operation Of the squatter sovereignt.
. doctrine, as set forth BY an avowed Black Re
publican journal.
And what says the Philadelphia Press
!. which, is the mouth piece of the pseudo Dem
ocratic champions of squatter sovereignty =
/, It thus bears testimony to the fruits which
has brought forth in the interest of anti-sla
: very: :,
o We see no reason why the people of tn
!. North should complain of the practical ops
ration of the doctrine of popular sovereignty
N made CaEitoTnia a free State. ana. 1t IS SCI
e tied, beyond all donbt, that Kansas and Nebrdsk
eon ,,essr Je slave States Il abolished SLAYER
= in seven Of the thirteen original colonies, an
r Il ,eiU prsuent tie establishment Of slavery
1t al The unsettled Territories Of the Union, e
cept those aohie7s may be occupied almost erct'
: siyely by slaveloaaag eaaigrants gia astsaes a.
peesiiarlg adapted to SLAVE labOr. 1t IS iounde
= upon the eternal principles OF justice and
ID will prevail in the future as 1t has preyaiie
in the past, in spite OF all the matchmaker
i against it, and the bubbles, subteriuges, hai
splitting distractions, and frivolous pfeteX
upon which they assail It. Repeatedly san
ie toned by the American people 1t Will aga
and again be sanctioned by them, unul
party shall dare to rise up TO oppose u, a
er until zealots OF al seetiVns HiA ~ ~ 80
: acknowledge the futiiity OF all efforts to u
dernine it.
r Is the South prepared to accept the platfor
ct here described, which has been so prolific
IS abolition results in the past and is 50 full
of abolition promises for the future If So
her proclaim the fact and the sectional war
far at least as slavery in the territories a
L the admission of slave States are concerned
rs at an end.