The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-07-25
;..stter Sovereignty the Best Freesoil
scheme Yet Proposed.

al, known that both parties in the
s-...s h.ve alvsys denounced Squateer Sow
srs;gn.v Is equally liable to constitution
:, objections as the wilmot Proviso, and as
-. : .f,c;eut means for excluding the South
-. - -, terr;tories and defeating them to
freesol.
q assn vas this conviction, that under the
;nna,lse Of self-protection the people OF the
sonth looked with no degree of federation up
Is .nv man seeking their suffages upon whom
rested a hare suspicion of sympathy for the
doctrine. c.L..,,-a on;-
ed tbe charge in 1858 that his Nicholson let
- cave eountenance to the heresy, and yet
| 4 Lost him several of the strong Democratic
States and destroyed his prospects for the
Presidency. Even in Mississippi it was hard
| 10 hear him mp under the crushing weight OF
such charge, and the task would have been
impossible had not Gen. Foote (who was then
a member Of the Democratic party and upon
| its electoral ticket asseverated upon his per-
sonal honor, thathe had the authority of Gen
Casshimself for denying the Squatter SoVer
| eighty Interpretation ofthe letter.
| This has always been the position OF tn
South, and none knew it better than tn
/ Soule,s, Forsyths and other renegades VIII
are now calling down upon their heads tn
execrations of their former political associate
: and whose only compensation is the appiaus
of the freesoil enemies of their own States
D Before the tide of political affairs, sweeplr
!, onward. left the erratic Frenchman high upe
a sand-bank to mourn his fortunes, he WI
! fierce and bitter in his denunciations OF Squa
ter Sovereignty; and as for his unfortuna
! confederate, Forsyth, who has sunk the hie
. toned State Rights champion into grovellil
B & wretched instrument of Douglasism, no MI
: contributed more, according to his capacity,
b create the spirit of opposition to the heresy
3 the South which is crushing him beneath
: load of obioquy from which long years Of
!. 4 uentance will not rescue him.
h That Northern freesoilers easily und
\, = stand why Southern men have always hat
st and rejected this heresy, does not admit
% doubt. They know its merits as me
ns Of driving the South from the territories
Already it has been warmly embraced
he Eli Thayer as q more potent agent in
O hands Of the enemies of the South, than G
c. gressional prohibition. Thayer is BL
IN Republican member of Congress from N
TN sachusetts-the author Of the Abolition Z
grant Aid system which drove the South Fl
eeo Kansas--and the man who, upon announc
his advocacy of Squattef Sovereignty in lie
g. Wilmot Proyisoisrn, received the warm c
ordinations of the candidate of the free
~ bogus Democracy for the Presidency. I'll
are other indications Of growing DISPOSE
on the part of the anti-slayery agitator
abandon their old platform Of Congressi'
: s. prohibition, and embrace in its stead tina
Mr.. Douglas as more available one for
purposes. To shew the progress of this
the we copy the following significant remark
|, of the New York Times, one OF the lea
4 of presses IN the interest Of the Black Rep
can party:
Mr.. Douglas is the champion of POI
eek Soyereignty-and whether that doctrine
was any warrant in the Constitution, in legal
cedents. in the opinions of the Fathers, OF
it has . very strong hold upon the POI
hea instincts. The great mass of the peopI
all sections, whatever may be their opil
upon its legal validity, recognize it as .
lust and safe way of solving very dit
problem. Let the people of every teri
. or decide for themselves whether they will
are slavery among them or not; let Congress
- the Federal Government abandon all atte
a.'1 either to force it upon them, or to pr,
'ntie- them from admittingit; this, if not the hi
ng to Constitutional ground, is ground which
mt of fies the instinct of nine-tenths OF the A
-. can people. it were generally felt tn
'PoS l adoption of this policy depend upon the
eWs- ton OF Mr. Douglas, he would be yer
afBzf midaDfe candIdate. but It IS not. Inc
Two is, the slavery question aciH be settled o
- If basis, whatever party may come into
This is, under any circumstances, to
} ma practical solution of the difficulty. III
State publican party has asserted, thought
~ re- fed form, the abstract power Of Congress
:. - slavery to the Territories; but it is no
i'o " mitted to its existence nor is there one
'ciate, in twenty that any occasion will arise
with its exercise would be OF service to tns
three Of freedom.