The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-08-01
What Southern Men are Accomplish.
ing BY Supporting Douglas and
Squatter Sovereignty.

In our last paner we quoted from leading |
Black Republican journal, the N. Y. Times,
to show that the practical application OF the
heresy of Squatter Sovereignty would operate
as effectively for the exclusion of the South
from the territories, as the Wilmot Priviso
ITSELF This idea is followed up by another
leading Black Republican journal in the arti-
Gle which we copy below.
It will be seen that the Tribune lays much
stress upon the fact that this heresy has at
last found favor even among small number
of Southern men, when few years ago, it
was universally rejected by all parties in the
South as dangerous innovation upon the
Constitution, and potent instrument of mis-
chief in TIN hands Of her enemies. 1t says
with entire truth that the support of Douglas
necessarily carries with it 3 Reputation of the
doctrines of Calhoun and other Southern
Statesmen Of the orthodox school; and that
those who rally around his standard must ne
cessarily make war upon the doctrine of the
property into the common territory and to be
protected in Its enjoy ment by the Federal
Government, as the citizen of the North, IS
under like circumstances, entitled to protec-
ton with whatever property he may choose
to sold there. In this position, our abolition
assailants, have perceived at once readiness
on the part of the Southern men who have
joined in the Douglas movement to place
slavery under the ban Of the Government and
to accept for their own section EcOndition of
inequality and degradation in the Union.
The injury which these hctionists are
thereby rendering their own section, by the
encouragement which they are holding out to
our Southern enemies and the Encouragement
by which they are thwarting the efforts Of
our friends in that portion of the Union, can
only be repaired by branding them as they de-
serve, and rebuking them sigually at the polls.
This will serve as a warning for the future
and will teach our tried and true friends at
the North, as well as our foes, that the South
is undermined to maintain her rights, and that
treason does not flourish upon her soil. In
this patriotic work, we speak with confidence,
when we affirm that Mississippi will do her
whole duty.
The following is the language OF the New
York Tribune to which we have referred in
the preceding comments: .;5gg
Though Mr.. Douglas is not going to be sup
sfn1 ~, al.
at one time supposed has canvass bcloao the PO-
tosac is nevertheless destined to erert an inf,t-
ence upon slavery which aciH not cease cooperate
years, the advocates of the political omnipo-
tence of slavery, and the omnipresence of the
right to hold slaves On every rood of land or
sea covered by the American flag, have with
here and there an honorable exception, had
everything pretty much their own way in the
South, and especially In the Democratic party.
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These barbarous dogmas have shocked the
common sense and the conscience of all that
part Of Christendom dwelling outside of the
Southern States, and not included in the pale
of the Democratic party. But they are destined
to recetpe a rader and more efecti0e HoW during
the pending Presidential contest. For AS THE
PoPULAR SOVEREIGNTY THEORIES OF Mr.
DOUGLAS FALL SHORT OF SOUND Law, SOLID
SENSE, AND THE ExIGENCIEs OF THE TINES
THEY NEVERTHELESS DO VIOLENTLY CONFLICT
WITH THESE MEDIEVAL IDEAS OF THE CAL
HoUN SCHOOL OF POLITICIANS. Feeble U0uoh
the fight may be on the part of the Southern
snPprters OF Douglas, THEY WILL BE COM
PEELED TO OPPOSE THE BARBARoUs DOCTRINES
OF THIS SCHOOL. THEY WILL BE DRIVEN TO
OCCUPY AND FoRTIFY SOME PORTION OF THE
GROUND WHERE THE Fathers OF THE Re-
PUBLIC STOOD They must deny the inherent
and original right Of every man TO carry negro
slaues eUeryaokere, and hoId them as such, IN,
spite OF the enactments of local Legislatures,
and the dec, ees Of local courts ESPECIALLY
must they insist that, though they themselves
ignore the duty of congressional prohibition in
the territories, neither the Executive or Leqisla-
tue branch Of the Federal Government has the |
right to protect slavebolding toithin the national
domain. In fine, they must adhere to the doc |
trine Of "non-interyention," at all hazards, or |
lose their distinctive character in the South, |
and ruin the cause of their leader In the free |
States.
Noao, the open and manly assertion of the |
doctrine of ',aon-intervesnion' by t,Co or three
SCORE Of Journals and a hundred or more stump
speakers, through the coming four months, IN
the Southern States, must inevitably provoke an
examinations of these fundamental doqnaas of
the Calhoun school, thus opening to heated de-
bate, among violent partizans, many of the
most vital questions pertaining to the SUBJECT of
slavery. AND DOES ANYBODY DREAM THAT
WHEN ONCE PREcIPITATED UPON THIS SEA OF
DISCUSSION, THE VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY WILL BE
CONFINED TO THE MERE BOUNDARY LINES OF
THE SUBJECT, OR WILL TERMINATE WITH THE
PENDING PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST