Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-03-02

Be5- A paper has been established In New Orleans
called the Estates Rights Louisianian,n and has
placed at the head Of lie columns the name Of
stephen A. Douglass, its candidate for the Presi
dcnty. In order to reconcile the South to the
s1uaiter sovereignty abominaton Of Douglass the
Louisaniah says there is Of slaves in the
southern States and therefore none to take TO the
Territories. Hence it follows as necessary deduc
ton, that the doctrine Of States Rights in connec
ton with the Territories, is mere abstraction, and
that it is polite to yield the right in view Of the
fact that it can not be vindicated, maintained re-
duced to practice in the Territories.
Here we have a striking illustration of the man
ner in which southern democracy has FILTERED
away the rights of the South by constant conces-
sions TO availability and the possession of the spos
If squaiter sovereignty can do the South no harm,
and robs Il of no right, then all the hue and cry
about slavery has been but the settled purpose Of
base politicians for the promotion of base and ses
ends, If the claim, that the South has rights in
the Territories is an idle and worthless abstraction
the Republicans have done right in resisting I'M
founded claim, and the South has done wrong in
urging It at the hazard of sectional alienation if moi
Of ultimate dsunion. But if the South has The
same rights in the Territories that claimed by
the North the Southern man who is willing to sur
render those rights because il is not convenient fol
the South, a. this time, TO carry slaves into the
Territories is moral traitor, and barriers his OWL
convictions and the rights of his section for party
supremacy and the spells Of Office.
We agree with the Louisanian, that the rights Of
the South in the Territories are mere distractions
bat they have been made such by southern demo
erats who aided Douglass in passing the Kansa:
hill Under the Constitution, those rights were
fixed undeniable, and at any moment available
but the enactment Of the Kansas bill which make:
territorial squattcrs sovereign and takes from Con
gress the power granted by the Constitution, tc
lcgislate for the Territories the South is Invested o.
lis rights, and is without remedy. When southern
democrats heedlessIy seconded Douglass proposition
10 give to aliens aud paupers the right to exclude
southern Shareholders from the common Territories
tley signed an agreement by which the further ex
ecnson of slavery was emphaticaly prohibited, and
the rights of the South basely surrendered.
fsit any wonder, then that the party, South
which has done this, is now willing to treat thu
rights so surrendered rs mere idle distractions ant
are willing to take up the author of the Kansas bill
for his availability? What matters it that hi
availability has been obtained at the cost Of south
ern rights and honorl What matters it. to south
ern democrats that is deadly thrust at slavery ha
made him popular with their northern allies P
Nothing. The triumph of democracy, not of tn
Conth 10 what thav snelf and they youtd the
enjoy the spoils won by, northern enemy thai
loose them by standing boldly forward as the cham
pions OF southern rights and honor.