The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-09-20
What Popular Sovereignty has Done.
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kEAD READ
The following is an extract from Mr..
Douglas last great speech in the Sen
ate, in which he magnifies the triumphs
of Popular Sovereignty for the cause
of Slavery. This speech was made
with view of coaxing the Southerners
into supporting him for President at
the then approaching Charleston Con-
yention. While it failed of its object
at the South, il has the affect to open
the eyes of Northern Democrats as to
the real bearing of "non-interventionn
IN reference TO slavery. This speech
ought to be read by every free laborer
and every citizen of the Free States:
From Douglas Speech in the Sen ale, May Is, 80.
But, We are told, the necessary result
of this doctrine of non-intervention,
which gentlemen, by way of throwing
ridicule upon, call popular sovereignty,
IS to deprive the South of all participa-
ton IN what they call the common ter
Titories of the United States. That
was ground on which the gentleman
from Mississippi Mr.. Davis predica-
ted in his opposition to the compromise
measure of 1850. lie regarded a re-
flsal to repeal the Mexican law as
equivalent to the Wilmot proviso;
refusal to deny to territorial legisla-
ture the right to exclude slavery as
equivalent To an exclusion. He be-
lieved at the time that this doctrine did
amount to a denial of Southern rights
but they doubted it. Now, let me see
how far his predictions and suppose
tons have been verified. / infer that
he told the people so, for he makes it
Il charge in his bill of indictment
against me, that / am hostile to South
ern rights, because l gave those votes.
Now, what has been the result? My
views were incorporated into the conn.,
promise measure of 1850, and were re-
jected. las the South been excluded
from all the territory acquired from
Mexico? What says the bill from the
House of Representatives now on your
table, repeating the slave code i'm New
Mexico established by the people them
selves? II is part of the history of
the country that under this doctrine of
non-interventiOn, this doctrine that
you delight to call squatter sovereignty
the people of New Mexico have IN
PRODUCED and PROTECTED
: slavery in the WHOLE OF THAT
TERRITORY more than FIVE
TIMES. THE. SIZE OF NEW
YORK. Under this doctrine, slavery
has been extended from the Rio Grande
to the Gulf of California, and from the
line of the Republic of Mexico, not
only up to SO 80, put up to 3s-giving
you a degree and half more slave
territory than you ever claimed. In
1S4S and 1850 you only asked to have
the line of SO 80. The Nashville Con-
vention fixed that rs its ultimation.
offered it in the Senate in August, 1s4S.
and it was adopted here but rejected
in the House of Representatives. You
ASKED ONLY UP TO SO 80, AND NON
INTERVENTION HAS GIVEN
YOU SLAVE TERRITORY UP TO
80, A DEGREE AND A HALF
MORE THAN YOU ASKED and
vet you say that THIS is SACRIFICE
OF SOUTHERN RIGHTS
These are the fruits of THIS PRIN-
CIPLE which the Senator from Mis-
sissippi regards as HOSTILE TO THE
RIGHTS OF THE SOUTH. Where did
you ever get any other fruits that were
more refreshing to your tastes or more
refreshing to your strength? WHAT
OTHER INCH OF FREE TERRI
TORY HAS BEEN CONVERTED
INTO SLAVE TERRITORY OF
THE AMERICAN CONTINENT,
SINCE THE REVOLUTION, Elk
CEPT IN NEW MEXICO AND
ARIZONA, UNDER THE PRIN-
CIPLE OF NON-INTERVENTION
affirmed at Charleston. If it be true
that this principle of on-intervention
has conferred upon you all that iR-
mense territory; has protected slavery
m that comparatively northern and
cold region, where you did not expect
IT to go, CANNOT You TRUST THE
SAME PRINCIPLE FURTHER SOUTH WHEN
YOU COME TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL TER
RrToRY FROM MEXICO? If it is true
this principle of non-intervention has
given to slavery all New Mexico, which
was surrounded on nearly every side
by free territory, will not the same
principle protect. you in the Northern
States OF Mexico when they are &C.
CURED, since they are now surrounded
by slave territory are several hundred
miles further South; have MANY de-
grees of greater heat; and have a eli
mate and soil adapted to Southern pro.
ducts? ARE YOU NOT Salts
FLED WITH THESE PRACTICAL
RESULTS.