Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-08-15
Non Intervention and Popular Sever
eignty-What are they?

Non Intervention and Popular Sover-
eignty-What are they?
Such is The title of the first political
leader in the Trumbun Democrat. under
the administration Of its new editor, Dr..
.. 3. Woods. 1t is a lengthy article, some
two columns, a large part Of which is de-
voted to the history Of the cid Federal and
Democratic parties, berating tie former ant
praising the latter after the good old style
Of the days when Democracy was Dcmoc-
racy. AMI not pro-a.assr.. But the Or.
entirely forgot to mention that James Blu.
ShaDan. the present Democratic President
vas a leading member of that same Fed.
cral party. ono Of its strongest and most
ultra supporters, remained so until the
party was dissolved, and tO-this day, on
every question in which the same princi,
PIES arc involved is the same rank old
! cdc.aist that he was in the days of JEFF
frson.
o Upon squatter Sovereignty he bccome
eloquent. As be is too modest to tell his
reale9s the coed which that IA
moas doctrine has done, we will bring his
candidate, Stephen A. Douglas, its father,
to the witness stand and let him speak
For our courtesy in thus quoting from Mr..
Douglas, bimself, We viii only ask in re-
turn that the Trumbuu Democrat shall pub
lish the same extract, or the wholG of the
speech, Cor the benefit Of Its readers.
The following is from Mr.. Douglas
speech, SNA7c cd in the Senate, Nay 10th,
1860: He said,
But. we arc told that the necessary re-
suit of this doctrine Of non-intervention,
which gentlemen, by way of throwing ridi-
eule upon, call squatter sovereignty, is to
deprive the South Of all participation in
what they call tie common Territories Of
the United States. That Vas the ground
on which the Senator from Mississippi Mr..
Davis predicated Iii opposition to the CON-
yromise measures Of $50. He regarded
a refusal to repeal the Mexican law as
equivalent to the Wilmot proviso; a refu-
sal to deny a Territorial Legislature the
right to exclude slavery as equivalent to IN
exclusion. lie believed at that time that
this doctrine did amount to q denial of
Southern RICH s; and he told the people of
Mississippi 50; bu: they doubted it. Now,
Let US sec now far bis predictions and sup
positions have been verified. l infer that
he told the people 50, for as he makes it Il
charge in his bill of Indictment against me,
that 1 am hostile to Southern rights, be-
cause l gave those votes.
Now, what has heea the result? Ny
views we've Incorporated into the comprom-
ise measures of 1850, and his were rejec-
ted. Has the South been excluded from
all the Territory. acquired from Mexico =?
What says the bill from the House OF Rep
yescnatiyes now on your table, repeating
tho slave code IN New Mexico established
by the people themselves? 1t Is PART
Of THE History or THE COUNTRY
THAT UEUER THIS DOCTRINE UF NON
INTERVENTION, THIS DOCTRINE THAT
YOU DELIGHT TO CALL SOCArrFR
SOVEREIGNTY. THE PEOPLE OF NEW
MEXICO HAVE INTRODUCED AND Pho
TECTED SLAVERY IL TIE WHOLE OF
THAT TERRITORY. UNDER THIS Doc
TBlNE THEY HAVE CONVERTED A
TRACT or FREE TERRITORY lET0
SLAVE TERBIT KY. MeHE Than FIVE
HINES The SIZE OF TFESFATE OF NEW
YORK UNDER THlS-SA
VERY HAS DEEN EAEFRB FT
R1aLGRANDE I\THE-GULF OF CALI
EORNIA. ~ FROM THE LINE OF THE
OF MEXICO NOT ONLY UP
10 70 DEG. 30 MIN. But Up TO Sc DEC
GIVING YOU 4 DEGREE AND a HALF
MORE SLAVE TERRITORY THAN YOU
EVER CLAIMED
Ia 1913 and 1919 and 1880 yot only
.sked to have the line Of SO deg. so min.
Tie Nashville Convention fixed that as its
I offered it in the Senate in
1913, and it was adopted here but
in the House of Representatives.
lou asked only up to 36 deg. 80 min, and
'oa-interreatioa has giyen ,yos Stare Ter
ap 10 IS deg, a degree. and a half
more than you asked; and yet You say that
his Is 4 sacrifice Of Southern rightsi
These are the fruits Of this principle
which the Senator from Mississippi regards
IS Lcstile to the rights of the South. Where
lid yor ever get any other fruits that were
nsre palatablc to your tastes or more re-
to your strength? bKat other
jeh Of Tree TERRITORY has been concerted
jto Stare Teyritoyyo~ the 4alericaa Con-
iaent, since tie Revolution, ezcept III Nev
and driS9nia, undcr tie pripcipL
+ RoH-interceDaon, affirmed at Charleston.
Z It e true that this principle Of non
Intervention has conferred upon you all
hat immense territory; has protected
in that comparatively northern and
old region where you did not expect it to
Q, cannot you trust the same principle
South when You conc to acquire
territory from Mexico? If ii be
rue that this principle Of non-intervention
as given toslayery all New Mexico, which
as surrounded on nearly every side by
,co territory viii not the same principle
Totcct you in tie northern States Of Mex
o when they arc acquired, since they are
ow surrounded by slave territory; are sew
al hundred miles further South have
any degrees Of greater heat; and have a
innate and soil adapted to Southern pro-
Dire you not satisfied uita these
rachrci resaNs!
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