The weekly Mississippian., 1860-10-17
Louisville Journal on Protection.

Last year the Louisville Journal talked as
follows on the subject of protection to slave
property in the Territories. We publish the
extracts for the information of the Opposition
party Of this region, who seem to have for
gotten where their party stood last year.
On the 10Th of April, 1859, the Journal
said
The truth is, disguise it as the partisans
of Douglas here or elsewhere may, Squatter
Sovereignty, the denial of the power Of Con-
cress to protect the rights Of the minority in
the Territories against the despotism Of the
majority, is, beside its shameful lack Of all
pretensions to statesmanship, or authority, or
constitutional warrant, the most swift, uner-
ring, and destructive agency of anti-slavery
ever conceived in the fertile brain Of the North.
There is nothing redeemiDg about it. 1t is
iacobinism in theory, and abolitonlsm- IN
practice. II secures to the South in the COM
mon Territories of the Union no protection,
no equality, no justice. 1t virtually excludes
the South. 1t is the vile but lightfooted altar
ego OF the Wilmot ProviSo. Adopt it, let it
be established under the wing Of great and
dominant party, and the rights of the South
in the Territories will instantly and hence
forth become as delusive and unsubstantial as
a phantom of the air. Our citizens, it Is
true, may, if they choose, take their slave
property into the Territories /; but the moment
they get it there, it will be snatehed or spirited
out of their possession with absolute lmpnnIty;
adequate protection. The right will become
a mere and sheer cheat"
On the 21st of April, 1859, it said
''The body of the party, the party ITSELF is
pinned immovably to the hideous and noxious
doctrine. The Democracy of Kentucky is
at length not only virtually but formally COM
miited to the vile heresy of Squatter Sover-
eighty. The chosen representative, the
authoritative exponentof the organization has
publicly and explicitly Endorsed the wretched
juggle. DoUGLAsIsM, the most dctiUe and fatal
shape of AJoliti0riau, is openly triumphant
in the councils of the party.
"Shall Kentucky, noble, enlightened patri-
otic, Constitution-loying, chivalric Kentucky,
be the first Of the sistcrhood of Southern
States to bow her proud head in the dust of
this foul devce''
=
Will the men or the sons Of the men who
followed into the battles very heart the spot
less and flashing banner of Henry Clay or the
honest and heroic standard Of jackson, now
rally under the dirty and beggarly flag which
lieutenant of Douglas is Haunting at the
head of the Democratic column of the State?
NEVER NEvER!7
And on the oath of May, 1859, it spoke as
follows:
"The editor Of the Democrat, referring to
the Presidential canvass of 1856, says:
"'Nearly all the statesmen of the South
explained and defended our Territorial policy |
as we did,
"That is according to the editor Of the |
Democrat, nearly all the statesmen Of the |
South in the cavass of 1856 advocated Squat
ter Sovereignty! This is fragrant and dis
graceful mistake. Our neighbor's zeal is
outrunning his discretion at a most ridiculous
rate. He ought to be ashamed of himself.
Not only the statesmen, but the people OF the
South, have at all times unanimously and
scornfully repudiated the Territorial policy
which he now defends And be must know
it. Squatter Sovereignty is, and has ever
been, notoriously the abomination of the
South and of the statesmen of the South.
: The assumption said Mr.. Calhoun among
the latest utteranceS OF his life, is utterly
unconstitutional, without example,
md contrary to the entire practice of the gov
from its commencement to the
present time And the united South echoed
he declaration. Nor has the sentiment of the
South on this point undergone any material
hange. Squatter Sovereignty is still notori-
'usly its abomination. The recreancy of the
eaders of the Kentucky Democracy is simply
ecreancy Of the foulest stamp, and nothing
more it does not faint the masses Of the
arty.'