Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-08-10
What Popular Sovereignty has Done.

From Mr.. Douglas Speech in the Senate May 10th go
But we are told that the necessary result
of this doctrine of non-intervention, which
gentlemen, by way of throwing ridicule
upon, call Squatter sovereignty, is to de-
prive the South Of all participation in what
they call the common Territories of the
| United States. That was the ground on
which the Senator from Mississippi Mr..
Davis) predlcat ed his opposition to the com-
promise measures of 1850. He regarded
a refusal to repeal the Mexican !aw as
equivalent to the wilmot proviso refusal
to deny to territorial Legislature the
right to exclude slavery as equivalent to
an exclusion. He believed at that time
that this doctrine did amount to denial Of
Southern rights and he told the people of
Mississippi SO but they doubted it. Now,
let US see how far his predictions and sup
positions have been verified. | infer that
he told the people so, for he makes it a
charge in his bill of indictment against me,
that am hostile to Southern rights, because
| gave those votes.
Now, what has been the result ? Ny
views were incor porated into the compronl-
Use measure of 1850, and his were rejected.
Has the South been excluded from al the
territory acquired from New Mexico p
What says the bill from the House of Rep
resentatlves now on your table, repeating
the slave code in New Mexico established
by the people themselves IT IS PART
OF THE HISTORY OF THE COUN-
TRY THAI UNDER THIS DOCTRINE
OF NON INTERVENTION, THIS
DOCTRINE THAT YOU DELIGHT
TO CALL SQUATTER SOVEREIGN
TY, THE PEOPLE OF NEW MEX
ICO HAVE INTRODUCED AND PRO-
TECTED SLAVERY IN THE WHOLE
OF THAT TERRITORY. UNDER
THIS DOCTRINE, THEY HAVE CON-
VERIFIED A TRACT OF FREE TER
RITORY INTO SLAVE TERRITORY,
MORE THAN FIVE TIMES THE SIZE
OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
UNDER. THIS DOCTRINE, SLAVERY
HAS BEEN EXTENDED FI,OM THE
RIOGRANDE TO THE GULF OF CAL
IFORNIA,, AND FROM THE LINE OF
THE REPUBLIC OF MEXICO, NOT
ONLY UP TO SO DEG 80 MIN. BUT
UP TO 38 DEG. - GIVING YOU
A DEGREE AND A HALF MORE
SLAVE TERRITORY THAN YOU
EVER CLAIMED. In 1S48 and 1S49
and 1850 you only asked to have the line of
SO deg. and 80 min. The Nashville Con-
vention fixed that as it's ultimatum I
offered it in the Senate in August, 1648,
and it was adopted here but rejected in
| ho Of ", ,oI
only up to So deg. and 80 min, AND NON
SLAVE TERRITORY UP TO SO DEG,
A DEGREE AND A HALF MORE
THAN YOU ASKED; and yet you say
that this is a sacrifice of Southern rights
These are the fruits of this principle
which the Senator from Mississippi regards
as hostile to the rights of the South
Where did you ever get any other fruits
that were more palatable to your taste, or
more refreshing to your strength WHAT
OTHER INCH OF FREE TERRITORY
HAS BEEN CONVERTE D INTO
SLAVE TERRITORY ON THE AMER
ICAN CONTINENT, SINCE THE REV
OLUTION, EXCEPT IN NEW MEXICO
AND ARIZONA, UNDER THE PRIN-
| CIPLE OF NON INTERVENTION affirmed at
Charleston If it be true that this prin-
ciple of intervention has conferred up
on you all that immense territory has pro-
tected slavery in that comparatively North
ern and cold region, where you did not ex-
pect it to 90, cannot you trust the same
principle further South when you come to
acquire additional territory from Mezlco :?
fit be true this principle of non interven-
ton has given to Slavery all New Mexico,
which was surrounded on nearly every side
by free territory, will not the same princi-
pie protect you in the Southern States of
Mexico, when they are acquired, since they
are now surrounded by Slave territory ;
are several hundred miles further South /;
have many degrees greater heat and have
climate and soil adapted to Southern pro
ducts? ARE YOU NOT SATIsF1ED " IT.
THESE PRACTICAL REsULTSf