Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-07-03
Effect ef Popular Soyreignty.

81 Douglas. IN bis l6 March speech in the U.
S Senate. boastingly asserts that his cherished
principles of squat;er sovereignty. or non inter
vention. as he calls it, has done more to iacrease
slave territory than all other combined, He
says:
It is part-of the history Of the country that
under this doctpsre OF non intervention, this
doctrine that you delight TO call squattef SOW
reignty, the people Of New Mexico have intro
duced and protected slavery In tbs whole of
that Territory Under this doctrine, they have
converted tract of free territory into slave ter
ritory more than FIVE times the size of the State
of New York. Under THIS doctfine, 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 deg. 80 min. but
up to 81 de,.-giving you degree and a half
more slave territory than you ever claimed
In 1913 and $40 and $50 you only asked TO
have the line of 80 deg. 80 min. The Nashville
Convention fixed that AS its uitiInatuIn. / Off
cred it AZ The Senate in August. 1913. ard it
was adopted here hur rejected IN the House Of
Representatives. You asked only up to 3 deg.
80 min, and non Intervention has gwen you
slave territory up to 50 deg degree and a half
more ,hnn you asked; aud yet you say tina.
this ia sacrifice Of Southern rights?
These the fruits Of this principle which
the Senator from Mississi ppI regards hostile
to the rights of the South. Where did you ey-
er get any other fruits that were more pal atuble
your taste or mere refreshing to -FOUR streue.h,
What other inch Of free territory has been con-
veried Into slave territory On the American con-
,inent. since the revolution, expect in New Mex
icc and Arizona, under the principle Of non in
;ervention affirmed Q: Charleston. II it be true
tina, this principle of non intervention has con-
ferred upon you all that immense territory; has
protected slavery in that comparatively north
ern and cold region where you did not expect
II to 20, cannot you trust the same principle
further south when you come TO acquire addi-
tional territory from Mexico? II it be true this
principle OF non intervention has given TO sla-
very all New Mexico, which was surrounded on
nearly every side by free territory, will not
the same principle protect yon in the northern
States of Mexico when they are acquired. since
they now surrounded by slave territory; are
several hundred miles further south; have many
degrees of greater heat and have climate and
soil adapted To Southern productss Are you
satisfied with these practical resultsf Do you
desire to appeal from the people Of the Terrific
ries to the Congress of the United States TO set
tie this question in the Territories? When you
distrust the people and appeal TO Congress, with
both houses largely against you on this ques-
ton, what sort OF protection will you get2-
Whenever you ask slave code from Cong
gress, TO protect your institutions IN u territory
where the people do not want it, you will ge.
that sort of protection which the wolf gives TO
the lamb; you will get that sort Of friendly hug
that the grizzly bear gives TO the infant. APP
pealing To anti slavery Congress to pass laws
of protection. with a view of forcing slavery up
on unwilling and hostile people! Sir, of all
the mad schenes that ever could be devised by
the South, or by the enemies Of the South. tbs
which recognizes the right Of Congress To touch
the institution of slavery either in the State or
Territories, beyond the single provided In
the Constitution for the rendition Of fugitives is
the mos, fatal"