The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-03-28

| SENATOR DOUGLAS pitched into Seward.
| This is but to gain Southern votes. But
| Douglas does not give up his squatter
sovereignty, and which is but has scheme for
excluding slavery from the Territories. On
the non-extension of slavery, and mo more
slave States" both of them agree. The real
quarrel between them is as to which shall ex-
| ecute his mode and be elected President for
| the purpose. 1t is all fal-lal on the part OF
| Douglas, in his kicking up rumpus with
| Seward about the "irrepresslble conflict"
| That issue is not now exactly up, and may
never directly come up. If it ever does, the
probability is that Douglas by that time will
| be on the same platform with Seward. 1t may
| be depended on that if tine sentiment of the
free States proceeds ever to the extent of that
issue, Douglas will be found going with his
section Charleston Nears.
The design on the part of Douglas in re-
plying to Seward was so palpable a bid for
Southern votes that it has had no other effect
but to excite for him the disgust and scorn
of the Southern Democracy, whom he is cum
nlngly seeking to betray into an endorsement
at Charleston Of his squatter sovereignty
heresJ
His speech itself was without merit-a
mere boisterous repitition of truisms and
generalities, which but few deny such, for
instance as that the authors of the Declaration
of Independence did not mean to include
negroes within the scope of the doctrine that
"all men are born free and equal''
If he joined issue with Seward upon the
charge that the present sectional agitation is
due to the kansas-Nebraska bill, it was but a
natural act of selfdefence, as he claims to be
the author of that measure.
But how struck with dumbness would the
truculent hero of squatter sovereignty have
been had he been arTaigned for placing upon
that measure, after its passage, an inter-
probation entirely different from that upon
which it was adopted by the Southern
Democracy betore its passage And how
mute he would have been if he had been
arraigned for conspiring with the Black Re-
publicans to defeat the admission of Kansas
as slave State, when she applied in accord
ance with the provisions of the law,-the
paternity of (which he boasts And how mute
Ii he bad been asked with what show of reason
or justice, the man who in 1858 complimented
the Black Republicans for helping him to pre-
vent what he then termed "a commensuratioD
OF fraud the admission of Kansas with 4
pro-sIavery Constitution-can now seek
nomination for the Presidency at the hands of
the party, and by the favor of the section
which he had so basely deserted and 50 in
amously betrayed
The inference Of the News that Douglas
and Seward practically agree upon the mon !
Of slavery and no more slave
States,' is no idle assumption. Ell Thaver,
who originated the system of excluding the |
South from the territories by means of Emil
grant Aid Societies, declares that souatter !
sovereignty is more potent engine for anti
slavery purposes than the plan ofCongressional /
protection. Farnsworth Black Republican
member of Congress from Illinois, read in the |
House the Squatter Sovereignty clause of the
Douglas platform in that State and cordially !
endorsed it. The Black Republicans in
KanSis, Nebraska, Oregon, and California |
have all incorporated the Sq,latter Sovereignty
doctrine into their creed in lien Of the Will |
mot Proviso. Pending the Kansas bill in |
Congress, amendments were repeatedly offered |
by Bla,k Republicans, authorizing the terri
torial authorities to exclude slavery.
No wonder that the partizans of Douglas |
assume that his nomination at Charleston |
would be exceedingly popular at the North !
1t would be such an appeal to anti-slavery |
prejudice, and SO strong an endorsement Of an
anti-slavery dogma, that it would in all prob
ability command considerable Black Repub-
ican vote-particularly if some such moder-
ate Black Republican as Bates were nominated
by the Chicago Convention. But if the object !
is to nominate candidate at Charleston accept
able to the North, on the score of his antece-
dents, without regard to principle, why not
go the whole swine and take Seward or
Chase
SPECULATIONs CoNCERNING THE PREsIDEN-
cY-Who is to be the next President or the
nominees of the parties is a subject which is
not cleared up by the speculations of the par
tizan philosophers. A Washington correspon-
dent of the Philadelphia Ledger says:
The Union Wing ana American Commit
teee will to- morrow meet here, for the pur-
pose of fixing the time and place for holding
their National Convention. The leaders<o of
the party are now divided as to the choice of
standard bearer. Many of them prefer
John Bell, Of Tennessee, to Mr.. Bates, Of Mis-