Year: 1859




| We also endorse our territorial policy, ac-
cording to the construction which IS shown
to have been placed upon it by the represen-
tative men of the Democratic party, and we
cordially unite with the Constitution In de-
nouncing the Squatter Sovereignty doctrine
as ''false, anti-democratic and unconstitution-
all And hence we claim that when it is at
tempted to be carried into practical operation
to the injury of the South, it is the duty Of
Congress to prevent the wrong and apply the
necessary remedy. -. -s =. g..


The Constitution says that laws already
exist for the protection of slavery in the ter
ritories which will prove adequate for that
purpose If so, then it is admitted that
Congress has already exercised the power and
performed the obligations which we require at
its hands But suppose those laws should
prove inadequate, the duty having been ad
nlitted and the precedent established, how
can the Constitution assert that the Southern
Democracy in asking the recognition of the
principle of protection have madean unreason-
able demand


The Constitution has faith in the
good sense, respect for law, and love of or
der of the people Of the Territories" Does it
draw its faith from the depredations, the
robberies and murders, which were commit
ted upon the property and persons Of unof
Tending Southern citizens in Kansas? Does
draw its faith" from the character of the
emissaries of the anti-slayery Emigrant Aid
Societies. which have been organized through
out all the Northern States, for no other pur-
pose but to take possession of the territories
and drive or keep out the property of citizens
of the Southern States ? We confess to no
such abiding "Erth'' as that which is so Sc
rene1y felt by our Washington cotemporary.


We are asked to remember how the North
ern Democracy have fought and suffered in
the cause Of the South. We have grateful
recollection of their services, but are we to be
told that they have been contending for doc
trine which the Constitution itself holds to be
false, anti-democratic and unconstitutional ?''
If they do not hold this doctrine, they must
necessarily plant themselves upon the only
practical ground of opposition to it. If they
are falling and dying beneath the iron hoof of
Black Republican fanaticism, in Gods name
let them suffer for something that is tangible
Better let the South be refused access to the
territories by Congressional prohibition, than
by the denial Of protection against the lawless
interference of Abolition societies acting
through their hordes of Squatter sovercigns
raked from the hotbeds of anti-slaveryism.


Once for all, we hold that the States under
the constitution have equal rights in the pub
lie domain, and are entitled to all necessary
protection in The enjoyment Of those rights.
Let the Constitution cease to interpose its
scruples and timidities against this Just de-
nand; and on this high ground let it fight
the battles of the Democracy. This is the
doctrine of the Dred Scott decision. We ask
nothing more than its endorsement by the
Charleston Convention VIII it be, can it be,
refused :? We ask our Washington cotempo-
rary to recollect that President Buchanan in
his inaugural, proclaimed obedience to it in
advance of its delivery; and in his message to
Congress, he endorsed it as the "well-estab-
lished' policy of the country. Shall the
Democracy when it meets in National Con-
vention to proclaim its creed, lower the flag
which he has raised ? We can safely speak
for the Democracy of Mississippi. 81. e