Year: 1859

"In the Presidential contest of 1856
(says the Mobile, Ala, Register) the car
dinal principle with the Democratic par
ty, and with the South, was notinterven-
ton in the matter of slavery in the Ter
ritories? On the occasion of the memoir
able proceedings of Gov. Walker in con-
nection with the adoption of constitu-
ton by the people of Kansas, non-inter-
vention was the loud and universal cry
at the South. The sacred principle was
invoked and appealed to by the Southern
Democracy to the controversy on the
admission of Kansas under the Lecomp-
ton constitution, as interdicting Congress
from rejecting that constitution, because
of its non-submission to the people by
their own authorized convention. Nom
Intervention has been the settled doctrine
of the Democratic party, and of the
South, ever since its establishment in the
passage of the Kansas Nebraska act up
to the present time. The Southern De-
mocracy stand solemnly committed to this
principle in their support of the Kansas
Nebraska act, and of the Cincinnati plat
form which adopted the principle of that
measure.


"The principle as established in the
Kansas Nebraska act was, that the desti-
nies of slavery in the Territories should
depend upon the will of the people there
of, limited only by such restraints as
should be imposed by the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States as
to the constitutionality of their acts
The Southern representation in Congress
unanimously gave their assent to this
provision and principle, declaring that
it was all the South wanted. They re-
garded the rights of the South in the
Territories as fully guaranteed, when
the action of the Territorial legislature in
regard to slavery was subject to revision
and correction by the Supreme Court
They were satisfied that the Supreme
Court would hold that the Territorial
legislature had no power to prohibit sla-
very from being established in the Terri
tories. With that check upon Territorial
legislation against slavery, they consid-
cred that the rights of the South were
sufficiently secured and hence they
agreed upon the principle that Congress
should not intervene or interfere pro
or con in the matter of slavery in the
Territories.


"The principle OF non-intervention
thus unanimously assented to by Demo-
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Congress, was affirmed and ratified by
the Southern people in 1856. The De-
mocracy, as we have said, stands solemn
ly pledged to this principle, the more
especially since the anticipated decision
of the Supreme Court of the United
States, as in the Dred Scott case, has
applied the limits which restrain the Ter
ritorial Legislatures in preventing the in
PRODUCTION of slaves. 1t is proposed now
by certain politicians at the South to re-
cede from this principle, and to make an
issue that Congress shall fnterr@e with its
legislation in behalf of slavery in the
Territories. The proposition is one
fraught only with mischief to the inter
ests Of the South.


at is not only a violent and wanton
departure from the common policy
plighted by the Southern Democracy
with their brethren of the North, Int its
adoption would inevitably disorganize
the Democratic party and insure the tri-
umph and ascendancy of the Black Re-
publicans, thus bringing on the South
the greatest disaster that could befall
her. When we already have such effec-
tual security for our rights in the Terri
tories as is afforded by the Dred Scott
decision, coupled with the policy of non-
shall we not remain con-
tented with that, rather than by demand
ing more lose what we have, aud consign
ourselves and our rights and interests to
the hostile rule of Black Republicanism.
We do not counsel unworthy submission
to wrong, when we advise that the
South shall adhere to a policy to which
she gave her free consent and approval