Letter from William F. Samford in Oak Bowery, Alabama, to Bolling Hall.
In the letter Samford discusses his views on the proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act: "I see our North. friends are not slow to come up to the issue of non-intervention as made by the Kansas Act; but are we quite cautious enough about the Squatter Sovreignty [sic] features of that act? What better wil...
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| Summary: | In the letter Samford discusses his views on the proposed Kansas-Nebraska Act: "I see our North. friends are not slow to come up to the issue of non-intervention as made by the Kansas Act; but are we quite cautious enough about the Squatter Sovreignty [sic] features of that act? What better will it be for us, if under the specious cry of 'popular sovreignty' the free-soil rabble of New England devotes Kansas & all the territories to free-soil than if Congress should directly apply the 'Wilmot Proviso'? While we are for the Kansas Act because of its righteous repeal of the Missouri restrictions, our North. friends--the most conservative of them--sustain it because it deprives us of the territories under Squatter Sovreignty. Hence I am for Mr. Wise or some sound Southern man against Judge Douglas. Wise I know is thoroughly with us for Southern Rights and against Squatter Sovreignty. I am writing about it, but with little hope of success. I want a convention of the states--want our Cincinatti [sic] Convention to recommend it--to supply the lapses of the Constitution on the general subject of the organization of territorial governments & the admission of states into the Union...Our destiny is involved in the Kansas trouble." |
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