Madison (WI) Patriot, "Black Republicans Bolting - A Great Stampede Brewing," November 24, 1860

Black Republicans Bolting–A Grand Stampede Brewing.

As we have often predicted, the Republicans are preparing to jump Jim Crow on their Intervention dogma and adopt Popular Sovereignty as the permanent creed of the party. In less than one year, whether Lincoln is elected or licked, "Non-intervention" will be their rallying cry.

See what the Cincinnati Commercial, a loud and leading Republican organ, says about "Intervention:"

"Congressional legislation for the protection or prohibition of slavery in the Territories is hardly among the possibilities of the future. The idea of protection slave property in the Territories by an act of Congress is an absurd abstraction. The idea of prohibiting slavery in the Territories by act of Congress is obsolete. The people of the Territories will determine the question of slavery for themselves, and Congress will admit new states without reference to slavery. In a few months these propositions will be almost universally recognized as fixed facts. There is no question but the people will make the new States free States, and there is an end of it. The present Presidential campaign disposes of Mr. Douglas. The great principle of Popular Sovereignty, relieved of him, and no longer obscured by his evasive and dishonest championship, will be sufficient for the settlement of the issues of the Territorial extension of slavery."

That will do as a premonitory declaration. Look out for a general stampede of all the Black Republican papers, after "Douglas is disposed of."