Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-02-11
TONE OF NORTHERN Jo 81 Is.

II Is most gratifying, after witnessing the heSita
ton and uncertainty eyinced by such Southern Wing
papers the Raleigh Register turn to those Nor
thern Journals which have taken bold and decided
ground in favor of the Nebraska and Kansas bills.
The Pennsylvania the old and trusted organ of the
Pennsylvania Democracy, closes long and able ar
ticle on the subject as follows
This is an issue that will once more test the tone
and temper OF our people. The path is easy and
plain before Demagogues and traitors will besct
1t with their vile Vaccinations. The bafed malcon-
tents of 1850, hurled then into most miserable and
merlted minority, are already again at work Hap
ply in this emergency, we have in Franklin Pierce
safe, cautious, and fearless leader On this grave
issue he will be found among the foremost in defend
ing and supporting the principles of the bill report
ed by Senator Douglas on Monday last To all the
clamor OF those who have doubted his fcalty to the
great principles of the Compromise of 1850 he will
now reply by his actions in behalf of these same
principles, asserted for purpose less wise and
beneficial than that which aroused the public heart
less than four years ago.
We will answer for Pennsylvania. She is sound
wings, toowil not be gulled by the tricksters and
Jugglers of fanaticism She has been accustomed to
such trials. She has won the nations applause by
her past fidelity by her early promptitude and cour
age IN defence of the constitution, and by the vcto
ries she has achieved local disafecton She will
not forfeit her claim to universal and continued
tdence by any future departures from the path of
patriotic duty"
Democracy, says:
We have no fears of the fate of Mr. Douglass
bill and do not apprehend that the country can
be seriously disturbed by renewal of slavery agi
tation. There is a democratic majority in both
houses of Congress sufficiently large to pass the bill
and it aciU be assed-and the objects of those in
Congress and out of it, who seek to open the old
sores between the North and the South too well
understood to again deceive any portion of the peo
pie"
We know of no Wing journal in the free States
which advocates the bill.
The following article from the Washington Union
will put our readers in possession in a few words of
the character and object of the measure under
slider. ton:
"The Nebraska bill assumes that the Compromise
of 1850 settled the slavery question, and recognises
the right of the Nebraska community to determine
its own constitution when it comes into the Union
and to clohe it with the attribute of government
The people Of an old State, Kentucky for instance
can abolish slavery or they may retain slavery. In
either the general government would have moth
ing to say to it Would anybody say that by the
constitution, power is conferred on Congress to
strain the action of State to it's local affairs
Would not this infringe palpably on State-rights?
This precisely the position this report and bill pro-
poses to regard Nebraska in from the start-on the
footing of equality with the States They propose
to keep out the slavery question from the action of
Congresses in the compromise measures it is kept
out of the territorial governments of Utah and New
MeAlcO SHOulu tillS Dll succeed, Incn NcOTsiSha,
Utah, and New Mexico will stand the same foot
ing and the policy will be so fixed that the settle
ment of this question will be fnality.
The question, then, whether Nebraska shall tolcr
ate forbid slavery is left for the decision Of the
people-just the source where, in government of
the people, the question ought to be left. The Com
promise settled the question in this manner and the
people also settled it when they called the present
national administration, boldly avowng the doctrine
at the outset, into power.
There ought, then, to be serious opposition to
the bill by democrats. The sentiments it contains
arc among the cardinal doctrines of the democratic
party, reaffirming the principles under which the
party rallied under the leadership of Gen.
Pierce and gained glorious victory"