New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-05-18
=. POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY IL NEBRASKA

POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY " IL AEBR iSI.A.
Ii Fraud and Wrong were not enabled to avail them
selves of esr-tickng phrases and thus impose on
ignorance and unhinking folly. the trade of dem
acogue would be as thrftless 81 it is pernic-
ious. In fact. the main labor of conuting and rem
dering them innoxous is performed by those who
strip their catchwords Of the specious cant which
enveops them aud expose their zeal nature and scope
| 20 the public gaze.
What DO they mean, then, who declaim in favor OF
Douglass Nebraska Kansas bill emboiyng the
principle Of Popular Sovereignty 80
They certainly cannot that tie people OF these
Territories will govern themselves under the pro-
visions Of that bill On the contrary their Governor
and Judges will be sent out 10 them from Washing
ton: the powers of their Legislative Council will be
very limited. subject to veto from the Cover
nor snd to annulment by the judiciary imposed on
them from Washington-D point OF fact by the Presi-
| dent snd Senate.
| The support of their Territorial Government is paid
directly out of the Federal Treasury the money being
appropriated by Congress, who reduce withhold
il al pleasure. The Territories viii have each nomi
nal Delegate III Congress but he cannot vote there
not even amending repeating the Tariff or moti-
Wing the prices OF Public Lands whereby the Revenue
raised which they as well others must pay, and by
which their special well the General Government
is subsisted Mind not making nor UNFOLDING
ths STATE OF things; we are speaking of what Is APP
proved and upheld by Douglass bill.
Suppose the few hundred squaiters in Nebraska and
Ksnfas to fancy it their interest to attach them
selves 10 British America instead of Union. would
they be allowed to do SOL Would not Douglas n Co.
very properly say, IF you like British rule, go over
'tLe line aud enjoy it, but We cannot allow you to
take away One Million square miles of our National
Domain because you choose strange an alliance -
Most certainly Well: say to them, in the same
spirit If YOU like Slavery and SlavehOlding poity,
Just step southwark into Arkansas or Texas where
you can enjoy il in perfection, with abundance OF
oLeap fertile unoccupied land TO be had for song;
but we cannot permit you to take One Million square
mies Of the guaranteed of Freedom and con-
overt il to the uses Of Slavery. l. not the parallel
. fair one
Suppose they chose to establish a domestic mon
archy or dictatorship, with Douglas Achison for
despot and his will for their Constitution ani
statute-book, would the People of the states deem
themselves concluded by such a CHOICE Would they
rather say This is no local or personal matter,
but a question which deeply concerns ourselves and
postoIiy. If you converttAst immense regiono OF
"our Public Domain into an oriental dtspotism our
children, being Republicans, cannot 90 there, and
'ihey will be deprived of their natural equal right
Ito ,harc il that common territory. We nsst,
/ "tLen, that you leave it free, our fathers made
lit. Yet this is exactly what We demand in resist
ing the opening of that region to Slavery.
hat the south understands by Popular Sovereignty
we zee in Virginia where the struggle of thirty years
has been to enable savehoding minority east of the
Allegh auies to rule a Free Labor majority west Of
those mountans-n South Carolina, where two free
men in the slave-peoped rce-swamps along the coast
are constitutoually equal in Legislative power to five
or SIX reemen in the Free Labor mountain Districts
and in Texas where LITTLE oigarchy of shareholders,
having introduced their chate,s in defiance of express
law and held them for years by virtue of their
rifles finally made arevoluton separated from Mexico,
and got into the Union, when they proceeded to form
State Constitution for the prospective Millions who
must naturally inhab that spacious and fertile region
by which Constitution the People of Texas are pre-
cuded for all time from aboshing Slavery provided
one solitary stakeholder shall be found in favor of re-
tanning it, Such is Popular Sovereignty IT the
South.
The traitors who doing their utmost TO sell
out the free States in this contest hsbtualy
their perfdy by saying we don't 5ei.ere Slavery will
ever 60 into these Territories" Who solicited
cares button for your belief in the premises What
does YOUR believing or not believing amount TO, one
way or the other Suppose Slavery should get foot
ing there what would your present belief that it
would not be coed for We remember very well how
in l-ii Sas Wright harangued tie People Of our
State in opposition 10 the Annexation of Texas with
out some conclusive guarantee that Slavery should
not absorb that region and how great Mass COuyen.
ton of the Democracy at HesAmer resolved that
Texas should not be annexed without guarantees that
at least half OF its should be Free soil By these
assurances Polk was made President, silas Wright
chosen Governor, and Texas annexed; and hen John
T. Hale moved, in accordance wiki these pledges
that the less desirable less accessible. wholly IN.
settled half OF that country should be made Free Soil
be was put down in Congress and Kicked out of the
party Is there shaoow Of ground for hope that
there viii be better result in Nebraska if slavery is
allowed 10 90 there When has il ever failed TO
secure a region once opened 10 II by Congress And
even if should fail in this instance through the
aroused energy and active zeal of the North will that
Justify those who have voted the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Restriction l. he who aims and snaps al bis
neghbor any the less culpable because bis pistol
misses fire
The great struggle in Congress approaches its
close. For good or evil the verdict will be declared
in the course of few days. Whatever it may be.
the gratitude of unborn millions will be Justly due and
freely rendered 10 those who against power. patron
age personal interest and party drill. have fought in
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