Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-25


al believe it is admitted that there Is no
mate rial interest at stake
Speech of Mr. Eusrett ON The Nebraska biH'
The opponents Of the Bill to repeal the Mis-
souri, Compromise differ from Mr.. Everett
! The material interest at stake is free labor
the area of which, by the operation of this Bib
is to be restricted
Slave Labor is exhausting, and Is always
seeking for virgin soil The soil of Massachu-
setts is hard one, and yet the average num-
Der of its population to square mile is is7
while the ratio in Alabama, with its fertile
soil and and genial climate il IS to square
mile And yet, according to the weekly SEN
tinei Of that State it lost by emigration, from
October last to February period OF four
months, an average Of 500 every day, or a
total of rs, 900 souls II estimates the amount
of property carried out by these emigrants at
| $78, ,000
The Census shows that the course Of cmigra-
ton is not 80 much from the North to the
South, as from the South to Northern and
Western territory. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri, have been settled largely by
Southern immigrants,
History shows that where the Territory has
not been exempted from Slavery by positive
Congressional enactment, there immigrants
have continued to hold their slaves and have
| built up Slave labor Institutions; and that
whore there has been such enactment, they
have labored, although unsuccessfully, to break
it down. as was the case in Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois.
Missouri ranges for the most part in the
same ATTITUDES as these States. Its soil and
climate are like theirs. 1t was not exempted
from Slavery by Congressional enactment, as
they were; and to-day, it has 10000 slaves,
while they have none, and only 100000 white
people, while not one Of them has less than a
million, and Ohio, q smaller State, has twenty
two hundred thousand!
By the Missouri Compromise, Nebraska Ter
ritory, with an area large enough for dozen
such States as Ohio, was exempted from Sla-
very, and for ihirty-three years it has been sup
posed that States free and prosperous like Ohio,
were to spring out Of it. Southern and North
ern immigrants, settling it. would be placed on
an equal footing, enjoy equal rights, and par
ticipate equally in building up free-lsbor inst-
buttons. No one doubts that such will be the
res,st, if the Missouri Compromise be left IN
disturbed.
The Shareholders, with Mr.. Douglas, and
few Northern Senators already disowned by
their constituents, propose to repeal this Com
promise, and place Nebraska in the same con-
dition, as it regards Slavery, rs Missouri was
left in-without protection against the inroads
of that system. Under the operation Of the
policy that secured q free population to Ohio
indiana and Illinois, q free population would
have been secured to Nebraska. Under the
operation of the policy that has given slave
population to Missouri, it will become peopled
with slaves for large portion Of it lies in the
same latitude with Missouri, and is susceptible
Of the fame kind of cultivation. And yet Mr.
Everett coolly tells us that cit is admitted
that there is no material interest ut stake +"
Facts show that he and those who concur with
him are mistaken, and that the Party of Sla
very is not fighting 80 desperately for mere
abstraction.
Senator Butler, in debate which took place
in the Senate, last Monday pointed out the |
way in which Slavery would gradually gain
foothold in the Territory should the Compro-
mise be repealed for to suffer it to stand was
in his judgment, to interpose an insuperable
obstacle to its introduction. Explaining why |
he was willing, in this particular case, to dele.
gate to tho People Of the Territory the right to
govern themselves, be said
h I. will give these powers in this case be-
cause it is prudent and proper, will give
them to those who, understanding The great /
principle of american institutions, mil impress |
IL upon the statutes of the Territory, until it
shall assume such position as will enable it |
TO come into the Union as an equal State; but
| am not going to deal 30 with all other Terri. /
tories | will deal 30 with this, because, If you
mil allop me TO say so, 4 knop that Kenfucky,
Missouri, PennssiUanio, North Carolina and,
ia part, South Carolina, hare mingled their
judgments in The population Of Missouri, and
that wiH be a Judgment which IS i,kelyto prevail
IN The lars Of these Territories. Sir, The MN
gied opinions Of the citizens hving IN and be-
yond Missouri wih carry cut that judgment in
the Territorial laios-of these Territories, and
beiiepe They roii be just There are a great
many from the North who will go into these
IcTfitOTlcr. y HuUt NeU sOmt VI tHtm hty
are men apho arc capable, before leaving home,
of lifting Themselves above The prsjudices whifh
prevail there or pho haze kff home NTH
uiep 10 take fair position in reference 10 hfs
mattern
Which, being interpreted, means, that SEN
tor Butler votes to give these people the right
to govern themselves with an important quail
fcation, simply and solely because the settlers
there, being composed of Kentuckians, Caro-
linians, Mssourians and Northern immi
grants free from prejudice against Slavery
will tolerate that system, and protect it by
their laws.
Here are some speculations, also, from tho
st. Louis Mol Republican, Wing Journal