The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-20

ITEMS AND GOSSIP on THE NEBRAsKA QUESTION.
The Ohio resolutions against the Nebraska bin were
laid the table the State Senate the 18th inst, TO
be taken mp when the Senate had nothing else to do
The antNebraskA State convention of Ohio is to meet
at Columbus ON Wednesday next, the 22d Inst.
The tables Of the Ohio Lsgslature, should think,
would groan under the weight Of the numerous Nebraska
resolutions which have been laid upon them Az kind
Of compromise the following offered in the House
Of Representatives on the Is tn inst.:-
Resolved by the General Assembly Of the State Of Ohio
That Senators in Congress be and our ep
resenaves requested to insist the insertion in any
bill for tho organization of Territory and to support no
bill which does not contain tho following provisions -
l. An explicit declaration Of the right Of the people,
through their Territorial legislAture to form and regu
late their local institutions, including the question OF
slavery and exercise the during the period OF
their territorial existence, as well as in the adoption OF
That eli executive and judicial officers of the Terri
tories shall DO chosen by the qualified electors thereof
g. That all white male inhabitants over twenty -one
years age including those who have declared their in
tenton to become citizens Of the United States shall be
entitled to vote and hold Office.
That the foregoing rights and powers shall be held
and exercised without any executive
troll whatever
An efagy, labelled /" John R. Thompson" was found
hanging from of the trees the Common In Tren-
ton N. j., the 18th nst-probaby in memory OF his
vote for the Nebraska bill in the Senate.
The Columbus, Ohio, State Democrat administration
paper says that any who imagnes that the admins
traon Of Franklin Pierce designs make the support OF
the Nebraska bill test of political orthodoxy is doomed
to a sad disappointment
The Richmond Ezominer is exulting the passage
of the Nebraska bill by the Senate in this wayAboli-
ton lawess rude, vulgar Cycopan monster lies pros
traed for the time with mangled limb and rayess eye
the con empt and of every honest The exer
ons yes of that crushed and despsed faction are
the only evidences of vitality that eau now
exhibit The fangless viper can hiss, but 1t canaot
wound The South potential in the Senate, omni-
potent with the President and the speedy passage OF
at VIC
and shape under our feet"
large and enthusiastic meeting Of the friends of the
Nebraska movement held in Annapolis, Nd. on tho
sth inst.
Senator Douglass neck be growing SORE for they
keep hanging him in Massachusetts He found dan
Cling from elm in Cambridge few mornings since, la
belled haze rerba Stephen Arnold Douglas, hanged
for treason to freedom. Sic Senper 7yrdnnis"
meeting Of ministers of all denominations in Pitts
burg was called be holden the 18th inst protest
against the enactment Of the Nebraska bill.
Some women Of Alliance Stark county, Ohio, have in
genously sewed thirty three cent pieces between two
sheets Of gauze forming transparent mat of three or
four inches them to Senator Doug
las with the following. The letter is signed by some
thing one hundred names:-
To Mr.. DOUGLAS, OF ILLINOIS, MEMBER U 3 SENATE
SIR-We the undersigned, wives mothers, and daugh-
tiers county Ohio feeling grateful that boast
ed Of the free and home Of the brave" yet
free that white husbands sons and brothers. can enjoy
their liberty, beg to present to the enclosed
thirty pieces Of silver as testimony Of the senti-
ments we entertain your labors in the Nebraska BILL
If Judas was worthy Of his reward for betrayng
whom he knew had the power to extrcate himself from
the hands Of his cruchers, then much more are you
worthy of this reward (should Office of emoument be
proered you for this betrayal of liberty for this effort
to cast into hands brutal than Jewish crucAers,
mothers husbands and wives and daughters
ed Of infraction Of religious civil law, and whose
blood i called for By Gp but cold
Without dwelling upon this horrd picture further,
may you receive the thirty pieces Of silver herewith
sent evidence Of the consderat in which hold
you you follow the last act Of Judas you may
repent in deepest sackcoth this most nearous betrayal
of liberty.
THE NEBRASKA QUESTION IN THE OHIO LEGISLATURE.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
March Is, 1854.
II is with great pleasure your inquiry as to
the influence Of the Nebraska question: in determining
the choice of Mr.. Pugh, by the caucus have seen,
with regret and astonshment the attempt to discredit
your statement, which correct, that man could
have been nominated United States Senator who
not in favor of the bill Of Douglas and unequivocaly
did not to claim 1t as direct issue but
the question was test; If not with ALL with perhaps
thirty democratic members with whom have con-
yersed, and with most Of whom, you are aware have
had the honor to act from the first time cast our
votes for Colonel Manypenny speak with certainty
for myself and others, that it test. If others
this great question they voted differently from what did,
for know pans views ON such subjects before aid
When this matter was discussed In the House. our
friends did think II worth the while to anything
for thought the least said in reply the better as i
elected Nebraska man without proper inquiry
To your questions, then, l answerIthe Nebraska Dill
did enter into the election of Mr. Pugh He known,
at least 10 about thirty of to be in favor OF tand
we were in favor Of him account of it. When say
thirty, those who voted originally for Mr. Many
penny for there others could name who voted
for Pugh because they knew him to be sound on that
question cannot state how many voted for Mr.. Pugh
rangements to know that he could not have been elect
without he had favored the principles Of the Douglas
bill.
You can use this as you please Ihave conversed with
many fellow nembers and they coincide with what say
Yours, with respect, 4. CAMPBELL
NEBRASKA MEETING IN CosHOCTON, OHIO.
meeting called at Coshocton Ohio, last week. to
express sentiments and pass resolutions in opposition to
made and revolutions offered; but they did moi
express the sentiments of majority of those congrega
ted they voted down, and the following adopted
Whereas The principle which lies at the foundation q
republican form Of government declares that a.
governed and whereas the right and capacity Of tn.
ss%ssIsss ana whereas ss history II Con
localities hss only proved aSorvs in either sstaSshas
ofshs United States
those territories but on tho contrary has beer
RcasvS That the
not granted by the constitution that
people and states the the
and that the has delegated I,
the Territories Of the United States that they
the joint property Of the several States acquired by their
united action and by the expenditure Of their blood
and they are the
thereof to enact such laws in relation to their domestic
institutions they may deem conducive to their vel
fare
Resolved That the bill Of Senator Douglas amended,
asy ss
souri, compromise being with the principle Of
by Congress with in the States and
Territories recognized by the lsgaton Of Is in
operative and void II being the intent and meaning Of
this Nebrssk act not 70 egae slavery into any Terri
tory to exclude thererom bat to leave the
people thereof perfectly free to form regulate their do
mest institutions In their own subject only to the
| constitution Of the United States.
Resolved That the people have the inalienable right Ut
all times themselves and tho
ment like other sciences is progressive in it's
fore all laws whether called compromises otherwise
subject to whenever the people demand such repeal
Resolved That the passage of said BILL settling does
now and fer ever the control Of these questions by the
pie not only ehectualy puts at the time
tbat agitation which has already than threatened
the existence Of glorious Union but its
upon future occasions when In the
Iemens OF the destiny republic Trritories