Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-04-29
THE GERMANS ON NEBRASKA.

The Douglassitcs of Concnnnti finally yonturet
to hold q meeting last week. which was addressed
by the Hon. Geo. f. Pugh U. S. Senator elect
The meeting is said to have been thin, tame aud
cool. On the same evening the German Democrats
Of that city held meeting TO denounce and fur
ther expose the Nebraska Iniauity Editor Rcsch
of the YolksLiah reported the following resolves,
which were heartily approved and adopted
This meeting, composed of German speaking, but
nevertheless free American citizens Of Cincinnati,
adopts hereby the following resolves;
lst. Liberty and right aud not slavery and might,
are the fundamental principles Of tho institutions
OF this country. An equality of right between
slavery and freedom is therefore out Uf the ques-
ton.
ID. The people give power to Congress, md not
Congress to the people. The Congressional grant
Of Territorial Government is therefore positive
wrong.
Sd. Neither tho General Government, nor any
other Government, can under the Constitution,
recognize slavery beyond State limits. Under the
Constitution of the United States, when rightlully
considered, slavery must give way to freedom, and
the sovereign power of the States alone protects
the first from abrOgGtiOn.
4th. There is constitutonally and rghtfully no
property in.man; might alone, which cannot be
reached, reduces men any where in the United
States, to cattle. Slavery is an eternal declaration
OF war against humanity, and it exists but upon
Tue same Dlsis as martial law.
9th. The Nebraska bill contains the undcnia-
bic assumptions Of power on the part Of Congress
LIST. That the General Government may suspend
the state Of freedom, and Of the unalienabe rights
Of man, and
Cd. That it can recognize slavery.
Never yet has a law Of liberty been repealed in
America, and il should not DO doao now, unless all
public and private rights intended to be anni-
hillicd
9th. The Nebraska bill strengthens the power of
the President, and weakens that Of Congress--a
tendency we disapproYe.
7th. The following lies have been promulgated
among US during the Nebraska discussion;
a. That the Compromise Of 1850 abrogates that
Of 1870.
d. That the bill confcrs upon the people in the
Territories the power to organize their own domes-
tic institutions.
c. That the bill is not favorable to the spread o.
Slavery.
D. That Slavery cannot exist without positive
law, as if might were not every where its only
basis.
We have surely not deserved it at the hands of
the President and his newspaper, that in addition
to bctraying us. they should also lie to us.
Sth That the Nebraska bill like the constitutions
granted by princes, concealed behind fair unmean-
ling phrases tendencies dangerous to freedom.
9th. Slavery is local evil which can by no migra-
ton be generazed. -,
10Th The Nebraska bill is an invitation TO slave
holders to migrate with their sayos into the terri
torios-it prolongs injusticc-giyes it permanence,
and covers it with the national seal. Unborn mil
lions are slaF by it, and this increases the num-
ber of the victims.
llth The sole difference between the so-callcd
Intervention of the Missouri Compromise, and the
so-called non-nterventon of the Nebraska bill
consists in this-the first prohibits Slavery and
protects freedom, the latter repeals freedom and
guarantees Slavery.
18th The people of Nebraska do not ask the
General Government Cow \crnOrs or other officers.
Ii wants the military protection which, under the
circumstances, is its due. Nebraska asks for fish
and they give them a snake. The profiercd popu-
lar sovereignty is the bitterest irony, since their
first wish for Territorial Government without
Slavery has been trodden under foot
18th. That we approve heartily the position for
an Anti Corruption Democratic State convention
as made by the Democrats of Paulding County.
We would name the first Monday of June as II
proper day and Messrs Fred Diliods, DR.. Bauer,
+. Slefert Philip lieis and Chas. Rc'ch be and
they are hereby nominated us our Delegates to the
same,
18th. We would also further most respectfully
propose that Nebraska Societies be organized IN
every city in the Union, with the view to assist
for the sake of liberty tho immigration Of free
laborers into Nebraska, by aiding them with graf
uitous gifts of agricultural implements, cattle and
other means.
10Th. That these resolves be published in ail our
city journals favorable to constitutional liberty,
and that copes.bc transmitted to the President OF
the United states and also to our senators and
Representatives in Congress, with the request to
Inv them leforo their rpsnortye Houses