The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-14
PRESIDENT.
HON. MARK SPENCER.

HON. MARK SPENCER.
PRESIDENTS.
wm.F. Havemeyer, L. H. Ludlow,
Geo. Griswold, Charles King,
Hon James E. Cooley, John Bigelow,
Walter X. Jenes, George Bruce,
Hiram ketchum, VIM. Kent,
Moses Taylor, David Banks,
Robert l., Stuart, James W. Gerard
Charles II. Marshall, Daniel Lord,
Rev. E. H. Chaplin, A. G. Flagg,
Robert b. Minturn, G. A. Worth,
Robert Emmett, Geo. Newboli,
Thos Il Stillman, Wilson G.. Hunt
George Wood, J. Depeystsr Ogden,
Jonathan Coddington, Robt. L. Stevens,
Hon. al'1s 1otn aeLi' l. Mason, A-~DHa = '0a"s'
VIM E Dodge Robert G, c.s,,,d Soodhue,
John Il. Eevelin, avid 0yphant,
1hos l!cElrath, Joseph Walker.
Thos Adds Emmet,
Mr. E. A. srAssBuRY read the following address. TIL
audience did not pay much attention to its
Address OF THE COMMITTEES APPOINTED TO OPPOSE
TIE NEBRASKA PERFIDY.
FELLOW Crrr2l,ys.-When in January last In violation
of the pledges given Baltimore by the whg and demo-
cratic parties and in yet violation Of the inau
yrral pedre rrofered to tho world by the President of
he United states the slavery question with the conni
OF the administration dragged into Congress
and before the country, by proposal to repeal the
hereditary instincts the first to protest against the
threatened outrage destructive alike of peace and
harmony, of the national honor and the federal
Union.
In four mass meetings Of her merchants, her mecha
her great ar aas ssr IN
warning and remonstrance and throughout the free
States despite the inclemancy of the season. the people
regard TO creed party and vented their stern dsplea
In tones of thunder until there resounded from
East to West continuous echo Of popular indgna-
tion.
The heart of the North was stirred to its centre BY
this meaaed breach Of public faith without parallel
in the annals of any Christian people and the working
classes whether Americans by birth or citizens by adop
ton themselves fully awake to the practical con-
Territory Which theirs BY compact in order that It
might be cultivated by unpaid aborers for the exclusive
Wherever popular elections were pending, into which
the issue could be brought the canvass told uniformly
the story and federal influence and federal patron
age, were exerted in vain to approval at the
polls of the conduct Of the administration. 80,
Elaborate and repeated efforts were made BY politi-
cane Who underrated the integenc of the Northern
people to mislead them in regard to the meaning and
effect Of the Kansas Nebraska BILL to persuade them into
the belief that denied the right of Congress- to egsate
for the Territories that it established the doctrine Of
squatter sovereignty and that 1t recognized the prtnc
Tle of non interye enton.
such pretences been frankly secuted by the Southern
porters of the BILL but every intelligent voter at the
North knows them to be untrue knows that the BILL in
the language Of the great statesman Of the West "de
nes TO the people Of the Territory every attbutc Of
sovereignty that denies them freedom Of election de-
nies them freedom Of voting denies them the chocs Of
their laws denies them the right OF fixing qualihca
snd the Of the federal which they
bad hand in eecting' and does not even recognise
their TO regulate their domestic institutions and
excluCe the curse of negro slavery
While the gecst mas Of the people at the North are
unanimous in their intelligent and determined opposition
10 the bill the people OF the south have neither demand
cd nor asked fot 1t. 1t introduced as Mr. Benton
has toid, you, without a memorial without petition
without request from any human being
In con.emptuous defiance OF the known VIII OF the peo
pe the adm nistraton by an act OF unconstitutiona
usurr alton that, history teaches US, would not b.
dres secretly and openly to Interfere with the freedom
of federal legislation aud at moment when Eirop'
Is convuled and foreign relations are in Jeopardy
there Is to fear that majority of the House
Representatives having thrust aside the legitimate oasi
ness Of the nation are preparing at the am
dctntion Of ordinate department OF the government
TO perpetraie act which the people whom they pro
fs 70 represent have discussed repudated, and con
-demned
In this crisis of our country's fate your committee
appointed TO take such measures as they might deem
expedient towards defeating the objects Of the Kansas
Nebraska bill, feel IL their duty TO address you Tn
probable consequences of the repeal Of the Missour
compromise are Of immense moment, even we're to b
effected independently of executive influence opera tin,
against he peoples will The repeal OF that compro
mise you have already declared will be the virtua
repea OF all compromises between .rsedom and slavery
and will terminate forever all confidence between th
North and the South The extension of slavery 70 Ne
brasl would secure to the slave States permanent pre-
poneefance in the federal Union, which would enabl
them 10 sway the government in all its branches-legis
ative executive and uaiciawh reference only 70 IN
and without regard to the will or the welfare Of twenty
millions Of free citizens.
Arise then again in your might, and declare that thi
monstrous peridy however aided or apetted shau no
succeed Bid the adminst'a alton beware how they tam
per with your your represenatve
remember the infamy that awaits those who sell Tor
OF pottage the birthrght OF their constituents
Let committees OF correspondence as In the days oil ou
fathers when plots less reasonable we're rife agains
our liberties be organized In every town Let remon
strances and protests again food the Senate and IN
House to remind them that both Congress and Execu
tive are the servants Of tho people Let the clergy
moved by assaults and inaiel sneers, mainta
their high and rightful position, and protest.
american citizens and Christian ministers shoul
protest, against fraud, falsehood and oppression
feciare seain TO the South that the bill II passed
xJu se wanting In thr elenents Of valid lersla