Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-02-11

to be slave territory until its local legislature
should prohibit slnyery by law to which Congress
should, by formal act, assent"
This Is point Of great Importance, and should
not be overlooked among the other grave objections
20 this hagtious project. BY the law Of the land
In Louisian, at the time received that province
from France, slavery was Il recognized institution
within It's borders. The Missouri Compromise
prohibited slavery in all thot part Of Louisiana
which lay beyond 3G' 30/ north latitude the north
ern boundary Of Afkau.as. lf we repeal the pro-
hibitory clause in the Missouri Compromise, do We
restore the old state Of things2 II VIC pass an
actdecaring that clause imperative, Do we not
leave the law Of slavery on which il operated, in
its original force?
Rely upon it, this ground will be taken the mo-
ment that Douglass bill passes. Register that bill
among the acts Of Congress, and YOU will then he
shown the trap which has been sprung upon YOU.
and informed that you have made Nebraska slave
territory.
The Washington Union, of yesterday, says
They [thosc who oppose Mr.. Douglass bill
represent 1t as movement of the advocates oi
slavery, TO lcgisate the institution into the Ne
braska territory. This is total misrepresentation
Of the provisions of the bill As declared by MIR.
Douglas in the Senate the bill neither lceisla,cs
slavery Into the territory nor out OF it, but it pre-
vides that it may 90 there not rs the people in
habiting it may determine. II rests upon the as
sumption that all the people Of ali the stalcs have
an interest in the territory, and it opens the door
for all who choose Ia mike it tleir homc to enter
aud when there, IL comedies to thcm the full righ,
to regulate their internal and domestic interests
for themselves. 1t neither says 90 the slave owner
that slavery will or will not exist in the territory
but it declares to him that ~ it is common proper
~, he shall not be prohibited by any action u
Congress from cmigrating 10 it; and when there
he must abide by the judgment Of all the inhahi
tants as to the continued enjoyment of his slave
property"
a.. Z. IL AZ. =
while the question OF ts passlcos vet to be decided
by Congress. But pass the bill aud what will they
say How will the leaders of the slave party how
will the champions Of southern rights; how vii
the jurists and egists Of the southern States thcr
interpret the bill
Theyure already contcnling that the prohibition
Of slavery contained in the Missouri Compromis
is contrary to the constitution Of the United States
As soon rs the bill now before the Senate shall hlv
become law, these men, acute and ready in iA
application of legal principles will come lorwar,
and say to us: " Now that we have got rid of th
unconstitutional prohibition of slavery in the vas
region which formed the original province Of Lou
isiana, let us consider the effect nf what We hav
done. By the law Of the land throughout Louis
lana, slavery was an established institution up 4
the compromise Of 1850. Slavery was lcgalizcd il
that part of the region which afterwards rorme,
the state OF Louisiana; slavery was the law il
Arkansas; it was the law in Missouri nnl undc
that law both Missouri and Arkansas while in th
satc OI tcrrtOrles, were settled by Shareholders
their worE-peopc. 1t was equally the law in Ne
braska which formed part of the province o
Louisiana, and it was never supposed 10 Le cxclud
ed or abolished there till the adoption Of the Mi.
souri, Compromise. Congress has now declared th
prohibition Of slavery contained in that compromis
to be imperative; by doing that It leaves the an
cient laws Of Louisiana in the same force ns IL th
Missouri Compromise had never been adopted
The territory revert, to its original condition th
lew of slavery is revived the two hundred slave
who arc now in Nebraska are rightiuly held i
bondage. Planters who 20 to Nebraska witi. thci
slaves will hold that species Of property under ia
special protection Of the law.
No man in his senses can doubt thnt this ar.r
mont will be seized upon, rcrs ted in pressed u
all occasions in Congress. IN the trlunnls Of law
and upon the soil of the territory itself Il is muc
stronger argument than can be made for the gr0un
which Douglas and his associates are now taking
namely, that the compromise Of 1880 is superccde
by that Of 1850. II they force that doctrine upoi
the country, most assurcdly they will make immC
date use Uf the advantage il opens to them, an
claim, that Nebraska from the Missouri to th
Rocky Mountains, is slave territory, with the pccu
liar institution Of the South--as they call it--eS
listing within it ia full vgor.
The more attcntvcly the scheme proposed i
Douglas bill is viewed, the more dishonest iraut
ulont it will appear. 1t begins in one gross decor
tion and conducts infnllibly to another, which il
friends, for the present keep out Of sight