The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-05-27
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TIE NEBRASKA BILL,

The Nebraska Bill has at last passed the
House OF Representatives, striped of the
Clayton amendment, the only feature in the
bill which could ever have made it of an,
practical advantage to Il South. and without
which it is mere abstraction.
10 those who have watched the progress of
this measure there has been afforded an i'm
mcnsc deal of both anus erent and instruc
ton Such extraordinary ftats of ground
and lofty tumbling, such total failure to get
up an excitement among the mass of tie pc, :
pie, and such contemplate chicanery for the
sole purpose of manufacturing little politi-
cal capital was probably never before wines
sed. Originated by Mr.. Douglass-with a
view to keep alive the ephemeral notoriety
into which his name has been blown, lest ere
the next presidential campaign it should sink
into that infamous oblivion it so richly merits
1T was seized upon by the Administration,
as sort of fig leaf apron behind which to hide
them from the scorn and contempt of honest
men of all parties, and was at length pre-
claimed by their High Priests the shibboleth
of Democracy. Behind this fimsy patchwork
the Administration bravely took its stand,
and after a protracted struggle of more than
four months, it has come out victorious ON
Tuesday night the 23d of May the Nebraska
Bill passed the House of Representatives by a
majority of thirteen. Now let us bear in
mind that there is clear Democratic MAORI
ty of lightweight in the House, that this Bill
was test question of the strength of an Ad-
ministration, which less than two years ago
boosted of an almost unanimous selection,
and that but for the votes wings the Bill
would not have had a majority at all, and We
ask where is the triumph Of the Administra.
ton? We venture the assertion that such a
decided rebuke was never given to any ad.
ministration by Congress, since the formation
of the Republic, we care not what were the
political relations existing between them.
In the midst of fright handed reflections
and left handed backslidings," and "John
Van Buren, with Judge Bronson's head in a
basket" the Missouri compromise was fixed
upon as sort ofpolitical Messiah whose sac
rifice was to appease the clamoring of the De.
mocracy III and south, east and west, and
atone for the sins of Pierce, Marcy 4 Co. But
a people disguised with their imt ecile quib.
ling and blunders, party outraged by the
oitracism of it's best and purest members were
not to be thus easily hoodwinked, nor bound
to the support of useless abstraction though
heraldcd with all the prestige of an Admin,
tration measure
| As to the effect of the Nebraska Bill strip.
ped of the Clayton amendment, it in reality
leaves the question just where it found it. A
great deal of froth and foam was expended b,
Hon. Gentlemen to show their loyalty to the
south. but when Mr.. Clayton put that loyalty
to the test by placingit in contradistinctio1
to the influence of the foreign population they
forsook their first love, and yet endeavored
by an extra expenditure Of gas to Prov
themselves our best friends, But there comes
day of final rctrbuton, and these men will
find that their schemes, gigantic as they arc
will fail Of that reward they anticipated.