Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-01-26
NEW PHASE IN THE NEBRASKA CUES
TION.


The advocates of the introduction of Slavery
into Nebraska, first broke ground, in excuse for
their course, with the argument that the Com
promise of 1850 virtually repealed that of 1920
admitting Missouri, and prohibiting Slavery
north of thiry-six and half degrees. But it
now appears that they are caught in their own
trap, 1t appears, en- examination Of these
Compromise acts Of 1850, that they contain a
clause which indirectly, but certainly and ex-
plictly, ensures Nebraska against the introduce
ton of Slavery. This clause, according to DR..
Bailey of the Ere, was incorporated into these
Union-saving and forever-to -be-held-sacred mea-
sures, as follows:
August 9Th, 1850, the Texas Boundary Bill
being under discussion in the Senate, Mr.. Mason
of Virginia moved the following, which was
adopted;
Resolvcd nothing herein contained shall be constr
ed impair qualify anything contained in the Sd article Of
the I'd section Of the joint resolution for annexng Texas to
the United States approved March 1 S45 either regard
to the number Of States that may hereafter be formed out
the State of Texas, OR OTHERWISE"
What is this famous third article, thus ex-
piicitly und carefully guarded! 1t is the extern
sion of the principle of the Missouri Compromise
to Texas, as follows:
That States convenient size exceeding four in
number in addition to said State of Texas and having su-
Client population hereafter by the consent of said state,
be the territory thereof which shall be entitled
to admission under the provision the Federal Constitution
And such may be formed of that portion of said
Territory lying south of 30 deg 80 min north latitude COM
monty known the Missouri Compromise line shall be adj
mtted into the Union, with without slavery as the people
of each State asking admission may DESIRE And in such
State States shall be formed out of said Territory north
said Missouri Compromise line, slavery or involuntary SER
vitude, except for crime, shall be prohibited"
Thus it seems that this very Compromise,
which all Hunkerdom has been, for the last
three years, believing about, in every spot and
place, from the pulpit to the stump, from Con-
gress to the school district caucus, has unexpec-
teddy brought them up all standing in their mad
career of Slavery propagandism. What will
the miserable hypocrites do now! Will they
conclude to liveiup themselves to the terms they
have imposed on the country, to obey the Com
promise, and rslinquish their grasp on this fair
territory, OR will they go on and add wickedness
to their hypocrisy, till they succeed in reducing
Nebraska, also, to a land of whips and letters
The latter to a dead certainty, if they can.
But whether they can, is the question next to b
settled. What curious spectacle it would BE-
to see, some half dozen years hence the Free
Democracy of the country contending, with tho
view of staying still greater menaced evils, for
the fnality of the Compromises of 1850 as siren
uously as the supporters of the Slave Power havc
done, till now, ever since their enactment! And
yet such state of things is by no means impos-
sible A continuance, for six kyears to come,
of the same strides which the Slave Power has
made the last six years, would bring about q
crisis in which we all might be glad to hold her
to the limits which those Compromises now as
sign her; for, at such a rate of progress, she,
long before that time, will have every square
mile of our territories under her control, and be
attempting to override or change the Constitu-
tions of half the free States in the Union, for
the purpose of adding them to her dominions.
And what is to prevent the continuance Of these
late strides of the Slave Power! The great mass
of the people at the North seem to have sunk
into hopeless terpor on the subject Two
thirds of the capital of the same North is at her
service, and the Supreme Court of the United
States is becoming completely subservient to her
behests
We do not intend to be causeless alarmist !;
but in view of the past and the omcns of the
present, we cannot but be looking for new ag-
gressions of the Slave Power of SO bold char
acter that all her former ones shall be as nothing
in the comparison. And we know not but such
may be absolutely necessary, fully to arouse the
people of the free States to sense Of their dan
ger. Well, let them come, the sooner the bet
ter; for then there will soon be q " fnality"
which will admit of no retall-the " fnality :"
of Slavery in these now guiit-branded United
States.