The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1854-02-18

vote ON Saturday next, bu, this can hardly
be done. Among those who are pretty
certain to speak are Messrs. Cass, Everett
Smith, Seward, Sumner, Stuart, Petit,
Toucy, Houston, and probably some 9TH
ers. So l think there is chance for the
debate to reach into next week.
Mr.. Wade in the Senate to-day made
the mos, effective speech yet, In OPPOSE
ton TO the Nebraska iniquity, before an
attentive and delighted audience. He
completely demolished Mr.. Jones of
Tenn. The "Sotts' are caving in"
SO. il appears. the friends Of the Ne
braska bill, in Its presen. shape, are anx-
lous the gag law should be put in force,
and the bill hurried through Congress
without delay. Why is this How comes
ii ,ha, Congress now for the first time in
many years feels a responsibility resting
upon it, and desires to do business with
dispatch! Why not do as from time i'm
memorial they have done--pash every
thing of until the las, hour Of long ses-
sion!
Oar conception OF the matter is this
tina. the North are becoming conscious
Of their subserviency to southern propa-
gandism, that the importance OF this bill
is being realized at the North, and with
out regard to party, meetings and conyen-
tons are being held TO retnonstrats a.
gamst its passage in i,spesent form, and
agains, any cncroachmen, upon the Mis-
souri, Compromise--and that unless the
bin be speedily passed, the members f'om
the Free States viii have received such
anmis,akable demonstrations from their
constituents tina. they will not dare to sup
port il, tina. the northern allies will be
forced to forsake thei, southern rrinci-
pals therefore the necessity for deci
sive action.
Even the South, while con,ending for
the security Of their peculiar institutions,
admit thu. slayey is an evil--a curse !!
They insist upon protection in their rights
to the inheritance lef, them by their rev.
dictionary fathers. This they should nave.
But if slavery is an evil, why should j, be
propagateds
In the settlement, o; difficulties grow.
ing OH; OF this question in 1920, the meas.
ure known as the Missouri compromise
was enacted asa comfac, between the
the Free and Slaveholding States. I, is
now sought to repeal the compromise as.
and for what purpose. In orasr 10
open NEBRASKA TO the reception Of slaves,
that this territory may at present have
this blight upon her progress and prosper
i,y. and BY the introduction Of slaves
and slave labor discourage the emgra-
ton OF northern nen and influence, and
finally, be received into the Union as one
or more slave holding States.
We do no, consider this a party qaes-
ton, but simply measure TO extend sla-
very. Nor do we consider opposition to
the measure as even tinctured with abo-
li,ionism. but rather, taking tina, stand
which every freeman should take. l, is
indeed time the North should awake TO
consciousness, when eompae's which have
existed for thirty years are being assailed,
and efforts are put forth 10 give slavery
foo. hold farther north than the most san.
guine OF It's supporters could have asked
for, even two years ago.
No measure now before Congress is oil
SO much Importance as the immediate or.
gan,zation OF Nebraska, and none so
loudly called for |, is a measure Of Vi
tal importance, and demanded by the
unanimous voice Of the people, yet j,
would be far better tina, i, never should
be organized than to be made the recep.
,lcle Of slavery ard the Geld for propaga-
ting slave institutions.
We believe that ere the bill becomes a
law. tia, the clause repeating the Mis-
sour Compromise, will be stricken out.
We place too much reliance upon the in.
tegrity and patriotism OF the members of
Congress, 70 believe they will so lar de-
grade themselves as TO become the will
ling tools OF proslavery propagandists,
and prove false to their constituents. The
pecullar9assltuaous OF the South, as con-
fined 10 their present limits, are based
upon solid foundations, but for every at.
temp, TO introduce those institutions in
territory now untaimcd by them, is an
outrage for which there is no ex.ea,la-
ton.
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! Heroine.
A letter from Washington says there