Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-06-07

Kansas and Nebraska,
The great objection urged to the bill, (ReW
law Gays the Pittsburgh Pos, organizing theter-
ritOriet of Nebraska and Kansas, has been the
assertion that It would extend the area Of slave
ry, and that that was the design OF its friends
1t was proclaimed as a measure for the exclusive
benefit of the South. e have uniformly con.l
tended that those territories could never become
slave States; that the climate, the soil aud pro-
ductions, the geographical position, and the cur
rent of emigration, oil rendered itimpossible that
slavery could ever gain permanent footing in
either of those territories. Nine immigrants
from the Northern States and from Europe will
enter aud settle in those regions, to one from the
Southern States. Shareholders are not going to
stake their property in such an unequal race,
where the free States would be sure to win; and
where the Shareholder would be sure to lose eve
ry slave be. took there, at the-irst moment the
question Of slavery or freedom was submitted to
the popular vote. i! Lasss-G s--s'a.s,F .-.u
This view of the matter is now becoming the
general opinion. Mr.. Benton, in his speech op-
posing the bill, declares that "no slaves will ev-
er be held in Kansas or Nebraska Mr.. Eve
rett expressed the same opinion; and we now
find that the Wing presses that opposed the bill
are, one after another, announcing the same opin-
ion. We will extract and published few Of
them. s -f :ys.g on s'sGs ...g ..t .ss.a
The first extract is from the Philadelphia NJ
American and U. S. Ga-ette, published before
the bill was finally passed: m si-.t g. .....
ait is very clear that whether the bill shall be
passed or defeated it can have little, if any, prac
tical effect in determining the condition OF the
territory in reference to the only matter for which
it processes to make provision. The future set
tlement of the soil is manfestIy destined to ex-
clude slavery from it, independently of all legis-
lation intended to legalize its admission with the
consent o: the citizens of that region.
That is Wing authority. And here is another
from the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. (Whig:)
"In commenting upon the passage of the Ne
braska bill, we said that in its practical conse-
quences, we could not consider it matter of
such great moment as some esteem it. In maxi
ing this remark we had reference only to the
North, and the injurious effects to this section ap-
pretended by so many To the South, we added,
it will prove barren of fruit so far as the pros
perity of Its peculir institution and the increase
of political power arc to be affected by it!'
The Journal Of Commerce, N. Y, says
1T is surprising the South should have yielded
the Clayton Proviso, by which aliens were excu-
ded from suffrage in the new Territories, and by
consequence, from participating in shaping the
Constitution of the future States. The conse-
quence will be, says this writer, that not another
slaveholding state will ever be brought into the
Union We may admit Mexico and all Central
America and Cuba into the Union, but still with
out another slave State. Ultimately the general
effect of this bill will be preudcial to the extern
sion Of slavery, and in more than one way
The Albany Erening Journal says: ....lE
"The rejection of the amendment [Clayton's, ]
may make an important difference in the feature
of the territories. 1t opens them to German and
other Smigrants who will go for 10 State Consti-
tuten that authorizes slavery. If shareholders
who contemplate emigration with their ''proper-
ty' to Kansas, could stand about noon in Mont
gomery street here, and see long trains Of nine
teen or twenty cars full of free emigrants that
we send westward every day, they would think
twice before going into speculation where there
| is likely to be so much competition" ..-
There is testimony from four leading and inhu-
entail Whig journals on the subject, and we could
multiply such extracts, to great extent. To the
last remark Of the Albany Evening Journal above
quoted, the Detroit Free Press says:
''There will be no competition in the bust
ness. The South does not now, und has not al
any time, thought OF taking slaves to the new
territories. That idea had its origin in the proli-
fc brain Of Northern political agitators."