The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-02-27


congress. The southern members are in ia
vor of it, the administration favors it, and
the majority of the northern democrats are
in favor of it. We do not see, therefore
how it can be defeated in either house The
only thing our friends who do not like it can
do now is, to console themselves with the
belief thatit will not be so very bad, after all
There is no more danger of slavery going in
TO Nebraska-nor quite as much--as of its
going into California. The new territories
and states are usually settled by northern
people, and if they are, as those papers that
oppose this bill assert, TO man opposed to
the Introduction of slavery into free terrific
ry, they will take very good care in forming
a state onstituton--which, at the rate Ne
braska is filling up, they will do in about
two or three yearsL-to exclude slavery Slave
holders are not a migratory people and but
few would take their slaves into new coun-
try under the most favorable circumstances
Not one in hundred will so where the pros
pect Of losing their property in three years
is SO great as it will be in Nebraska.
Let us 80 into ID mathematical calculation
of this subject and see what proportion of
the people who will vote on the state CON
stitution, three years hence, will be slave
states is a STAKEHOLDER. Suppose that one in
five Of all who move from the southern states
into Nebraska are Shareholders, the north will
send two to one Of the south into any and
every new territory Here, then. we shall
have fifteen non-slaveholders to one slave
holder III Nebraska, when the people form
constitution and ask To be admitted into the
Union as state. Now, them if slavery is
such all evil as it is represented to be by the
north, and the southern emigrants are ac-
quainted with it and hnOlv all its evils, will
it not be safe to let them decide upon its
continuance in their own new state? Our
government is founded OF the principle that
the people are capable of self government
why, them need any Of US fear to leave Ne
braska in the hands Of its future inhabitants,
fifteen-siXteenths of whom will be opposed
TO slavery? For our own part, since we
can't prevent Douglass bill from passing. we
mean to make the best of it.--IN Y. Day
Book.
The foregoing is the plausible argument Of
those who propose to violate the Missouri
compromise. But it will not bear examina-
ton. The people are capable Of self govern
ment, it is said, and so say we. But when
are they to commence governing themselves
in this matter Three years hence. or when
a state constitution becomes necessary. I'm
Ill then they are to be under the government
of the president and congress, and appointed
agents. Slavery will be tolerated and estab-
lished there in the mean time under the ter
ritorial law. Then, it is admitted, there will
be one in fifteen of the inhabitants slave
holders. This is greater proportion than
the average in the slaveholding states. Less
than one in twenty is there STAKEHOLDER
Yet this fact does not produce the overthrow
Of slavery. Slavery is authorized and legal
lied by the Nebraska bill, so that the peopleI
can have the trouble of abolishing it some
years hence if they see proper. If it be the
object to submit the matter entirely to the |
people, why not let them have charge of it
at once and control it at the start? Let the
people govern themselves. If the compro-
mise must be abolished in order that they
may govern themselves, apply the principle
at once and give them control of themselves
and of this subject. The neglect or refusal
10 do so, shows that this is bald and hyp-
9critical pretcnce, intended only to cheat
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