Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-17
From tho New York Evening Post.
TIKI VOICE OF THE WEST.

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We quoted, the other day, the protest of the
Missouri Democrat against the wickedness OF
the Nebraska scheme. That print Is not alone,
among the journals Of the State, in its oppo-
sition to Mr.. Douglass BILL Another St Louis
paper, the Inteihgeneer in discussing it, saws:
"We hold that, in regard to the terrl,ory
embraced by the Missouri Compromise, and
the territories embraced in the Compromise Of
1850, the question between the slayeholding
and -slayeholding sections is already settled
by valid enactments, and we are simply for
abiding by that settlement IL is those who
propose to repeal one Of the existing enact
ments, that are renewing the Slavery agitation
in the national arena and we are for discount
tenancing that renewal, in conformity with the
pledges OF the Representatives Of our party in
solemn convention at Baltimore. The bills for
the organization Of Kansas and Nebraska
ought to say nothing about Slavery, except that
all questions relating to personal freedom are
left to the courts Of the Territory, with appeal
to the Supreme Court of the United Statesn
The nonsense which we have so often heard,
about the unconstitutionslity Of Congress in
terfering in the legislation of the Territories is
thus disposed Of by the same journal:
Suppose q body OF free negroes should emf
CRATE to Nebraska, and get possession of il, as
the Mormons have Of Utah, would Congress be
bound to admit them as q sovereign State Of
the Union on their application? 1t is not prob
able that such thing will ever occur, but it
illustrates the absurdity Of the pretended right
OF the population of a Territory to dispose Of
it at their own discretion. Even the white in.
habitants of Territory may be 80 unfit for
free and civilized institutions, for want Of po-
ltical and moral training, that Congress may
and ought in justice to the existing confeder-
ated States which they represent to keep those
Territories out of the family until their people
do acquire the necessary education, or the An
glo-Americans gain the ascendencyn
We have before US the Detroit DAILY Demo.
Graf, which publishes extracts from MIR. Wade's
recent spirited speech against the Nebraska
fraud, commencing them to the attention Of
its readers From the same paper we learn
that the people Of Michigan are beginning to
move in getting up "Reminiscences against the
repeal Of the prohibition Of Slavery in the act
of 1920 At Dexter, meeting Of citizens
without distinction Of party has been held, to
take measures for circulating petitions against
the bill for signatures.
The Chicago Democratic Press, the organ OF
Douglass own friends in illinois, alluding to
a second meeting Of the people Of Chicago,
called for Saturday evening, at the South Mar.
ket Hall, to protest against Douglass BILL says,
emphatically
1--WE are glad this meeting is to be held, and
we hope the great national question involved
in that issue will be fairly met. Mere petit.
Jogging about the right Of the people to gov
ern Themselves will not satisfy sober minded
men that the Missouri Compromise should be
repealed The territory north Of SO deg and
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dom, and for that the South received quid
pro quo, viz, the admission Of Missouri into the
Union as slave State. There is not the
shadow of an excuse in reality for the repeal Of
that Compromise. The South have still their
part Of the consideration named in sthe bond
and yet with boldness never before equalled
in the annals of American legislation, they ask
us to yield everything to the Unsuitable NAV
of Slavery
OF those who took part in the first meeting
held at Chicago to protest against Mr.. Doug
lass course, the Galena Jefersonian, a daily
Democratic print, says
The officers of the meeting were sold line
Democrats Of 1848, to whom no faint or sus-
picion Of Free-Solism or Abolitionism can be
attached; the speakers, with one exception,
were warm Compromise men in 1850; and the
great mass of the hearers were men Of peace,
willing to acquiesce in what has been done,
but not to give another inch to the encroach-
ments of Slavery. The resolutions of the meet
ing passed by reclamation"
In subsequent number Of the same paper,
it speaks thus of the Senator of its own State,
who kindled this new quarrel:
"The question has not been raised by the
fanatical friends of emancipation, nor by the
Free Soil seceders Of lS48; nor yet by North
ern Democrats, with whom Freedom is not an
impulse, but principle The latter certainly
were content to abide the settlement Of 1850
they had no irebrand to throw into the Demo
cratic camp-they bore no incendiary torch
by which TO light sectional strife. The bitter
blow comes from another source--from one
who has ever acclaimed against agitation, and
who has grown into political Importance from
the supposed sincerity Of his utterances-from
ON illinois Senator Thank Heaven he has a
free constituency and when, with charla.
tanism as thin as it is contemplate, he charges
them with Aboltionism, or in his own classic
language, niggcrisnl,' he will find that they
are able and willing to rcpel the taunt. Upon
him rests burden not easily shaken OFF,
Public opinion seems to be quito unanimous
on this question in all the most populous por
ton Of Illinois. OF Ohio, an Ohio print now
lying before us, the Sandusky DAILY Mirror,
says:
The opinions Of the pross in relation to the
Douglas Nebraska--the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise and extension of Slavcry--are al
most unanimously against the fraud. So far
as the Ohio press is concerned, there are but
four dissentients. Two decidedly in its favor,
and two moro Pickering, timidly, and coward
ly. Some others are still silent on the subject
But the great weight OF the press Of Ohio is
down upon the tearing up Of old and settled
Compromises Of the Constitution
We shall copy this morning no further tes-
timonies against the meditated outrage. III
some hundred newspapers which we have just
looked over, the expression Of an indignant dis
approval of the Nebraska bill is almost unani
nous II is a perfect chorus Of condemnation
and remonstrance,
From the New York Evening Post
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