New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-22
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We have at length bad one public meeting 10 favor
Ct establishing Slavery in the North /. was held IN
this City Oh Thursday night last, and the account OF 1t
was sent Gu the wires and the sheets OF the press to
every ousrter We say i. was meeting in favor OF
establishing Slavery in TIE Nor b Such WAS its real
# rot its ostensble object The meeting was interest
inc in ore particular if in no other /; affords US the
model Of the meetings to be held hereafter and the
arguments to be used in popular assemblies in the free
States in favor of the Nebraska bill or any other similar
project.
The great point the leading point, AID the only point
on which The popular orators expect to be able to pail
the wool over the eyes of the northern people on this
question is by insisting that the Nebraska bill simply
carries cut the doctrine Of popular sovereignty,
and allows the people TO establish their own
institutions. The sum and substance of all the
arguments addressed 10 the TammaDy meeting was
Wont you allow the people to establish their own
institutions p" And the point they would make Is
this if you would permit them to establish their own
institutions then is right to pass the Nebraska BILL
for it is the object Of it to give them this right
If you would not then you are against popular soyer-
eighty This is comperdiOus statement of the whole
areumentused ia Tammany and which is to be popularity
used in favor of Nebraska everywhere in the North.
Let us break up this plea, and expose its sophis-
tries. We say, then, that the only people who are
opposed to popular sovereignty, the only men who
are opposed to allowing the people to estabsh their
own Institutions the supporters OF the Nebraska
bill ard tie supporters of Slavery The exercise OF
popular rights is Just what these pretended champions
Of popular rights deny and refuse to the People OF the
Territories They propose to allow that one portion
of the People may be eniiyed aud held in subsection
to another portion They further propose that peO
pie from distant lands, though they may be the first
settlers and proprietOrs Of tho soil shal have any voice
in tie establishment of the institutions of the incpent
States of Nebraska and Kansas. Such is the popular
sovereignty which the supporters of Nebraska seek
to establish No ii is the opponents of the namou,
BILL and they alone, who in favor of popular
eregnty in the territories we will show. The Mis-
soUri Compromise act secures absolute aud uncOndi-
tionai freedom to ell the inhabitants present and TO-
ture, OF the two territories of Nebraska and Kansas;
and, if that act is Oyerthrown, that security for equal
rights and perfect liberty will no longer exist And it
is to the act that this precious boon
that the opponents of the Nebraska bill address all
their abOrs 1t is the oPPoncnts of the bill who are
thus defending the only guarantee that every man
who enters upon the territory of Nebraska and Kassls
have that he shall enjoy the right Of sefgoyern
ment ard be free to make his own laws and establish
lis own institutions. 1t is thus the opponents of Ne
braska who alone maintaining liberty for the peO
pie and for all the people liberty for TIE white, lber
y for the colOred liberty for the alien, liberty alike
Tor the African, the Asistc, the European and the
American. 1t is they and they alone, who demand for
the people of every cline, and every land under the
pboIa bo dasira 70 fha r;rvip
wilderness in the heart of this great continent, that
they shall have liberty to establish their own nstisu
tons. Where is the man, among all the opponents Of
the Nebraska bill that desires to cripple or circum
scribe in the remotest degree the rights of the people
WHO are to inhabit the territories of Nebraska and
Kansas Such a man does not exist.
BY what marvellous juggle and legerdeman, then
DO tie supporters of this infamous measure get hold
Of the idea and dare TO make it the basis of their sup
port of that measure that they the side OF popu
lor sovereignty in this question Whence comes this
miserable sophism' Thus does it come: Congress,
by tie Missouri Compromise act has secured to the
inhabitants of Kansas and Nebraska perfect political
equality and the right OF selfgoyernment And it is
because it has done this that Congress and the Govern
meIt accused Of Interference with the affairs OF the
people of the Territories. 1t is because they have
guaranteed entire and perfect freedom TO ALL that they
are accused of imposing restrictions upon the people
who are TO occupy these Territories Was there ever
greater absurdty put forth by any of the whole
sayemongering fraternity! Suppose that one man at
the head OF band Of robbers desired to establish
brgand kingdom in Nebraska, and reduce ia inheb
tents 10 subsection and serfdom-mght he not complain
for himself and his followers, that ter liberty was
interfered with because the Congress Of the United
States would not permit subjugation and serfdomi
Jus as vel as that any other set OF men should make
The tome or similar complaint. 1t is the one grand
otjsct of he oQqo.eits Of tie repeal Of tho Missouri
CCmprcn ise 10 protect end maintain the rights of
popular sovereignty, AID to secure 10 the people the
ught TO establish tLeiF own institutions. And il is
nsi as truly the objects Of the fren6s Of repeal to
destroy those rights and to hand those Territories and
tie Inhabitants thereof bOUnd band and foot over to
The saTeholding olisarchs Of tie South. Tie right
which the fpOkesmen Of Tammany are contending FOX
end the only night they contendiDg for il the right
10 subjuaate and ensaye the helpless masses of the
people, ard TO build hateful aristocracy on their
necls. 4 more absurd sophism, more scandal
Gus impOsture, was never hatched than this pre-.
tense that the friends Of the Nebraska bill are the