Washington sentinel., 1854-03-09
ANr1-NEBRAsKA GATHERINGS.

The passage through the Senate of the Ne
braska bill by so triumphant q majority, has
stricken terror into the hearts of the abolition
lists and freesoilers. But despair has only lent
them courage, and defeat in the Senate has
only stimulated them to fiercer contest in the
House of Representatives. The members of
that house come Immediately from the masses
of the people, and are peculiarly sensitive to
all popular changes and fluctuations. The
abolitionists are taking advantage of this SEN
stive susceptibility, in order to make it availa-
BILE in their nefarious crusade against the bill
and its friends and supporters. They are be-
ginning to redoube their efforts to create agita-
tion and excitement. Their journals are calling
meetings and publishing in connection with
these calls long and imposing lists Of names. It
is their policy to act upon the masses by these
demonstrations, and to act through the masses
upon their immediate representatives in Con-
gress. The food-gates Of fanaticism are about
to be thrown open, and we may expect torrents
ofexcited defamation frantic remonstrance
and Of fervid appeal.
Will the representatives Of the people be in
Inundated? Will they permit themselves to be
frightened? We think not. The abolitionists
and freesoilers pay them the poor compliment
to suppose that they can win them by operating
on their fears, and manage them by raising
clamors. We have no respect for freesoil froth
and abolition fustian. We have no faith in
their meetings. They are not meetings Of the
people. They are, compared with the masses,
so small and so contemplate in numbers that
each one of them is known. The thinness of
the squad preserves the individuality of each of
its members. When meeting is cahed by
them, every mothers son Of them comes up to
it with a howl and quits it with shout. The
great pressure from without draws and binds
them closer together. They have but one
quality that challenges respect, and that is their
earnest zeal and unrelaxing perseverance.
The masses of the people are SO strong in
numbers, SO conscious of their strength, and
so firm in their determination to succeed, that
they have not felt the necessity for Nebraska
camp meetings. We would be sorry to see
the friends of the measure resorting to these
means OF sustaining it and themselves. But if
it should be forced upon them, then will the
anti. Nebraska men see the difference between
the masses in their might and majesty.
The enemies of the measure are led by noted
freesoilers and abolitionists, who cannot be said
to belong to either Of the great political parties.
Their meetings have all been failures. Their
speeches and resolutions have been filled with
malignity and bitterness. If feared to some
extent at the north, they are also hated there,
whilst at the south they are despised and alb
horred. How, on the other hand, is it with
the friends of the bill? The democratic party
Of the north, with some few exceptions are for it.
The wings and the democrats in the south are
alike in its favor. The administration has, we
have the most satisfactory reasons for believing,
yielded to it an honest and earnest support. 1t
has passed the Senate by large majority, and
we must say, in view of all these facts, that it
goes into the House Of Representatives under
the best auspices Then "let the heather
rage" Let the frantic agitators howl, let
them hold their meetings and convocations, let
them pass their resolves, and food Congress
with their remonstrances. For our part we
have but little fear that they can accomplish
their designs. They will find in the end that
they have had their trouble for nothing.