The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-03-30
Columbus Correspondent of the Pioneer.
COLUMBUS, March 23rd.

Spring has now arrived, and men and
business have walked up, and things in
general are moving off briskly in all the
business departments in the city.
Since the election of George E. Pugh
to the Senate of the United States, the
action of the Legislature has been more
uniform and useful. There is now over
24O bills before the two houses to be acted
upon, besides a great many more to be
introduced and passed if possible. Some
of the members are getting restless and
would like to adjourn and go home, but
when that will be I can't now tell, but not
before the first of May, as we have yet
the apportionment bill to fix up, for two
years, the new tax law, Temperance
bill must be passed of some kind, and
saveral other bills, besides all that is now
before u.s. The session being biennial
now instead of annual, we can't we'll dis
pose OF the legitimate business pertaining
to our duties in less time than about four
months, though I wish we could adjourn
and so home tomorrow.
Yesterday being the 22d, was the day
that the Fire Eaters, Fanatics and the fag
ends of all parties, met on Town Street,
in the new methodist Church in this city
to hold an anti-Nebraska meeting, and it
appeared to be day of accidents here,
besides great "fizzle OUT AS the
meeting adjourned at noon, the stairs lead
ing to the street became much crowded
and gave way and plunged great num-
Der of persons into the cellar beneath
Three men were badly injured. Judge
Sutton from Huron, and of the Senate,
had his arm broken. The other two were
bruised and stunned but not fatally iniu-
red
There was also a Rail Road accident.
AS the Springfield train was leaving the
city, the locomotive run over car as the
train was about to enter the bridge across
the Scioto river The car was carried a
short distance on the bridge by the cow
catchers, when she was forced through
between the timbers and fell into the riv-
er smashed into fragments. The locomo-
tive kept the track and passed over with
safety, butthe passenger car being thrown
off the track, was dragged nearly across
the brid ge, shivering and tearing up eve
ry thing before it; but was suddenly stop
ped by becoming detached from the loco
motive. The passengers were all un
harmed, though had it not been for the
forethought and sagacity of the brake
man, there would have been many injured
and killed, for there was another train o
cars close behind on full speed but being
too much steam about the engineer coulc
not see what was ahead, and ran close VI
to the unfortunate train ahead, before ht
saw them; and the passengers that wer,
in the unlucky passenger car expecting t.
be ran into, made rush to get out, bu
the breakman locked the door and KEEP
them all in safe and sound, but had they
all rushed out on to the ties and string
pieces some 20 or 80 feet above water
there must have been great many fel
through and drowned This hind trai1
was stopped by running off the track
but the locomotive and cars were smash
ed badly in pieces, as wellas the foremos
cars.
Now, don't know that this last acci
dent occurred in consequence Of the anti
Nebraska mass meeting, but I fear more
alarming accidents will occur if the advo
Gates of that meeting do not abandon thei
present position. Now what was the OBJ
ject of this aati-democratic meeting, will
simply convince the audience, that tn
people who move into Territories, nortl
6 of $50 80 are not capable of governin!
themselves, but must have restriction
thrown around them by Congress. Nov
I hold that Congress has no power give1
them by the constitution, to legislate sla
slavery into or out of Stale or Territory
Slavery exists by positive enactment Q
Statute law, and that by independen
state sovereignties. I look upon the Amer
, lean people as intelligent and independen
t freemen; capable of self-government, wit
! the right of establishing independent soy
ereignties, forming their own organic law
without dictation, with the full legal righ
and power of establishing their own inter
nal, political and domestic institution, with
out dictation from any external powe,
; whatever, SO long as they do not confic
with the constitution of the United States
+, And the bill now before Congress admit
l ting the Territories of Nebraska and Kan
sas, contains all the foregoing principles
. That bill neither tolerates nor prohibit
Slavery; it neither sanctions nor reject
: slavery; it leaves the subject Of their dc
: mestic institution where it should.
Y recognizes the true democratic doctrine
that the people in their Independent soy
k ereign capacity have a right to Cover