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my 10 the Indians, were stricken ou, in the
Senile--in order to enable the bill Ia be- ure
scd in the House. without uOlny to the Com
mlitee vt the Whole. an under the operation
of the prryluuS question, and that senator
Douglas assentcd to the amcneneut. becansr
he said. the liouse Committee on Indian Aft irs
had Till in preparation which would cover
this point.
Mr.. Orr, Of South Carolina. is Ch,irnan of
the House Committee on Indian Affair, and
the bill winch hc has prepared has inst been
printed 1t IS entuled ~ bill defining the t"ri,,
on which treaties shall hereafter be made with
certain tribes OF Indians and for other purposes
This bill provides TINT each ianily of every
tribe or nation Of Inians may locate home
stead on the following terms:
each single person over Il years old is entitled
to 81 acres ench family Of two persons leo acres
each family of three and not over five, 800
each family of six and not exceeding ten, Gao acres
and each iuniy over ten, ITO acres for every five
members ant to Jdhtdes iCho SLAVES, ~ add
tiJa 10 the jorsng, ht5s shan Be aIioIrd, i los thar
ten SLAVES, oashat Section (32O aots); u ten, and
not trcttdine tHetn, S''oH Gao dtftS) dhj tnf
eury ten ato,e thai naa.btr, oat-hdt .t,tiya GEO
dCres)
THIS bull is intended as nm appendix to the
Nebraska bill OF Senator Douglas. The lat
ter repeats The prohibition which now rests up
on Slavery in Nebraska, and the other is in
tended to recognize and to legalze its exi.-
tence, and to pay bounty out OF the Tteusury
of the United States for the Introduce on OF
slaves, according to their number. Tins is
certainly n most extraordinary movement and
shows the holowncss aud hypocrisy OF the pre-
text that tins bill is intended to place the sub
ject Of SLAYER entirely beyond the nction of
the Federal Government. 1t proves that bill
to be merely preliminary TO another by whic h
the National Treasury is to be used directly
for the extension of slavery into new territory.
AT present unqucstionably the enactment Of
! ls2O, by which slavery is prohibited north of
81 9 80, is in full force. There is, therefore,
now no legal slavery in Nebraska. And yet
1t Is well known that slaves are held there =
that Mr.. Johnson the Missionary of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church South in that Terri o
ry, is "A stakeholder ;-and that he is actively
urging the passage of both these bills III order
to secure to hiiiself and the small circle of
Shareholders by whose agency he was elected,
the permanent possession of their property
| There can. however be little doubt that those
noU heid AS slaves in Nebraska are legally en-
! titled to their freedom, and it seems to liz that
a question might well arise whether they could
be deprived Of this right and converted into
! slaves by any such action as that proposed. In
asmuch the Shareholders have entire control
of all the Courts, however, the question is not
| likely to prove one OF any practical Importance
| But one thing Will be clear = that those men
nor free, riH be made slares by The direct acton
| Of Congress- If Congress can thus reduce
frcemen to slavery may 1t not also raise slave
ry to freedom? viii not the precedent be
| pleaded on the other side hereafter :-.Ntt
| York Times.