The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-04-19

Will uc IuoSt nCcc pthOle 10 1nelr constituents.
Union.
The People rapidly Settling the Me-
DrnsIksl Question for themselves.
While unjust and ambitious men are laboring
to poison the public mind by thousand vile
| imputations upon the motives of the friends of
the Territorial bills, and 10 mislead il bv thou
sand absurd anticipations should those bills be.
come laws, the people are quietly but vigorous.
| ly taking their own course upon the subject
The men who clamor against this pending act
of legislation in the Congress of the country
who hang and burn distinguished senators in ef
6gy-who profanely arrogate to themselves the
right Of speaking " in the name of Almigh.,
God"--these men are not the pc Pile. nor, in
deed, the representatives or organs of the peo-
pie. They are the elements constituting that
always busy and never-seeping organization
which subsists by inaaming the prejudices Of
the North against the South, and BY railing at
every great rational reform advocated by the de-
mocratie party.
The American people are not much exercised
by threatened ghosts vainIy summoned from
the vasty deep by abolition Gendowers. The
great body look at the process by which popula-
ndignati is sought to be pumped up against
Senator Douglas and the Nebraska and Kansas
bin with deal of digniied contempt Some
land with good reason-regard ii as an evil
ldence that the northern wings are about to or
Iganize for new contest; Others, as a sign that
the southern wings are heartily sick of associa-
tien with their kindred in the free States and
the great mass, as a proof that the measure
which has passed the Senate is, in its main and
Fundamental features, sound constitutional ne
cessary, and just, and that, as SUCH it is entitled
10 the ardent, united, and effective support oil
the great party which sustained the purchase of
Louisiana and Florida, the annexation of Tex
as, and the acquisition of California.
AS a most significant evidence of the feeling
lof the people in faver Of the great principles o.
the bill IF Senator Douglas, we need only direct
attention to the manner in which the tide o.
population has already begun to set in for the
regions of Nebraska and Kansas At st. Louis
we are told in one of the papers of that city
there are not boats enough TO take off the crowds
! waiting to take early possession Of the new Ter
ritories. Companlesa are being formed al Wheel.
ing at Louisville, at Chicago, al several of the
towns in Iowa, while doubtless every other
State bordering on the Mississippi, slave and
J free. will contribute its thousands to the multi
: tudes about to take advantage of the oppoTtuni.
ty offered to them by the opening TO civilization
of those fair regions which lie in the direct patti
! Of progress, leading TO the wonderful Common.
wealth on the Pacific itself proud offspring
: of popular sovereignty, aud bidding fair to out
rival, in its rapid growth to empire and to go.
ry, all the achievements of its more distant sis.
ters.
We do not halt here to discuss The probabili-
ties whether these proposed Territories shall, Oh
shall not, be free. That is a question which
may well, and, our history shows be safely
intrusled to the citizens who come from all the
States of our blessed Union; but it is specta-
Gle full of moral grandeur. aud, more than all
fercible refutation of the argument always
made on similar occasions. that there was M
necessity for the bill Of Judge Douglas; THAT
THE PEOPLE ARE MOVING ONWARD IN ADVANCE VI
J THE ACTION OF CONGRESS. TO BE READ FOR TIL
NEW GOVERNMENT WHEN II Is CREATED!
And by what tribunal do the abolition adyef
saries of this great movement suppose tie peo.
pie will expect their rights to be decided? They
do not go there to be restricted BY another Viii.
mot Proviso in the shape of the Missouri Com.
promise--a restriction violated for thirty years
by those who now cling to il as if it had just
been handed down from the skies They are not
actuated by the idea that they are to go there
under military administration. The star which
Eeads them all--the mea Of the South and the
men of the North--the dwelIers by the Mssis-
: -Esippi and the hardy races that make the shores
Of our lakes almost as fruitful as the regions oil
1 the Nlle-the brave men of the farthest east
the populations bordering the gulf and the sea-
is the star of popular sovereignty. Before this
Exhibition Of the active sentiment of the coun.
try. how soon all the sickly sympathies of inf.
Fl del agitators and political cIergymen-the lurd
prophecies of desperate demagogues and the vio.
II lent demonstrations Of excited crowds--are
with1favn II M the public eye. to the conster.
nation and chagrin Of those who did not hesi.
tate to resort to such shallow devices.
Il WashinsytOa UaSon.
"FOreignerS" in the United States.
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