Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-11
QUIEN SA E,

The true motives of parties and factions, and the
real springs of public measures, are not always vls
Bile to the public eye; they are, on the contrary,
often concealed from all save the actors IN the
drama 1t is only through few men OF reliability,
who make business of obtaining glimpses behind
the scenes that we can occasionally learn something
Of !. hst is passing there From one Of these, whom
experience, intelligence and confidential relations
with the Democratic party place in the front rank
q Ion,n cf the Sun--of whose reyelatiops we often
avail ourscfs es we copy the anasixed extzbH, OK
pianatory Of the poiitical views which be believes
are really at the bottom Of or influence the course
Of many members onsthe important measures now
before Congress:
ssIn regard to the homestead bill, the amendments
thereto afford subjects Of grave consideration The origin
al bill limits its benefits to actual citizens Of the United
States it is proposed embrace foreigners who have
sguifed an intention of becoming citizens Extending
the bill with this amendment to the Kansas and Nebraska
Territories the House will nnllif the effect of the repeal
Of the slavery prohibition. We shall give away the do
main to foreign emgrants fast they come into the
country to render certain the exclusion Of the slave
holders from it.
By one Of these land grants we can soon double the
amount of foreign immigration and expel slavery from
every Territory or State where the Government
public lands 1t sai too that slavery to be abolished
in Missouri as soon as fifteen thousand additional votes
expected from foreign immigration, be secured in
that State. To suppose that Missouri is to remain
slavehodng State while surrounded by circle Of free
States is absurd.
"The Senate, by majority Of only two votes, excud
ed aliens from the right of suffrage in the Territories Of
Kansas and Nebraska with view to improve the chances
Of the federation Of slavery there but is doubtful whe
ther this restriction will be retained While give the
domain aliens we certainly ought to give them tht
power to control it.
Though the Missouri prohibition may be repealed
yet the tendency Of legislation will be to exclude
shareholders from any participation in the new territories
With view to afford them choice, it might be pro
vided that STAKEHOLDER may be allowed homestead fol
each one of his family, and thus have nducemen
to trust himself with his property among aboitionist
and Aliens "
For the benefit Of all whom it may concern, il
may not be amiss to add the following intimatior
from cur industrious neighbor the Star, which, if i
do not occupy dem-semi-oficial relation to th'
Administration, is quite reliable in such matters !:
.The main hope Of the opponents the Nebraska BIZ
in the House is evidently upon the New York Hards
whom they plying with the argument that the Uno1
has formally announced that any member of the Demo
cratic party from the North may consistently vote agans
the BILL This of course, is perversion Of the editoria
in the organ to which it refers We make this remark
because it is well known to oil in Washington that far
as the Administration concerned the President has
time and again ntimate in the broadcast terms that he
regards the position Of gentlemen this particular bill
the test support of the Baltimore Democratic National
Convention Platform" i.