Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-05-31
PASSAGE OF THE NEBRASKA BILL:


We have the high qualification of announcing the ,
passage of the bill organizing the territories of Ne
braska and Kansas through the House of Represen-
tatives and of assuring readers of the certainty
that the amendment in the House will be concurred
in by the Senate and the bill become law. Thus
has the great principle of the right of the people to
declare for themselves whether they will have slave
ry or not, triumphed in the common Congress; and
this right has been established in all the territories
of the United States without reference to the So
called Missouri line. That arbitrary, geographical
distinction has at last been swept away. 1t has
fallen before the progress just sentiments and free
principles and the noble privilege of eecting this
triumph was reserved for Democratic Admins
tration, sustained by Democratic Senate and House.
We give below, from the Washington Union, the
vote upon the passage of the bill, together with the
remarks of that journal on the occasion:
PASSAGE THE NEBRASKA Bill By THE House
OF REPRESENTATIVES. most protracted and excit-
ing struggle was last night, Monday at IL o'clock,
bill organizing the Territories of Nebraska and Kan
in the House of Representatives by vote of 113
to 100. We hail this result with sincere pleasure
and congratulate the country upon the removal from
the halls of Congress- for all time to come of those
embarrassing and irritating controversies which have
The abolition demagogues, by the emphatic action
of the majority of the peoples representatives have
been deprived of even the pretcxt for excitement
against the South and, after few paroxysms of
denunciation and falsehood, they will find them
selves utterly incapable of mischief as the crazy
fanatics who preach in the streets of the northern
cities, and against the imaginary evils which
they believe they have been commissioned to correct
Henccforward, the people of the Territories will
manage their own affairs in their way, accord
tot fho of fbo f,lo T.,
few months, even those who have been deceived by
the outcry against the Nebraska and Kansas bill will
be surprised and mortified to see how they have
been misled and thus another evidence will be ad-
ded to the number that they have repeatedly demon
strated the folly and the fsehood of the anti-savee
ry crusade. Strange that the Vaccinations and de-
signs of the malignant and phrenzied leaders of the
crusade should, at the same time be constantly
proved to be fruitful of bad results alone and vet
that American citizens will not be admonshed a
gainst rcposng confidence in those whose success
however impossible and remote, contcmplates moth
ing less than the overthrow of free institutions
Let us hope that the last lesson full Of instruc
ton and significance, will not be without its good
effects upon the public mind in time to come.
This proud occasion has been rendered signally
gratifying by the department of the friends of the
bill from the beginning of the contest in the face of
the dsorganiZing and revolutionary course of the
leaders of the ity, persisted in down to the
auspicious final vote Patiently, and almost unmur
~
dented attempts to defeat the ascertaned will of the
majorty-leaving record of which the majority
may feel proud, and from which the factious leaders
of the minority will never be able to recover in the
estimation of the people. The victory would have
been deprived of half its value had not the maiori-
ty been capable of those high examples of scfdenal
and forbearance which showed their high sense of
the justice of their cause, and their unshaken faith
in the intelligent judgment of their constituents and
the country.
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previously passed the Senate, with the exception of
the Clayton amendment, preventing unnaturazed
citizens from the right to vote in the Territories
that amendment having been stricken out in accor-
dance with the example furnished in the bill erect
the Territories of Washington, Utah. and New Mex
leo. The speedy passage of the bill in the Senate
as it has been amended in the House. is confidently
anticipated.
The following is the vote on the passage of the
bill
| YEAs-Messrs. Abercrombe, James C. Allen, Will
lis Allen, Ashe, David j. Bailey, Thomas II. Bayly,
Barksdale, Barry, Bell, Bocock Boyce, Breckenridge,
Bridges, Brooks Caske, Chastian, ,Chrisman, Church
we'll, Clark, Cngman, Cobb, Colqutt, Cox Craigc,
| Cumming, Cutting, John G. Davis, Dawson, Disney,
| Dowdell, Dunbar, Durham, Eddy, Edmundson, John
| NJ. Elliott, English, Faulkner Florence Goode,
Greenwood Gray, Hamilton, Sampson W. Harris,
Hendricks, Hem, Hibbard, Hill, Hillyer, Houston,
1ngersoll, Geo. W. Jones, j. CLANCY JONES' Roland
JONES' Kerr Kidwell, Kurtz, Lamb Lane, Latham,
Letcher Lilly, Lindley, Macdonald, McDougail, Nc:
! Nair, Maxwell, May. John G. Miller, Smith Miller
Olds, Mordecai Oliver, Orr, Packer, John Perkins,
Phelps, Phillips, Powell, Preston, Ready, Reese
Richardson, Riddle, Robbins, Rowe Ruffin, Shannon
Shaw, Shower, Singleton, Samuel A. Smith, William
Smith, Wm R. Smith, Geo. w. Smyth. Snodgrass
Frederick P. Stanton, R. H. Stanton, Alex H. Ste
phens, Straub, David Stuart John j. Taylor, Tweed
VAIL Vansant, Walbridge, Walker Walsh, Warren
Westbrook, Witte, Daniel B. Wright, Hendrick b
Wright and Zolicofer-11s.
NAYs-Messrs. Ball, Banks Belcher, Bennett
Benson, Benton, Bugg, Campbell, Carpenter, Chand
ler Crocker, Cullom, Curtis, Thomas Davis, Dean
Dc Witt, Dick, Dickinson, Drum, Eastman, Edger
ton Edmands, Thomas D. Elliott, Ellison, Etheridge
Everhart, Farley, Fenton, Floger, Fuller, Gamble
G,ddings, Goodrich, Grow, Aaron Harlan. Andrew
j. Harlan Harrison, Hastings, Haven, Heistcr, Howe
Hughes, Hunt, johnson, Daniel 7. Jones, Kittredge
Mayall, Meacham Middleswarth, Millson, Morgan
Morrison, Murray, Nichols, Noble, Norton, Andrew
Oliver, Parker, Peck, Peckham, Pennington, Bisho]
Perkins, Pratt Pringle Puryear, David Richie
Thomas Ritchey, Rogers Russell, Sabin, Sage, Sapp
Seymour, Simmons, Shelton, Gerrit Smith, Hesto
L. Stephens, StrattOn, Andrew Stuart John L. Tay
lor, Nathaniel G. Taylor Thurston, Tracy, Trout
Upham, Wade, Valley, E. B. Washburne, Israe
Washburn, Wells, John Wentworth, Tappan, Went
warth, Wheeler and Yates-l0O.
Messrs. Ashe, Cngman, Craige, Kerr, Ruffin an
Shaw, of this State, voted for the bill, and Messrs
Puryear and Rogers against it. We heard, at frs
that Mr.. Rogers was not present when the vote wa
taken; but it seems he was, and VOTED AGAINS'
THE BILL! He voted in company, as the yea
and nays will show, with such men Giddings, Ger
ritt Smith, Grow and Sapp, and against the unite